Life is such a complex business that get on with it some simplicity helps. One of the biggest determinants of life are health and mind.
There are alternative approaches to handling health, from pro-active care of health in a preventive way so that it does not deteriorate from its known standards; to the curative way. A good example of preventive health is Ayurveda. It emphasizes a healthy lifestyle rather than the treatment of aberrations like it is done in the case of Allopathic. Somewhere in between there are healthcare systems like Unani or Siddha, in India. All these systems of medicine flourish and have their own protagonists. Much of Ayurveda is based on extensive practices tested over not just centuries but millennia. It is a school of thought and is best understood by the testimony of literally millions upon millions of people who vouch for its efficacy. Notwithstanding that many ardent protagonists who want the attributes of the interventions first tested in laboratory conditions have doubts over what Ayurveda propagates, it does not bother them that in the...
