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Blood compatibility studies of Swarna bhasma (gold bhasma), an Ayurvedic drug

Willi Paul1, Chandra Prakash Sharma

  • 1Division of Biosurface Technology, Biomedical Technology Wing, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India.

International Journal of Ayurveda Research
|September 8, 2011
PubMed

Keywords:
Blood compatibilitySwarna bhasmaprotein adsorption

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