| Ayurveda is a form of alternative medicine that | | | | sources for medical applications, ayurveda in |
| originates in South Asia, specifically in India. | | | | Kerala has another advantage which many other |
| Although it may have come from India's more | | | | treatment methods may not have. Since |
| distant and rural regions, ayurveda has been | | | | ayurveda requires a place where the patient can |
| introduced to many parts of the world by its | | | | allow nature to work its healing powers on him, it |
| proponents. The once exotic folk medicine that | | | | is important that the atmosphere of the |
| was once popular only in Kerala is now one of the | | | | treatment area provides the necessary |
| highly favored forms of natural therapy. Even in | | | | atmosphere for such end. Kerala has many places |
| countries with the most advance medical services, | | | | which are outstanding for their natural serenity. If |
| such as the United States and rest of the | | | | a patient leaves his hectic and noisy industrial or |
| western world, it has penetrated the health | | | | corporate world and settles in Kerala for even |
| market and has been accepted by the people. | | | | just a week, he will surely remove much of the |
| The ayurveda in Kerala that once healed the rural | | | | stress in his mind and body. Stress is actually one |
| folk of India has now treated more people around | | | | of the main reasons that can weaken his physical |
| the world. | | | | and mental state, a sedentary or an unhealthy |
| Ayurveda in Kerala is effective because of a | | | | lifestyle being another. |
| variety of reasons. Kerala is not lacking in terms | | | | Ayurveda is a holistic form of healing, which is |
| of the medicinal herbs that ayurveda requires to | | | | why the environment matters a lot. Ayurveda in |
| heal patients. In fact, the region probably has the | | | | Kerala can make the patient realize better his |
| most supply of herbs and other minerals that | | | | chance of being cured because of the peace that |
| necessary for concocting the remedies for many | | | | he can experience while he is undergoing therapy |
| diseases and ailments. The oils, which are most | | | | there. While he takes the necessary herbal |
| prominently used during the treatment, have | | | | medications, he his provided with relaxing |
| abundant sources in Kerala. Ayurveda | | | | massages that enables him to eliminate tension in |
| practitioners, whom many Indians have considered | | | | his body. While he enjoys the soothing sound of |
| as the equivalent of modern doctors minus the | | | | running water and the silence of the surroundings, |
| technology and synthetic drug prescriptions, can | | | | he dines on healthy and, usually, vegetarian |
| never run out of raw sources for the herbal | | | | traditional food in Kerala. With all these provided to |
| medicine they apply to patients. | | | | a person undergoing therapy, it is truly possible |
| Aside from the abundance of herbal and mineral | | | | for holistic healing to take place. |