Dr Thite Intro, 17 Years Practice

[Guest guest]

Dear Ms Martha (Ysha),

 

Thanks for accepting my request.

I am an Ayurveda MD from Pune University (BAMS from 1983-1990 and MD

from 1993-1995). I have been practicing for the last 17 years. Me and

my wife (who also is an ayurvedacharya) run a Panchakarma Center at

Pune. We have handled quite a few pregnancy and delivery cases

including some with primary and secondary infertility. We also handle

antenatal care and postnatal care for women and infant care.

 

As you know, since many modern drugs can prove to be harmful during

pregnancy, there is growing demand for ayurvedic ANC treatment,

especially for conditions like hyperemesis gravidarum, pregnancy

induced hypertension, etc. Also in infants, we get more cases of

certain conditions like dermatitis, fever, indigestion, malnutrition, etc.

 

Thanks and best regards,

Dr. Thite.

 

Dear Dr. Thite;

 

Thank YOU and your wife for honoring us with your precious experience.

As being from Pune also part time residents, do you know Vaidya

Vasant Lad and his wife, Usha ?

 

Please explain for myself and others/define ANC treatment? These kind

of terms also following of conditions you have worked with are beyond

my vocabulary, working with the limited scope of my training and

practice. Re Mothers with more severe conditions - if we have

opportunity will refer to the few Ayurvedic physicians in this

country, although usually the client does not know enough about

Ayurveda to trust or even ask our referrals in this way and they seek

the allopathic options.

 

With your membership, hopefully the others in your level of clinical

practice responsibility who are members will participate in question

and discussion to the benefit of us all. Please confirm you are

receiving this response to your private letter on the forum so we know

you are with us?

 

Warm REgards;

Ysha (Martha)

Forum Hostess and Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula

[Guest guest]

Dear Ms Ysha,

 

I have gone through few previous posts in this group and I am quite

impressed with it. You really have a great discussion going on and I hope it

continues. Yes, I know about Vaidya Lad and his wife, but unfortunately I never

had an opportunity to meet him.

 

It seems that some terms, especially abbreviations, we frequently use here are

different from those used in USA. ANC means antenatal care. There is extensive

guidance in ayurveda about diet and behavior during 9 months of pregnancy.

According to ayurveda there is specific guidance about different body parts of

the baby that are manifested in different months. Thus, monthwise diet and

herbs formulations are suggested to facilitate proper growth of each body part

the baby and even subtler things like mind and intellect. Thus with this ANC

program basically we suggest monthwise diet and behavior modifications according

to prakruti of mother.

 

Ayurveda is slowly gaining popularity in my part and people are inclined to

trust more in ayurveda. Of course, they sometimes seek allopathic care rather

hastily, but I think that is understandable.

 

Best,

Dr. Thite

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Dear Dr. Thite;

 

We always have to give credit to a few very special teachers who have come

before us, and the power of the work and Ayurvedic theory to serve in specific

situations so well in my experience. Then it becomes easy to translate for the

individual situations with wisdom.

 

It is time to honor

1) the vaidyas Subedar and Kastori who were given to work with two western

women, an infant masseuse Clara Berno and RN/CBE Margaret Mulleins, to translate

the best they could from gifts of Ayurveda into a program for good postpartum

care for western women; this was my initial 2 week training! It came blessed by

the support of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to bring Ayurveda out for us.

 

2) Saraswati Buhrman, PhD and Clinical Ayurvedic Practitioner, trained by her

teacher she met in India, Vaidya Divedi. At one point he just said, practice

and teach, and she was on her own, but her gifts founded the Rocky MOuntain

INstitute of Yoga and Ayurveda and have served many clients with her excellent

skills with Ayurveda and Ayurvedic herbal formulary, where I was fortunate to

study and take some of their advanced classes, including also the 4 day

intensive on Womens' Health Care and Ayurveda. RMIYA's classes take the

northern Indian approach to jump right into herbal use, rather than the more

conservative approach generally taught in most places in the US also.

 

3) Sarita Shrestha, BAMS and OBGyn, first woman vaidya/OBGyn in Nepal and

honored as the representative of all the vaidyas there, her master's level work

was in postpartum and she trains and guides midwives as well as ayurvedic

physicians for her Devi Kunti clinic there as well as many in the US where she

travels annually (www.saritashrestha.org).

 

4) Dr. Vasant Lad, founder of the Ayurvedic Institute in New Mexico, and a new

Ganesha INstitute almost completed I believe in his home town of Pune, where he

spends half of his time already also taking on many clients from the area and

referrals from his friends at the allopathic hospital where they have given up

on them (!). He is soon to be spending more time there again. Even a little

time with him is a great blessing; he is such a master teacher, a delight of

sattva and humor, clarity and abundant clinical knowledge. It is interesting

that he seems to be deferring to the few women in the US who have any background

in Ayurveda care for women, waiting for us to teach more on the subject, and his

students currently all seem to remark on this missing piece.

 

This November in his US hometown of Albuquerque, NM, there is a national

Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) annual conference to which I've been asked

to speak on Perinatal Nutrition. As my training and career has focused mostly

on postpartum needs and care, a big black hole in health care in this country,

the ANC (yes, it is a term used here, just not used much in my circles) this

piece is short in my training.

 

Would you be so kind as to share this valuable information in summary as you

have described? It would be my delight to give credit to you and your wife for

sharing this with the NAMA audience. We have just 1.5 hours to present and

though there is more than enough to fill the time just on postpartum nutrition,

they have requested also ANC guidance for nutrition. Dr. Shrestha and I have

been playing phone tag during her visit to take this on together, but now she is

about to return to Nepal! Your post was answer to my unasked request.

 

It is encouraging to hear that Ayurveda is gaining in popularity/respect in its

homeland.

 

Namaste;

Ysha