Exploring Ayurvedic knowledge on food and health for providing innovative solutions to contemporary healthcare

Ayurveda, a traditional system of medicine that originated over 3 millennia ago in the South Asian region, offers extensive insights about food and health based on certain unique conceptual as well as theoretical positions. Health is defined as a state of equilibrium with one self (svasthya) but whi...

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Main Authors: Unnikrishnan ePayyappallimana, Padmavathy eVenkatasubramanian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpubh.2016.00057/full