The term 'ayurveda' comes from Sanskrit and is a combination of the words
'ayus' (life or long approach) and 'veda' (knowledge of science).
Ayurveda is a healing art that is thousands of years old; it is the health
system of the ancient Indian Vedic civilization and is considered the
oldest health system in the world. Ayurveda is recognized by the WHO as a
traditional medicine. The traditions in the ancient Ayurvedic scriptures
describe that the basic principles of Ayurveda were perceived long ago by
highly evolved people in their own consciousness through introspection.
Therefore, in the beginning these principles were passed on only from
teacher to student and only much later, when a transmission in this way no
longer seemed reliable, were they written down in the first writings and
works of Ayurveda.
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