Introduction

    Ayurveda is a kind of traditional medicine relating to India. In Sanskrit language, the word Ayurveda is composed of ayus, meaning life, and veda, meaning science. So Ayurveda, the traditional Indian medicine, is often translated as the science of life. In other words, Ayurveda is an instruction for improving life. Ayurvedic medicine has some similarities to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Both systems are philosophical, rather than scientific, and are basically aimed at enhancing life.

    Approximately half of the herbs which are most commonly-used in each of these two Asian traditional medicines are similar and explained in somewhat including common characteristics terms. For instance, in both of these two systems, herbs are described according to warm or cold nature, the symptoms they can cure, and their influence on the body fluids. TCM has a strong association to the Yin and Yang theory, Five Elements theory, Qi concept, internal organ systems (Zang Fu organs), and other vitals as blood, essence, and fluids[1]. In Ayurvedic medicine the whole structure is quite complex, there is supremacy of the three Dosha (tridosha) systems: These three concepts including: Kapha, Pitta, Vata. In fact these three items are explained as stages of transformation (following food transformation and transportation) not as a physical structures or functional organs[5]. ......