Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Homeopathy and Naturopathy are cited as examples The term appears to have entered into usage through the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), which began to employ it as a substitute for alternative medical systems as a way of differentiating widely comprehensive systems of medicine, such as Ayurvedic medicine, from specialized alternative approaches.

The Ayurvedic classics mention eight branches of medicine: kāyācikitsā ( internal medicine ), śalyacikitsā ( surgery including anatomy ), śālākyacikitsā ( eye, ear, nose, and throat diseases ), kaumārabhṛtya ( pediatrics ), bhūtavidyā ( spirit medicine ), and agada tantra ( toxicology ), rasāyana

Early records on medicine have been discovered from ancient Egyptian medicine, Babylonian medicine, Ayurvedic medicine ( in the Indian subcontinent ), classical Chinese medicine ( predecessor to the modern traditional Chinese Medicine ), and ancient Greek medicine and Roman medicine.

Turmeric has been used in India for over 2500 years and is a major part of the Ayurvedic system of medicine.

Unconscious aspects of mentality were referred to between 2500 and 600 BC in the Hindu texts known as the Vedas, found today in Ayurvedic medicine.

It is considered a major component in Ayurvedic and Unani medicine and is particularly prescribed for skin disease.

According to traditional Ayurvedic medicine, chewing areca nut and betel leaf is a good remedy against bad breath ( halitosis ).

It has been used as an indigenous Ayurvedic and Unani medicine for a whole range of bowel problems.

* Pitta ( dosha ) is one of the three dosha ( One of three constitutional types found in Ayurvedic medicine ); it corresponds to fire

According to Ayurvedic medicine, sago porridge can be an effective and simple food to " cool and balance one's body heat " when taking strong medicine or antibiotics.

This practice of smoking datura to relieve asthma has its origins in traditional Ayurvedic medicine in India.

* A common name for the flowering plant Country Mallow ( Sida cordifolia ), especially when used in Ayurvedic medicine

* 500 BC – the Sushruta Samhita is published, laying the framework for Ayurvedic medicine

* Boswellia is an Ayurvedic ( Indian traditional medicine ) herb, used as a natural alternative to drugs.

Current practices derived ( or reportedly derived ) from Ayurvedic medicine are regarded as part of complementary and alternative medicine .< ref name =" nccam1 ">

Other concerns include the use of herbs containing toxic compounds and the lack of quality control in Ayurvedic facilities.

Part-time consultants include a gynaecologist, a paediatrician, a radiologist, an eye specialist, an Ayurvedic doctor and two general physicians.

In the monsoon season, the elephants undergo Ayurvedic rejuvenation treatments which include decoctions with herbs, etc.

German investments in Nepal are basically focused in the areas of hotel service, Ayurvedic and herbal

Maharishi Ayurvedic herbal products are manufactured and distributed by several companies, including: Maharishi Ayurveda Products Pvt.

One of the main product lines is Ayurvedic herbal formulas called rasayanas.

One type of folk medicine commonly used along with Ayurvedic medicine is Rasa Shastra and practice involves the use of heavy metals in herbal remedies.

Similarly, Traditional Ayurvedic herbalist: one who is trained or skilled in the dispensing of herbal prescriptions in the Ayurvedic tradition.

Triphala is an Ayurvedic herbal rasayana churna consisting of equal parts of three myrobalans, taken without seed: Amalaki ( Phyllanthus emblica ), Bibhitaki ( Terminalia bellirica ), and Haritaki ( Terminalia chebula ).

In traditional Indian Ayurvedic medicine, Beleric is known as " Bibhitaki " ( Marathi: Behada ) ( Terminalia belerica ) in its fruit form it is used in the popular Indian herbal rasayana treatment triphala.

All parts of the plant are used in various Ayurvedic / Unani medicine ( Jawarish amla ) herbal preparations, including the fruit, seed, leaves, root, bark and flowers.

In Ayurvedic polyherbal formulations, Indian gooseberry is a common constituent, and most notably is the primary ingredient in an ancient herbal rasayana called Chyawanprash.

The Maharishi and experts in MAV, working with Vedic and Western scholars, have developed, marketed, and researched a variety of botanical preparations that are based on restored ancient Ayurvedic recipes.

For example in the medicine of the Vedic period of ancient India, the Ayurvedic text Charaka Samhita discusses epilepsy, with a discussion of both symptoms and of possible treatments.

" He says that historically meditation was a part of Ayurveda but that in India and the West, practitioners tend to prescribe Ayurvedic treatments without meditation, which makes it more difficult to integrate Ayurveda into a comprehensive system of health care.

As per Indian heritage and science of Ayurvedic system, prevention of all types of diseases have a more prominent place than treatment, including restructuring of life style to align with the course of nature and four seasons, which will guarantee complete wellness.

Sources also describe a 1981 meeting between Chopra and Ayurvedic physician Brihaspati Dev Triguna in Delhi, India, in which Triguna advised Chopra to learn the TM technique.

Kovalam is finding a new significance in the light of several Ayurvedic salons, and recuperation and regeneration resorts which provide a wide variety of Ayurvedic treatments for tourists.

In the Ayurvedic tradition, which is related to the Hindu scriptures called the Vedas.

This is similar to the concepts of bodily humors in the Tibetan Medical tradition and the Indian Ayurvedic system, which both relate health and disease to the balance and imbalance of the three bodily humors, generally translated as wind, bile, and phlegm.

It offers a Degree course in Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery, which allows the students to practice Ayurvedic Medicine.

* Ayurvedic spa, a spa in which all treatments and products are natural and it's often used as alternative medicine.

A 600-bedded government-owned super-specialty hospital has been constructed near C-2-B which offers Allopathic, Homoeopathic and Ayurvedic treatments.

Indian Express was first published on September 5, 1932 in Madras ( now Chennai ) by an Ayurvedic doctor and Indian National Congress member P Varadarajulu Naidu, publishing from the same press at which he ran the ' Tamil Nadu ' Tamil weekly.

The ancient Indian Ayurveda tradition independently developed the concept of three humours, resembling that of the four humours of ancient Greek medicine, though the Ayurvedic system included further complications, such as the body being composed of five elements and seven basic tissues.

The ancient Indian Ayurveda tradition independently developed the concept of three humours, resembling that of the four humours of ancient Greek medicine, though the Ayurvedic system included further complications, such as the body being composed of five elements and seven basic tissues.