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Business Day Reviews The Ayur Veda Handbook by Lisa Fromsdorf and Marie Opperman

October 16th, 2009 by Jani

The Ayur Veda Handbook: Find the right diet and lifestyle for your doshaVerdict: carrot

AYURVEDA may be 5000 years old, but it is proving to be as relevant for health today as it was all those millennia ago. The Indian holistic healing system has been described as “one of the world’s most ancient and venerated healing and lifestyle modalities”.

Its popularity is growing in SA, in the wake of the launch of the SanAquam Urban Sanctuary day spa in Durban North last year headed by an orthodox-trained medical doctor, Dr Rajen Cooppan, who is also a doctor of Ayurvedic medicine.

The aim was to combine traditional healing wisdom with the best of modern, western medical science.

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