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What is Ayurveda?

June 9, 2008 by Pauline 

AYURVEDA” an age old science originating from combination of Ayus, meaning “long life” and veda meaning “knowledge”, thus summarized as “Science of long life”.

Today, Ayurveda operates on the precept that various materials of vegetable, animal, and mineral origin have some medicinal value. The medicinal properties of these materials have been documented by the practitioners and have been used for centuries to cure illness and/or help maintain good health. Ayurvedic medicaments are made from herbs or mixtures of herbs, either alone or in combination with minerals, metals and other ingredients of animal origin. The metals, animals and minerals are purified by individual processes before being used for medicinal purposes.

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