Abstract

Dr. R. Abinaya*, Dr. R. Vijaya Nirmala, Dr. R. Karolin Daisy Rani, Dr. M. D. Saravana Devi

ABSTRACT

Siddha system of medicine had a wide variety of medicinal uses in treating life challenging diseases. The great spiritual researchers called Siddhar’s offered this medicine to the World. The medicinal preparations of this system comprises of Chooranam, Maathirai, Vadagam, Rasayanam, Pittu, Manapaagu, Legium, Theenooral, Kudineer, Ooral Neer, Parpam, Chendhooram, Padhangam, Kattu, Karpam, Kazhangu etc. The efficacy of these medicines depends on dosage. Due to the lack of knowledge toward metric measurements in the period Siddhar’s, they fixed the dosage of medicine in form of sizes of pulses, cereals, seeds, grains etc. The main hallmark of the medicine was dosage. The lack of proper standardization of Siddha measurements, there was a confusion in fixing the dosage of medicine. Thus there was a need for proper standardization of measurements mentioned in Siddha classical literatures. Thus an attempt was made in this paper to standardize the Siddha measurements into metric measurements. The novelty of this paper will provide useful information for Siddha students, Siddha physician, Siddha researchers regarding the dosage of medicine. This preliminary work had provoked the young researchers to concentrate more on measurements mentioned in Siddha classical literatures.