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Principles and Practice of Vasti

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Item Code: NBZ657
Author: M.R. Vasudevan Nampoothiri, L. Mahadevan and S. Jayadeep
Language: English
Edition: 2014
Pages: 336 (Throughout B/W Illustrations)
Cover: PAPERBACK
Other Details 8.50 X 5.50 inch
Weight 360 gm
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Book Description
About the Authors
Dr. M.R. Vasudevan Nampoothiri has completed BAM. With rank from Kottakkal Ayurveda College in 1977 and M.D. (Panchakarma) from Trivandrum Ayurveda College in 1981. Entered as tutor in Government Ayurveda College service in 1981. Guided more than 60 postgraduate theses. Presented many papers in National and International seminars. Published more than 100 articles. He was former director of Ayurveda Medical Education, Govt. of Kerala. Currently working as principal in Amrta School of Ayurveda, Vallikkavu, Kollam.

Dr. L. Mahadevan completed his post graduation M.D Kayacikitsa, from Govt. Ayurveda College, Thiruvananthapuram with high academic credentials. He does intensive research in Neurology and Panchakarma. He practices in Derisanamcope (A village in Kanyakumari dist, Tamilnadu) and in Chennai. He teaches clinical medicine to students. His classes on clinical medicine are unique in nature. He has written sixty books on Ayurveda. He is a student of Dr. B. Vaidyanathan & Dr. M.R.Vasudevan Nampoothiri.

Dr. S. Jayadeep completed his Ayurveda graduation & Post graduation from Govt Ayurveda College, Tripunithura . He is currently working as a Senior Medical Officer in Department of Indian System of Medicine, Govt of Kerala. He is coming from a traditional Ayurveda Vaidya family from North Malabar. He has more than 30 Radio talks in AIR - Kozhikode, Thrissur and Kochi stations on various Ayurvedic subjects. He is also a regular writer in all leading Malayalam Newspapers and Magazines covering medical topics.

Foreword
I am very happy to introduce and recommend the book "Principles and Practice of Vasti" to you.

Many books are available in this topic. But most of them explain the theoretical aspects, because they are written by academicians. The authors of this book are experienced physicians and hence it deals with the important practical aspects of vasti excellently. Moreover the methods of vasti and possible mechanism of action are also dealt in detail.

The commonly done vastis like Ksira vasti, Vaitarana vasti, Madhutailika vasti, etc are explained well with their possible complications and management.

About the authors, Dr. M.R.Vasudevan Nampoothiri is my colleague and Dr. L. Mahadevan is my student.

This book will be highly useful to U.G & P.G students, teachers and also for Ayurvedic Medical Practitioners. I can assure that an Ayurvedic Doctor can do Vasti independently & effectively with the help of this book. It is stated that Vasti should be done in the presence of more than one doctor and that may be the reason, why this book is written by two doctors together.

Preface
The book "Principles and Practice of Vasti" written by us, is based on our experience covering every aspect of vasti karma. This includes wide coverage of theoretical aspects from most of the texts and their practical interpretations. There are practical ideas about commonly used vastis for diseases which we see in our day today clinical practice. Modern correlation, possible mode of action, collection of herbs and procedures of all the vastis are also added. The complications of vasti are critically analyzed and their practical management is stressed. There are certain issues which we do not know; in that context the textual aspect is dealt as such. We hope we will be able to answer those things in future or in the future editions. We have done more than ten thousand vastis in our practice and every word of this book is based on that experience. We are continuing our work on vasti and research on the applied aspect of the same, in various clinical conditions. Uttaravasti is also being practised. We have seldom seen complications if we do vastis with proper care and precautions.

In the end of the chapter of vasti in Cakradatta, he mentions that we could not do and practice all the vastis told in Caraka Samhita. If that is the case in the eleventh century, we cannot think about obtaining those materials and doing such elaborate vastis in current day practice. There are subtle variations of opinion among Acaryas regarding dosage, time, ingredients and utility of vastis. So discussing about the use of various vastis according to Acaryas will not be clinically useful. We should concentrate on what we can do practically. Most of the books available in the market, cover only the theoretical collection or compilation aspects of vasti. This adds confusion and lack of guidance among the practitioners and students regarding the practical application of vasti. This is the first time a book is written by practitioners for the purpose of practice. At the same time this book can be used as a reference guide for scholars, graduates and postgraduates of Ayurveda.

Even though the procedure is simple, we advise to follow the Sastra and to do the kriya with dedication and commitment.

We are thankful to our teacher Dr. P. Sankaran Kutty, who is the teacher of most of the practitioners of vasti in this country, for his encouragement and guidance for initiating the procedures in Trivandrum Ayurveda College Campus. We are thankful to Dr. K. Sankaran, MD(Ay), Director of Ayurvedic Medical Education, Thiruvananthapuram for writing the foreword. We are thankful to Dr. K. Chidambaram, Dr. S.C. Jeyamookambigai, Dr.G.Harini Ramya, Dr. Roy. S. Devi Sahaya Mary, Dr. K. Sheik Farith, Dr. A. Selvakumar, Dr. S.G. Gireesh, Dr. S. Balammal, Dr. C. Muthunagai, Dr. Soonrita Manchanda, Dr. Bhusan Sarmandal for their valuable contribution, help in collecting the material and in proof reading. We are also thankful to Dr. P.S. Mahesh, Dr. Arun, Dr. Indulekha, Dr. Bindu (PG scholars from Thiruvananthapuram) for their help and suggestions.

Introduction
In this modern era of medicine, the use of modern science as a research tool in Ayurveda has never been more promising and compelling than at the present time. Although Ayurveda has a vast tradition of knowledge and medicines which have a proven clinical background, this system of medicine still is deprived of the acceptance it truly deserves, due to lack of scientific and experimental evidence. Today scientific validation and analysis of the medicine and medical intervention procedures are important for the purpose of safety of treatment, standardization of medicines and procedures and thus acceptance in the medical field.

Strolling through history, in fact it was the Atharvavedic period (1500 BC) and the empiricism during Buddhist centuries that drove Ayurveda to become reason-based by the first century, when Charaka flourished. Because of its unique pro-nature vision, Ayurveda has made developments through the centuries and today is gaining global relevance. This new upsurge of interest in Ayurveda and its rapidly increasing public use has given rise to many newer issues and challenges. The public in general, as well as the scientific and professional community, seems to be largely convinced with the rationality and possible scientific validity of the principles and approaches of Ayurveda as a logical life science and as a healing modality. Traditional practices in Ayurveda such as Panchakarma have become so popular that Ayurvedic institutions regularly report waiting lists for patients not only in India but also from abroad.

Thus for the new Ayurvedic researcher, the evidence base of contemporary Ayurveda needs to utilized from a variety of sources including (1) Textual evidence and folklore claims, (2) Experience-based evidence, (3) Longstanding traditional use, (4) Mass acceptability and (5) New scientific evidence .

Ayurveda is not merely a science but it is a science of life. It states vyadhi as a condition in which the body and mind are subjected to pain and misery. This is a state of imbalance of three doshas which are the three basic constituents of the living body.

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