I’m at AyurVAID, an ayurvedic hospital in Bangalore, sorting out a slipped disc and assorted unsavoury problems. Having been exposed only to allopathy (conventional medicine) my entire life, it’s a whole other world.
Ayurveda is an ancient Indian system of healthcare that is more than 6,000 years old. The word ayurveda means ‘the complete knowledge for long life’. These folk definitely know what they’re doing, and so they should: they were doing surgery in India in the mid-second millennium BC, when most other people were running around in skins.
