Rasayana for Childcare

Acknowledgements
Our sincere thanks to all those Ayurveda seers and scholars for
conceptualising Rasayanas; to all the mothers and grandmothers
who have ensured that the best health practices get propagated
beyond their time for posterity. We are in awe of the simplicity,
affordability and practicality of home health practices.
Thanks to Drs. Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana, U.G. Geetha,
Prasanna Kulkarni, Manjunath and Girsh Kumar V. for vetting the
Ayurvedic content of the plant recipes and doses. Thanks to Drs.
Venugopal and Aparna for their Ayurveda inputs. Thanks also to Dr.
Noorunnisa Begum for confirming the accuracy of the botanical
aspects of the plant drugs and to Lali for assistance. Some plant
images were sourced from FRLHT’s medicinal plants image database,
which was built over a period of several years through the
contributions of the field botanists. We are grateful to Dr. Kamala
Krishnaswamy for writing the Foreword. We thank Partridge India
for publishing and making the book available on the virtual world
of the internet.
The book is an output of a grant received from the Department
of Science & Technology, Government of India for establishing a
National Facility for R&D in Rasayana Drugs. Thanks to Mr. Darshan
Shankar, Vice-Chancellor, of The Foundation for Revitalisation of
Local Health Traditions (FRLHT), for providing the creative space
which is so crucial for initiatives like this.
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