Associations to the word «Ayurveda»

Wiktionary

AYURVEDA, noun. Traditional Hindu alternative medicine, involving balancing three bodily humours of wind, bile, and phlegm.

Dictionary definition

AYURVEDA, noun. (Sanskrit) an ancient medical treatise summarizing the Hindu art of healing and prolonging life; sometimes regarded as a 5th Veda.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats