One of the unique and popular medicinal practices in Nepal include Ayurveda. Nepal is famous for its unique ways of healing or treatments like yoga, meditation, local herbs, and Ayurveda is one which dates back to the Vedic period. Ayurveda is a proven natural treatment for physical and mental healing that is a century-old practice for holistic health.

Tourists from different parts of the world come to experience Ayurveda in Nepal. Vedas are the oldest documents of human civilization that has a lot of records on Ayurveda. Ayurveda – the science of life that gives the earliest authentic records on ayurvedic science practices. The word Ayurveda comes from Sanskrit, which translates to ‘the science of life’ or ‘a natural way of living’.

Ayurveda’s objective is to attend the maximum life goals, both in inner and outer dynamic harmony. Health has four dimensions, namely: bodily, sensorial, mental, and spiritual. Ayurveda helps to achieve all these dimensions. Despite all the modern healing methods, traditional and indigenous knowledge is still widespread among the learned people, and tourists from different countries come to witness this in Nepal.

As regarded as one of Nepal's scientific heritage, Ayurveda is practiced in Ayurvedic Hospital in Nardevi in Kathmandu. Ayurvedic medicines are available at a reasonable cost and are prepared by traditional makers with ancient tools. Ayurvedic data are available for researchers in national archives.

Interested groups of people or tourists can visit practitioners via excursions, meet rural people, learn to collect herbs, and traditional healers such as Shamans or Jhakris, who have their own space in Nepal and few communities of people still follow their treatment methods. It can be an engaging, exciting, unique, and memorable experience for tourists.