ABSTRACT
The age-old practice of traditional medicine is gaining momentum today. The traditional and alternative medicinal practices like Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani, Kampo, traditional Chinese medicine, etc., have promising therapeutic values. They constitute the group of evidence-based medicine. Though not scientifically proven then, but the practical knowledge of our forefathers have unbelievably exceeded today’s scientific practice when the whole foundation was based upon personalized medicinal concept or “Prakriti” which is also mentioned in our ancient text as follows [3], [2]:
With the advancement in biological science, the root cause of all human diseases is mapped to the genomic and phenotypic variations which are important to understand for personalized medicine concept. Prakriti-based medicine is based on three doshas, namely, vata, pitta, and kapha explaining the different conditions of the body.
