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It is an indigenous tradition of India. It is one of the oldest healthcare systems in the world.

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Ayurveda sheds wisdom on how to keep balance in our mind, body, and soul. It understands that our physical well-being is connected to the mental, emotional, and spiritual realms. Ayurveda views our body, our senses, our mind, and our soul as all connected and capable of giving us the information we need to cure ourselves. It sees us as whole. It also sees nature as medicine because everything found in nature has the potential to heal. Even the sun, mud, water have powerful qualities that can be used as medicine.

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Ayurveda emphasizes prevention. It is better to prevent rather than to cure. The use of medications or therapeutic measures provided by an Ayurvedic treatment or lifestyle works on the belief that dis-ease is caused when an equilibrium of the bio-energies within us is disrupted. According to Ayurveda, diseases are not only psychic or somatic. Ayurveda considers that there is a relationship between the mind (psyche) and body (soma), and it emphasizes health not for health's sake, but to help us achieve longevity. 

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Ayurveda holds that the exercise of mental, personal, and public hygiene leads to safer bodies and communities for if we conserve inner and outer hygiene and balance, we are bound to prevent disease and toxicity from building up. Through wisdom, discipline, decency, and devotion, Ayurveda holds that it is possible to maintain the equilibrium of body and mind and develop resistance power to fight any disease. In turn, we will live long lives in a state of harmony and contentment, which in turn enables us to pursue our dharma – that is, to live out our soul's purpose on this planet.