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HOW DR. VASANT LAD BECAME AN AYURVEDIC PHYSICIAN

5/19/2019

 
The person who has been most influential in bringing Ayurveda to the West is Dr. Vasant Lad.  Both my partner and I study with him. He's a remarkable human and his contribution to the expansion of Ayurveda in the West is immense.  Interviewed for the website Mind Body Green, Dr. Lad was asked how he came to study Ayurveda.  Here's his answer:

When I was a child back in the 50's my grandmother got very sick. We were very close and it was painful for me to see her so sick. She had a Nephrotic Syndrome with high blood pressure and swelling. The doctor at the local hospital was not even able to feel her pulse due to swelling. There were no powerful antibiotics or diuretics at that time and we were told that there was no way to help her. Reluctant to give up, my father called an Ayurvedic doctor, who made a special formula for my grandmother. He gave me precise instructions that I had to follow to prepare a daily ayurvedic concoction for her. Using 7 different herbs, carefully measuring their correct proportions, I would boil them down into a thick brew to give to my grandmother. Miraculously, in three weeks grandmother's swelling was gone, blood pressure was back to normal and kidney function improved. My grandmother happily lived until 95 and an old Ayurvedic doctor who had me making the daily concoction told my father to send me to an Ayurvedic Medicine school. Here I am now.

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