HLT62615: ADVANCE DIPLOMA IN AYURVEDA

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to work within the health care system and engage effectively with other health professionals, including writing referral reports

This unit of competency describes the skills and knowledge required to analyse client health information and then plan appropriate health services within the scope of own role. It requires an in-depth knowledge of anatomy and physiology.

This unit delivers the skills and knowledge required to make a detailed investigation of a client’s symptoms that informs the client’s diagnosis within an Ayurvedic framework. This includes – Protocols for performing Ayurvedic health assessments, such as:

• Three-fold examination techniques, Eight-fold examination techniques, Ten-fold examination techniques, and their importance.
• The Importance of pulse diagnosis in clinical practice, including, Locate and identifying the seven levels of the pulse; Identifying Prakriti and Vikriti through pulse examination; Recognise the various channels and related organs through Pulse; Locate and identifying mental Prakriti and present state of mind of the client
• The Importance of Ayurvedic Iridology in clinical practice, including – Identification of Vata, Pitta, and Kapha scar tissue; Recognise imbalances in various channels and related organs through iris diagnosis
• The Importance of Ayurvedic tongue diagnosis in clinical practice, including identifying the location of each channel and organ on the tongue; Recognise imbalances in various channels and related organs through tongue diagnosis.

This unit delivers the skills and knowledge required to make a client diagnosis and structure a treatment plan according to Ayurvedic principles, through an additional 200 hours of supervised Ayurvedic face-to-face training and assessment. This includes knowledge of 

• The Ayurvedic disease process: Sanchaya (accumulation), Prakopa (aggravation), Prasara (overflow), Sthana Samshraya (localisation), Vyakti (re-location), Bheda (differential diagnosis) – with special reference to understanding determining and managing the various stages.
• Nidana (Etiology), Rupa (symptoms), Samprapti (pathogenesis), and therapeutic guidelines (Upashya) of diseases state in all channels including: 
  – Pranavaha – including respiratory but not limited to asthma, cough, hay fever and sinusitis.
  – Annavaha – including digestive but not limited to anorexia, hyperacidity, indigestion, dyspepsia and vomiting.
  – Ambuvaha – including fluids but not limited to thirst, oedema, and ascites.
  – Rasavaha – including lymphatic but not limited to fever, fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome.
  – Raktavaha – including circulatory but not limited to hypertension, gout, anemia, and piles. 
  – Mamsavaha including muscular but not limited to myomas, muscle atrophy, emaciation. 
  – Medovaha – including adipose but not limited to obesity and lipomas.
  – Asthivaha – including skeletal but not limited to scoliosis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and cervical spondylitis.
  – Majjavaha – including nervous but not limited to attention deficit disorder (ADD)/ attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), stress, anxiety, and depression.
  – Sukravaha & Arthavavaha & Stanyavaha – reproductive, including but not limited to impotency, menstruation, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), leucorrhoea, lactation but not limited to mastitis, excessive and insufficient lactation.
  – Mutravaha – including urinary but not limited to polyuria, diabetes, and dysuria.
  Purushivaha – including excretory/stool but not limited to constipation, irritable bowel, dysentery and diarrhea.
  – Swedovaha – including integumentary but not limited to psoriasis, eczema, and acne.
  – Manovaha – including mental but not limited to poor concentration, negative thinking, and memory loss.

This unit delivers the extensive skills and knowledge required to provide – and personally experience – therapeutic Ayurvedic remedial therapies, such as Ayurvedic specialised massage and herbalised steam therapy, ‘Kizzi Bolus’ (therapeutic herbal bolus treatments), ‘Udwarthanam treatment’, ‘Nasyam’, ‘Netra Basti’, and ‘Karna Purna’. This includes:

• Benefits of treatment
• contra-indications to treatment
• preparation of the herbal Bolus
• structuring a treatment protocol according to constitution and imbalances
• pathological indicators of successful treatment
• Possible reactions to treatment.

This unit delivers the skills and knowledge required to determine a nutritional treatment strategy based on the principles of Ayurvedic nutrition and diet. This includes an understanding of: 

• Principles of Ahara, Vihara, and Aushadhi 
• Variations necessary with the changing seasons;
•  Agnis and their functions 
• Types and features of culinary herbs and spices in Ayurveda
• Ayurvedic cooking and food preparation techniques for major food classifications 
• Create meal plans for various ailments
• Understand sansaya karma diets, and learn how to prepare the

This unit delivers the skills and knowledge required to determine an ayurvedic medicine treatment strategy based on an existing diagnosis. This includes:

• Over 120 herbs used in Ayurveda, their contraindications, identification and distinguishing features, interrelationships, and incompatibilities
• Principles of formulation (including dosage and duration of treatment) for:
  ~ Avaleha – a minimum of 5
  ~ Ghritam – a minimum of 5
  ~ Kashayam – a minimum of 5
  ~ Churna – a minimum of 10
  ~ Guggulu – a minimum of 7
  ~ Vati – a minimum of 5
  ~ Asava and Arishta – a minimum of 10
  ~ Bhasmas – a minimum of 5.

This unit delivers the skills and knowledge required to prepare ayurvedic medicines and dispense those medicines according to a pre-prepared order. This includes: 

• sources of Ayurvedic medicines and their raw, semi-processed, processed, and manufactured ingredients and methods to determine quality
• Types of Ayurvedic medicines, what they are, and how they are prepared – techniques to prepare medicines from source materials as per Ayurvedic guidelines, including the practical manufacture of ‘Churna’, x ‘Bati’ and Avaleha’
• Equipment and instrumentation components, purpose and operation – recording requirements and procedures environmental conditions required to maintain the integrity of medicines before, during and after preparation.

This unit delivers the skills and knowledge required to monitor and evaluate ayurvedic treatments, both from an individual client and a whole practice perspective. This includes:

• Types of criteria by which Ayurvedic treatments are evaluated, including regular client follow-ups and feedback.
• Typical complications associated with different treatments and therapies and how to respond in an ongoing treatment plan; sources of research and evidence that support Ayurvedic practice principles underpinning continuation or variation of treatment and the Ayurvedic rationale that underpins these.