Ayurveda states that only the man who possesses a sound body, a sound mind and a sound soul can consider himself healthy.

It is its profound philosophy that makes Ayurveda much more than a school of medicine. It prescribes a whole way of life, based on an awareness that man is interdependent with all other forms of life.

Spirit is viewed as intelligence of Life and matter as its energy. Both are manifestations of the highest Creator. The man's health depends on his ability to live in harmony with the external universe and with himself.

As the highest form of life, man becomes its guardian recognizing that his very survival dependson seeing that the fragile balance of nature and living beings is not disturbed. Ayurveda, some 4,000 years ago, was already propagating the arguments which inform the ecological debate of our time.