- "Ayurveda is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent." - "The theory and practice of Ayurveda is pseudoscientific." - "Ayurveda therapies have varied and evolved over more than two millennia."
Understand how Ayurvedic practitioners diagnose imbalances in the doshas and develop treatment plans, including use of herbs, dietary changes, and lifestyle recommendations.
Ayurvedic Principles: Understanding the fundamental principles of Ayurveda including the concept of doshas, dhatus, malas, and gunas.
Anatomy and Physiology: Understanding the human body’s organs, systems, and functions from an Ayurvedic perspective.
Pathology: Identifying the symptoms, causes, and factors that contribute to diseases.
Diagnosis: Learning the methods for identifying diseases by examining pulse, tongue, urine, and other indicators.
Ayurvedic Herbs: Understanding the properties, benefits, and uses of various herbs and plants used in Ayurvedic medicine.
Diet and Lifestyle: Understanding the role of diet, lifestyle, and exercise in maintaining health and preventing disease.
Panchakarma: Learning the Ayurvedic detoxification process that removes toxins from the body.
Ayurvedic Massage: Learning Ayurvedic massage techniques to promote relaxation and healing.
Yoga and Meditation: Understanding the role of yoga and meditation in Ayurvedic medicine and how it improves overall health.
Ayurvedic Psychology: Understanding the Ayurvedic perspective on emotional and mental health to treat anxiety and depression.
Ayurvedic Nutrition: Studying the principles of Ayurvedic nutrition and the use of food as medicine.
Clinical Practice: Understanding clinical practice in Ayurvedic medicine by observing and assisting doctors in consultations.
Research Methods: Learn how to conduct research in Ayurvedic medicine.
Ayurvedic pharmacology: Studying Ayurvedic medicines, their uses, benefits, and side-effects.
Diagnosis through herbs: Learning to identify diseases through the use of herbs and plants.
Marma therapy: Understanding Marma therapy and its role in treating physical and mental ailments.
Ayurvedic Pediatrics: Understands the application of Ayurvedic principles in the treatment of children's health.
Ayurvedic Obstetrics: Understanding Ayurvedic perspectives and protocols to prevent and manage maternal health issues.
Ayurvedic Dermatology: Understanding the Ayurvedic treatment of various skin conditions.
Ayurvedic Ophthalmology: Learning how Ayurvedic practices maintain and improve vision health.
Ayurvedic ENT: Understanding Ayurvedic treatment of Ear, Nose, and Throat health issues.
Ayurvedic Gynecology: Understanding Ayurvedic approaches to women’s reproductive and gynecological health.
Ayurvedic Geriatrics: Understanding how Ayurveda promotes healthy aging and prevents age-related diseases.
Ayurvedic Immunology: Learning the Ayurvedic methods to boost the immune system to fight diseases.
Ayurvedic Physical Therapy: Understanding Ayurvedic techniques to manage musculoskeletal disorders.
Ayurvedic Dentistry: Understanding the Ayurvedic approach to maintaining dental health.
Ayurvedic Oncology: Understanding Ayurvedic approaches to preventing and treating cancer.
Ayurvedic Psychiatry: Understanding the Ayurvedic treatment of mental health disorders.
Ayurvedic Cardiology: Understanding Ayurvedic approaches to supporting healthy heart function.
Ayurvedic Pulmonology: Understanding Ayurvedic management of respiratory diseases.
Pulse Diagnosis (Nadi Pariksha): This method involves feeling the pulse of the patient to understand the state of their body.
Tongue Diagnosis (Jivha Pariksha): This is done by examining the tongue of the patient, as it can reveal the state of different organs in the body.
Eye Diagnosis (Akshi Pariksha): The eyes can also reveal the state of a patient's health, and this method involves examining them.
Urine Analysis (Mutra Pariksha): The urine of the patient can also reveal the state of their health, and this method of diagnosis involves analyzing it.
Dietary Treatment (Ahara Chikitsa): This involves treating various ailments through a specific diet that targets the root cause of the problem.
Herbal Treatment (Dravya Chikitsa): This is done by prescribing specific herbs or combinations of herbs to treat various ailments.
Massage (Abhyanga): This is a type of treatment that involves using warm oil to massage the body, which has numerous health benefits.
Yoga and Meditation: These are practices that help balance the mind and body and are often used as a complementary treatment to Ayurvedic medicine.
Panchakarma: This is a comprehensive detoxification treatment that involves five different procedures to eliminate toxins from the body.
Lifestyle management: This involves making changes in the patient's lifestyle, such as incorporating exercise, improving sleep quality, reducing stress, and avoiding harmful habits such as smoking and drinking alcohol.
- "It is heavily practiced in India and Nepal, where around 80% of the population report using Ayurveda."
- "Therapies include herbal medicines, special diets, meditation, yoga, massage, laxatives, enemas, and medical oils."
- "Ayurvedic preparations are typically based on complex herbal compounds, minerals, and metal substances."
- "Ancient Ayurveda texts also taught surgical techniques, including rhinoplasty, kidney stone extractions, sutures, and the extraction of foreign objects."
- "The main classical Ayurveda texts begin with accounts of the transmission of medical knowledge from the gods to sages, and then to human physicians." - "The Sushruta Samhita (Sushruta's Compendium) frames the work as the teachings of Dhanvantari, Hindu god of Ayurveda, incarnated as King Divodāsa of Varanasi, to a group of physicians, including Sushruta."
- "Through well-understood processes of modernization and globalization, Ayurveda has been adapted for Western consumption, notably by Baba Hari Dass in the 1970s and Maharishi Ayurveda in the 1980s."
- "Historical evidence for Ayurvedic texts, terminology and concepts appears from the middle of the first millennium BCE onwards."
- "In Ayurveda texts, Dosha balance is emphasized, and suppressing natural urges is considered unhealthy and claimed to lead to illness." - "Ayurveda treatises describe three elemental doshas viz. vāta, pitta and kapha, and state that balance of the doshas results in health, while imbalance results in disease."
- "Ayurveda treatises divide medicine into eight canonical components."
- "Some Ayurvedic preparations have been found to contain lead, mercury, and arsenic, substances known to be harmful to humans."
- "A 2008 study found the three substances [lead, mercury, and arsenic] in close to 21% of U.S. and Indian-manufactured patent Ayurvedic medicines sold through the Internet."
- "The public health implications of such metallic contaminants in India are unknown."