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Do you sometimes feel tired, lethargic and spiritless? How can Ayurveda help in a simple, practisable manner?Time is scarce and precious in today's world, and we seek solutions that are quick. While allopathic medicine tends to focus on the management of disease, the ancient study of dinacharya provides us with holistic knowledge of preventing disease and eliminating its root cause. Taking us through a day in the life of Ayurveda living, Dr Bhaswati Bhattacharya illustrates the core principles of Ayurveda and shows us how to incorporate these in our routine. She explains the logic behind the changes she recommends and how they benefit us. Informative and accessible, Everyday Ayurveda is the perfect lifestyle guide designed to maximize health, longevity and happiness the natural way.

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Publié par	Random House Publishers India Pvt. Ltd.
Date de parution	21 septembre 2015
Nombre de lectures	5
EAN13	9788184007527
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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DR BHASWATI BHATTACHARYA

Everyday yurveda
Daily Habits That Can Change Your Life
Foreword by Abhay Deol
RANDOM HOUSE INDIA
Contents
A Note on the Author
Foreword
Preface
Prologue
Part I: Early Morning Rituals
1 Rise and Shine
2 Old Food, New Food
3 Morning Ablutions
4 Washing Hands
5 Washing the Face and its Orifices
6 Cleaning the Teeth
7 Cleaning the Tongue
8 Water in the Morning
9 Auspicious Objects
10 Sweetness for the Day
11 Framing the Day
The Early Morning Routine: Practical
Part II: Opening the Five Senses
12 Cleaning the Senses: The Eyes
13 Cleaning the Senses: The Ears
14 Cleaning the Senses: The Nose
15 Cleaning the Senses: The Voice
16 Cleaning the Senses: The Mouth
The Voice
Cleaning the Senses: Practical
Part III: The Bath
17 Oil Massage
18 Vyayam: Exercise
19 Pranayama: Conscious Breathing
20 Veg s: The Urges of the Body
21 Skin and Nails
22 Hair
23 Shaving and Haircut
24 Cleaning the Feet and Perineum
25 Bathing
The Bath: Practical
Part IV: Activities of the Day: Yoga Off the Mat
26 Sadvritta and Dharma
27 P ja: the Act of Worship
28 Choosing Dress
29 Travel
30 Profession
31 Relationships
32 Afternoon
Part V: Nutrition
33 Food
Part VI: Ratricharya : Routines for the Night
34 The Evening and Dinner
35 Effects of Nature s Environment: Rtucharya
36 Alcohol and Smoking
37 Sex
38 Recalling the Day
39 Meditation and Night-time Yoga
40 Getting to Bed on Time
41 Rasayana: Vitality/Raising Agni
42 Sleep
Epilogue
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A Note on the Author
Living between Manhattan and Kashi, Dr Bhaswati Bhattacharya is a licensed, board-certified physician, integrating Good Medicine with Ayurveda for the past fifteen years. She is Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and a PhD researcher in yurveda at Banaras Hindu University. She is a 2014 senior Fulbright-Nehru Scholar, recipient of American Medical Association s Leadership Award and the first Indian to speak at Commencement Exercises at Harvard University. Her work is featured in the documentary, Healers: Journey into yurveda, on The Discovery Channel . Her website is: www.drbhaswati.com .
Praise for Everyday yurveda
Dr Bhaswati has written a book that will help resurrect the knowledge I grew up on, using scientific logic for modern scientists, and slokas for ancient scientists and observers. Her writing will appeal to the intelligent seeker dedicated to achieving a good life using conscious self-care, attention to healthy habits and respect for the wisdom of the ancients.
Shashi Tharoor, member of Parliament
Bhaswati combines her talents as a healer with passion for sharing truly healing medicine. She has written from the song in her heart that celebrates light, sound and connection with nature.
Pandits Rajan and Sajan Misra, Padma Bhushan recipients and classical Hindustani vocalists of the Banaras Gharana
Bhaswati is uniquely able to diagnose like good medical doctors of the past, watching the patient rather than the test result. With a person-centered approach, this book is a tribute to yurveda and explains why we should pay more attention to the signals our bodies give us.
Ashok H. Advani, founder publisher, The Business India Group
Bhaswati has preserved the Sanskrit from which dinacharya emanates. Through her unending curiosity and dedication as a well-trained physician, scientist and professor, she has brought basic concepts of yurveda to light. She has toiled and delved deeply with engaging clarity, a fine mind and an extraordinarily connected soul. She teaches yurveda authentically because it is in her heart.
Dr Vd. Chandrabhushan Jha, former dean, faculty of yurveda, Banaras Hindu University and professor emeritus of Rasa Shastra
Ancient yurvedic rishis developed dinacharya , a way of maintaining normal body rhythms and staying healthy. Assisted by logic and personal accounts, Dr Bhaswati brings dinacharya alive in this book and reinforces its importance and necessity, especially in busy lives.
Vd. Partap Chauhan, founder of Jiva Ayurveda
Dr Bhaswati unlocks the age-old tenets of yurveda contained in cryptic Sanskrit verses. Her strong roots in tradition and willingness to branch out to the modern world make this book precious, like any true vidya.
Dr P.R. Krishnakumar, Padma Shree recipient and managing director, Arya Vaidya Pharmacy, Coimbatore
As a fellow Fulbright Scholar, I have witnessed Dr Bhaswati devote her life to researching and preserving yurveda, and bringing it back to the hands and hearts of people.
Gautam Gandhi, former head of new business development, Google India
To the three men to whom I made promises from my soul
For devotion, KB For discipline, PBM For daring, BCB
Foreword
My whole life, I have believed in yurveda. To use its principles in a practical way and to mould it to a crazy schedule like mine is what I have always sought. It is what many of us seek but do not find in easy, accessible ways.
Bhaswati does exactly that. She makes yurveda practical while also preserving its authenticity. Her logic and stories, with her impressive background as a well-qualified medical doctor, scientist and public health specialist from some of the best schools (Harvard, UPenn, Columbia, Princeton, Rush, Cornell and BHU) make the book that much more valuable. Since I have met her in New York, Bhaswati has made it her mission to bring the wisdom of yurveda back to the people in a usable, everyday way.
As an eco-environmentalist and a thinking actor, I often explore good food and sound health choices to keep my skin and face healthy and my body fit, and consume a diet that both satisfies and nourishes.
yurveda rejects the stale, easy, ready-in-a-minute choices in the urban world of jets, trains and film sets, and encourages all things natural. Through this ideology, I have learnt how to understand what my body needs and make choices that allow me to do fun things and still be healthy.
Getting up early is one thing that feels really good. Though I often have late-night engagements that require sleeping in, I am finding that Brahma muhurta- rising with the sun-actually helps keep my body strong.
When Bhaswati first told me about gandusha for teeth whitening, I enthusiastically asked to learn how to partake! What a great thing to hear the logic and her explanation on how to do it. I offered to be the face for her remedies.
Bhaswati is the person who has taken yurveda from ancient wisdom and brought it into the modern day. When people ask her how a modern medical doctor can be so supportive of yurveda, she gives a cannonball of evidence.
She is smart, she is articulate, and she is kind. Her clinical practice is her best evidence. Her treatments and approaches integrate the best of authentic yurveda, which we know and love, with the practical needs of modern medicine.
When she told me about her book, I was extremely happy. Instead of chasing her down with each skin problem, I now have a handbook to guide me through a strong regimen. She can slightly alter most of the treatment in the book to my particular dosha to make it a medical treatment.
This is also a fun book to read. The writing is unapologetically sensual and spiritual, and reveals her own encounters since childhood amid nature and the ways of yurveda. It will benefit those who want to make and see changes in their health.
Abhay Deol
Preface
Many moons ago, my mornings began in the usual modern, urban Western way: waking up to an alarm clock, a cup of coffee, a quick shower and a whirlwind of multitasking that included checking emails and patient lab reports, eating while organizing the apartment and packing my briefcase before rushing to a metro ride to the hospital. I was efficient, accomplished and pleased.
After a few years, when I began gaining weight, my hair became dry and began to fall, and my gut was bloated too often, I thought these were the inevitable symptoms of aging. A voice deep inside questioned how some people were healthy even in their eighties, while others got sick. Modern medicine had few answers, but lots of tests and drugs to suppress those inescapable symptoms.
Thus, I was provoked onto a journey of questioning whether depletion is unavoidable. I delved deeper into yurveda and found a road introducing me to the concepts of dinacharya (daily routine). Once I succumbed to that inner voice, I became more curious and more aware of many things. I consciously veered away from the usual path and chose to open a quiet solo private practice, wary to enter the limelight of celebrity physicians who tend to become blinded about their primary roles as healers.
Through the many grantha s, or great scriptures, I learnt that from the time of the Vedas-around 10,000 BCE -until 500 CE , wise men continuously used, perfected and refined the knowledge of life, longevity and well-being, known as the veda of ayus , or yurveda. This knowledge was hidden over the past 200 years, in the most nefarious conquest India faced: the conquest over self-awareness.
But as I began to revisit India more regularly, I found that the wisdom still existed, in pockets and quiet corners of the country, handed down quietly from generation to generation, as traditions of healing and wholeness, known sometimes as yurveda and sometimes simply as tradition. They need no validation or approval; their observations and healthy patients are enough.
When I first started practising yurveda, I was told it was preventive, and that the best way to engage was with single herbs, some yoga poses, and some diet and lifestyle changes. Done authentically and aligned with the philosophical concepts of yurvedic dosha, guna, agni and srotas , my prescriptions began to include a section for lifestyle counselling specific to the patient. I began to prescribe fewer drugs, surgeries and tests, and more herb