Author: V B Athavale
Publisher: Chaukhamba Sanskrit Pratishthan
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 178
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170841356
Description
Heart is the pump of life. Heart muscle is the strongest muscle in the body. Heart has to work continuously throughout the life.
The recent advances in the treatment of heart diseases are phenomenal. The diseased heart can now be replaced by the heart of a dead person removed immediately after accidental death. The patients with heart attack can now be saved and given a new life by coronary by-pass operation or angioplasty. With such spectacular progress in modern medicine one wonders as to what can Avurveda offer?
Ayurveda has described practically all the diseases mentioned in modern medicine. Only the nomenclature and classification is different.
The effects of various environmental stresses, wrong diet habits and activities in the causation of heart disease are well described in Ayurveda,
Ayurveda has many things to offer for prevention of heart disease. It has described rasayana treatment, i.e. heart tonics, which tone up the heart and increase its efficiency. The concept of diet in various heart diseases in exemplary.
This book gives an Ayurvedic approach and understanding of heart diseases and methods to prevent and treat the various heart conditions.
Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Preface
1. Milestones of Cardiology
2. Anatomy and Physiology of the Heart
3. Basic Tissues and the Heart
4. Doshas and Heart
5. Classification of Heart Diseases
6. Aetiopathogenesis of Heart Diseases
7. Suppression of Natural Urges
8. Taste and Heart
9. Improper Panchakarma
10. Clinical Manifestations of Heart Diseases
11. Treatment of Doshaja Heart Diseases
A: Vataja Heart Diseases
(I) Recipes Useful in Cardiac Pain
(II) Recipes Useful in Cardiac Asthma
(III) Tonics for Vataja Heart Diseases
(IV) Diet in Vataja Heart Diseases
B: Pittaja Heart Diseases
(I) Recipes Useful in Hrud-Daha
C: Kaphaja Heart Diseases
(I) Tonics in Kaphaja Heart Diseases
D: Tridoshaja Heart Diseases
E: Vata Pittaja Heart Diseases
F: Vata Kaphaja Heart Diseases
G: Krumija Heart Diseases
12. Congenital Heart Disease
13. Angina Pectoris
14. Coronary Thrombosis
15. Cardiac Injury
16. Cardiac Arrythmias
17. Inflammatory Diseases of the Heart (I)
A: Pathogenesis and Prognosis
B: Recipes Useful in Bacterial Endocarditis
C: Recipes Useful in Myocarditis
D: Recipes Useful in Toxic Mycarditis
(I) Diet Useful in Myocarditis (Acute Phase)
(II) Diet Useful in Myocarditis Following Acute Phase
18. Inflammatory Diseases of the Heart (II)
A: Pericarditis
B: Pericardial Effusion
C: Heart Abscess or Mediatinal Abscess
(I) Diet in Heart Diseases Associated With Fever
19. Endocardial Fibroclastosis
20. Metabolic Disorders Affecting Heart
21. Rheumatic Heart Diseases
A: Ama and Its Characteristics
B: Principles of Treatment of Amavata
C: Medicines in Amavata
D: Diet in Amavata
22. Ventricular of Aortic Aneurysm
23. Cardiac Tumours
24. Hypertension
A: Diseases of Blood Vessels
(I) Dhamani Pratichaya
(II) Siragraha
(III) Siragatavata
B: Pathogenesis of Hypertension
C: Treatment of Hypertension
(I) Treatment of Rasavruddhi and Raktavruddhi
(II) Treatment of Pittavruddhi
(III) Treatment of Kaphavruddhi
(IV) Treatment of Vatavruddhi
(V) General Treatment
(VI) Recipes Likely To Be Useful in Malignant Hypertension
(VII) Recipes Likely To Be Useful in Malignant Hypertension Hypertensive Encephalopathy
25. Atherosclerosis
A: Diet in Atherosclerosis
26. Catch in the Heart
27. Heart Failure
A: Diet in Left Sided Cardiac Failure
B: Diet in Congestive Cardiac Failure
28. Guide to Symptomatic Treatment
29. Prognosis
30. Panchakarma
31. Medicines Acting On Heart
32. Time of Administration of Medicines
33. Diet in Heart Diseases
34. Daily Regimen for a Heart Patient