Ayurveda: The True Way to Restore Your Health and Happiness

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This book does not seek to defend Ayurveda. A sound, scientific framework of healthcare that has saved countless lives over 5000 years does not need defenders. It needs champions, and to be given wings. In the book, Dr G.G. Gangadharan, who has been researching both the theory and the practice of Ayurveda for the past thirty-five years, explains the main pillars of its scientific logic. He points out that our bodies are intelligent systems designed to keep most diseases at bay, but we must pay more attention to the signals they give us. Listening to our bodies allows for true restoration. It is a promise to restore your body and mind to its initial healthy state. Ayurveda has so much to offer; its simple application can transform one's daily life. In this book, you will find the secret to greater happiness through balance and long-lasting health.

FDr Gangadharan is a reputed Ayurveda physician, scholar, author and researcher, and a renowned expert in lifestyle diseases. This volume, titled Ayurveda, is his attempt, based on long professional experience, to convey the message of Ayurveda to a global readership. This quintessential message is that the mission of Ayurveda goes beyond the remediation of illness and seeks true restoration of the physical, mental and spiritual well-being of individuals. He also points out that the restorative process of Ayurveda is always done in harmony with manifestations of nature in time, habitat, fauna and flora, and unceasing interactions between the individual and the environment.

A traditional Ayurveda physician trained in the rigorous programme at Coimbatore and reverential to Ayurveda, Dr Gangadharan is fully conversant with sciences relating to laboratory and clinical medicine. His discussions in this book testify to his deep understanding of Ayurveda and Western medicine, and their increasing interaction since the advent of colonial rule in India. He has covered an astonishing range of subjects-ancient and modern, philosophical and scientific, conceptual and practical. He has drawn the attention of readers to many instances where the ancient insights of Ayurveda have found resonance in contemporary studies published in top scientific journals.

Consider the following examples:

Doşa prakrti and the human genome: An individual has a constitutional type (prakṛti) fixed at conception. It has great importance because, among other things, it determines the individual's response to the treatment. In a multicentric study, of which Dr Gangadharan was a participant, it was shown that the prakṛti classification of individuals has a genomic basis. This would suggest that prakṛti-based determination of the human phenotype had anticipated the principle of pharmacogenomics many centuries ago.

There is no such thing as alternative medicine. If a treatment heals the patient, it is medicinal. If it doesn't, it is quackery.

The first thing you need to know about this book is that it is not a defence of Ayurveda. A sound, scientific framework of healthcare that has saved countless lives over 5,000 years does not need defenders. It needs champions. It needs to be given wings so that it can reach out to 7.5 billion human beings, most of whom are struggling to avail cost-effective and quality healthcare. This book was born because the world needs it. It is time for the human species to sit up and notice the unique blessings offered by Ayurveda.

The top-level unique boon of Ayurveda is the implicit promise of true restoration. The promise that the body and mind can be restored to the healthy state from which it descended into sickness. Instead of just managing the disease, Ayurveda invites the body-mind to regain its former glory. And no, this is not mythical, like the elixir of youth-it is based on holism, the idea that healthcare must address the individual as a whole instead of focusing on just the disease.