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Vedika Hosts Joint Sangha with Ayurveda Sanghaof UCSF's Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
Our memorable joint sangha with UCSF's Osher Center for Integrative Medicine's Sangha for Ayurveda Practitioners and research brought together representatives of the tradition of Ayurveda, the height of science of Ayurveda, the university community, and practitioners of Ayurveda in a unique opportunity for conversation.
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Dr. Dhruva speaking at Vedika |
Dr. Anand Dhruva leads the Osher Center's Ayurveda Sangha, is on the Hematology-Oncology faculty at UCSF. He is a graduate of the Fellowship Program in Integrative Medicine from the University of Arizona and has also studied Ayurveda, bringing this knowledge to his clinical practice and research. He explained that his inspiration to live an ayurvedic lifestyle came from watching his grandmother as he was growing up. He quoted an editorial in the Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine, about a traditional method that his grandmother's generation knew for cooking rice and the importance of diet in Ayurvedic healing. Dr. Dhruva has received a grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to study Ayurveda as a whole system for post-treatment rejuvenation of cancer patients using Ayurvedic nutrition, lifestyle and yoga. He spoke about this work, about the importance of studying traditional practice without deconstructing it, and about translating the ideas in the shastras for the situations we face in the modern era.
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