Ayurvedic INDIA

Ayurveda or Ayurvedic medicine is a system of medicine with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent. Globalized and modernized practices derived from Ayurvedic traditions are a type of alternative medicine. In medical taxonomies of the Sanskrit knowledge systems, Ayurveda is assigned a place as a subsidiary Veda. Some medical plants names from the Atharvanaveda and other Vedas can be found in subsequent Ayurveda literature. The earliest recorded theoritical statements about the canonical models of disease in Ayurveda occur in the earliest Buddhist Canon.

The main classical Ayurvedic treatises begin with legendary accounts of the transmission of medical knowledge from the gods to sages, and thence to human physicians. Thus, the Sushruta Samhita narrates how Dhanvantari, "greatest of the mighty celestials," incarnated himself as Divodasa, a mythical king of Varanasi, who then taught medicine to a group of wise ohysicians, including Sushruta himself. Ayurvedic therepies have varied and evolved over more than two millennia. Therapies are typically bassed on complex herbal compounds, while treatises written after about 1000 CE introduced mineral and metal substances. Ancient Ayurvedic treatises also taught surgical techniques, including rhinoplasty, perineal lithotomy, the suturing of wounds, and the extraction of forigen objects.

Some scholars assert that Ayurveda originated in prehistoric times, and that come of the concepts of Ayurveda have been discovered since the times of Indus Valley Civilization and earlier. Ayurveda significantly developed during the vedic period and later some of the non-Vedic systems such as Buddhism and Jainism also developed medical concepts and practices that appear in the classical Ayurvedic treatises.Humoral balance is emphasized, and supressing natural urges is considered unhealthy and claimed to lead to illness. Ayurveda names three elemental substances, the doshas and states that a balance of the doshas results in health, while imbalance results in disease. Ayurveda has eight canonical components, which are derived from classical Sanskrit literature. Some of the oldest known Ayurvedic texts include the Susrutha Samhita and Charaka Samhita, which are written in sanskrit. Ayurvedic practitioners had developed various medical preperations and surgical procedures by medieval period.

Although laboratory experiments suggest it is possible that some substances in Ayurveda might be developed into effective treatments, there is no evidence that any are effective as currently proffered. Modern ayurvedic medicine is consider it a protoscience, an unscientific. Other researchers consider it a protoscience, an unscientific or trans science system instead. Concerns were raised when 20% of Ayurvedic U.S and Indian manufactured oatent medicines sold through th internet were found to contain toxic levels of heavy metals such as lead, mercury and arsenic.