The term "Ayurveda" combines the Sanskrit words ayur (life) and veda (science or knowledge). Thus, Ayurveda means "the science of life." In Ayurvedic medicine, health is defined as the soundness of sharir (body), mana (mind), and aatma (self). Each of these must be nurtured if an individual is to have good health.
Ayurvedic medicine aims to integrate and balance the body, mind, and spirit .This balance is believed to lead to happiness and health, and to help prevent illness .Ayurveda offers methods of finding out early stages of diseases that are still unknown to modern medical science.
Ayurveda understands that a person remains healthy when he is living in harmony with nature and disease arises when a person is out of harmony with the cycles of nature.
All things in the universe (both living and nonliving) are combined together in Ayurveda.
Hridaya' (heart) as a body organ governs emotions and circulating blood to keep a person alive and healthy. The predisposing factors are heredity, high blood pressure, diabetes, high serum cholesterol and smoking. The way of living and the way of feeling appears to be quite an important factor in its increasing incidence.
Migraine has become a common disorder owing to modern lifestyle. From the perspective of ayurveda, migraine headaches are due to a disorder in tridosha - the mind-body constitution. Although it is possible to get headaches from disorders in vata, pitta, or kapha, migraines frequently occur when systemic pitta moves into the cardiovascular system, circulates, and affects the blood vessels around the brain. The blood vessels dilate due to the hot, sharp quality of pitta. This, in turn, creates pressure on the nerves, resulting in migraines.