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The Parent's Complete Guide to Ayurveda

Principles, Practices, and Recipes for Happy, Healthy Kids
By Jayarajan Kodikannath
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The Parent's Complete Guide to Ayurveda offers a comprehensive, user-friendly approach to paediatric health using over 50 Ayurvedic practices designed for children aged 3-16. Co-written by Dr Jayarajan Kodikannath, an Ayurveda expert with more than twenty years specialising in paediatric care, this guidebook presents a roadmap to tailor health and wellness plans based on each child's unique mind-body type, or prakriti. It covers diet, herbal remedies, yoga, meditation, breathing exercises, and self-care routines aimed at promoting vibrant health and managing common ailments like tummy aches, stress, colds, and insomnia, all grounded in traditional Ayurvedic principles.
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This guide is ideal for parents, caregivers, and families seeking natural and holistic health approaches for children aged 3-16. It will also appeal to those interested in Ayurveda, paediatric wellness, and lifestyle-based remedies aiming to prevent and manage common childhood conditions through diet, self-care, and traditional practices.

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A comprehensive and user-friendly guidebook including over 50 Ayurvedic health and wellness practices for children, ages 3-16, with healing plans for common ailments—co-written by an Ayurveda specialist with over two decades of experience in paediatric health.

The traditional holistic health system of Ayurveda offers a wealth of effective lifestyle advice and remedies for the whole family. The Parent's Complete Guide to Ayurveda is an accessible primer to paediatric Ayurveda, with simple, commonsense dietary, herbal, and self-care practices to both address various ailments and promote vibrant health and well-being in children ages 3-16.

Dr. Jayarajan Kodikannath, an Ayurvedic specialist, and Alyson Young Gregory, an Ayurvedic health counsellor and educator, provide a wellness roadmap that parents can tailor to their children's individual mind-body type, known as prakriti. This book first gives parents the tools to determine their child's prakriti and then offers customised everyday diet and lifestyle guidelines based on traditional Ayurvedic principles for a healthy body and mind, including yoga, meditation, breathing practices, and daily wellness routines.

The advice offered in this book includes:

  • How to prevent and manage common ailments and disorders with diet and home remedies
  • How to encourage healthy habits around sleep, diet, exercise, and screen time
  • Easy-to-make tonics, teas, and soaks to alleviate a number of conditions, including tummy aches, stress, colds, insomnia, sluggishness, and dehydration
  • Ayurvedic perspectives on digestive, metabolic, respiratory, and emotional disorders prevalent in children today
  • And much more.

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Critics praise the book as a practical and inspiring resource for parents interested in holistic child healthcare. Dr Revathi Ramani highlights its straightforward, expert guidance usable by parents for the whole family. Nutrition and Ayurveda author Kate O'Donnell notes it fills a long-standing need with concise, empowering advice. Dr Vijaya Jujare deems it essential for nurturing children's full potential, while Dr Trupti Gokani calls it a rare and valuable work making ancient wisdom accessible to modern families.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781611808520

Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 August 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Shambhala Publications Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 224

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About the Author

DR. (VAIDYA) JAYARAJAN KODIKANNATH is a classically trained Ayurvedic Doctor representing a lineage of Ayurveda Practitioners from Kerala, India, and an internationally renowned Ayurvedic scholar, educator, and keynote speaker with over 25 years of experience currently working as the CEO and Chief Ayurveda Consultant of Kerala Ayurveda USA. ALYSON YOUNG GREGORY is a parenting media writer specializing in holistic health, an Ayurvedic Health Counselor and educator, and a Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT) with Yoga Alliance. She is originally from New York, where she studied with the founders of the Nosara Yoga Institute and taught chil-dren's yoga and meditation. She completed her Ayurvedic studies with Vaidya Jayara-jan Kodikannath at Kerala Ayurveda USA, where she is an alumna and works as part of a full-spectrum global organization with deep roots in India, committed to transforming healthcare science in the twenty-first century.

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