Ayurveda therapy pdf

The first is the PDF of public science/basic textbooks officially released by AYUSH (Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy) in India. There is no copyright risk and the content is authoritative and suitable for beginners.； The second is the PDF internal handouts of Ayurveda training institutions in various countries. Most of them are circulated privately by students. Some of them are subject to copyright disputes. The content is more practical but the quality is mixed. ； The third is the PDF excerpts of translated versions of classic ancient books such as "The Chalukyas Samhita" and "The Amazing Stories to Come", which have a high threshold and are suitable for reference by professional researchers. If you are just an ordinary enthusiast who wants to try gentle conditioning at home, you can directly search for the Chinese version PDF of the "Guide to Ayurveda at Home" officially released by AYUSH. There is no need to buy all kinds of so-called "internal information" with price tags of tens or hundreds. The probability of being deceived is extremely high.

When I was studying with Kumar, a Sri Lankan Ayurvedic healer, in Dali in 2019, I was frantically searching for various PDFs when I first started. I saved almost 40G of information on my hard drive, including more than 20 different versions of physical fitness test forms. At the time, I felt that I had learned something, but later I really I was doing conditioning work for clients and found out that the content in many PDFs was ridiculously wrong. There were even handouts issued by domestic institutions that directly equated Qi deficiency and Yang deficiency in traditional Chinese medicine with Vata (wind energy) constitution in Ayurveda, without taking into account the underlying logical differences between the two systems. It would be strange for those who follow them not to fall into the trap.

It is normal for this to happen. After all, Ayurveda has evolved into different schools since it spread to different regions, and the PDF content produced by different schools has a large deviation. For example, the PDFs of Indian traditionalists highly recommend "Basti Therapy", that is, ghee enemas, and recommend that ordinary people do fasting and detoxification 1-2 times a year. However, the information of modern reformists in Europe and the United States does not mention enemas, which have low acceptance, at all. The operation allows you to drink 5-10ml of warm ghee every morning for three consecutive days at most to eliminate turbidity. The fast has been adjusted to a 16-hour light fast suitable for office workers. It even adds many dietary suggestions suitable for Westerners, such as using quinoa instead of traditional Indian brown rice. As for localized schools in China, many PDFs even combine Chinese health methods such as moxibustion and foot soaking with Ayurveda's physical conditioning. You say it's wrong, but the results are quite good in practice. You say it's orthodox. The old healers in India frown when they read it.

There was a girl who came to me for a physical assessment before. She just downloaded a PDF from an unknown genre online and compared it with herself to find out that she had a Vata constitution. She drank 30ml of pure ghee every day according to the requirements in the PDF. She was lactose intolerant and had a weak spleen and stomach. After drinking for three days, she couldn't even go to class. When she came to see me, her face was white. In fact, it is not the content of the PDF that is wrong. It is a guide written by Indian traditionalists for local residents. Indians include ghee every day in their daily diet, and their tolerance is already high. Most of us Chinese have spleens and stomachs that are not that tolerant of high-fat foods. It would be strange if we just drink 30ml of pure ghee and don't have diarrhea.

If you just want to adjust your daily routine and do some Ayurvedic skin care, it is enough to find the translated PDF version of the European and American reformists. For example, the scanned version of "The Complete Book of Ayurveda Self-Healing" contains gentle operations such as drinking herbal tea corresponding to your body type, getting a massage before going to bed, and adjusting your meal time. Even if you follow the wrong instructions, there will be no big problem. If you really want to study professionally, you must first read the official AYUSH basic textbook PDF to understand the core logic of the three doshas and the correspondence between the five elements. Don't just read those miscellaneous practical handouts. If the foundation is crooked, you will not be able to adjust it later. Oh, by the way, I saw in the PDF that there are mentions of using heavy metals as medicine, bloodletting, and casually giving stimulating herbs to pregnant women. Just skip it. No matter how good you are, these operations have long been proven by modern medicine to have health risks. Don't try it on your own body.

Nowadays, the evaluation of Ayurveda on the Internet is polarized. Some people say it is pseudoscience, and some people boast that it can cure cancer. In fact, both sides are a bit extreme. Judging from existing research, materials such as turmeric, holy basil, and amla officinalis commonly used in Ayurveda have been pharmacologically confirmed to have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects. There are also many clinical data to support their regulating effects on chronic gastrointestinal diseases and emotional anxiety. This part of the content can be found in the regular PDF. However, those contents that say terminal diseases can be cured or tumors can be eliminated by massage are basically compiled by unscrupulous organizations. Just report them directly when you see such PDFs.

To be honest, I can’t read the 40G PDF I save now twice a year. What I use most are the pages of handwritten notes written by Teacher Kumar. He spent five or six years in China and revised them based on the conditioning experience of thousands of clients. For example, people with Vata physiques should not do static meditation for more than half an hour. Thinking about it will make you more anxious. Dancing Pamela for 10 minutes a day is more effective than anything else. People with a Kapha (earth energy) body type do not have to completely refuse to eat meat. Eating white meat twice a week can actually improve metabolism. These down-to-earth contents will basically not appear in public PDFs. They are all created by practitioners step by step.

After all, PDF is just a reference tool. Ayurveda essentially teaches people to perceive their own body changes. If you compare it with the PDF for a long time and don't even notice whether you are prone to constipation or diarrhea recently or whether your temper is irritable than before, then it is useless to save more information, right?