The first part

The word Ayurveda means the Knowledge of Life.
While it deals with longevity and good health through effective prevention and cure of disease, it goes well beyond the concerns of modern medicine in this regard.
It looks, not only at external interventions serving these objectives, but at all the available internal resources of the body and the mind themselves to serve these very objectives.
And more importantly, it seeks to help the Mind to look further, far beyond the horizons of physical existence, into the vast perspective of spiritual existence, where alone, the true meaning and purpose of existence is to be discovered. Such a perspective gives to the Mind an extraordinary vitality and stability that, in turn, as already pointed out, contributes to the vitality and stability of the physical body