Ayurveda

Ayurveda, The traditional health care system of India – An introductio...

Ayurveda is the traditional health care system of India which is being widely practiced uninterruptedly for the past several centuries. The literal meaning of the word “Ayurveda” is “Knowledge of Lif...

Therapeutic Approach of “AYURVEDA”

Ayurveda is a comprehensive and holistic health care system that advocates the science of health and healing. The holistic approach of therapy takes into consideration the fact that each individual i...

Panchakarma – The comprehensive therapeutic arm of Ayurveda

Panchakarma is the set of ayurvedic therapeutic procedures designed to eliminate the disease causing bio-toxins from the body. Panchakarma denotes five Ayurvedic therapeutic procedures of extensive c...

Non communicable diseases- the role of Ayurveda in its mitigation

Ayurveda, the holistic health care system of Indigenous tradition puts forward unique and powerful tools in addressing the challenges raised by non-communicable diseases in the global health scenario...

Rasayana therapy – A unique way of confronting ageing

Rasayana or rejuvenative therapy, one among the eight clinical subdivisions of Ayurveda primarily comprises measures to defer the process of biological ageing. Rasayana therapy aims at stabilizing th...

Ailments of modern times – An Ayurvedic perspective

Ayurveda is a documented health care science and that it has been in continuous practice for many centuries.  It promotes both preventive as well as curative lines of treatment. There are some challe...

Wellness And Its Maintenance

Ayurveda gives equal stress to maintaining wellness and curing diseases. It comprises two parts.  One part deals with ways of maintaining good health and remaining free of diseases and the other part...

Interfacing of Ayurveda with modern medicine

Medical systems, which were running parallel, are coming closer and closer and attitudes of medical professionals are also changing positively in terms of mutual respect and open mindedness. In Ayurv...

Natural medicaments – The Ayurvedic armamentarium

3000 years since it took shape as a personalised health care system, Ayurveda has stood the test of time and it still continues to provide succour to many ailing people. Formulations mentioned in tex...

The Regulatory Environment Of Ayurveda

In contemporary independent India, when Ayurveda needed to take the role of a national health care system, it became necessary for establishing a certain degree of uniformity in standards, procedures...