Ayurvedic Perspectives in Integrative Healthcare: Volume 8

By Anika Niambi Al-Shura

Ayurveda Perspectives in Integrated Healthcare, volume eight in the Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine series, provides a clear, structured base of knowledge which compares Ayurveda with other healthcare systems to encourage acceptance of Ayurveda in the community and within patient care practices. Sections cover the Shad Darshan, body constitution, medical aspects in Ayurvedic medicine, and the connection between material and spiritual aspects and methods for balancing lifestyle for optimal health. This important reference will aid cardiovascular researchers in the study of integrative Chinese and Western medicine with its clear, structured base to guide clinical practice and encourage new collaboration.

• Provides a well-rounded study of Ayurvedic medicine in comparison to other related systems for ease of implementation into patient care
• Compares mainstream systems of medicine, such as Traditional Chinese Medicine and principles of Western Medicine
• Identifies and inspires ideas where future research can develop and strengthen

• Language: English
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Release date: Aug 13, 2020
• ISBN: 9780128176030

Anika Niambi Al-Shura

Dr. Anika Niambi Al-Shura is originally from Louisville, Ky, USA. She has one son, one grandson and resides in Kentucky and Florida, USA. She enjoys cultivating medicinal plants and formulating medicinal herb recipes, soap making, fine art, travelling internationally to meet people for learning new cultures and ways of living, mountain hiking and relaxing on the beach near the ocean. Dr. Al-Shura has 14 continuous years of formal education involving Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) clinical practice, advanced medical study, research and education between the United States, Italy and China. In 2004, her master’s degree in Oriental Medicine was earned from East West College of Natural Medicine in Florida, USA. In mainland China between 2004 and 2014, she earned hospital study, advanced scholar and specialty certificates in Chinese medicine, internal medicine and surgery and cardiology from several university affiliated hospitals. Those hospitals include Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shandong Provincial Hospital and Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Her subspecialty training in TCM is in interventional cardiology involving the catherization lab. Dr. Al-Shura earned her PhD in medical education in 2014 through the University Ambrosiana program. Her dissertation on Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine (ICCM) became her first textbook entitled, “Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine: A Personalized Medicine Perspective”. This book was one of 7 textbooks written to introduce the concepts of ICCM. All were published and released together through Elsevier Academic Press in 2014. Those textbooks are utilized for the level 1 program studies in ICCM with continuing medical education (CME) courses. Eight additional textbooks were written on the establishment and development of intermediate ICCM theories and practices. Those textbooks are utilized for the level 2 program CME studies in ICCM. Those 8 textbooks are part of the Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine series and were published and released together through Elsevier Academic Press in 2019. Dr. Al-Shura is currently a faculty member at Everglades University in Florida, where she teaches medical and healthcare course in the Bachelors of Alternative Medicine program. She also has Niambi Wellness Institute, based in Florida and Kentucky, where Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine research and work continues. It includes a natural pharmacy lab and a continuing medical education (CME) program. The natural pharmacy researches, formulates, manufactures and distributes various patented and original formulations using TCM herbs. The CME program includes TCM cardiology courses which grant credits towards NCCAOM, state medical board and state TCM board license renewals in the United States.

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Ayurvedic Perspectives in Integrative Healthcare

Volume 8

Anika Niambi Al-Shura, BSc, MSOM, PhD

Niambi Wellness Institute, Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

Table of Contents

Cover image

Title page

Copyright

In Memory

Dedication

Preface

Dr. Al-Shura biography

Part I. The shad darshan

1. The four Vedas

Chapter objectives

The four Vedas

2. Material aspects: Sankya, Nyaya and Vaisheshika

Chapter objectives

The Shad Darshan

Sankhya and the 24 principles

Nyaya

Vaisheshika

3. Material aspects: Mimamsa, Yoga and Vedanta

Chapter objectives

The Shad Darshan

Mimamsa

Yoga

Vedanta

Part II. Integrated philosophy on body constitution

4. Constitution in traditional Chinese medicine

Chapter objectives

5. Western medicine principles

Chapter objectives

Maintaining balance

The gastrointestinal tract and digestion

Nutritional factors

6. Ayurvedic universal attributes and Doshic theory

Chapter objectives

Universal attributes

Doshic theory

Balanced and imbalanced qualities of the doshas

Part III. The seven dhatu tissues

7. Dhatu structure, by-products, and disorders

Chapter objectives

Dhatu siddanta: theory of tissue formation

The seven dhatus (tissues)

Ojas in dhatu tissue

Srotamsi in dhatu tissue

Disorders of dhatu tissue

8. Plasma and blood

Chapter objectives

Blood plasma

Rasa dhatu

Blood

Rakta dhatu

9. Muscle, fat, bone, nerves, and marrow

Chapter objectives

Skeletal muscle tissue

Mamsa dhatu

Adipose/fat tissue

Meda dhatu

Bone tissue

Asthi dhatu

Nervous tissue

Majja dhatu

10. Male and female organs

Chapter objectives

Reproductive organs

Shukra and artava dhatus

Part IV. Srotamsi: The channels of the body

11. Introduction to the srotamsi

Chapter objectives

The srotas

The sixteen srotas

12. Channels receiving food, prana, and water

Chapter objectives

The channels that receive food, water, and prana

Anna vaha srotas: the channels transporting solid and liquid foods

Prana vaha srotas: the channels of the respiratory system

Udaka/ambu vaha srotas: the channels transporting water

13. Channels nourishing and maintaining the body

Chapter objectives

Rasa vaha srotas: the channel transporting plasma

Rakta vaha srotas: the channel for blood

Mamsa vaha srotas: the channel for muscle

Meda vaha srotas: the channel for fat

Asthi vaha srotas: the channel for bones

Majja vaha srotas: the channel for nerves and bone marrow

Shukra/artava vaha srotas: the channel for reproductive organs

Rajah vaha srotas: the channel for menstruation

Stanya vaha srotas: the channel for lactation

14. Channels of elimination

Chapter objectives

Purisha vaha srotas: the channel transporting feces

Mutra vaha srotas: the channel transporting urine

Sweda vaha srotas: the channel excreting sweat

15. Channels of the mind

Chapter objectives

Mano vaha srotas: the channel for the states of the mind

Part V. The material and spiritual aspects of digestion

16. The fire element

Chapter objectives

Jatharagni

Bhutagni

Dhatuagni

Healthy agni

Unhealthy agni

17. Rasa and the six flavors

Chapter objectives

The significance of the six tastes

The six flavors and five elements

18. The three energies and their effects

Chapter objectives

Preventative medicine

The three energies of the Body: movement, digestion, and lubrication

19. The phases of digestion

Chapter objectives

Main digestive process

Subtle digestive process

Sweet stage: madhura avastha paka

Sour stage: amla avastha paka

Salty stage: lavana avastha paka

Pungent stage: katu avastha paka

Bitter stage: tikta avastha paka

Astringent stage: kashaya avastha paka

20. Balancing diet and food combining

Chapter objectives

The benefits and challenges of Ayurvedic food combining

Basics of food combining

21. Three laws of nutrition

Chapter objectives

The three laws of nutrition

Kedara kulya nyaya: law of transmission

Khale kapota nyaya: law of selectivity

Kshira dadhi nyaya: law of transformation

Part VI. Balancing lifestyle

22. Doshic test

Physical body

Personality

Appetite

Sleeping

Determining your dosha

23. Spirituality

Chapter objectives

The four philosophies

Tenets of spiritualism and laws of the universe

24. Nutritional suggestions

Chapter objectives

Permissible foods and basic meal planning

Foods to avoid

Index

Copyright

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In Memory

This textbook is dedicated in memory of my late parents. To Mary A Cummings (1954–2006) who passed away of heart failure and other related diseases, I am continuing to keep my promise of finding out what was wrong with you and what could have been done to prevent some of them. To my father Abdur-Rahman Qurban Al-Shura (1949–80), I followed what you advised me to do in life, and taught me to always find a way to make it happen.

Dedication

The writing of this textbook is dedicated to my son, Khaleel Shakeer Ryland, and his son, my grandson Khaleem Qurban Ryland. Your ancestors motivated me to find important solutions that may help some people in this world be relieved of suffering. May this legacy inspire and guide you to do the same in this life and to pass our ways on to future descendants.

Preface

The Development, Promotion, and Ongoing Research of Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine

Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine (ICCM) is an area of medical study, research, and education with basic medical sciences, theories, and practices. It was created by Dr. Anika Niambi Al-Shura in 2014 as part of her doctorate degree. Cardiology in Chinese Medicine first became an interest during her early years of study in Chinese hospitals in China in 2004–06. At the time Dr. Al-Shura got a great opportunity to travel to China to work and study. It had dawned on her that before her father died in 1980, he predicted that she would study sciences and travel east to do something important. Dr. Al-Shura decided that she could search for ways to improve on her skills and master's degree in Oriental Medicine education to help her mother, Mary, suffering from advancing cardiovascular diseases. Before important revelations in medicine and health care became understood in her mission, Mary passed away in her early 50s in 2006.

Dr. Al-Shura continued her study and went on to hospital research in China between 2006 and 2014. She was recycling what her father had predicted directly to her word for word, realizing it may have been bigger than finding ways to only help her mother. Realizing that her father's prediction seemed to be coming true, she used this period to learn and think about how she could have been able to care for Mary and possibly relieved or cured certain cardiovascular disorders had she survived. It became apparent that Mary's ignored genetic predispositions, lifestyle, and practitioner racial/cultural profiling assumptions about prescribing, maintaining, and prolonging pharmaceutical drug use, and without access to gold star therapies even though the means to afford such therapies were available, were contributors to her advancing condition. Consideration and empathy for these factors from her health-care team and a careful analysis of the condition early on, the method of combining herbal therapy, nutrition, and pharmaceutical drug therapy, had this method been available at the time, may have had a positive impact.

Today, Dr. Al-Shura's work in developing her subject of ICCM is partially in memory of her mother who lived before the dawning of the integrative medicine era.

Health-care practitioners, cardiovascular patients, and the public who study from the textbooks in the Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine series should note the basic medical sciences, theories, and practices which revolve throughout the textbooks, making it necessary to read them first in order then randomly several times. The reader who studies among the integrative cardiovascular Chinese medicine series embarks on a leg of the life journey, discovering what small and significant accomplishments one may achieve in their own well-being.

Themes which can be found in the textbooks throughout the series are as follows:

1. ICCM acknowledges and integrates the history of the ancient and modern medicine perspectives from cultures around the world. Science and medicine was shared and preserved on some continents while being destroyed or lost on others.

2. ICCM establishes the belief that the human body can be explained through static scientific explanations of anatomy and physiological mechanisms and actions and through dynamic perspectives which brings people together in common and makes each person unique. Personalizing medicine can put analysis and insight into focus and tailor treatment more effectively.

3. ICCM acknowledges that patient autonomy and responsibility is a necessary and primary factor in health and well-being. Patients must enter the health care arena with a clear intention to heal and a detailed narrative that assists in that purpose. They must partner with providers in compliance with what is required to assist health restoration.

4. ICCM establishes the belief in practitioner empathy and the ability to listen, teach, and guide patients. Also, the ability to discern when utilizing one or more than one system of medicine to help a patient who also helps themselves heal.

5. ICCM considers the etiology of diseases as dynamic as the constant changes in modern and urban life.

6. ICCM considers genetic information as crucial as the patient family and personal history. Physical exam and diagnostic methods should involve routine practices of more than one system of medicine.

7. ICCM considers genetic information, innate and seasonal adaptions in body constitution are as crucial as the patient family and personal history. Certain key factors in a patient's health-care profile make a significant difference when choosing a herbal formula, nutritional supplement, and pharmaceutical drugs singly or in combination in therapy.

8. ICCM establishes the belief that knowledge of herbal constituents in herbs that combine to swiftly restore health are used to make up a single formula or combination of formulations in acute, recovering, and preventive care in cardiology. Knowledge of nutritional deficiencies associated with cardiovascular symptoms helps in dietary planning over a short treatment course or a permanent lifestyle in acute, chronic, recovering, and preventive stages of care. Use of pharmaceutical drugs can assist with acute and chronic conditions where herbs and nutritional intervention is ineffective or the condition has reached a stage of no return to health restoration. Lifestyle modification that helps avoid preventable cardiovascular disorders leads to personal well-being.

Chapters in each textbook involve the latest published research from around the world that identifies agreement of theories of principles of ICCM with ongoing research and established protocols of medical science. On of the purposes of exposure of ICCM is to encourage practitioners and patient to adopt our principles when applicable to improve health outcomes and to encourage medical researchers to study our principles and publish results in internationally recognized journals. I welcome your constructive comments, suggestions, and ideas which may improve or enhance content for