“Western” modern drug-based medicine and its ever more widely used corollary, surgery are becoming increasingly inaccessible to the majority of the world's poor. The neglect of environmental, spiritual and psychological factors behind health and disease does not allow an in-depth, causal approach to illness while the consumerist way of life runs counter to the age-old guidelines for a simple, abstemious lifestyle. Ayurveda offers a sound, millenary natural alternative to the prevailing medical system.
