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About Ayurveda
Latest scientific opinion promises to add many years to the life span if one takes regular exercise, does not eat between meals, nor smokes nor drinks excessively, and has an eight-hour restful sleep. One finds this approach with the teachings of the Acharyas who propounded the basic theories of Ayurveda. But in so far as the rules of personal conduct for longevity, Ayurveda has a definite edge in that it is more advanced. Charak Samhita gives detailed instructions about personal hygiene, sleep during the day, diet and everything else that impinges on a healthy life.
An eminent Indian psychiatrist has suggested that Ayurveda is a principal architect of the Indian view of the person and the body. In that there is a meeting of medicine and metaphysics. The overall view that Ayurveda takes of the diseased states of the body is probably because of that meeting. Good health, the Acharyas have pointed out, is the only means to fulfill the four ends that the scriptures have postulated, namely, Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha. It is probably because of this that Vedas consider Ayurveda is the most sacred of the Vedas.