The greatest contribution to Siddha medicine in last century, The Tamil to English Dictionary of Medicine - Chemistry, Botany and Allied Sciences edited by Thanjavur Vilvayyaa mannaiyaar Sambasivam Pillai @ TV Sambasivam Pillai(சாம்பசிவம் பிள்ளை சித்த மருத்துவ அகராதி) extends More than 6000 pages having detailed description for almost all terms used in Siddha Medicine and other allied sciences is on public domain now!
It's our humble tribute to the legend TVS from SIDDHADREAMS and ESIDDHA!
Get all parts of the volume 5 of the dictionary from
On this auspicious day of our People’s President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam’s Birth anniversary, as per his preaching, SIDDHADREAMS is proud to publish a great book in public domain “Tamil to English Dictionary of Medicine - Chemistry, Botany and Allied Sciences by TV Sambasivam Pillai”. Get your Hard disks/ Memory cards ready!
The greatest contribution to Siddha medicine in last century, The Tamil to English Dictionary of Medicine - Chemistry, Botany and Allied Sciences edited by Thanjavur Vilvayyaa mannaiyaar Sambasivam Pillai @ TV Sambasivam Pillai(சாம்பசிவம் பிள்ளை சித்த மருத்துவ அகராதி) extends More than 6000 pages having detailed description for almost all terms used in Siddha Medicine and other allied sciences is on public domain now!
It's our humble tribute to the legend TVS from SIDDHADREAMS and ESIDDHA!
Renowned chest physician and peace activist C. N. Deivanayagam died in the city on Monday. He was 70. He had been ailing from cancer for a few years.
Born on November 15, 1942, Dr. Deivanayagam chose healing as his metier and went on to graduate in medicine from Madras Medical College in 1965.
He underwent training in Scotland and Northern Ireland for 18 months and became a member of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) in 1969. He also served as a research officer at the British Medical Research Council's Pneumoconiosis unit for one year.
He served as an assistant professor in the department of Chest diseases at the Madras Medical College between 1970 and 1981 and as professor of thoracic medicine between 1981 and 2000.
He had also served as examiner at various Indian universities for graduate and postgraduate medical degrees and diplomas till date. He co-founded the Indian Chest Society and edited its official journalLung India for several years.
When he served as the Superintendent of the Government Hospital for Thoracic Medicine, Dr. Deivanayagam set up the HIV/AIDS care unit, amid opposition, which later became one of the world’s index HIV treatment units.
SIDDHA MEDICINE
Charmed by the practice of Siddha medicine, Dr. Deivanayagam took up research. One of the key areas of research was the use of Siddha system of medicine, along with the conventional allopathic treatment in reducing the viral load among patients with HIV. He also served as chairman, National Advisory Council for Siddha.
He established the Health India Foundation in Chennai in 2001 which runs a regular day care clinic for HIV and other disorders at the Red Cross Centre, in Egmore.
His involvement with the anti-nuclear movement crystallised into setting up the Physicians for Peace initiative, and he was also part of the initial team that led the campaign against setting up the Kudankulam project in 1988-89, his colleagues in the movement recalled.
When the State government took over the Sri Ramachandra Medical College in 1989 and renamed as the Tamil Nadu Arasu Medical College and Research Institute (TAMARAI), Dr. Deivanayagam functioned as its Dean. The takeover was struck down a couple of years later by the Madras High Court.
Dr. Deivanayagam was a consultant with the World Health Organisation on infectious diseases.
With the Tamil film 7 am arivu (meaning 7th sense) catching imagination of even common man about Bodhi Dharma, curious readers are all looking for more on his personality and findings.
Bodhi Dharma was a Tamil prince born in Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu. He travelled to China to spread Buddhism. He is worshipped in China.
Enlightenment, Meditation, Yoga etc are related to inner contemplation which have been explored by saints, wise men, gurus, god men through their 7’th sense. These Indian men lived in greater India from Afghanistan to Tamil Nadu from ancient times. Bodhi Dharma was one of them.
We all have five physical senses. The rational thinking of the human being is the sixth sense. Our brain collects information using five senses through seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching and arrives at a analytical conclusion by Sixth sense. The seventh sense is finding the truth by transcending the sixth sense. That is the next stage. The ways of attaining seventh sense are practiced by enlightened individuals.
Dr. Kannan Rajaram a siddha medical graduate and an expert in varma therapy revealed the age old medical practices of varma therapy by his books. These methods are collected from asaans of various parts of Kanyakuymari District of Tamilnadu most of them were kept as secrets. Being a heir of Traditional varma therapist he included therapeutic methods of his own tradition in his publications. These books filled the gap i.e lack of books for varma in siddha education.
One hundred bundles of age-old palm manuscripts collected from different healers and institution trained Siddha physicians have been digitized by CTMR. The project supported by Dept. of AYUSH, Govt. of India commenced in April 2011. The process of collection of the palm manuscripts was done with briefing of different healers associations and individual physicians. The information was also spread through Short Messaging Services and blogging apart from mails. The CTMR team also visited various libraries like Oriental library, Chennai, U.Ve. Swaminathan library, Chennai, International Institute of Tamil Studies, Sarawati Mahal Library, Tamil University library, Publication division
TIRUCHI: The mobile phone of S Sangeetha, revenue divisional officer and the returning officer of Tiruchi West constituency, where state transport K N Nehru is contesting in April 13 rings almost non stop. And most of the calls are tip offs about alleged bribing of voters or violation of election code. The young officer from Mettur in Salem, a post-graduate in Siddha medicine, is determined to ensure fair elections and never ignores any telephone calls, though some of them turn out to be prank calls.
thamizham.net by Thiru.Pollachi Nasan @ M.Nadaesan an esteemed scholar, Tamil Activist and retired teacher born on 15 - 9 - 1952 pursued M.A.,M.Sc.,M.Ed.,D.D.E.,M.Phil., He now running a website having around 2000 scanned pdf documents of Tamil weeklies, magazines and rare books. He is having an intention to upload at least an ebook daily and continuing this task seamlessly since around 5 years.
Not only "pdf"s; Thamizham contains pictures, portraits, drawings of Tamil Scholars, Songs, Videos, Documentaries, Shortfilms, Books and other materials for Tamil learning also.
Dedicated pages for Tamil literary research, Tamil oriented schools, Tamil Learning Resource Materials, Online Tamil Learning portal are also hosted in this site.
The Medical Skills of the Malabar Doctors in Tranquebar, India as Recorded by Surgeon T L F Folly, 1798
The research paper on the medical skills of Tamil people of 17th century AD was recorded by A Danish surgeon T L F Folly. NIKLAS THODE JENSEN, a PhD scholar of Department of History, The Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark traced out the foot prints of the interesting story of documentation of the Danish surgeon and has been retold facts of Medical knowledge of Tamil people on those days.
"The literature about Tranquebar under Danish rule is primarily in Danish and has not previously dealt with issues of health and medicine. The main focus has been on either political history or the history of the Protestant mission in Tranquebar. An excellent account of the former is found in the standard three volume history of the Danish East Indies by Gunnar Olsen, Kamma Struwe and Aage Rasch,2 and inKolonierne i Asien og Afrika by Ole Feldbæk and Ole Justesen.3 These sources are old but offer a comprehensive history of the Danish involvement in India; while an excellent account of the Christian mission in Tranquebar is given in Anders Nørgaard's PhD thesis Mission und Obrigkeit: die dänisch-hallische Mission in Tranquebar, 1706–1845.4 A more recent approach to the history of Tranquebar—at least for the issues of health and medicine—has come from anthropology. The Danish anthropologist Esther Fihl has written about the social, political and economical interactions between the Indian society and the Danish colonial power.5A similar approach from a historical vantage point has been used by the Danish historian Niels Brimnes. In his book Constructing the colonial encounter, he uses caste conflicts in colonial Madras and Tranquebar to untangle the complex interactions between the Indians and the colonial powers.6 Very recently, and of interest for the issues dealt with in this article, Brimnes has moved on to deal with indigenous doctors in South India. In his article ‘Coming to terms with the native practitioner: indigenous doctors in colonial service in South India, 1800–1825’, Brimnes reveals how European doctors and administrators came to perceive South Indian physicians during the first twenty-five years of the nineteenth century.7Presumably, these Indian physicians in British service originated from the same group or culture of south Indian physicians as those described by Folly in Tranquebar in the 1790s. Thus Folly's remarks on the south Indian physicians in Tranquebar are an early contribution to the European perceptions of south Indian physicians revealed and discussed by Brimnes."
The man who dedicated his whole life for making a dictionary of science which talks mainly about Indian medicine especially siddha medicine. The book is the great key to explore the treasures of siddha medicine. He spends his whole life and most of his salary for this great book contains around 5000 pages. Today is his 120th birthday!
siddhadreams is very proud to dedicate this blog to the legend! Let us conserve the old literatures and manuscripts to contribute as a tribute to him.
Dr. Samuel Fisk Green, who pioneered the translation of Western medical science into Tamil
Article by S. MUTHAIAH
THE PARAGRAPH on November 29 about the American `Pachaiappan' of Worcester, Mass., brought me a response from a most unexpected quarter. R. Ambihaipahar (Ambi), a well-known Sri Lankan Tamil writer now settled in Australia, sent me from Sydney his biography of Dr. Samuel Fisk Green - and a most revealing document it is. Dr. Green, it appears, not only pioneered hospital medicare in Ceylon but more significantly, pioneered the translation of Western medical science into Tamil. And that appears to be quite a while before the Madras Presidency began looking at rendering Western scientific terms in Tamil.
The American Ceylon Mission, established in Jaffna before it was established in India, sent out to it Dr. John Scudder, grandfather of Ida Scudder of Vellore, if I am not mistaken, as its first medical missionary in 1820. He not only set up a clinic there but also a medical school to train a few Jaffna Tamils in the rudiments of medicine. In 1833, he moved to Madras to establish the ACM here. In 1846, it was John Scudder who interviewed the young Green in Boston and invited him to join the ACM medical facility in Jaffna.
A more remarkable career than that of P.C. Ray could not well be chronicled”, wrote Nature, the famous international scientific journal, while commenting on the first volume of Ray’s autobiography.Prafulla Chandra Ray was the founder of the Indian School of modern chemistry. He was a pioneer of chemical industries in India. Ray’s activities were not confined to his laboratory and teaching. His activities concerned with all spheres of human interest—educational reform, industrial development, employment generation & poverty alleviation, economic freedom and political advancement of the country. He was a pioneer in social reform in the country. He took to social service with a missionary zeal. He was a great critique of the prevailing caste system in the Hindu society.In his Presidential address to the Indian National Social Conference in 1917 he made a passionate appeal for removal of the caste system from the Hindu society. Ray was an ardent advocate of the use of the mother tongue as medium of instruction in schools and colleges. In recognition of his contribution towards the advancement and enrichment of Bengali language, he was elected the General President of the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad (1931-34). Ray symbolized the best of Indian tradition and philosophy.
The Roja Muthiah Research Library (RMRL), founded in 1994, exists to provide research materials and facilities for students of Tamil studies in a variety of fields spanning the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The Library's main objectives are to preserve, catalog, and expand the collection of Roja Muthiah, who during his lifetime amassed one of the world's finest private libraries of Tamil publications.
The Library's notable strengths are its holdings in classical and modern literature, literary criticism, medicine, cinema and the related culture of printed works (such as song books), folklore, material by and about women, religion and philosophy, and numerous publications of historical value. The collection is comprised of more than 100,000 volumes of books, journals, and newspapers. In addition there are rich holdings of oleolithographs from Ravi Varma's workshop, nearly 30,000 journal abstracts and indexes, an enormous collection of clippings, drama notices, wedding invitations, business and family correspondence, and palm leaf manuscripts. Most of the publications date from the later half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth.
Located in Chennai (formerly Madras), RMRL was opened early in 1996 to research scholars working with Tamil language materials. Access to the Library's catalogs through a World Wide Web page on the internet has been available since 1995.
The University of Chicago launched a global effort to preserve Roja Muthiah's library.
First attention is focused on publications for historical inquiry, ancient and medieval literature, medical texts, performance literature, and folklore publications. Grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Ford Foundation along with collaboration from the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine made possible the earliest descriptive and preservation efforts.
Preliminary electronic catalog records were created during 1995 for all the titles in the Library and the preservation microfilming facilities were in operation. To date, more than 15,100 volumes have been preserved on microfilm and the corresponding cataloging records enhanced with full descriptive data.
Dr.Samson James Danieland his colleaguesproved that Thulasi(Ocimum sanctum) has the potential for further evaluation as an ideal antioxidant for the noise induced oxidative stress.
The greatest contribution to Siddha medicine in last century, The Tamil to English Dictionary of Medicine - Chemistry, Botany and Allied Sciences edited by Thanjavur Vilvayyaa mannaiyaar Sambasivam Pillai @ TV Sambasivam Pillai (சாம்பசிவம் பிள்ளை சித்த மருத்துவ அகராதி) extends More than 6000 pages having detailed description for almost all terms used in Siddha Medicine and other allied sciences is on public domain now! 
The book Eelathu Sitharkal (ஈழத்து சித்தர்கள்) written by Na.Muthiah deals with history and related details of the siddhars who lived in Srilanka.
Not only "pdf"s; Thamizham contains pictures, portraits, drawings of Tamil Scholars, Songs, Videos, Documentaries, Shortfilms, Books and other materials for Tamil learning also.
Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray 
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