Salient Features of Ayurveda

by S.C. Dhyani

Contents:

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