Ayurveda, the traditional health care system of India, is the world’s oldest and most comprehensive system of medicine. Through the use of time-tested modalities that are natural and free of harmful side effects, Ayurveda works to prevent disease at its source, rather than working at the level of symptoms after health problems have arisen.
In 1997, the American Journal of Managed Care published an eleven-year study on Maharishi Ayurveda, a systematized revival of Ayurveda. The study used Blue Cross/Blue Shield data to analyze medical utilization patterns of individuals participating in a number of components of Maharishi Ayurveda, compared with matched control groups and normative data.