Encyclopedia Ayurveda 2012 (principles, methods and practices of the great science of life)
Ayurveda, which is the integral science of life, absorbed all the positive experience of mankind, connected with the improvement of the quality of life. Ayurveda combines such sciences as psychology, metaphysics, medicine, pharmacology, psycholinguistics, astrology, sacral architecture. Ayurveda is also the art of harmonious, healthy, happy life, full of joy, creativity and perfection. Ayurveda, being an open and self-developing system, is based on the intuitive insights of the great teachers, the secret wisdom transmitted along the chain of disciplic succession, and the knowledge gained as a result of centuries of observations and experiments in the laboratory of planetary life.