AYURVEDA

Ayurveda

Ayurveda

Ayurveda, also known as the science of life, is a medical system and discipline, designed and constantly under development for the sole purpose and objective of improving and maintaining a lifestyle that is easy for all individuals to adopt around the globe. Rooting from Hindu founding, Ayurvedic medicine has been identified and considered a complete body of knowledge for life and all living beings to make way for improvising their existing health patterns and at the same time maintaining a sound and healthy lifestyle (Cooper, 2008).

Western medicine, with Ayurvedic medicine, has created hybrids to create the appropriate balance for medical assistance in order to treat individuals who are ill, sick or simply wish to elevate their lifestyle. A different historical narrative been developed by professional historians of medicine during the last twenty years. In this account, the medicine of the Atharvaveda and other Vedas is not directly connected to the origins of Ayurveda, although there are some extensions, especially in the area of pharmacology. The first traces of the ideas that becomes central to Ayurvedic medical theory, such as the theories of doshas (humors) and the classification of disease causes. It has therefore, been proposed that Ayurvedic theory and practice owes a vast deal to the practices and ideas of the ascetic milieu of the fifth to the third centuries BCE (McIntyre, 2001).

This would include the early Buddhists, the Ajivikas, the Jains, and the ascetics mentioned in the Upanishads. Ayurveda deals with lifespan; it has procedures to determine whether lifespan will be short or long. It deals with properties and activities of vital and lethal substances (Rastogi, 2009). The system has been designed and tailored on three key concepts: protection, preservation and promotion of health and the healthy themselves. In today's modern world of constant development in medical analogies and scientific methodologies, no such method or concepts caters or speaks for the maintenance of healthy people as being one of its core objectives (Wootton, 2001). This is the single most important factor that has gained Ayurveda an increasingly popular reputation around the world (Cooper, 2008).

The development of the modern system of Ayurveda education from 1870 to 1970 has been an acclaimed saga. Ayurvedacharya, the present course, began in Jaipur under the name, AyurvedaShastra, in 1870. In 1906, the Maharaja of Mysore started the first official college (including Unani) (McIntyre, 2001). After ups and downs of policy reversals by various government committees following independence, the Central Council for Indian Medicine (CCIM) was constituted by Act of Parliament in 1970. Minimum qualifications for admission to Ayurveda courses were fixed, as were the required number of courses of study and practical training; subjects of examinations and standards of proficiency to be obtained were finalized; requirements for staff standards, numbers in each department, equipment, accommodation, training and other facilities; conduct of professional examinations, qualifications for examiners, and conditions for admission to examinations, all were prescribed (Cooper, 2008).

In 1977, Ayurvedacharya was retained as the sole course leading to an Ayurveda Degree, called Bachelor of Ayurveda ...