Ayurved, a 5000 years old Indian system of well being, meaning the Science of Life, is perhaps the oldest continuously used health maintenance system in the world. Ayurved places great emphasis on prevention and encourages maintaining health by paying attention to balance one's life through thought, diet and lifestyle. It enables one to understand how to create balance of body, mind and consciousness according to one's own individual constitution and how to make lifestyle changes to bring about and maintain this balance.

According to the ancient books of knowledge, health is considered as a prerequisite for achieving the supreme ends of life consisting of righteousness, wealth, artistic values and spiritual freedom. Preventive and curative aspects of diseases are considered as important components of the concept of positive health. Ayurved deals elaborately with measures of healthful living during the entire span of life and its various phases. Besides dealing with principles for maintenance of health, it has also developed a wide range of therapeutic measures to combat illness. These principles of positive health and therapeutic measures related to physical, mental, social and spiritual welfare of human beings. Thus Ayurved became one of the oldest systems of medicine dealing with both the preventive and curative aspects of life in a most comprehensive way.

Ayurved is a holistic system of medicine that is indigenous to India. ‘Ayu’ denotes life and ‘Ved’ denotes Knowledge. The objective of this science is happy and healthy life, graceful old age and life free from disease. According to Ayurved all living creatures are composed of macroscopic forms of five basic elements namely, ‘Prithvi’ (earth), ‘Jal’ (water), ‘Agni’ (fire), ‘Vayu’ (air), and ‘Akash’ (ether). According to Ayurved the unusual changes in weather results in imbalance in the five vital elements in the environment, which in turn directly influence the human body. Thus seasonal discrepancies are cause of illness in living beings. Of course, the abundant pollution on this planet is the cause of all these seasonal discrepancies.

The basic principles of treatment in Ayurved are 1) balanced diet 2) proper deeds and 3) proper medicine. The medicines used in Ayurved are of herbal, animal and mineral origin.

While western medicine has focused upon pathogens and how to control disease from the outside, Ayurved concentrates on the individual and how to control disease through balancing the life-force within the individual, As the limitation of antibiotics are becoming evident, such regimes for strengthening our own internal or immune system may be crucial for our health as a species through the coming century.

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