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Ayurvedic medicine is an
ancient system of health care that is native to the Indian
subcontinent. The word "Ayurveda" is a tatpurusha compound of
the word ayus meaning "life" or "life principle", and the word
veda, which refers to a system of "knowledge". According to the
Ayurvedavatarana (the "descent of Ayurveda"), the origin of
Ayurveda is stated to be a divine revelation of the ancient
Indian creator God Lord Brahma. The age of Ayurveda has been
established on the basis of correlating the evidence with other
disciplines as well as circumstantial evidence. Ayurveda is said
to have been first compiled as a text by Agnivesha, in his book
Agnivesh tantra, which was written during Vedic times. |
