Choosing between Ayurvedic preparations

The rest of this reference answers what a substance is. These pages answer the question that follows: which one, and how would you tell. Each is built on material published elsewhere on this site, with the source named on the page it came from.

• What the formulary fixes, and what it leaves to the manufacturer

  Classical Ayurvedic preparations have an official, legally scheduled composition. Here is what it binds, what it does not, and how to read a label against it.

• Why one Ayurvedic herb has several botanical names

  Shankhpushpi is sold as three different plants, and a fourth name that is the same plant renamed. Here is why, which name the Pharmacopoeia settles on, and what it means when you are buying.