Ayurveda in Kerala and India is the traditional form of medicine that origin more than 5000 year’s ago. The word meaning of ayurveda is “the complete knowledge for long life.”

Ayurveda is a holistic health science for maintaining a healthy life. It has two aspects of treatment – To maintain the health of healthy person and to prevent illness by life style modification and natural therapies and also to cure the disease. Ayurveda is based on the theory of pancha mahabhutha’s which says that everything in this universe is made up of five basic elements –

•   Akash (space)
•   Vayu (air)
•   Agni (fire)
•   Jala (water)
•   Prithvi (earth)

Ayurveda stresses a balance of three elemental energies or humors which are known as the tridoshas of our body. They are

• Vata
• Pitta
• Kapha

According to ayurveda, diseases are caused by disequilibrium or imbalance of these doshas, while health is the balance of doshas. Rasa (Plasma), asrik (blood), mamsa (muscles), medas (fat), asthi (bone), majja (bone marrow) and sukra (semen) are the severn dathu’s (basic tissues) of our body/ It is also known as dushyas’s, those that get vitiated by the doshas. Dehaprakruti (Body Constitution) According to ayurveda, each individual is born of a definite constitution which determines the natural health and personality/ So it is important to know the constitution of a person.

There are seven body constitution.

• Vata Prakruti
• Pitta Prakruti
• Kapha Prakruti
• Vata-Pitta Prakruti
• Pitta-Kapha Prakruti
• Kapha-Vata Prakruti
• Vata-Pitta-Kapha Prakruti
• Sama dosha Prakruti

Among them ekadoshaja’a are heena or poor, dvandaja’s are madhyama or moderate and sama dosha prakruti is uttama or best.