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health problems, the result was Ayurveda. As the term Ayurveda denotes
to the knowledge of life it’s not only a system to cure disease but the
regimen teaching us ways to achieve Perfect Health from diseased or
abnormal conditions and guidelines to lead a life, both physical and
mental, to attain the bliss of real life. Keen observation and study of
nature including all kinds of life in the world for hundreds of years could
only have formulated such a life science which has a concrete basis in
Indian philosophy and wide reaching applicability in life of all sorts.
Since it is holistic, it approaches man as a whole and cares man’s physical
mental and spiritual health. It’s almost as old as mankind and at the
same time as new as modern man that no disease is there which is
incurable or uncontrollable unless misled too much.
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