CONCEPT OF IMMUNITY
What is immunity?
The concept of immunity has recently been developed by modern science, but it was very deeply studied in all its aspects in Ayurveda, at least one thousand year B.C in CharakaSamhita. A very interesting questions was asked by Agnivesha, a very scholarly disciple of Atreya. He had observed that the person who take only a wholesome diet are seen to be both healthy and diseased. Similarly, the person who don’t take wholesome food also are seen in a healthy as well as a diseased condition. He wondered how to attribute good or bad effects to wholesome and unwholesome food.

In answering the doubt of Aginvesha, Lord Atreya explained all the principles of immunity and susceptibility in individuals so beautifully that all the modern concepts of immunity are thereby encompassed. The concept of immunity in Ayrveda is so simple, so natural and so effective that everyone can very easily understand it, follow it and achieve it. 

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