Role of Ayurveda in Emerging Advances Healthcare and Well - Being and its Continuing Application for Today: Challenges and Opportunities in Kayachikitsa

Ayurveda is the world's most ancient system of natural health care and unquestioned patronage in the past. The world today identifies Ayurveda as a science of healthcare. Regarding its preventive and promotive aspects, conventional system of medicine has no any specific measures to neutralize many hazardous problems. While modern medicine tends to focus on the management of disease, Ayurveda provides us with the knowledge of how to prevent the disease and how to eliminate its root cause if it does occur. Kayachikitsa is such a clinical specialty branch in Ayurveda which combines a number of approaches, such as changes in lifestyle, herbal remedies, exercise, and meditation, to strengthen and purify the body and mind and increase spiritual awareness. It follows an integrated approach to the prevention and treatment of illness and tries to maintain or re - establish harmony between the mind, body, and forces of nature. Mainstreaming of the Ayurveda system is necessary in order to help solve the human resource shortage in Indian healthcare system.