ayurveda
आयुर्वेद āyurvedaThe 'science of life' - the classical Indian system of medicine, traditionally reckoned an upaveda of the Atharvaveda. Built on the theory of the three doshas and organised into eight branches, it shares its materia medica and its rejuvenative wing (rasayana) with the alchemical tradition.
Explained in depth in What is Ayurveda?Where this term appears
- Tantric Alchemy: The Quest for the Immortal Body Lineages
By the time of the classical medical compendia, the Charaka Samhita devotes the opening of its therapeutics to rasayana , rejuvenation therapy, counted as one of the eight branches of Ayurveda.
- What are Mudras? Lineages
In truth, the specific therapeutic chart is largely a twentieth-century systematization, popularised above all by the teacher Acharya Keshav Dev, drawing on the flavour of Ayurveda.
- The Three Gunas (Sattva, Rajas, Tamas) Essentials
…philosophy, whose analysis of reality underlies a great deal of yoga, Ayurveda, and the Bhagavad Gita alike.
- The word they were given Treatise
*Śabara* is a name outsiders gave. In the classical Sanskrit sources it marks a forest people at the edge of the settled order, then any savage at all, and the same…
- What is Samkhya? Philosophy
The yoga of Patanjali runs on its metaphysics. Ayurveda takes its physiology from it.