Zanjabee is privileged and proud to offer the services of Dr. (Vaidya) Pratibha Shah, BAMS, Master of Ayurveda, MPH, the only Ayurvedic expert with such high qualifications and experience, in the entire state of Massachusetts. Dr. Pratibha Shah holds a Post Graduate degree in Ayurveda from the prestigious National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur, India.

She has trained with and learned the secrets of traditional Ayurveda practice and pulse diagnosis with the world renowned Vaidya, late Pandit Nanakchand ji Sharma. She was working as Chief Medical Officer, at CGHS (Central Govt. Health Scheme), New Delhi, India, before moving to US in 2004.

She has been practicing Ayurveda for more than 20 yrs and conducts and speaks at Ayurvedic events all year round. She also writes health columns and articles for different magazines and newspapers and presently serves on the Editorial Board of Light On Ayurveda Journal. She is on the Board of several leading Ayurvedic organizations in USA and is working towards promotion, propagation as well as integration of Ayurveda with mainstream medicine, globally. She has taken her efforts to the White House where she was invited to speak about Ayruveda on a panel, in July of last year and is now working with and coordinating with the National Prevention Council to explore the possibilities of integrating Ayurveda in the National Prevention Strategy.

She is also working on promoting the Integrative model of medicine practice in the Boston area. She is an active member of the Integrative Medicine Group at Boston Medical Center and also Collaborative Health Boston, which is a forum that fosters discussions and relationships between practitioners of Conventional Medicine as well as CAM. With the aim of providing a wider platform for benefits from Ayurvedic principles of healing, she has recently completed Masters in Public Health, International Health, from Boston University School of Public Health.

Dr. Shah has special expertise and experience in the following areas:

1. Geriatric Care
2. IBS
3. ADD, ADHD
4. Anxiety and Stress
5. Insomnia
6. Menopausal syndrome
7. Menstruation issues in women including Fibroids
8. Lack of appetite, lack of optimal growth and other issues in children
9. Libido and sexual performance issues
10. Skin and hair care
11. Gastric reflux and acidity
12. Allergies

Zanjabee will soon be offering Panchakarma Panchakarma is a set of detoxification and rejuvenation therapies designed to facilitate the removal of deep-rooted stresses and toxins in the physiology and impart renewed vitality and rigor. Ayurveda recommends these cleansing therapies up to three times a year, usually at the change of seasons, in order to maintain well-being in healthy individuals or to restore balance in those experiencing illness. The purpose of panchakarma is to heal, repair, rejuvenate and extend the lifespan. By undergoing panchakarma on a regular basis muscle tissue, bone, immune function, digestive function, nervous tissue as well as teeth and hair (upadhatus or “secondary tissues”) can be maintained, restored and rejuvenated, adding more healthy years to ones life.
Many diseases of modern times are caused by these deep-seated toxins which lead to improper digestion, stress, lack of sleep, anxiety, loss of concentration, premature aging, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, neurological disorders, chronic fatigue, osteoporosis, sexual disorders, allergies, and unhappiness. It utilizes a set of therapeutic procedures, which are given in a specific order to promote the elimination of toxic substances out of the body via the nearest possible route of elimination. The resulting purification results in the intrinsic up-regulation of the body’s capacity to cure itself from many conditions and diseases. But Panchakarma has value not only as a detoxification procedure (shodhana) in the treatment of disease, it is also effective as a preparatory measure to strengthen a patient (brihmana) prior to surgery, as a means to promote weight loss (langhana), to increase the effect of rejuvenatory medicines (rasayana), prior to libido-improving procedures (vajikarana), and before the administration of certain special medicines (kshetrikarana). In all of these uses, panchakarma accomplishes the removal of toxic accumulations and the return of the doshas (psychosomatic energies) to normalcy and balance. procedures as well. Watch out for the announcement in the Newsletter. Until then, Dr. Shah is liasioning with the best resources in MA to give her clients the best comprehensive Ayurvedic care possible.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Government of India Health Scheme New Delhi, India

Chief Medical Office 2003-2004

Senior Medical Officer 1999-2003

Medical Officer 1993-1999

EDUCATION

Boston University School of Public Health Boston, MA­­­­­­­­­­­­

Masters in Public Health 2009-present

National Institute of Ayurveda Jaipur, India

Doctor of Ayurvedic Medicine 1990-1993

KGMP College Mumbai, India

Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery 1983-1988

FURTHER TRAINING

• World Health Organization (WHO) Fellowship Course New Delhi, India

Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases 2000

• Central Health Education Bureau New Delhi, India

Certificate in Health Education 1999

MEDIA APPEARANCES AND EXPERT SPEAKER

• Health Columnist

Lokvani e-magazine 2009 – 2010

India New England Newspaper 2010 – Present

• Invited speaker as Ayurvedic expert:

International Symposium for Ayurveda & Health, CT Oct. 2009

National Ayurveda Convention, PA Oct. 2009

Consulate General of India, NY Mar 2010

Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA May, 2010

• All India Radio: Family Welfare program 1999-2004

Ayurvedic perspective on Common Cold, Diabetes & Rheumatoid Arthritis

• National Television, India

Member expert panel for treatment of hemorrhoids and health care of the Elderly

AFFILIATIONS

• Member: Board of Directors of National Ayurvedic Medical Association (http://www.ayurveda-nama.org/)
• Secretary: Association of Ayurvedic Professionals of North America) (http://www.aapna.org/)