India’s own healthy life style Viz a Viz system of medicine.
Ayurveda aims physical, psychological,spiritual and social wellfare of living being.
Envisages the means of preservation of health, prevention and treatment of various ailments.
Eight fold structure of Ayurveda covers the faculties of General Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, ENT&Ophthalmology, Surgery,Toxicology,Geriatrics, Science of Aphrodisiacs

According to Ayurveda, the living body is composed of five basic elemental substances i.e. Panchabhouthika Principles Viz. Prithvi, Ap, Thejas, Vayu, Akasam. These five physical elements constitute the three essential components of the controller of body which are termed as ‘Thridosha’ viz. Vatha, Pitha and Kapha. Vatha the controller of body is responsible for the physical activity or the motion in the living being. The entire physico chemical phenomenon including the biochemical metabolic and endocrine functions are attributed to Pitha. The gross structure of body (sold and liquid) is constituted by Kapha.
Ayurveda defines disease as the state in which body and mind are subjected to pain and misery.
The equilibrium of the three humours i.e. “Thridoshas” results in health and their excited and imbalanced condition causes disease.
Approach of Ayurveda is field oriented holistic and functional.
Ayurveda utilizes wealth of nature for increasing the natural resistance of the body. Treats man as whole and uses drug as a whole.
Ayurveda views that successful medical treatment depends upon four factors, the physician, drugs or diet, nurse, and patient.
In principle the Ayurvedic approach to the treatment of a disease consists of two major procedures.