Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Ashtanga Hridaya

  • Ayurveda, the ancient Indian medicine

    The Ayurveda is the world’s oldest healing systems in the world.. Its name comes from the Sanskrit “Ayur,” meaning life, and “Veda,” meaning knowledge. Emerging from the Indus Valley Civilization (c. 2600–1900 BCE) and attaining its most developed form in the first millennium BCE, it is based on a philosophical metaphysical system drawn from Sankhya…