At the spirit of Ayurvedic wiseness lies a natural world…where herbs heal the mettle, meditation mends it and deeper remedies take tooth root every day. Except for the firm cursive Sanskrit hand and modern font terms, an Ayurvedic “prescription” has changed little in the past thousand years. How did the ancient Ayurvedic doctor, unfurnished with titanium-plated tools and ready-made checkup textbooks, get to the root word of cardiac healing. “Precisely because he was ,” smiles Dr R.K. Mishra, renowned Ayurvedic vaidya. “Plants were his entire pharmacopoeia.
He had to acknowledge every flora, folio, base and fiber by nerve. The Ayurvedic vaidya was really two things rolled into one–a doc and a herbal pharmacologist. Studying plants gave him insight into the incredible intelligence of the living cell. And instead of extracting a single active ingredient, he used the whole herb, with entirely its built-in checks and balances, to heal.
For example, the leafage of a certain works could carry a potent antiviral, but its stem could nullify completely the harmful reactions or side effects.” Once the vaidya had found the...