The association between Ayurveda, anti-aging and cosmeceuticals is gaining importance in the beauty, health and wellness sector. Ayurvedic cosmeceuticals date back to the Indus Valley Civilization. Modern research trends mainly revolve around principles of anti-aging activity described in Ayurveda: Vayasthapana (age defying), Varnya (brighten skin-glow), Sandhaniya (cell regeneration), Vranarop...

There is much to be desired for the promotion of greater understanding and appreciation of Ayurveda in the Western world. This is an attempt on the part of a Western mind to present an objective study of the basic concepts of this basic Science with a view to dispel Western prejudice. The fact that Ayurveda, by virtue of its unique efficacy, has been recognized by the WHO should remover further...

To say this with scientific rigor requires both deep understanding of human biology and intimate knowledge of external environments. Ayurveda is based on the Pancha Mahabhuta Siddhanta, the understanding of objects of sense perception in terms of five qualities of objectivity, each one arising from a particular sense. This approach is inclusive of anything with a form occupying space. The persp...

Over the past 20 years the Fundacion Salud de Ayurved Prema Argentina has spread the knowledge of Ayurveda throughout Latin America. The Fundacion is based in Buenos Aires in the Argentine Republic, where it now runs courses in two of the country's major medical schools - at the School of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires, and the National University of Cordoba's School of Medicine. Ba...

Recently, a need to develop supportive new scientific evidence for contemporary Ayurveda has emerged. One of the research objectives is an assessment of the reliability of diagnoses and treatment. Reliability is a quantitative measure of consistency. It is a crucial issue in classification (such as prakriti classification), method development (pulse diagnosis), quality assurance for diagnosis a...

Purpose Ayurveda advocates a holistic, individualized approach for disease diagnostics/treatment. Taking cognizance of physiological variabilities, Ayurveda devised a subjective method of pulse examination for health index assessment. As per Ayurveda, biological humors ‘TriDosha’ are fundamental psychosomatic principles responsible for health/ diseases (Vata: Body Movements; Pitta: Heat, Metabo...

The one of the oldest system of medicine, Ayurveda is momentous in audience of worldwide on virtue of its holistic approach of life. Formulations of Ayurveda consist of substances of herbal, mineral/metal and animal origin which are processed pharmaceutical to have therapeutic effects. This is attribute of processes of Shodhan (purification/potentiation), Bhavana (impregation /levigation) and M...

Ancient Indian Ayurveda has used the palpation of the pulse at the wrist under the thumb to analyze physical health. In the nineteenth century, analysis of the contour of the peripheral pulse to assess arterial properties was first described. With the recognition of the importance of arterial stiffness there has been a resurrection of interest in pulse wave analysis. The non-invasive evaluation...

Ayurveda, which means the Science of life is erroneously understood and propagated by some of the scholars as just one of the traditional systems of medicine. It encompasses the entire gamut of human life aiming on projection of total personality, mental, physical and intellectual. Ayurveda's concept of diseases and treatments are different from other systems of medicine and with its wide scope...

The antiquity of achievements of Hindus in the field of Mental health is explained. The chief points discussed in this article are: (1) The exact sense in which the school of ancient Indian Medicine (Ayurveda) is to be understood. (2) The interpretation of some of the fundamental philosophical issues governing the laws of mental sciences and (3) The relevance of such laws to modern scientific w...