India

If you’re unfamiliar with the healing principles of ayurveda, the system of alternative medicine (rather, traditional medicine, according to Sanskrit culture) based on maintaining an equilibrium between the human body’s three doshas, this post on Srikant Nair’s blog will walk you through some of the basic principles of ayurveda and how they relate, specifically, to back pain. (Nair established the Kerala Ayurvedic Center called Ayuryog in Vadodara, India, which offers consultations and treatments in keeping with the traditional medicine.)