You can mark you interesting snippets of text that will be available through a unique link in your browser.


Ayurveda

Translation
Ayurveda
India’s traditional, natural system of medicine that has been practiced for more than 5,000 years. Ayurveda provides an integrated approach to preventing and treating illness through lifestyle interventions and natural therapies. Ayurvedic theory states that all disease begins with an imbalance or stress in the individual’s consciousness. Lifestyle interventions are a major ayurvedic preventive and therapeutic approach. There are ten ayurveda clinics in North America, including one hospital-based clinic that has served 25,000 patients since 1985. In India, ayurvedic practitioners receive state- recognized, institutionalized training in parallel to their physician counterparts in India’s state-supported systems for conventional Western biomedicine and homeopathic medicine. The research base is growing concerning the physiological effects of meditative techniques and yoga postures in Indian medical literature and Western psychological literature. Published studies have documented reductions in cardiovascular disease risk factors, including blood pressure, cholesterol, and reaction to stress, in individuals who practice Ayurvedic methods. Laboratory and clinical studies on ayurvedic herbal preparations and other therapies have shown them to have a range of potentially beneficial effects for preventing and treating certain cancers, treating infectious disease, promoting health, and treating aging. Mechanisms underlying these effects may include free-radical scavenging effects, immune system modulation, brain neurotransmitter modulation, and hormonal effects.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

  
Share  

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Ayurveda — (Sanskrit, m., आयुर्वेद āyurveda, dt.: Wissen vom Leben; auch in der Schreibweise Ayurweda) ist eine traditionelle indische Heilkunst, die bis heute viele Anwender in Indien, Nepal und Sri Lanka hat. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Beschreibung 1.1 Die Body …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Ayurveda —    Ayurveda (from ayus, “life,” and veda, “knowl edge”) is the ancient tradition of medicine in India. It is said to originate in the ATHARVA VEDA. The text Ayurveda, which is no longer extant, was said to have been written by Dhanvantari, the… …   Encyclopedia of Hinduism

  • ayurveda — 1> санскр. аюрведа, древнеиндийская медицина …   Новый большой англо-русский словарь

  • Ayurveda — Ayurveda, s. Chirurgie …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Ayurveda — Alternative medical systems …   Wikipedia

  • Ayurveda — Dhanvantari, la divinité associée à l Ayurveda L Āyurveda ou Ayurvéda ou encore médecine ayurvédique (en écriture devanāgarī : आयुर्वॆद, la « science de la force vitale »)[1] est une sagesse[évasif] et une …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Ayurveda — Imagen del médico Dhanwantari, convertido en un avatar del dios Vishnú (y como él, de cuatro brazos). Los hindús creen en el origen divino del Āiur veda. El Áiur veda o Ayurveda es un antiguo sistema de medicina hindú. āyurveda, en el sistema… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Ayurveda — (санскритское) аюрведа, древнеиндийская медицина …   Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь

  • ayurveda — noun Usage: often capitalized Etymology: Sanskrit āyurvedaḥ, from āyuḥ life, vital power + vedaḥ knowledge Date: 1788 a form of holistic alternative medicine that is the traditional system of medicine of India • ayurvedic adjective, often… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Ayurveda — Ayurvedic, adj. /ah yeuhr vay deuh, vee /, n. the ancient Hindu art of medicine and of prolonging life. [ < Skt, equiv. to ayur life, vital power + veda knowledge] * * * or Ayurvedic medicine Traditional system of Indian medicine. It is… …   Universalium