“Turmeric is the best,” said Vasant Lad, an Indian-trained practitioner who runs the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque. But there may be other healing medicines in the Indian spice box hiding out ...

Sometimes a filmmaker is so taken with a subject that a documentary fizzles into hagiography, a problem of Jeremy Frindel’s The Doctor From India, a film about Vasant Lad, who brought the ancient ...