Ayurveda treatment, now considered alternative medicine, developed during the Vedic Age. Ayurvedic treatment is based on living a whole lifestyle of health and well-being, purity and joyfulness for the ultimate purpose of realizing the patient's own nature.

 Ayurveda based on natural healing is different to western medicine based on use of pharmaceutical  medicines. The fundamental belief of ayurveda is that the power to heals lies within the individual. Ayurveda does not believe that injection of pharmaceutically produced chemicals provides real long term treatment. Chemicals tend only to temporally ameliorate or pacify symptoms while leaving the source of the disease untouched.

Westerners living in tense, high industrialized societies increasingly visit ayurveda health resorts in Asia and Sri Lanka for nature treatments.