The Ayurvedic Practitioner - Unit 2: The Ayurvedic Diagnosis: Determination of the Basic Constitution of an Individual and Study of Its Imbalances. St
Author: Stephane Le Colas
Publisher: Ayurvedic Practitioner
Published: 2018-03-20
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9781980611202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter Unit 1, which allows a detailed understanding of the anatomy and physiology according to Ayurveda, Volume 2 focuses on describing how the practitioner makes his diagnosis. When we talk about diagnosis, we mean the notion of disease. This second volume explains exactly what the disease process is in Ayurveda. How it is born, how it develops ... This book allows to know how to determine the basic constitution of a person (Prakritti) as well as its imbalances (Vrikritti). What are the questions to ask? What to look after? How to take the pulse? What information is given by the tongue? This is what this book answers to, among others. Without wanting to replace a medical opinion, Unit 2 of the Ayurvedic Practitioner will give a particular opinion on health and on disease. Like Unit 1, this is a course material, without image, composed only of the essential information for a good practice of Ayurveda. No treatment is offered in this module. Chapters: 1. Constitutional Analysis of a Person How to define the basic Doshic constitution of a person (Prakritti), what are the different constitutions. 2. The Disease According to Ayurveda What is a disease according to Ayurveda, how it is born, how it progresses, how the Doshas are involved in the different clinical signs of a disease. The disease with and without the presence of toxins (Ama). 3. Diagnosis and Examination of the Sick Patient How to define the constitutional imbalance of a person (Vrikritti), how to analyze the informations provided by the pulse, the tongue and the abdomen.