Tao and Dharma: Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda

Robert Svoboda graduated from the Tilak Ayurvedic College of the University of Poona in 1980 as the first and, until today, the only Westerner ever to become a licensed Ayurvedic physician. Since then he has travelled extensively, lecturing and conducting workshops on Ayurveda. Among his writings are Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution and Ayurveda: Life Health and Longevity. Mr. Svoboda is on the staff of the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and divides his time principally between North America, Hawaii and India.

Arnie Lade is an acupuncturist practising in Victoria, British Columbia where he lives with his wife and children. He studied Chinese language at the University of Victoria and Xiamen University, and acupuncture and oriental medicine at the Beijing and Chengdu Colleges of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China. He is also the author of The Acupuncture Points: Images and Functions, a standard teaching text in its field, and is a contributing author of Chinese Massage Therapy. Mr. Lade lectures widely and is currently on the faculty of the Centro de Estudos de Medicina Oriental de Brasilia in Brazil.

"Traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine constitute the two major legacies for health and healing from the ancient world...the Taoist Yin-Yang philosophy and the three Doshas of Ayurveda.. were used according to their respective cultural contexts to determine the most balanced and appropriate diet, herbs, exercise and lifestyle according to inherited constitution, life work and climate.... In these times of maximum fragmentation, it is truly a miracle that the perennial truths and the healing capacities of these great ancient philosophies can arise...

To this purpose, this valuable work should serve as an important contribution."
Michael Tierra, O.M.D.
Author of Planetary Herbology and co-author of The Way of Ayurvedic Herbs