| 1. Introductory |
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| 2. Some Important Principles of Ayurveda |
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| 3. Brilliant past and bright future |
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| 4. Descent and propagation of Ayurveda on earth |
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| 5. What is Ayurveda |
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| 6. The Objective of Ayurveda |
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| 7. Nature of happy and unhappy life |
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| 8. Nature of Good and bad life |
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| 9. Ayurvedic concept of health |
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| 10. Definition of health |
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| 11. Wholeistic approach to man |
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| 12. Evolution of man |
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| 13. The urges that are not be restrained |
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| 14. The urges that should be held in restraint |
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| 15. Avoid over - indulgences |
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| 16. Avoidable men |
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| 17. Assossiable men |
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| 18. Strive in wholesome practices |
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| 19. Important dietetic regulations |
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| 20. Code of right conduct |
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| 21. Don't's |
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| 22. Ayurvedic concept of disease |
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| 23. What is Prajnaparadha |
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| 24. Initial and mental cycle of disease |
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| 25. Doshas - their psychic functions |
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| 26. Diagram showing origin of disease |
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| 27. Origin of Life |
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| 28. Life started with blue and green Algae |
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| 29. Evolution of life - evolution of Rasas |
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| 30. Doshas interlinked through Rasas |
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| 31. Three Rasas increase one Dosha |
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| 32. Division of a cell |
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| 33. Ayurvedic concept of conception |
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| 34. Signs of life |
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| 35. The eight censored persons |
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| 36. The symptoms of corpulence |
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| 37. The symptoms of Emaciation |
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| 38. Treatment of corpulence |
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| 39. Treatment of Emaciation |
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| 40. Three pillars of health |
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| 41. About a physician |
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| 42. Ayurvedic concept of Resistance power |
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| 43. Seasonal variations and Doshik vitiation |
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| 44. Ayurveda cares for total personality |
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| 45. Pharmacological concepts |
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| 46. Taste thresholds |
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| 47. Qualities and actions of tastes |
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| 48. Vipaka |
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| 49. Gunas |
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| 50. Veerya |
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| 51. How the drug acts |
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| 52. Elective affinity of drugs |
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| 53. Mode of action |
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| 54. Three kinds of therapies |
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| 55. Aetio - pathologenesis of disease |
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| 56. Samprapti |
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| 57. Examination of the patient |
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| 58. Modern laboratory tests should be conducted |
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| 59. Chikitsa |
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| 60. Six Types of treatment |
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| 61. Some important therapies |
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| 62. Raktavasechana |
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| 63. Punsavana |
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| 64. Dahakarma |
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| 65. Vajeekarana |
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| 66. Ksharakarma |
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| 67. Achara Rasayana |
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| 68. Arista |
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| 69. Some important single drugs |
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| 70. Diseases and Ayurvedic drugs |
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| 71. Summation |
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