Ayurveda for Depression: An Integrative Approach to Restoring Balance and Reclaiming Your Health

by L. Eduardo Cardona-Sanclemente

Overview

An integrative approach to support your health and well-being

While Western medicine often relies on a one-size-size-fits-all approach to treating depression, Ayurveda offers an individualized, holistic model that draws upon five thousand years of scientific knowledge and practice to address depression systemically—restoring balance and nourishing mind, body, and spirit.

The Ayurvedic anti-depression protocols outlined in this book can work alone or in concert with conventional therapies to help you develop a tailored plan that meets your unique needs. You'll learn how to identify your inborn and mental constitutions (prakruti and manas prakruti) to better understand the root causes of your condition. This book will empower you to create daily and seasonal routines using dietary adjustments, mind-body training, and herbal remedies to reawaken your body and cultivate the wisdom needed to heal from depression.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781623175368
Publisher:	North Atlantic Books
Publication date:	10/27/2020
Pages:	432
Sales rank:	626,027
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

DR. L. EDUARDO CARDONA-SANCLEMENTE's medical and scientific career spans professorships and senior scientific research posts at some of Europe's most distinguished medical schools and universities. He completed his masters in clinical biochemistry and his PhD in the mechanism of neurotransmitters. He has been studying and practicing integrative medicine for decades and holds a masters in Ayurvedic medicine from Middlesex University, London, UK. Dr. Cardona-Sanclemente is a Member of the NHS Directory of Complementary & Alternative Practitioners and presided for several years as the Research Committee Director of the Ayurvedic Professional Association. He is also a Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine. Now based in the US, he is a certified Ayurvedic Doctor by the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. He resides in Berkeley, CA, working as Director of Ayurvedic Research at the Ayurvedic Institute in New Mexico.

Editorial Reviews

PRAISE FOR AYURVEDA FOR DEPRESSION

"It is a pleasure to write about Ayurveda for Depression and Dr. Eduardo Cardona-Sanclemente. His scientific and medical training combined with his Ayurveda knowledge enable him to apply his research to one of the paramount conditions of our time with a keen eye guided by deep human understanding. This is a significant contribution to the bridging of Western and Eastern medicine."
—PROF SIR SALVADOR MONCADA, FRS, FMedSci, HonFBPhS, Manchester Cancer Research Centre, Universityof Manchester

"Dr. Eduardo Cardona-Sanclemente has produced an excellent, detailed, and many-sided account of the Ayurvedic treatment of depression with reference to modern medicine as well. An important contribution in the field of Ayurvedic studies that is worthy of deep examination."
—DR. DAVID FRAWLEY, author of Yoga and Ayurveda

"What a beautiful book that elegantly integrates the modern biomedical understanding of depression with the wellness and healing of Ayurveda. Dr. Cardona-Sanclemente invites the reader into his personal story and offers wellness and healing strategies that restore balance and health using an individualized Ayurvedic approach to diet, lifestyle, herbs, and the emotions. Ayurveda for Depression provides an insightful and novel approach for those suffering from depression that is compassionate and achievable."
—DIANA I. LURIE, PhD, professor of Neuropharmacology at the University of Montana and certified Ayurvedic practitioner

"The darkness of depression is a reality for many, and this book is a welcome guide to how Ayurveda can shine a light on this condition and how to dispel the disabling shadow that it casts."
—DR. ROBERT SVOBODA, BAMS (Ayurvedacharya), author of Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution

"This is the book that anyone struggling with depression must read."
—MATTHEW MCKAY, PhD, professor at The Wright Institute and coauthor of Thoughts & Feelings

"Dr. Cardona-Sanclemente speaks to us heart to heart, helping us synthesize much information into personal understanding and providing tools for devising a personal plan toward wellness. I believe this authoritative exploration can touch and benefit many."
—CLAUDIA WELCH, DOM, author of Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life

"Way beyond depression, the essential principles of Ayurveda expressed in this book will be helpful to anyone interested in this remarkable traditional way toward human healthy balance. Dr. Cardona-Sanclemente sees with his heart and radiates that through his unique perspective on science, health, and humanity."
—ALEXANDER DE SALZMANN, MD, Internal Medicine, Paris France

"Sometimes one encounters a colleague with unique insights and sensitivity who takes a refreshingly forensic view of what we have come to accept as norms. Dr. Cardona-Sanclemente is such a colleague. I know from decades of professional collaboration that this book will be of great support to those experiencing depression and other mental health conditions.”
—DR. SABINE GRIGLIO, DSc, research director of the National Institute for Medical Research (INSERM), France

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