Ayurveda is considered to be the one of the most ancient science of healing and living. It is the result of the ever existing quest for human longetivity and health. Ayurveda has helped to bring in medicines and lifestyle which help in healing, rejuvenating and restoring health and natural balance. The rishis or physician-saints imbibed wide knowledge in every subject as they resided closely with nature and her elements.
India is the land which gave birth to Ayurveda and this holistic science is now widely practiced all across the country and undergoing developments through vast studies and researches. In
kerala ayurvedic reatments and practices have found a firm grounding. The mushrooming of various ayurvedic health spas, hospitals and health resorts all over the state is proof to this phenomenon. Kerala has always witnessed a surge in tourists with each passing year. The reasons for this are the scenic backwaters, landscapes, tropical greenery, martial arts, various folk and dance forms, festivals and prominently due to Ayurvedic treatment. The treatment when provided with close vicinity to nature has prodigious effect on any kind of ailments as the medicines show their ultimate therapeutic power.
In Kerala, Ayurveda and other traditional medical systems have helped in the upcoming of 'medical tourism.' Cost effectiveness, economical travel charges and the improving standards of technology and health care beckon the tourists to the land of the divine healing system. The curative feature of Ayurveda offers the doorway to the union of the mind, body and spirit. The treatment is administered in its purest form in accordance with millennia-old texts and tradition.Kerala is thus the land of untarnished Ayurveda.