<ayurveda>Ayurveda for Mental ailments

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Dear Durgesh

 

With due apologies, some of the points raised by you are perhaps due

to your inadequate familiarity with India and it's massive

population, a majority of which is still in villages. No careers

there other than agriculture, dairy, gossip.

 

At the beginning itself, this author made it clear that his thoughts

were based on observation of Indian population only. This population

differes a lot from city population in both India and U.S. of A.

 

Vedanta as defined in ancient texts is never a topic of interest for

this author, least of all, that topic will be of no interest in this

forum.

 

The intent of using the terms such as Purush and prakruti was to

bring out the differences in two sexes, as reagrds aggressivness,

providing seed and looking after the growth and nutrition.

 

A vaidya serving the society has to use his knowledge in providing

cures, whether defined in ayurvedic text, or arising out of practice.

For a person who thinks ayurveda is defined only by samhitas, he

should read samhitas. The practice, its complications, social

standing of ayurvedists etc are many questions have been discussed by

various authors in this group before.

 

The author thinks that other vaidyas may also like to share such

experience related to clinical experiences, which was the real

intention.

 

If people wish to post systematic tackling of one kind of problems

(e.g. gyn problems as suggested by you in one post)using basic

theories of ayurveda, they will be most welcome. But if you look at

archieves, you will see that some Vaidyas posted creative solutions

for some time and then abruptly stopped after facing criticism that

this amounts to prescribing online, without physical consultations,

etc and such Vaidyas shied away. Ayurvedic view of diabetes by Dr

Venu Gopal is one example. Dr Vidhyadhar, a Siddha Vaidhya is

another. Panch Gavya theory is another. The principles of breathing

techniques is another. These fall aoutside ancient texts.

 

The postings here should not be thought as research articles being

published in peer reviewed journals. Research articles, being science

oriented, become "dry" sometimes beyond the reach of majority of

members. On the other hand chat room articles will be more like

random ramblings. About two years back, Cybervaidya had requested the

info from ayurvedic or even other practitioners belonging to this

group. Not even 10 responded. This fact is taken into account by

people who post more often. Durgesh, this group consists more of

ordinary people. For practitioners, seeking specialized knowledge,

there are other groups "for Practitioners only". The group cant

distance from ordinary people, just as ayurveda also cant do so.

 

This author finds the meaning in "random ramblings" of patients and

uses this in deciding the prescription, food, lifestyle and even

suggesting change of environment.

 

Communication with patient is the "key" to ayurvedic practice, be it

for mental ailments, or simple urine infection. The root of the

disease has to be searched.

 

Regards

Dr Bhate

 

 

 

ayurveda, durgesh mankikar

<d_mankikar> wrote:

> Dear Shirish,

>

> As we say in the US of A, a guy asks his friend, who had just come

back from a political rally, what did he say ? He tells him, he said

a lot but didn't tell us about what.