After Bird's Eye View

After having a bird’s eye view regarding various medical systems, one would really understand that, it is necessary to know the basic principles, the concept of the disease and health, the treatment etc. for the knowledge of any medical system.

A person keeps on acquiring knowledge throughout his life. Each time the knowledge is assessed on the basis of previous knowledge without even knowing about it. This gives rise to another kind of thinking on personal basis receiving the same knowledge. For example different personalities reading my article, from various fields would naturally be acquiring knowledge with different background. Some may be medical practitioners of another system, who would try to compare the knowledge with their system. Some may belong to various non-medical fields and may be interested in reading these articles with different intensions. For example one is suffering from a disease and wants to know, whether Ayurveda can help him in this regard. Whereas another healthy person may just be interested in keeping health according to Ayurveda. Another person may be interested just for knowledge purpose and so on.

I want to make a humble request, that please try to understand ‘Ayurveda’ with a clear slate, without any pre-conditioned knowledge. First try to understand what ‘Ayurveda’ is? What are its basic principles? How it is useful in maintenance of health or curing the disease. Later on you may make a comparison with other medical systems. With this background, let us now enter the field of Ayurveda.