Is ayurveda a useful form of medicine?

Technically, most doctors do recommend at least part of Ayurveda... it's whole body wellness that's based on a healthy diet and lifestyle that can be helped with herbs (most doctors don't use the last part). It's not some mystical, magical juju that some people think it is without looking into it, but it could be translated almost literally into Indian Herbalism.

Most doctors recommend a healthy diet and exercise to stay healthy and use drugs or surgery instead of herbs... that's the main fundamental difference between them. The main problem is that most drugs only cover up the symptoms instead of treating the cause of the problem like Ayurveda can so you have to keep taking the drugs without helping the problem while removing the cause can help to eliminate the need for the medicine.

Also, the Ayurvedic practices are used more for preventative medicine to prevent ailments from happening in the first place (eg. high cholesterol, high bp, etc) instead of treating them after the fact. I see that kind of like the difference between doing regular maintenance on your car or replacing parts as they wear out. ;-) I hope this helps to answer your questions!

Hello!

I am not a doctor, but I do use Ayurveda and thought this post is something I can still help with. I usually use products from www.naturesformulary.com. If you have a specific herb in mind- you can look up clinical studies (done by doctors unlike me!!) and see what they have to say. There has been many studies on this recently- I know Dr. Oz also had a program about Ayurveda and Ashwagandha on his show.

Here is a link to the clinical studies (which i got from the nature's formulary website): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

^ you just have to type in the botanical herb name in the search.

Here is an example of an herb study search: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23365148

Hope I helped! Good searching =)

Yes! Ayurveda, considered the most ancient existing medical system, is a 4,000 year-old Indian method of healing that includes diet, natural therapies and herbs dependent on body type. Ayurvedic medicine places equal emphasis on body, mind, and spirit, and strives to restore the innate harmony of the individual.

Yes...!!!

unlike western medicine that looks for cures

the vedic is a holistic approach to life

so yes as for promoting a healthy lifestyle it does work

IF YOU FOLLOW THE ROUTINES

you can not just sort of try a bit of this and a bit of that

For lung problems there is proper medicine in ayurveda were there is no proper medicine in other systems.

Generally the ayurvedic preparations are very hot for the body. To nullify the heat, doctors recommend to drink milk which is cool.

Yes it's useful only,so u can..