Evidence-based and comparative effectiveness analysis: Evidence-based practice in complementary and alternative medicine: perspectives, protocols, problems and potentials. Evidence-based medicine and Ayurveda: Transforming Ayurveda: Stepping into the realm of evidence - based practice -- Diet and Nutrition concepts in Ayurveda: Gleaming into opportunities for evidence - based applications in health care -- Clinical evidence in the tradition of Ayurveda -- Traditional Persian evidence-based medicine. Substantiating Ayurvedic theory and practice toward Evidence-base: Prakriti analysis in Ayurveda: Envisaging the need of better diagnostic tools -- Pancha karma: Ayurvedic Detoxification and Allied Therapies - Is there any evidence?- Gut and joint interconnections: a reappraisal to Ayurvedic understanding of Joint diseases -- Ayurvedic approach to cardiovascular diseases: delineating the literary and clinical evidences -- Rasayana therapy and rejuvenation -- Translational Effectiveness in Ayurvedic Medicine: Implications for Oral Biology & Medicine. Towards future perspectives of evidence based Ayurveda: Safety aspects of Ayurvedic drugs -- Toward evidence-based practice of Ayurveda: extrapolating the challenges in current decade.

This book investigates the ways in which the evidence base is influencing complementary and alternative medicine in general and Ayurveda and allied health practices in particular. The latter have traditionally been prevalent in Asia and are now increasingly attracting interest worldwide. The book is divided into four sections, the first of which examines issues related to acquisition and evaluation of the evidence base. Evidence-based approaches to Ayurvedic diagnosis and therapy are then examined, with a special focus on management of cardiovascular and rheumatological diseases, dental care, and rejuvenating treatments. The final section explores further the challenges of applying evidence-based practice in contemporary and alternative medicine and Ayurveda with a focus upon the issues requiring urgent attention in ongoing decade. The same involves encompassing areas such as Ayurvedic pharmaceutics, practice, education and research within an evidence-based perspective.