In 1978 Mary Cameron first encountered a medical practice in remote
western Nepal that used pulse reading for diagnosis and local
plants for medicine. Cameron's study of Ayurvedic medical doctors
that began two decades later, Three Fruits traces the conceptual
and practice lines from those village healers to the professionally
trained doctors in the Kathmandu Valley. An intimate portrayal of
Ayurvedic doctors in Nepal during a period of political unrest and
social change, Three Fruits connects the doctors' care for Nepal's
valued medicinal plants to the boundless joy of health they desire
for their patients. Combining ethnography with history and Indian
philosophy, the detailed study weaves the elegant theory of tridosa
(three humors) and the popular medicine trifala (three fruits) into
the narrative accounts of doctors' multi-sited practice. Aware of
rising global alternative medicine and environmental movements, the
doctors speak to their relevance for Ayurveda and sustainable,
integrated, and culturally meaningful plural medicine in Nepal.
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