India and Sri Lanka have a long history of founding and developing Ayurveda. Alongside its Ayurvedic practices, Sri Lanka also practiced a science called Helaveda. Helaveda is an ancient system of holistic medicine primarily differentiated from Ayurveda, due to its focus on studying and using plants endemic to Sri Lanka. The majority of these ingredients were derived from the Singharaja forest - a Jurassic-era rainforest in Central Sri Lanka. Once cherished by royalty and later guarded by generations of Helaveda doctors, this system of medicine co-existed with Ayurveda in...
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