Ayurveda Textbook - Comprehensive Guide - Part 2The Textbook of Ayurveda, Volume Two: A Complete Guide to Clinical Assessment

Vasant Lad presents this ancient science in a framework understandable to the modern student while staying true to its ancient roots, elucidating the mysteries of Ayurveda from classical Sanskrit texts. This text builds on the information from the first part and imparts the basic elements of clinical assessment.

Vasant Lad describes many categories and stages of disorders and diseases from ancient Ayurvedic texts. He then demonstrates how to uncover and evaluate the client's conditions. Offering thorough training in client assessment, the reader will gain a new level of expertise and experience in serving their patient. Accurate knowledge of where the client is in the disease process allows the practitioner to determine the most effective level of care necessary for them. The book, full of illustrations, tables, charts, clinical forms, and practical examples, guides the student through assessment methods using historical applications of Ayurveda as well as more modern terms and techniques. * Discover thorough assessment techniques that include five clinical barometers, three categories of clinical examination, eight methods of clinical examination, constitutional assessment, and evaluation of agni and metabolic waste. * Detailed and specialised information on dosha disorders, tissues, prana, tejas, ojas, and bodily channels is also provided. * Gain new insights into the disease process, its developmental stage, and the subtleties of the body's inner workings. * Includes assessment forms for a complete patient evaluation.

These are the same methods used by Dr. Lad at his clinics.

• Understandable framework — Presents ancient science in a framework understandable to the modern student.
• Thorough techniques — Discover thorough assessment techniques that include five clinical barometers.
• Detailed information — Detailed and specialised information on dosha disorders, tissues, prana, tejas, ojas, and bodily channels is provided.
• Illustrations and charts — The book is full of illustrations, tables, charts, clinical forms, and practical examples.