Ayurveda Life Health and Longevity is very interesting book on some quite obscure aspects of Ayurveda. It written by Robert Svoboda, a Westerner classically trained in India. It contains a lot of useful information.
Table of contents
1. History
Veda and Ayurveda
Medical Politics
Text and tradition
The training of a Physician
The Modern Age
2. Basic Principles
The Universe, external and internal
Sankrit
Creation
The Five Great Elements
Like and Unlike
Qualities
The Three Doshas
3. Anatomy
Earth and Sky
The Five Sheaths
Channels of flow
Constitution
4. Routine
A Life well lives
Land and Space
Rasa
Time Cycles
Mind and Body
Seasonal Routines
Dailey Routines
Pregancy and Chilbirth
Samskaras
5. Food
Natural qualities
Preparation
Combination
Amount
Climate and Season
Rules of eating
The Eater
Qualities of Specific foods
6. Pathology
The fever of desire
Diseases personalities
Crimes aganist wisdom
Causes of disease
The Six Stages of Disease
Classification of disease
Inmmunity
7. Diagnosis
Jyotisha
Methods of knowing
Ama
Prognosis
8. Treatment
The importance of Physysicians
Types of Therapies
Ayurvedic Treatment
9. Medical Susbstances
10. Pharmacology
11 Diseases
12 Rejuvenation and Virilization
