Ayurveda recommends individualized prescription of diet, lifestyle, medicines and therapies. To advocate preventive and curative measures each person has been identified on the basis of psychosomatic constitution in addition to the status of health. The diseases are classified according to psychological or extrinsic causes and are categorized on the basis of their prognosis such as curable, incurable. Therefore the thorough examination of the person, diagnosis of the disease including its severity and stag, understanding of his surroundings are very important before planning the health care measures. The findings of the research outcome are also disseminated through various Research Journals, Technical Reports, Monographs etc.
This Booklet "Evidence Based Ayurvedic Practice" is an effort to compile all such possible publications and present them in the form of a prescription for a particular disease condition, covering eighteen diseases. The prescription in this book should be judiciously used after proper diagnosis of the condition and understanding of the patient. This document provides a selective list of medicines which are developed by the CCRAS through research. However, the physician may use the medicines which are easily available or well-known even though not mentioned in this book.