Ayurveda is one of the most ancient systems of medicine known today whose origin according to scholars of ancient Ayurvedic literature is around 6,000 BC. A complete medical system that has evolved over time integrating centuries of wisdom derived from experience, it is now undergoing a vigorous revival not only in the place of its…

Western medicine, in contrast, heavily delineates between mind and body, between doctor and patient and between healthy and diseased. Based on this philosophy of reductionism and mainly guided by science in which truth is derived from observation and empirically correct interpretation, faith – that which cannot be proven through scientific method – is seen as…

The world’s major healing traditions are commonly categorized as Eastern, influenced by Asian-Pacific philosophy or Western, molded by Greco-Roman philosophy and later the scientific revolution of the 16th or 17th century. While modern medicine in the west has developed quite independent of religion, Eastern healing traditions that developed in the East before the Christian era…