Drinking habits in ancient India

Consumption of one or other form of intoxicating substances has been present throughout the history of the world. This article traces such use in the Indian subcontinent, both in North and South India. References to the use of intoxicants are to be found in the Vedas, the Great Epics, and the ancien...

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Autores principales: Somasundaram, Ottilingam, Raghavan, D. Vijaya, Murthy, A. G. Tejus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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History of Psychiatry
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4776591/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26985113
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.174396
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spelling pubmed-47765912016-03-16 Drinking habits in ancient India Somasundaram, Ottilingam Raghavan, D. Vijaya Murthy, A. G. Tejus Indian J Psychiatry History of Psychiatry Consumption of one or other form of intoxicating substances has been present throughout the history of the world. This article traces such use in the Indian subcontinent, both in North and South India. References to the use of intoxicants are to be found in the Vedas, the Great Epics, and the ancient Tamil literature. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4776591/ /pubmed/26985113 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.174396 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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