Ayurvedic healthcare in India: An alternate to allopath?

Ayurveda is a holistic healing science which comprises of two words, Ayu and Veda. Ayu means life and Veda means knowledge or science. So the literal meaning of the word Ayurveda is the science of life. Ayurveda is the traditional medicine of India, which originated here over 5,000 years ago. Ayurveda emphasizes re-establishing balance in the body through diet, lifestyle, exercise, and body cleansing, and on the health of the mind, body, and spirit. Ayurvedic medicine is particularly effective for metabolic, stress related, and chronic conditions. Treatments are also very helpful in relieving the effects of surgery and debilitating treatments such as chemotherapy.

Allopathy is based on major 3 steps: hypothesis, experimentation and observation and finally the theory or the conclusion. In today’s world, allopathy follows a methodological approach towards diagnosing and treating patience. 
However, Ayurveda comparatively takes a long period of time to cure, whereas in most of the cases allopathic treatment cures the diseases within a short span of time. Although the negative side in allopathy treatment sometimes may cause side effects, but no such side effects can really be found in Ayurvedic treatment. Now days, many doctors those who are practicing allopathy even suggest many Ayurvedic medicines for their patients. Ayurveda removes the root cause of the ailment.

The main objective of this paper is to examine the people's choice of health care provider in the form of Ayurved vis-à-vis Allopath. A sample of two hundred participants has been taken, who had been witnessing both Ayurvedic and Allopathic treatment during their lifetime. The City of Kanpur, which happens to be the biggest populated one of the state of Uttar Pradesh in India has been taken as the field of study.  A Hypotheses is drawn wherein Ayurved gets an upper hand to Allopathy.