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Descriptor English: Medicine, Ayurvedic
Descriptor Spanish: Medicina Ayurvédica
Descriptor medicina ayurvédica
Entry term(s) medicina Siddha
medicina ayurveda
medicina hindú
Scope note: Medicina tradicional que se basa en las costumbres, creencias y prácticas de la cultura hindú.
Descriptor Portuguese: Ayurveda
Descriptor French: Médecine ayurvédique
Entry term(s): Ayurvedic Medicine
Hindu Medicine
Medicine, Hindu
Medicine, Siddha
Siddha Medicine
Tree number(s): E02.190.488.515
I01.076.201.450.654.515
MT1.388.515
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008515
Scope note: Ayurveda is the science of life (ayus: life, veda: science or knowledge) that constitutes the traditional medical system of India practiced for over four millennia. It is defined as a holistic science that considers the human being in its totality (body, mind, and spirit), approaching it from its bioenergetic principles of the three doshas (vata, pitta, and kapha), whose balance guarantees health and imbalance can induce the onset of diseases. (Glossary of Complementary Medicine Terms of the Social Health Insurance - ESSALUD, p. 22). Ayurveda is a traditional medical system of India with 3500 years of antiquity, encompassing physical, psychological, spiritual, and social dimensions of life, and the dynamic concepts of well-being, health promotion, and prevention and management of diseases. Ayurveda has its roots in two basic doctrines: the pañca-mahābhūta, which postulates that the entire physical universe combines the attributes of the five basic elements (space; gaseous state; heat; liquid state and solid state), and the tridoṣa doctrine, which postulates that there are three doṣas (vāta, pitta, kapha), which maintain functional balance in the body and evolve through the processes of life and simultaneously influence its course. Ayurveda uses bio-cleansing therapy, pacifying therapy, and preventive interventions. (World Health Organization. Benchmarks for the practice of Ayurveda [Internet]. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2022, p. 1. Available from: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/351475)
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
EC economics
HI history
IS instrumentation
MT methods
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 81; was MEDICINE, HINDU 1964-80
Online Note: use MEDICINE, AYURVEDIC to search MEDICINE, HINDU 1966-80
History Note: 81; was MEDICINE, HINDU 1964-80
Entry Version: MED AYURVEDIC
DeCS ID: 8680
Unique ID: D008515
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1964/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2018/06/29
Medicine, Ayurvedic - Preferred
Concept UI M0013255
Scope note Ayurveda is the science of life (ayus: life, veda: science or knowledge) that constitutes the traditional medical system of India practiced for over four millennia. It is defined as a holistic science that considers the human being in its totality (body, mind, and spirit), approaching it from its bioenergetic principles of the three doshas (vata, pitta, and kapha), whose balance guarantees health and imbalance can induce the onset of diseases. (Glossary of Complementary Medicine Terms of the Social Health Insurance - ESSALUD, p. 22). Ayurveda is a traditional medical system of India with 3500 years of antiquity, encompassing physical, psychological, spiritual, and social dimensions of life, and the dynamic concepts of well-being, health promotion, and prevention and management of diseases. Ayurveda has its roots in two basic doctrines: the pañca-mahābhūta, which postulates that the entire physical universe combines the attributes of the five basic elements (space; gaseous state; heat; liquid state and solid state), and the tridoṣa doctrine, which postulates that there are three doṣas (vāta, pitta, kapha), which maintain functional balance in the body and evolve through the processes of life and simultaneously influence its course. Ayurveda uses bio-cleansing therapy, pacifying therapy, and preventive interventions. (World Health Organization. Benchmarks for the practice of Ayurveda [Internet]. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2022, p. 1. Available from: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/351475)
Preferred term Medicine, Ayurvedic
Entry term(s) Ayurvedic Medicine
Hindu Medicine - Broader
Concept UI M0013256
Preferred term Hindu Medicine
Entry term(s) Medicine, Hindu
Siddha Medicine - Narrower
Concept UI M0438731
Scope note A derivative of Ayurveda Rasashastra alchemy.
Scope note One of the formalized traditional medical systems of India, in which the pulse is the sign for diagnosis. The Siddha physician is trained to distinguish six different pulses, rather than the single diastolic-systolic pulse. (Adapted from: DANIEL, E. Valentine. The pulse as an icon in Siddha medicine. Contributions to Asian Studies, v. 18, p. 115-126, 1984.)
Preferred term Siddha Medicine
Entry term(s) Medicine, Siddha



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