Ayurveda in Kerala and India is the traditional form of medicine that origin more than 5000 year’s ago. The workd meaning of ayurveda is “the complete knowledge for long life.” Ayurveda is a holistic health science for maintaining a healthy life. It has two aspects of treatment – To maintain the health of healthy person and to prevent illness by life style modification and natural therapies and also to cure the disease.

Ayurveda is based on the theory of pancha mahabhutha’s which says that everything in this universe is made up of five basic elements

The science of life’ is the etymological Sanskrit meaning of Ayurveda‚ the ancient and proven natural and holistic healing system of medicine, practised in India for more than 6000 years.Ayur means “longevity” or “life” and veda means “science”. Despite being an ancient system of medicine‚ Ayurveda is as much relevant and essential now as ever before as it banks on bestowing us with the knowledge and awareness of disease prevention and elimination of its root cause rather than disease management.