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AYURVEDA is the traditional Indian Meidcine -TIM used by a majority of India’s 1.1 billion population. Ayurveda is also used worldwide by the South Asian diaspora and others.

The constituent elements of the universe and those of the smaller universe within the human body are identical and their response to varied stimuli is also identical. The universe as macrocosm and the human body as microcosm was always a dominant theme in Ayurveda which, regarded man as a part of all that exists and the human body as a cosmic resonator. The universe is known to us through our five senses which have specific objects of perception, such as what the eye sees, ear hears, tongue tastes and so on. The elements perceived bythe five senses and their derivatives (Pancabhutas) constitute the universe for Ayurveda, which has little to say on a supra-sensory universe. The tissues of the body, no less than food and medications, are composed of the five elements and their derivatives. It is this identity of composition which underlies the central principle of Ayurvedic therapeutics that mandates the choice of food and drugs from without for producing effects within the body. It was believed that this principle could hardly operate in the absence of identity between the substances in the external world and the smaller world within.

Ayurveda offered a model for living, which stands in sharp contrast to the traditional view that Indians prized asceticism and renunciation, and disparaged affluence and a life of comfort.

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