ABSTRACT
Ayurveda is the native Indian system of healthcare that is currently used by millions of people in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka for their healthcare needs. Vedas, especially Rigveda and Atharvaveda, the earliest documented ancient Indian knowledge dated roughly to 2000 BC, have references on health and diseases. Ayurveda texts like Charaka Samhita and Sushruta Samhita were possibly started to be composed about 1000 BC (Patwardhan et al., 2009). The term “Ayurveda” means “the science of life.” This science deals elaborately with measures for healthy living during the entire span of one’s life. Besides dealing with the principles for maintenance of health, it also delves upon a range of preventive and therapeutic measures to Ÿght diseases.
