We need
endorsement from the West to believe in our own history.
I wrote
a very detailed half page article in the Indian Express in the 90s which
was unfortunately published in the Tuesday special supplement called 'Science
Express' because I had titled the article as Rauwolfia Serpentina, [in brief in a 7th century BC sanskrit text one Vagbatha mentions
about this plant and its ability to control BP and from that there were
clear links to many researches based on that mostly by Indians leading to
discovery of the wonder drug for BP Reserpine [even
today that is the basic drug for controlling BP] for which two British scientists got Nobel prize in 1950s
[fortunately and thankfully it was they who traced and recorded the history of
the drug development giving credit to all the Indian scientists who did the
initial research]
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