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Ayurveda is the 'Knowledge or Science of Life'. According to Charaka, the ancient physician-sage, life is a unified state of the physical body, the cognitive organs, the mind and the soul, thus signifying a living being.
Ayurveda deals with the maintenance of health and relief from disease. Susruta, another physician-sage of early times, defines the healthy state thus: 'A person whose somatic and psychic humours are in equilibrium, digestion is uniformly healthy, with normal functioning of the fundamental tissues of the body and body wastes, accompanied by the processes of the soul, cognitive organs and the mind, is said to be a healthy person'.
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Ayurveda traces its origin to two Sanskrit words: 'Ayu' i.e. 'life' and 'Ved' that means 'therapy'. Ayurveda therapies are based on balancing the dhatu's and doshas in the human body.
Herbal cures with ayurveda depends upon the constitution of a human being that could be either of the below mentioned:
Vatta, Pitta, Kalpha, Vata-Pitta, Vata-Kalpha, Kalpha-Pitta and Vata-Pitta-Kalpha.
During the 500 years of foreign domination of India, Ayurveda was held in ridicule, and it withered. But the invincible spirit of this life science survived and thrived. Today, Ayurveda has caught the attention of the people the world over - both laymen and professionals.