Salient Features of Ayurveda

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Item Code: IDF464

by S.C. Dhyani

Hardcover (Edition: 2004)

Chowkhamba Publishers

Size: 8.8" X 5.8"
Pages: 100
Weight of the Book: 228 gms

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CONTENTS

1. Introductory	3
2. Some Important Principles of Ayurveda	4
3. Brilliant past and bright future	6
4. Descent and propagation of Ayurveda on earth	7
5. What is Ayurveda	9
6. The Objective of Ayurveda	10
7. Nature of happy and unhappy life	10
8. Nature of Good and bad life	11
9. Ayurvedic concept of health	11
10. Definition of health	13
11. Wholeistic approach to man	17
12. Evolution of man	18
13. The urges that are not be restrained	19
14. The urges that should be held in restraint	19
15. Avoid over - indulgences	19
16. Avoidable men	20
17. Assossiable men	20
18. Strive in wholesome practices	20
19. Important dietetic regulations	20
20. Code of right conduct	21
21. Don't's	22
22. Ayurvedic concept of disease	22
23. What is Prajnaparadha	23
24. Initial and mental cycle of disease	24
25. Doshas - their psychic functions	25
26. Diagram showing origin of disease	29
27. Origin of Life	33
28. Life started with blue and green Algae	35
29. Evolution of life - evolution of Rasas	38
30. Doshas interlinked through Rasas	38
31. Three Rasas increase one Dosha	39
32. Division of a cell	40
33. Ayurvedic concept of conception	41
34. Signs of life	43
35. The eight censored persons	48
36. The symptoms of corpulence	48
37. The symptoms of Emaciation	49
38. Treatment of corpulence	49
39. Treatment of Emaciation	50
40. Three pillars of health	50
41. About a physician	51
42. Ayurvedic concept of Resistance power	54
43. Seasonal variations and Doshik vitiation	55
44. Ayurveda cares for total personality	57
45. Pharmacological concepts	59
46. Taste thresholds	59
47. Qualities and actions of tastes	60
48. Vipaka	61
49. Gunas	62
50. Veerya	62
51. How the drug acts	65
52. Elective affinity of drugs	67
53. Mode of action	67
54. Three kinds of therapies	68
55. Aetio - pathologenesis of disease	68
56. Samprapti	70
57. Examination of the patient	70
58. Modern laboratory tests should be conducted	72
59. Chikitsa	73
60. Six Types of treatment	75
61. Some important therapies	77
62. Raktavasechana	77
63. Punsavana	78
64. Dahakarma	78
65. Vajeekarana	79
66. Ksharakarma	80
67. Achara Rasayana	81
68. Arista	82
69. Some important single drugs	83
70. Diseases and Ayurvedic drugs	85
71. Summation	94