Evidence-Based Practice in Complementary and Alternative Medicine

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Evidence-Based and Comparative Effectiveness Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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3. Evidence-based and comparative effectiveness analysis

   1. Fundamentals: Evidence-Based Practice in Complementary and Alternative Medicine—Perspectives, Protocols, Problems, and Potentials

      • Francesco Chiappelli

      Pages 3-29

4. Evidence-Based Medicine and Ayurveda

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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5. Evidence-based medicine and Ayurveda

   1. Transforming Ayurveda: Stepping into the Realm of Evidence-Based Practice

      • Sanjeev Rastogi, Ram Harsh Singh

      Pages 33-49

   2. Diet and Nutrition Concepts in Ayurveda: Gleaming into Opportunities for Evidence-Based Applications in Health Care

      • Devesh Rastogi, Shalini Gupta, Ranjana Rastogi, Rajiv Rastogi

      Pages 51-66

   3. Clinical Evidence in the Tradition of Ayurveda

      • P. Ram Manohar

      Pages 67-78

   4. Evidence-Based Traditional Persian Medicine

      • Mahsa Dousti, Manisha Harish Ramchandani, Andre Barkhordarian, Sohrab Danaei, Francesco Chiappelli

      Pages 79-96

6. Substantiating Ayurvedic Theory and Practice Toward Evidence-Base

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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7. Substantiating Ayurvedic theory and practice toward Evidence-base

   1. Prakriti Analysis in Ayurveda: Envisaging the Need of Better Diagnostic Tools

      • Sanjeev Rastogi

      Pages 99-111

   2. Panchakarma: Ayurvedic Detoxification and Allied Therapies—Is There Any Evidence?

      • Sivarama Prasad Vinjamury, Manjusha Vinjamury, Sobhana Sucharitakul, Ingebritt Ziegler

      Pages 113-137

   3. Gut and Joint Interconnections: A Reappraisal to Ayurvedic Understanding of Joint Diseases

      • Sanjeev Rastogi, Ranjana Rastogi

      Pages 139-158

   4. Ayurvedic Approach to Cardiovascular Diseases: Delineating the Literary and Clinical Evidences

      • Sanjeev Rastogi, Rajiv Rastogi, P. S. Srivastav

      Pages 159-175

   5. Rasayana Therapy and Rejuvenation

      • Ram Harsh Singh, Sanjeev Rastogi

      Pages 177-189

   6. Translational Effectiveness in Ayurvedic Medicine: Implications for Oral Biology and Medicine

      • Manisha Harish Ramchandani, Mahsa Dousti, Andre Barkhordarian, Francesco Chiappelli

      Pages 191-207

8. Toward Future Perspectives of Evidence-Based Ayurveda

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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9. Towards future perspectives of evidence based Ayurveda

   1. Safety Aspects of Ayurvedic Drugs

      • K. K. Pant, C. K. Katiyar, Arun Gupta

      Pages 211-232

   2. Toward Evidence-Based Practice of Ayurveda: Extrapolating the Challenges in the Current Decade

      • Sanjeev Rastogi

      Pages 233-245

10. Back Matter

    Pages 247-252

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This book investigates the ways in which the evidence base is influencing complementary and alternative medicine in general and Ayurveda and allied health practices in particular. The latter have traditionally been prevalent in Asia and are now increasingly attracting interest worldwide. The book is divided into four sections, the first of which examines issues related to acquisition and evaluation of the evidence base. Evidence-based approaches to Ayurvedic diagnosis and therapy are then examined, with a special focus on management of cardiovascular and rheumatological diseases, dental care, and rejuvenating treatments. The final section explores further the challenges of applying evidence-based practice in contemporary and alternative medicine and Ayurveda with a focus upon the issues requiring urgent attention in ongoing decade. The same involves encompassing areas such as Ayurvedic pharmaceutics, practice, education and research within an evidence-based perspective.

• Ayurvedic Diagnostics
• Ayurvedic Rheumatology
• Evidence-based Ayurveda
• Evidence-based Medicine
• Nutrition
• Rasayana and Rejuvenation

• , PG Department of Kaya Chikitsa, State Ayurvedic College, Lucknow, India

  Sanjeev Rastogi

Dr. Sanjeev Rastogi gained his MD in Kaya Chikitsa (Ayurvedic medicine) from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and also holds a Diploma in Yoga from the same university and a Certificate in Acupuncture from Tianjin International University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In addition, he possesses a postgraduate diploma in health and hospital management from IGNOU and an entitlement for green health care leadership from Teleosis Institute, USA. After working as a consultant in Ayurvedic medicine at many prestigious hospitals in India, including Marvari Hindu Hospital, Varanasi and HRKD Hospital, Lucknow, Dr. Rastogi is currently a senior consultant in the State Ayurvedic Services of Uttar Pradesh, India. He is widely known for his exemplary writings and regularly contributes to a variety of national and international journals: he has written more than 30 research papers and is also the author of eight previous books. Dr. Rastogi has been deeply engaged in the reform of Ayurveda to reflect contemporary understanding and is helping to spread Ayurveda globally through his writings and lectures. In recognition of his work, he was awarded a Chinese Government Fellowship in 1998 and a Luisa Kreisberg Family Foundation Scholarship (Teleosis Institute, California) in 2008. In both 2008 and 2009 he received a Consumer Wellness Center Nutritional Grant Award from CWC, Arizona, USA.

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