In this paper the author discusses how the secret of life was taken care of by our ancients. The contribution of modern research scholars in this fields are also summed up here.

Several drugs are prescribed for a single disease in Ayurveda. Often one drug is indicated in many diseases, with this type of information, the drugs indicated in a disease can be reclassified on the basis of pathogenesis, in order to understand the intensity of the efficacy and mode of action on par with ayurvedic methodology. Besides the pathological basis, the terminologies used to explain t...

Before starting the treatment, the examination of the diseased and the disease plays an important role for a successful result. Ayurveda has a clear understanding of the mental and physical constitution of the various types of patients with established criteria. This knowledge hinders the physician from stretching his hand towards a wrong medicament and from giving a wrong advise to the patient...

Medicated oils prepared using process as mentioned in Ayurveda are used for external and internal administrations to treat various disorders. Taila pak vidhi provides detailed description of such processes. Medicated oils are prepared by prolonged cooking of sesame oil with pasty mass of herbs and decoction of herbs in presence of large quantity of water. We report preliminary findings of physi...

Several arguments have been forwarded for the stagnation of Ayurveda, and most of these focus on the discrimination that Ayurveda faces under Mughal and then under British rule. Even for Ancient India, the halcyon portrait of Ayurveda synergetically related with religion and politics during the period, as has been portrayed in many books of history and in countless lores, is false. This paper t...

A suggestion was made recently that the account of dissection of the cadaver present in Susruta Samhita is probably not in the true tradition of Ayurveda and the art of dissection itself is presumably of the Greek origin. By a closer scrutiny of the Text and its internal evidence, it has been shown here that this contention is likely to be not only incorrect but also unwarranted. In this connec...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the effects of a comprehensive mind-body program on sense of nondual awareness and spiritual awakening. DESIGN AND INTERVENTION The study compared the effects of participation in an intensive 6-day Ayurveda-based mind-body program that addressed physical, emotional, and spiritual domains as compared with a control condition. SETTING Resort setting. SUBJECTS P...

This text constitutes a summary of the author's recent book on Gustave Lietard (1833 - 1904) and Palmyr Cordier (1871 - 1914), the first historians of Ayurveda in France. In this book, their writings are reprinted and analysed in a long introduction of Ayurvedic historiography.

One of great challenges faced by the Ayurveda sector today is education [1e6]. Action research can be used as a tool to bring out practical solutions to combat the problems faced by Ayurveda in teaching and training. Action research in education is interventions made in teaching methods and analysis of whether these methods are making any difference in the students' learning. Today, quantificat...

The paper highlights the importance of ancient literature for the development of Ayurveda with special reference to their availability in regional languages. An attempt has been made here to examine briefly characteristics of about 600 palm leaf manuscripts available in Orissa State Museum, Bhubaneshwar. The relevance of the available material with reference to their potentiality for utilizatio...