Prof.Dr.Subhash Ranade
Dr.Mrs.Sunanda Ranade 
AYURVEDA
The Ayurved ("the science of life"), is the
healing system practiced from Vedic times in India. It is not a
science artificially imposed upon living beings. The basic
principles of Ayurveda are followed by millions of Indians via its
culture and religious festivals. Its basis is not in dead or organic
chemical
substances, or in a mechanistic and materialistic view of the human
body. Ayurved is based upon a deep communion with the spirit of life
itself and a profound understanding of the movement of the life-
force and its different manifestations within our entire
psycho-physical system. It is complete science of its own. It is a
truly holistic medicine whose wealth we have just begun to explore
in the Western world.
Ayurved is not merely a kind of antiquated folk medicine. It is a
science in its own right. Yet it is a science based upon the
observation of living being and their actual reaction to their
environment. In this way, it classifies not only individuals but
also foods, herbs, emotions, climates, and lifestyles in an
energetic language that reflects the entire living world around us.
Ayurved possesses perhaps the longest clinical experience of any
system of medicine, with a history of Ayurvedic hospitals and
colleges going back for over three thousand years. It has a science
of anatomy and physiology that follows a ritualistic model based
upon the biological humors. It has an extensive herbal and mineral
industry, including what is probably the greatest variety of herbal
and pharmaceutical preparation in the world. These include herbal
wines, jellies, confections, resins, balsams, pills, and extensive
system mineral and metallic preparations. It has special clinical
methods, including the use of steam therapy, oil massage, and Pancha
Karma purification and rejuvenation. Perhaps most importantly, it
also has a whole science of self-care, including an entire
methodology of right living for optimum health and the promotion of
greater awareness and creativity. All of this follows a
constitutional model that considers the unique nature of the
individual of the primary factor in health, not disease as an entity
in itself.
While western medicine has focused upon pathogens and how to control
disease from the outside, Ayurved concentrates on the individual's
immunity 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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