Ayurveda is a holistic medical system from India that takes into account the individuality of everyone. Ayurveda aims to provide nutritional and lifestyle guidance so that healthy people stay healthy and those with health problems succeed to improve their health.

Ayurveda is a science of life with a holistic background, which aims to protect, maintain and improve health. In Sanskrit, AAYUS means life and VEDA means scientific knowledge. Ayurveda teaches mankind how

• Protect Health (Sukha Ayu - Healthy and Happy Life)
• Preventing and curing health problems (Dukha Ayu - life with diseases and unhappiness)
• Promote positive thinking (Hita Ayu – productive and positive life)
• To avoid a disease-ridden aimless life (Ahita Ayu - the path leading to a wasted or meaningless life)

Thus, Ayurveda is defined as “the knowledge of how to live a healthy, long and happy life in order to achieve the ultimate goal of life”. Ayurveda deals with herbs, minerals, anatomy and physiology and the principles of treating diseases.

Ayurveda can be divided into eight branches of medicine:

1. Kaya chikita - internal diseases
2. Shalakya Tantra - ophthalmology and otolaryngology
3. Shalya Tantra - surgery
4. Agada Tantra - toxicology
5. Rasayana chikitsa - Rejuvenation and geriatrics
6. Vajeekaran – Fertility and genital diseases
7. Kumarya bhyatrya – Pediatrics
8. Bhuta Tantra - Psychology and psychiatry

Ayurvedic treatment can be divided as follows:

• Shamana Therapy - administration of oral medicines to relieve diseases and their symptoms.
• Shodhana Therapy - elimination of diseases with body cleansing therapies such as Pancha karma.
• Pathya Vyavastha – Dietary treatment where certain things are forbidden, certain things must be eaten.
• Nidan Parivarjan - Avoiding the factors that cause and aggravate the disease, including lifestyle changes.
• Satvavajaya – psychotherapy, balancing the senses.
• Rasayana therapy – use of immune modulators and drugs

Origin of Ayurveda

Ayurveda is a complex healing system that originated in India thousands of years ago. Historical evidence of Ayurveda can be found in the ancient scriptures of Hinduism, the Vedas. Rig Veda mentioned more than 60 preparations that could be used to alleviate or get rid of various health ailments. The Rig Veda was written down more than 6,000 years ago, but the knowledge of Ayurveda is actually even older. Ayurveda is more than just a system of medicine. It is the science of life. We are all part of nature. Just as animals and plants live in harmony with nature and use the laws of nature to create health and balance, we obey the same principles. So it can be said that Ayurveda is a system that helps to maintain health and get back to your true self and balance by using the laws of nature. Basically, Ayurveda has existed since the beginning of time, because we have always been guided by the laws of nature.

Body, mind and senses

Soul

Ayurveda also takes care that before we exist in physical form with the help of body and mind, we also exist in spiritual form. The ancient Indian prophets believed that man is made up of a certain energetic essence. They were of the opinion that over time we are in different physical bodies, but our essence or soul remains unchanged. This concept is illustrated by what happens at the moment of death. As a person approaches the moment when he leaves his physical body, many of his desires and desires cease to exist. Since the soul no longer identifies with the body, the desire to eat or do something that used to bring great joy and satisfaction becomes insignificant. Facts have been documented where the feeling of being "out of body" has been experienced.

These are just a few examples of how we are made up of these four components above that we call life.

The understanding that we are all unique allows Ayurveda not only to address specific health problems, but also to provide an explanation for why one person reacts in one way and another in another. We hope that you will continue your Ayurvedic journey through which your health will improve and you will gain new knowledge about this miracle we call life.