Current practices derived (or reportedly derived) from Ayurvedic medicine are regarded as part of complementary and alternative medicine. Over the following centuries, ayurvedic practitioners developed a number of medicinal preparations and surgical procedures for the treatment of various ailments. Some other known written text are Suśruta Saṃhitā and the Charaka Saṃhitā, encyclopedias of medicine compiled from various sources from the mid-first millennium BCE to about 500 CE, and are among the foundational and formally compiled works of Ayurveda.
The earliest literature on Indian medical practice appeared during the Vedic period in India, in Rigved. ər ˈ v eɪ d ə/ ) or ayurvedic medicine is a Hindu system of traditional medicine native to India and a form of alternative medicine.
Ayurveda ( Sanskrit: आयुर्वेद Āyurveda, 'the knowledge for long life in Vedas' / ˌ aɪ.
