What is the Ayur-veda?

The Ayur-veda, is the traditional medical system of ancient and modern India, has its roots in the Vedas. Ayur means life and Veda means "science" (in Sanskrit). Therefore, Ayur-Veda means "science of life" and also "the knowledge to lead a long and peaceful"

The Ayur-veda unites the physical and metaphysical, connecting the higher consciousness to a more vibrant health. Techniques for promoting preventive care and curative health disciplines integrating mental, spiritual and physica.

The written tradition in the Ayur-veda goes back many thousands of years. Has been practiced without interruption from antiquity to our trips. The Lord Ampthill, Governor of South India during the colonial period, said: "The people of India were familiar with the preventive and curative medicine while Europe was in a state of savage ignorance of science ..... of medicine originated in India and hence the first brought to Arabia and then to Europe. "

The Ayur-veda presents concepts and approaches of such magnitude that could revolutionize modern medicine. Contains a classification of therapeutic techniques that is unparalleled to any medical school.

Herbology and pharmacology, physical therapy and massage, dietary and nutritional therapy, surgery, psychiatry, the use of spiritual mantras, meditation and purification techniques are part of the treatment of Ayur-Veda.


The physical and mental health are the key to the advancement of man. Our mind can be protected, especially through meditation exercises. We must avoid any influence violent or devoid of good human motivations (torture animals, etc.). Such influences cause psychological trauma and unbalance our minds and our emotions.
Mind and intelligence are very difficult to control, and meditation that offers a wonderful way to run (for our benefit) our subtle body.

Anxiety, lack of cleanliness, overeating, contaminated water, food produced with chemicals, breathing smoke and fumes of cars, etc., Are also important causes of our illnesses. It is very difficult, then, get rid of them.
Vedic medical science will help us better understand our body, its nature and care, nutrition and hygiene, in short, practical lessons to keep this body, which is considered by all philosophies and religions as a temple of God .

Ayurveda is the Vedic science of life. Knowledge includes allied fields like biology, botany, herbology, anatomy, nutrition, hygiene, medicine and surgery. This specialized branch of Vedic knowledge was originally revealed by Sri Dhanvantari, an incarnation of the Supreme Lord of the Hindu religion.

It is believed that there were originally sixteen parts of the Ayur-veda. Today only part preserved. It is also said that the science of Ayur-veda was spoken by the great sage Atreya Risi Naimisaranya the scholars of (a forest in what is now West Bengal) and was subsequently collected and rewritten by different authors at different times. The Sarak Samhita and Sushruta Samhita are the oldest and unauthorized comments of all.

The Vedas provide a complete description of the science of nutrition, but also go beyond good nutrition (including lower animals know exactly what to eat to stay healthy) and teach us how to spiritualize the feeding process by transforming all culinary activities offering them to the Supreme. This art is quite simple and advanced practitioners of yoga will never forget.

The disease is one of the four basic bodily miseries, and therefore care should be taken seriously it kept clean of weeds or weeds that make it useless for self-cultivation.

According to the Vedas the disease should be treated as if the fire extinguish it as soon as it appears. Better yet is to lead a healthy lifestyle to prevent upset of the body.