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.
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.
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.
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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