Ayurveda - the ‘Science of Life’ - is the knowledge that indicates the appropriate and inappropriate, happy or sorrowful conditions of living, what is auspicious or inauspicious for longevity, as well as the measure of life itself.
Through its holistic view of health, Ayurveda maintains that fire, earth, air, water and ether are natural elements that compose man. Ayurveda has two main objectives: first, to help in maintaining good health; and second, to care for the ill and restore their health. |
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During the 500-600 B.C., Agasthya, Charaka, Sushrutha, Kashyapa, the very knowledgeable philosophers, churned from the vedas the references to all illness, diseases, drug-medicines and compiled the ‘Samhitas’.
It is from these ‘Samhitas’ that the physicians later absorbed the knowledge of Ayurveda and applied them for preventing as well as curing illness. Ayurveda is not only the ancient Indian science of preventive health and healing, but also a philosophy of living. |
