The Ayurveda system of medicine is based on the idea that each of us has a unique constitution - and that only by understanding our constitution and learning how to keep in balance with it can we maintain good health. If we fall out of balance with it, we become ill - often chronically so - with conditions like digestive or skin disorders, low back ache, neurological issues, obesity, diabetes, insomnia or muscle, bone and joint disorders.

The result is a medical system which not only helps us prevent illness (by showing us how stay in balance with our particular constitution and the environment in which we live) but can also cure existing ailments by diagnosing the imbalance in the body and treating the factors causing it - a method that AyurVAID Hospitals calls a "root cause" approach.

At AyurVAID, our Physicians will uncover your unique constitution and provide you with the tools to stay in balance with it. In addition to personalized diet and lifestyle advice as well as curative treatments and medicines, you will learn about health issues that your constitution may be particularly prone to - to help you pro-actively manage against these.

The word "Ayurveda" roughly translates as the ‘knowledge of life’ or alternatively the ‘practical steps to attain good health and longevity’. We emphasize the word “practical” because the AyurVAID method is to empower patients to understand their unique constitution and discover practical daily steps to manage and optimize their health.

According to Ayurveda, disease is the result from climatic variations, bacterial attack, nutritional deviance, and stress, as well as other forms of emotional imbalance; in short, our life(style) as a whole.

So many of us today lead highly stressful lives – perhaps working long hours, traveling frequently, eating poorly and irregularly, experiencing sound and air pollution on a daily basis, multi-tasking constantly and having little time to exercise. It is perhaps no surprise therefore that the level of chronic disease globally - whether it’s respiratory or skin disorders, digestive issues, auto-immune diseases, neurological conditions or muscle, bone and joint pain – is at an all-time high, and projected to double within the next ten years.

Modern medicine (allopathy) tends to focus on the discrete symptoms of such diseases, offering highly effective short-term pain relief but not a long-term resolution. By contrast Ayurveda seeks to restore balance in the entire body by mapping the cause of the disease and deeply cleansing the system and/or cultivating habits conducive to well-being - so that the body’s natural immunity is restored and disease eliminated. As a simple example, instead of just giving you strong pain relievers for relief of chronic migraines, an AyurVAID Physician may, for example, chart your pain back to poor digestion, hypertension or a common eye problem. You will then receive a customized prescription to target the root cause of the pain.

Ayurveda is areligious and one may follow one's chosen faith and religion.

Ayurveda and modern medicine differ in one basic sense: modern medicine typically focuses on diagnosing and treating at a symptom-level (“Part”), while Ayurveda focuses on the “Whole”, relating symptoms to an underlying cause. This allows effective cure of many chronic illnesses.

Ayurveda and modern medicine effectively complement each other and are ideally integrated for “whole person” health: one can apply modern tools and modern knowledge (whether it is at the biological, anatomical, physiological or genetic level) in the context of Ayurveda’s foundational principles without any contradiction whatsoever.

Contrary to common perception, through the ages, the seers of Ayurveda recognized the need to ensure that Ayurveda was relevant to contemporary needs and developments. Vagbhata, the latest of the acharyas, says in his text that he is trying to make the system up-to-date and suitable for the times (yuganuroopa). The practice of Ayurveda being reduced to a system of prescribed and ‘over the counter' medication, akin to Allopathic medicines, is not the answer. The changes are to be only in application, not in principles. Thus, one can apply modern tools, modern insight, and modern knowledge, whether it is at the biological, anatomical, physiological, or genetic level, in the context of Ayurveda's foundational principles, without any contradiction whatsoever. Further, modern advances in risk management, emergency management, organ transplantation, and surgical interventions of all types can only complete and enhance the value of Ayurveda and in no way detract from it.

For early to mature stages, as well as chronic stages, of a disease Ayurveda has answers to the health needs of mankind; while once a person has already reached an emergency health state, modern medicine and surgical technique with attendant medical technologies are unparalleled in their effectiveness.