Ayurveda

Frank John Ninivaggi, M.D. is an Associate Attending Physician at Yale-New Haven Hospital, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, Yale Child Study Center, and a member of the Yale-New Haven Community Medical Group. He is the Medical Director of the Devereux Glenholme School in Washington, Connecticut. He is Board certified in Psychiatry and Neurology, and in 2004 was certified as a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is a consultant and in private practice in New Haven, Connecticut.

1 Preface 2 Introduction 3 1 BACKGROUND, HISTORY, AND DEVELOPMENT 4 2 THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS AND AN OVERVIEW 5 3 ANATOMY 6 4 PHYSIOLOGY AND DIGESTION 7 5 PRAKRUTI AND VIKRUTI 8 6 HEALTH AND THE DISEASE PROCESS. I 9 7 HEALTH AND THE DISEASE PROCESS. II 10 8 NUTRITION AND DIET IN AYURVEDA 11 9 LIFESTYLE AND BEHAVIORAL REGIMENS IN AYURVEDA AND IN YOGA 12 10 AYURVEDIC THERAPIES, PANCHAKARMA, AND MATERIA MEDICA 13 11 THE CULTIVATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS 14 12 THE BIOPSYCHOSPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE IN CONTEMPORARY CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY 15 EPILOGUE 16 APPENDIX 1 AYURVEDIC ORAL AND WRITTEN TRADITION TIMELINE 17 APPENDIX 2 DISEASES CAUSED BY THE DOSHAS 18 APPENDIX 3 CLINICAL CASE EXAMPLES