Ayurveda

Ayurveda is India's contribution to humanity in its search for health care, well being and longevity. This wonderful treatise on human health is considered as the 'fifth Veda' narrated directly by God to great sages of the ancient past. It mellowed with the evolution of Indian civilisation tracing its origin to 'Atharva Veda' the oldest work of philosophy and science in the history of mankind.

And since, almost all the medicines are of herbal origin, they do not have any side effects. Ayurveda flourished at a time when all the science branches, we now practice, were in their rudiments. Physicians the world over now consider Ayurveda as a system of treatment embedded in nature that couples medication and recognised lifestyle. In the modern era, where most of the diseases result from mutations in lifestyles, we have started to look back into this ancient wisdom, which advocates a therapy that has its roots in nature.

Ayurveda has withstood the test of time, for over four millennia by propagation as smrithi and sruthi (through oral education and discussion) and mananam (meditation). Most of the reference texts that are in use today were recorded after 1000B.CE. It can be seen that the principles of Ayurveda are retained intact and the medicinal formulations in the reference texts are narrated as examples of this treatment theory for individual diseases.