Ayurvedic medicine - the traditional medicine of India - has many strands of practice which are today increasingly popular and familiar in the West. The Maharishi Ayur-Vedic tradition expands on these with an exploration of key theoretical concepts in a present-day framework. For those health care practitioners whose patients use any aspect of Maharishi Ayur-Veda, or who themselves wish to understand what Maharishi Ayur-Veda may have to offer their practice, this book: presents the foundations of Maharishi Ayur-Veda's approach to physiology and anatomy; explains a "consciousness model" of medicine and its practical application in Transcendental Meditation; reviews core aspects of pathogenesis and diagnosis in Maharishi Ayur-Veda; details daily and seasonal routines for disease prevention and describes purification therapies.