A Matter of Health: Integration of Yoga and Western Medicine for Prevention and Cure

Dr Krishna Raman, MBBS FCCP, Chennai, India combines western medicine and yoga to treat both common and complicated ailments and has had remarkable success for the last 21 years.Dr Raman’s work in this field has been inspired by the doyen of yoga, Mr BKS Iyengar. Dr Raman has been practising yoga since he was 14. Under Mr Iyengar’s tutelage he learnt about the immense clinical potential of yoga.With and educational background from madras medical college, Dr Raman decided to combine both the sciences of medicine and yoga to treat his patients with excellent even amazing results. He has achieved unprecendented success in curative and preventive health care. This book details his philosophies, experiences and achievements in the fusion of an ancient science with a modern one, and demonstrates how yoga comined with western medicine can provide a holistic approach to a cost effective health care system where the preventive aspects of health care are afforded the importance they deserve.Packed with a wealth of information, this book includesNumerous photographs of the human bodyConcepts of the yoga sutras of Patanjali, western medicine and yoga in relation to lifestyles, health and disease.Basic concepts of yoga in relation to western medicineRational explanations of the concepts of diet and choice of yoga as the best method of exercise.Management of various lifestyles and their inherent health problems- the executives, the geriatrics, artists, sportspersons, doctors, homemakers- using Patanjali’s sutras , western medicine , asanas and pranayama.Medical explanations of the methods of asanas and pranayama by a physician – as never before.Understanding the vast clinical potential of yoga as a noninvasive tool and its use in preventive health making health care highly cost effective.The clinical benefits of utilising yoga as a tool for health careJudicious solutions to a wide variety of common and important medical disorders using western medicine and yoga- two dimensional health care. Read more