Ayurveda
is acknowledged as the oldest among
the different streams of medicine
in the world. Ayurveda has become
a very popular with the tourists
visiting Kerala in the recent years.
Ayurveda, literally meaning the
sciences of life, is more than 3500
years old. Now the traditional knowledge
has been improved through scientific
research and is taught in various
Ayurveda College in Kerala. Ayurveda
believes in the treatment of not
just the affected part, but the
individual as a whole. Making it
the natural way to refresh yourself,
eliminate all toxic imbalances from
the body and thus regain resistance
and good health. A graduate doctor
in Ayurveda, takes 5 years of courses
at college besides six months of
internship and is considered on
per with doctors of modern medicine.
Ayurveda is based on Vedic philosophy
of healthy living. It is a system
of preventing medicine which provides
ideal lifestyles to prevent the
onset of sickness and disease. The
majority of Ayurvedic medicines
are not mass produced, as Ayurveda
treatment is based on the premise
that every persons has on individualized
constitution and medicine have to
be tailored to suit the individual.
Accordingly two people suffering
from the same ailment may be prescribed
different medicines to suit their
constitutions.
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