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# authentic Ayurvedic & herbal insights clinically trained expert author 80+ detailed herb profiles Ayurvedic Medicine: The Principles of Traditional Practice

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> 🌿 Unlock the ancient secrets of Ayurveda with modern clinical precision!

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## Key Features

- • **Rich Educational Structure:** Includes history, diagnosis, treatment protocols, and handy appendices for quick reference and deep learning.
- • **Clinically Validated Wisdom:** Authored by Sebastian Pole, a practitioner with extensive training in Ayurveda, Western and Chinese herbal medicine, ensuring trusted, practical knowledge.
- • **Comprehensive Herbal Encyclopedia:** Explore over 80 meticulously detailed Ayurvedic plant remedies with vivid color photos and scientific insights.
- • **Bridging Tradition & Modern Science:** Integrates classical Ayurvedic principles with contemporary biomedical understanding for holistic healing.
- • **Essential for Practitioners & Students:** A definitive textbook and manual, perfect for clinicians, educators, and serious students of Ayurveda.

## Overview

Ayurvedic Medicine: The Principles of Traditional Practice by Sebastian Pole is a highly acclaimed, clinically informed textbook offering an in-depth exploration of Ayurvedic herbal medicine. Featuring over 80 plant profiles with detailed descriptions, photos, and therapeutic uses, it bridges traditional wisdom and modern science. Ideal for practitioners, students, and health professionals seeking a comprehensive, practical guide to Ayurveda.

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Review: An excellent and very much needed work - Sebastian Pole is a British practitioner of ayurveda, traditional Chinese and Western herbal medicine as well as a professional teacher of yoga and is a pioneer in the cultivation of organic ayurvedic herbs in the UK, and has had extensive clinical training in ayurvedic clinics and hospitals in India. He has presented the health care community and the ayurvedic profession with what surely will become the definitive textbook of ayurvedic herbal medicine for aspiring practitioners and manual for clinicians in the Western and English-speaking world. This book has filled a desperate and long-felt need for an English-language work that is at a sufficient level of clinical detail for working and student practitioners of ayurveda. It is replete with color photographs, superbly well-organized details on each herb catalogued, and very well written. I refer to it daily in both my practice and my teaching. "Ayurvedic Medicine: The Principles of Traditional Practice" provides a deep and broad understanding of the theory underlying ayurvedic pharmacology and therapeutics along with a practical materia medica of over 80 ayurvedic plant remedies, each carefully denoted by its common Indian name, Sanskrit and Latin name, description, color photographs of the herb in both its prepared and fresh forms, energetics, phytoconstitutents, ayurvedic and biomedical actions, indications, contraindications, safety issues, formulations and dosage, along with additional notes. The work is divided into three main sections. Part 1 presents a history of ayurveda and the development of its materia medica; basic principles (the panch mahabhutas, the three doshas, the saptadhatus, the srota, ayurvedic anatomy, disease etiology and pathology); principles of ayurvedic herbal pharmacology and pharmacy; ayurvedic diagnosis and therapeutics, treatment protocols and the scientific basis for ayurveda's claims. Part 2 presents the plant profiles, herb sourcing, and traditional formulas, and Part 3 contains useful tabular appendices, a glossary, herbal sources, plant name indices, and transliteration and pronunciation notes. Everyone involved in ayurveda, and in a larger sense everyone involved in or interested in health care, complimentary medicine or herbalism, owes Mr. Pole a huge debt of gratitude for this excellent and very much needed work.
Review: My favorite Ayurvedic book - As a provider and practitioner of Ayurvedic Medicine, I look for books and resources that bring the classical texts of Ayurveda into a tangible and digestible format without taking away the purity of the knowledge. Pole has done an incredible job bringing every aspect of Ayurveda to the forefront, while focusing on applicable botanicals for treatment of imbalances. I suggest this book to my patients, colleagues and students and it is one of my go-to textbooks for teaching Ayurveda to allopathic physicians. I own 2 very loved copies!

## Features

- Used Book in Good Condition

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #248,113 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #90 in Ayurveda Medicine #716 in Healing #13,222 in Medical Books (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 175 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An excellent and very much needed work
*by W***N on February 8, 2008*

Sebastian Pole is a British practitioner of ayurveda, traditional Chinese and Western herbal medicine as well as a professional teacher of yoga and is a pioneer in the cultivation of organic ayurvedic herbs in the UK, and has had extensive clinical training in ayurvedic clinics and hospitals in India. He has presented the health care community and the ayurvedic profession with what surely will become the definitive textbook of ayurvedic herbal medicine for aspiring practitioners and manual for clinicians in the Western and English-speaking world. This book has filled a desperate and long-felt need for an English-language work that is at a sufficient level of clinical detail for working and student practitioners of ayurveda. It is replete with color photographs, superbly well-organized details on each herb catalogued, and very well written. I refer to it daily in both my practice and my teaching. "Ayurvedic Medicine: The Principles of Traditional Practice" provides a deep and broad understanding of the theory underlying ayurvedic pharmacology and therapeutics along with a practical materia medica of over 80 ayurvedic plant remedies, each carefully denoted by its common Indian name, Sanskrit and Latin name, description, color photographs of the herb in both its prepared and fresh forms, energetics, phytoconstitutents, ayurvedic and biomedical actions, indications, contraindications, safety issues, formulations and dosage, along with additional notes. The work is divided into three main sections. Part 1 presents a history of ayurveda and the development of its materia medica; basic principles (the panch mahabhutas, the three doshas, the saptadhatus, the srota, ayurvedic anatomy, disease etiology and pathology); principles of ayurvedic herbal pharmacology and pharmacy; ayurvedic diagnosis and therapeutics, treatment protocols and the scientific basis for ayurveda's claims. Part 2 presents the plant profiles, herb sourcing, and traditional formulas, and Part 3 contains useful tabular appendices, a glossary, herbal sources, plant name indices, and transliteration and pronunciation notes. Everyone involved in ayurveda, and in a larger sense everyone involved in or interested in health care, complimentary medicine or herbalism, owes Mr. Pole a huge debt of gratitude for this excellent and very much needed work.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My favorite Ayurvedic book
*by A***I on May 4, 2024*

As a provider and practitioner of Ayurvedic Medicine, I look for books and resources that bring the classical texts of Ayurveda into a tangible and digestible format without taking away the purity of the knowledge. Pole has done an incredible job bringing every aspect of Ayurveda to the forefront, while focusing on applicable botanicals for treatment of imbalances. I suggest this book to my patients, colleagues and students and it is one of my go-to textbooks for teaching Ayurveda to allopathic physicians. I own 2 very loved copies!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is TMI in a language I don’t understand
*by L***N on September 23, 2023*

It’s a beautiful book. It is well organized with chapters, charts, glossaries, and illustrations. . Unfortunately, there is much I cannot understand because the primary nouns and adjectives are in a language I don’t understand. If I were a true student of Ayurveda, I imagine I would have this text AND a professor to help me along. So, while it looks beautiful and the words and pages bountiful, I’ll have to find a less serious text, in English.

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