دانلود کتاب آیورودا – علم الهی زندگی

The genesis of the present work began in 1992 after I returned from my first trip to India and West Asia, where I spent a year travelling overland from Sri Lanka to Western Turkey on only a few dollars a day. After several months of staying in the cheapest guest houses and eating at roadside stalls I unfortunately contracted a very serious case of dysentery that I only partially recovered from when I spent a month among the Hunza people in Northern Pakistan. Upon my return to Canada I sought treatment for what was now a chronic digestive disorder, and after undergoing a variety of treatments, including naturopathic and homeopathic medicine, finally received relief under the care of A¯ yurvedic physician Dr T. Sukumaran. The wise counsel given to me by the Kerala-born Dr Sukumaran impressed me greatly, and incited a passion to learn all I could about A¯yurveda. Although there were some good texts available at the time, there were none I found that could deepen my interest in A¯yurveda. During this time I enrolled in a 3-year clinical programme in Western herbal medicine, and continued to study A¯yurveda with Dr Sukumaran as well as other teachers. When I completed my studies in Western herbal medicine my thirst for A¯yurveda remained unquenched, and in 1996 I left for India with my pregnant wife and 1-year-old son where I studied at the Arya Vaidya Chikitsalayam in Coimbatore, India. Here I not only had the opportunity to study under the venerable Dr V. Vasudevan, but other A¯yurvedic physicians as well, sitting with them in clinic and in the hospital, observing the skills they used in assessment and treatment. While I was India I began to synthesise all of this wonderful knowledge I had learned into the framework of a text that would serve as the kind of reference text I had sought a few years earlier. After the happy birth of my second son in India, my family and I returned to Canada where I opened a clinical practice, using my skills as a Western herbal and A¯yurvedic practitioner. I continued to work on the text, and made a significant investment to acquire English translations of all the classical A¯yurvedic texts available, as well as texts on Indian botany, which I digested with a voracious appetite. In 1999 I relocated to Calgary, Alberta, and in addition to seeing patients began to offer an introductory course in A¯yurvedic medicine at the Wild Rose College of Natural Healing. In 2001 I became the Director of Clinical Herbal studies at Wild Rose College, where I developed a 3-year clinical programme in Western herbal medicine. During this time I continued to work on my text, rewriting large sections of the book and adding the appendices found in the current version, and converted all the Sanskrit terms into Unicode-compatible diacritical format. Although the present text is far from perfect, I believe that the almost 10 years I have spent working on it has come close to my original vision. It is my sincerest hope that this text is worthy of the serious student of the divine science that is A¯yurveda.