xii, 98p., Figs., Tables, 23 cm. (Kashi Ayurveda Series No. 4)
CONTENTS
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.
