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Loading... The Complete Illustrated Guide to Ayurveda: The Ancient Indian Healing Traditionby Gopi Warrier
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This review is from "The Complete Illustrated Guide to Ayurveda: The Ancient Indian Healing Tradition": At last what many people have been looking for: a well produced, highly artistic illustrated guide to the often difficult and arcane world of Ayurveda! While there are a number of excellent introductory books on this subject, until this one none have been presented in such an accessible visual format. If you have trouble getting into Ayurveda or introducing Ayurveda to your friends, family, students, or clients, this book may be exactly what you need. "The Complete Illustrated Guide to Ayurveda" makes the study of Ayurveda not so much an intellectual excercise as an enjoyable adventure. It uses traditional Indian art as well as contemporary illustrations and examples, to make the subject relevant to people today. Yet the book does not sacrifice anything by way of content. Anyone interested in Ayurvedic medicine or natural healing will want to have this book, not merely on the shelf, but out in the open for everyone to look at and benefit from. no reviews | add a review
The aim of Ayurveda is to cure disease and promote health, using the Ayurvedic blend of exercise, meditation, herbal medicine, massage and dietary advice, in order to develop a philosophy of life which aims to prevent disease altogether. This guide explains Ayurveda, the system of health for body, mind and spirit which has been practised in India for 4000 years. No library descriptions found. |
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Lavishly illustrated throughout, The Complete Illustrated Guide to Ayurveda is indispensable to anyone concerned with their well-being. It explains:
- Ayurveda, the science of life
- how the ancient system of mind/body medicine works and its current applications
- the five elements and the Tridosha theory
- how to take the Ayurveda body-type test
- eating for perfect balance
- the process of disease, its diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
- meditation and yoga
- Ayurveda in the Western world