Ayurveda is an oldest medical system in the world guiding health care in healthy and diseased condition. Ayurvedic principles and health guidelines have deep impact on the life style of the people of India and it has been incorporated in day to day life in the form of culture and religious rituals. Historians place the antiquity of Ayurveda around 6000BC, serving the humanity with its time tested formulations and guidelines of healthy living .Ayurveda is not a system of medicine for a country or a region but concerned with all living beings.Humanity has recognised Vedas as the ultimate source of knowledge. The Vedas proclaimed Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam meaning the whole world is one large family and it is our responsibility to fulfil the expectations of society globally and make them healthy.
Ayurveda is a science of life having divine origin .It is practised developed furthered by sages and vaidya.
Ayurveda is understood and studied both as science and philosophy.
2. Restoration of health to normalcy when homeostasis is upset or disturbed by disease factors
AYURVEDA HAS SURVIVED TRIALS & TRIBULATIONS OVER CENTURIES - IS TESTIMONY TO THE EFFICACY OF THE DRUG.
Historians have placed antiquity of Ayurveda as 6000BC. From the Vedic Peroid, Plants are used either singly or in combination as medicine to treat the disease. Efficacy of these medicinal Plants have been tested and proved over thousands of years in clinical practice which is testimonial for scientific understanding of efficacy of the drugs that are given in Devanagari (Sanskrit) script. Ayurveda advocates diet, nutritional supplements, daily regimens, seasonal regimens to maintain the health. Ayurveda not only helps in treating /curing the diseases but also maintenance of health. The concept of Ayurvedic Dietics was given utmost importance to treat the diseases and also to maintain the health.
Ayurveda is
A Science having neither a beginning nor and end
A divine, all-encompassing medical science promoting universal good
An eternal omniscient system
Ayurveda: worth a lifetime's study