Alternative medicine, is used as the instead of modern medicine to make relief the patient from the illness. Naturally, India is recognized as the birth place of the alternative medicine. The use of the alternative medicine was started in the Vedic era. At the ancient, Vedic era, there were two important books about the alternative medicine, 'charka samhita', and 'shursta samhita'. Both the ayurveda book is example of the golden history of the alternative medicine in the country, and consider as the earliest literature of the India.
Alternative medicine is mainly indicates the Ayurveda, or the herbal medicine. The meaning of Ayurveda means 'the complete Knowledge for long life'. The Ayurveda is the combination of two words, Ayush, and Veda. Ayush means, 'longevity', and 'Veda' means, 'related knowledge' or science. So, Ayurveda remains the science of the life. Ayurvedic medicine in India gain the maximum number of popularity, in across the world, globally people are now taking the ayurvedic treatment. It has seen that the ayurveda can cure many of the disease and illness, which modern science can't do. In western medicine, ayurveda is indicates as the Alternative medicine.
The Alternative medicine in India now has a great impact in the entire worldly people. Ayurveda medicine is requires the five basic elements of the human livelihood, such as; earth, water, fire, air, and the sky. In the Ayurveda treatment, the medicine, used are comes from the various plants. Herbal medicine in India spread across the country. In the Ayurveda treatment the medicines based on the plant such as; Arjuna, tulsi, Hibiscus, black paper, long paper and also the hundreds of animal products, such as; milk, bones, gallstones. Sometime in the Ayurvedic treatment, fats are also used as the external medicine. In the alternative medical theory, minerals; including, sulfur, arsenic, lead, copper, sulfate and even gold, silver also prescribed medicines .
In 'Rasha shastra', alcohol used as the narcotic for the patients, those are going for the operation surgery. Ayurveda got the nod of the Medical council of act, in the year 1970. According to the act, the alternative medicine or the Ayurveda has the similar importance as the modern medicine has. Now in the Country, there has over 100 colleges, offer degree in the alternative medicine. Even the government of India supports to research and do further studies in the traditional Ayurveda medicine.
The state already gave sponsorship, to the CCRAS, or the Central Council for Research in Ayurveda and Siddha for the huge promotion of traditional Ayurveda medicine of the Co8untry. Ayurvedic medicine now gains a very important place in our day to day life also. SPA, Sauna treatment, Acupuncture, all is the different parts of the alternative medicine. Acknowledging the people's demand in the Ayurvedic treatment, numerous number of Ayurvedic treatment centers are mushrooming in almost all the corner of the country. They offer treatments, to relief from the several non- curable diseases also. Some chronic pain, arthritis, high blood pressure, diabetes and much other illness can be treating under the Ayurvedic treatment procedures.
