‘I Help My Patients Hear Themselves, Which Starts the Healing Process’

After an Ayurvedic Doctor Solved His Digestive Problems, Ashok Jethanandani Returned to India to Become a Practitioner Himself

How can we help Californians manage chronic conditions and live better lives?

As an immigrant and a doctor of ayurvedic medicine, this has become my calling, but I came to it late in life, through a personal illness, and a chance encounter with a doctor. It so happened that around that time, momentous questions about health care were being debated in the legislatures of a few states in the United States. The questions were: What kinds of alternative health care do people utilize? And, is it legal to practice …