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Ayurveda: a distinctive approach to health and disease [1]

The enormous complexity of human body offers scope to conceptualize its dynamic organization in a number of ways such as structural, biochemical, functional, etc. The conventional western medicine views the body from a structural perspective, whereas ayurveda, the ancient medical system of India, understands the human body from the perspective of functions/tridoshas (vata, pitta and kapha). These different viewpoints of ayurveda and western medicine have resulted not only in the use of different terminologies and metaphors to explain the human system but also in their different approaches to health and illness. This article focuses on the distinctive approach of ayurveda to health and disease and the science behind it.

Publication Date: 
15/04/2010
Rama Jayasundar [2]
Current Science [3]
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Health [4], Medical Systems [5], Ayurveda [6], India [7]
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