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Ayurvedic colleges carry forward the traditionally significant system of Ayurvedic medicine, which has been integral to the Indian system of health care over thousands of years. They have been built to take care of the continuance, as well as to promote knowledge in Ayurveda, to ensure that it is passed on to the posterity hand in hand with the modern, scientific approaches. First and most essentially, there is a need for Ayurvedic colleges for the training and education of practitioners. They offer comprehensive curricula leading to a major in the basic principles of Ayurveda, diagnostic techniques, herbal pharmacology, and therapeutic practices. Such Ayurvedic colleges richly orient the principles of Ayurveda and offer the practitioner a means to give care in a holistic and individualistic way, balancing body, mind, and spirit.

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