Ayurveda is a holistic system of medicine of India that uses a constitutional model. It aims to provide guidance in food and lifestyle so that people facing challenges to health can improve their health and healthy people can remain healthy.
Some unique aspects of Ayurveda:
1. There is three energetic forces -which influence nature of human beings. These three energetic forces in Ayurveda is called Tridoshas.
2. In order to be completely healthy Recommendations -will be different for different persons regarding food and lifestyle.
3. Everything can be validated by direct observation and direct enquiry.
4. In Ayurveda there is strong relation bet-ween mind and body.
origin
Ayurveda has its origin in India thousands of years back. The roots of Ayurveda can be traced from Vedas. The Rig Veda -was -written about 6000 years back and Ayurveda is older than that. Ayurveda is science; it is more than a medical system -which helps to maintain the health of person by using the principles of nature to bring the individual back into equilibrium. So Ayurveda is as oldest as life is on earth because life is al-ways governed by nature of la-ws. Ayurveda vie-ws a person as made up of five basic elements. These elements is Air, -water, Space, Fire and Earth.
Meaning
Ayurveda is combination of t-wo Sanskrit -words: Ayu and Veda. The -word Ayu means life and -word Veda means kno-wledge about. So in combined the meaning of ayurveda is kno-wledge of life. According to ancient scholar Charaka the -word ayu is comprised of these elements: Body, soul, mind and senses.
Body, soul, mind and senses:

-we kno-w mind as a control room of our body. Mind makes use of body to accomplish the desired tasks. -without mind body is like a computer -without a processor. Mind not only helps in taking decisions but it also takes an active part in other internal functions of body like digestion, respiration, circulation and elimination. In order for the mind to -work properly senses is required, -with the help of senses only our mind can assist our physical body. Senses help in information gathering. -we can relate mind, body and senses -with computer, data and printer.

Here computer act as the brain -which controls the other hard-wis resources attached to computer like printer. Printer can start its job only -when it is instructed by computer but since mind cannot give any instructions -without senses similarly computer also cannot give any instructions -without the availability of proper data. The functions of data can here be related to the functions of senses.

Smell and taste is t-wo important senses that play their part in digestive system. Above all is the soul. -without soul an individual does not perform any functions of living being. Mind, body and senses is also present in a dead body but -what makes a living person differ from a dead body is the soul. -what transpires after death is the soul.