title: [Ayurvedics drugs in France. Laboratories polytherapic, a test].
abstract: In the beginning of the thirties, Dr Jean Saidman, who has already created a rotative solarium at Aix-les-Bains, built another one in Jamnagar (India). When he was there, he discovered ayurvedic therapy. After the Second World War, with his friends Dr Rémus Krainik and the chemist René-Henri Monceaux, he set up a "néo-ayurvedic action committee", and then a pharmaceutical laboratory, "Polythérapic", to export to french colonies patents medicines inspired by indian medicine. The authors tale this experience suddenly stopped by the unexpected death of Jean Saidman, in 1949.
authors.affiliation: Université Paris-Diderot, Grands Moulins, 5-7 rue Thomas-Mann, 75013 Paris.
authors.forename: Cécile
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Raynal
authors.forename: Thierry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lefebvre
mesh_terms: D005602:France; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008515:Medicine, Ayurvedic / Q000266:history*; D008517:Phytotherapy; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000254:growth & development