Nearly half the US populations turns to complementary, alternative and integrative practices to maintain or improve their health. UCSF’s Dr. Sudha Prathikanti explores Ayurvedic medicine, ancient wisdom for modern times. Ayurvedic medicine aims to integrate and balance the body, mind, and spirit. Series: “UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public” [12/2007] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 13107]

21 Responses to “Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Ayurvedic Medicine”

1. IndianPanther on November 5th, 2009 7:01 pm

   Then I guess, you must come to Kerala for authentic treatments!

2. AuthenticLivingCtrin on November 8th, 2009 5:31 pm

   Interesting

3. shthomas1969 on November 11th, 2009 1:01 am

   Iphone:
   Ayurveda remedies and prevention

4. Luv4Learning on November 14th, 2009 3:36 am

   This was an excellent lecture!! I thoroughly enjoyed learning more about ayurvedic medication, as I am looking for an alternative to taking traditional psychiatric meds for anxiety and depression. 5 STARS!!

5. grubsta on November 17th, 2009 4:17 am

   GREAT INFO….

6. teedeuce on November 19th, 2009 4:09 am

   “Postmodern physics, physical chemistry and astrophysics all talk about binding energy.”

   interesting point.

7. GyvenimoSpalvos on November 20th, 2009 5:38 am

   Thank you for a good lecture. Namaste

8. JLeeMagnetic on November 21st, 2009 1:30 am

   The best anti-aging product I’ve ever seen is actually Alex Chiu’s Magnetic
   Discovery. The other people are just nonsense.

9. BeaucoupRed on November 21st, 2009 11:38 pm

   The rats are jumping ship.

   CHEMRISK – a research company hired by the Corn Refiners Association has recently taken down it’s YouTube channel.

   The removal was in response to negative public perception resulting from the discovery of dangerous levels of MERCURY in HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP. Apparently it has become a liability to defend the sweetener.

   See one of the last remaining ChemRisk videos at CornRefinersAssoc on YouTube.

10. sara46762 on November 24th, 2009 7:52 pm

    why?

11. thajadewolf on November 27th, 2009 12:08 pm

    “one that doesn’t exist and is an advertising ploy?”

    you’re talking about a site where users can freely update information regardless. As KRS-One would say, “you must learn.”

    peace and may ayurvedic medicine grant you health and good tidings.

12. JackassBauer1 on November 29th, 2009 5:28 pm

    i advise you, DONT GO ON THAT WEBSITE

    ALTMEDICINE()co()cc

13. bhaswatimd on December 2nd, 2009 9:44 am

    4. her comments pointed to epistemologic arguments about ayurveda. Perhaps people who can’t think on the frontier of science can’t get it. She is on.
    5. hinduism was not religion:it’s a lifestyle & world view. White man made ‘hinduism’ a religion ‘worshipping elephants & monkeys.’ Ayurveda is a choice of how to live life. Calling it fake science just says the speaker does not understand science….

14. bhaswatimd on December 4th, 2009 11:12 pm

    2. Ayurveda is sometimes translated in different ways because the Sanskrit doesn’t translate to english directly. ‘Is that vague bull**it?’ Go take a class in linguistics.
    3. Postmodern physics, physical chemistry and astrophysics all talk about binding energy.

15. bhaswatimd on December 5th, 2009 3:02 pm

    1. I am surprised by threadysparrow’s thready comment. Bernard Osher has granted several universities funding to start Osher centers for better understanding the healing that should underlie the science of medicine. And just because it doesn’t have a wiki entry, why does that mean it can’t exist…?

16. threadysparrow on December 6th, 2009 7:04 am

    the osher lifelong learning institute doesnt even have a wikipedia entry. what kind of “institute” doesnt even have a wikipedia article? one that doesnt exist and is an advertising ploy. that kind!

17. rbanhatti on December 9th, 2009 6:00 pm

    Science is now proving in recent years, what ayurveda has theorised a long long time ago.

18. numberonesurvivor75 on December 12th, 2009 12:44 am

    Ayurveda is an ancient school of thought. It was scientific when it was first conceptualized. There are ayurvedic products that have been shown effective under controlled conditions. Recall Frankenstein, “These were men to whose indefatigable zeal modern philosophers were indebted for most of the foundations of their knowledge.”Frankenstein, Chapter 3

19. Ekriegor on December 14th, 2009 6:55 am

    1 Minute and 51 seconds into the speech, and I’m already bothered. Ayurvedic is SOMETIMES translated into science of living? systematized wisdom is sometimes called science? I smell vague bullshit….binding energy? who knew that this lady did such hard hitting research. this is religion with a faked science badge stapled on.

20. anurag2526 on December 15th, 2009 1:47 am

    Excellent presentation on Ayurveda! Must see.

21. kagen24 on December 18th, 2009 12:28 pm

    amazing…!

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