Department of Kayachikitsa

Ayurveda is having holistic approach towards life mainly concerned with the treatment of body, mind and soul.
Kayachikitsa is the first branch of Ashtanga Ayurveda that deals with general medicine, where kaya means body and chikitsa means treatment.
Kaya also refers to agni and entire Ayurvedic therapeutics is based on the concept of Agni. Correction of Agni is the basic line of treatment for most of the diseases.