Jayarajan Kodikannath

The Parent's Complete Guide to Ayurveda: Principles, Practices, and Recipes for Happy, Healthy Kids Jayarajan Kodikannath

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 pediatric health.

This health and lifestyle book for parents offers holistic wellness practices from the Ayurvedic medical tradition that are suitable and effective for the whole family. The Parent's Complete Guide to Ayurveda gives simple, commonsense dietary, herbal, and self-care options drawn from Kaumarabhritya, or pediatric Ayurveda, along with Ayurvedic principles from the root texts to facilitate healing of various ailments including childhood disorders related to growth and development, and promote vibrant health and well-being in children ages 3-16.

Dr. Jayarajan Kodikannath, an Ayurvedic specialist with vast experience working with pediatric cases for over two decades, and Alyson Young Gregory, a mother and Ayurvedic health counselor and educator, give parents a wellness roadmap that they 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 customized 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.

This book contains a wealth of information, including:
- a comprehensive quiz to determine your child's prakriti
- charts and helpful lists to guide the parent on their pediatric Ayurveda journey
- advice on how to prevent and manage common ailments and disorders with diet and home remedies;
- tips to adopt adopt healthy habits around sleep, diet, exercise, and screen time;
- a full chapter of easy-to-make tonics, teas, and soaks to alleviate a number of conditions including tummy aches, stress, colds, insomnia, sluggishness, dehydration, among others;
- Ayurvedic perspectives on Digestive & Metabolic, Respiratory, and Mind-Related prevalent childhood disorders of the 21st century
- and much more.