Clinical Approach to Ayurvedic Medicine & Panchkarma (For Students and Practitioners)

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• The book is written according to Kaya Chikitsa and Panchkarma syllabus prescribed by National Commission for Indian System of Medicine, New Delhi for UG and PG students.

The basis of book writing has been kept clinical approach, due to which it is useful for undergraduate and postgraduate students, Ayurvedic practitioners and professionals alike.

Kaya Chikitsa and Panchkarma is described in the same book.

Necessary verses, tables and figures are also included in the concern topic to make their understanding more simple and easy.

• According to the syllabus prescribed by NCISM, necessary and as much as possible relevant matter of modern medicine has also been included.

Dr. Pravesh Kumar Mukeriya, BAMS, MD (Ayu) Panchkarma, PG in Microbiology. Associate Professor, Postgraduate Department of Panchkarma, Uttarakhand Ayurved University, Rishikul Campus, Haridwar (Uttarakhand) is a clinician and teacher who obtained his undergraduate degree from S. K. D. Government Ayurvedic College and Hospital, Muzzafarnagar (Uttar Pradesh) and Postgraduate degree from Rishikul Government Ayurvedic College and Hospital, Haridwar (recently Uttarakhand Ayurved University, Rishikul Campus, Haridwar). He has a rich experience in Ayuvedic clinical practice and teaching undergraduates and postgraduates at Uttarakhand Ayurved University, Rishikul and Gurukul Campus, Haridwar and Uttaranchal Ayurvedic College and Hospital, Dehradun. Many of his review and research articles have been published in various journals and a book entitled "Pocket Book of Ayurvedic Medicine Reckoner for Ayurvedic Practitioners and Professionals" is also published from Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd., New Delhi.

प्रयोगज्ञानविज्ञानसिद्धिसिद्धाः सुखप्रदाः। जिविताभिसरास्ते स्युर्वैद्यत्वं तेष्ववस्थितम् ।। (च.सू. 11/53 ) एक शास्त्रमधीयानो न विद्याच्छास्त्रनिश्चयम् । तस्मादबहुश्रुतः शास्त्रं विजानीयाच्चिकित्सकः।। (सु.सु. 4/7 ) The vaidya (physician) who is well versed in theoretical or fundamental and practical approach to Ayurveda as well as other system of medicine, who is proficient in the manufacture and use of medicines and who is going to provide happiness (health) of people by their ability to treat the disease in a right way, that is called jivitabhisara or pranabhisara (life saver). A physician who knows only one system of medicine doesn't know the principles of that stream definitively. Therefore, a physician should study other system of medicine with Ayurveda.

At the time of medical practice, these statements told by Acharyas are true and keeping into consideration from time to time, Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) has included essential knowledge of modern system of medicine (Medical Science) in syllabus of undergraduate and postgraduate courses of Ayurveda. भिषजा प्राक् परीक्ष्यैवं विकाराणां स्वलक्षणम् । पश्चात् कर्मसमारम्भः कार्यः साध्येषु धीमता ।। (च.सू. 10/21)

The bhishaka (physician) should first look at the symptoms of the disease followed by thorough examination, after which only the treatment of curable disease should be started.

During my undergraduate and postgraduate study period and as an Ayurvedic physician, I have always missed a book that includes both undergraduate and postgraduate syllabus of Ayurvedic medicine and Panchkarma as well as clinical and practical approach required for clinical or medical practice which help in understanding the clinical features, diagnosis and treatment of a common clinical condition.

Even today I keep hearing such necessity from my undergraduate and postgraduate students and fellow physicians dedicated in Ayurvedic and Panchkarma practice. Along with this, an Ayurvedic physician is also often under pressure to what extent the Ayurvedic medicines should be used and when the patient should be referred to concern specialist or hospital of Medical Science.

Although it is very difficult task in all these contexts, yet writing this book, all the aspects have been taken into consideration.

I hope this effort will be equally beneficial to both undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as practitioners in the field of Ayurvedic Medicine and Panchkarma. However, in spite of being very careful, there will be many errors in this book, hence concern texts should be referred in this regard.

You will also have many invaluable suggestions which I would heartily welcome so that this book can be made more useful in a timely manner.

I express my gratitude to Shri Arpit Gupta and all the members of Chaukhamba Prakashan, Varanasi due to whose meaningful efforts this book has been made available in its own form in a very short time.