In India, one says « Treat your body well so your soul may want to remain there ». For some years now, the ayurvedic medicine has widly seduced in western countries with its natural approach to health and philosophy. Derived from Hindu sacred texts, it is still the reference medicine in India. This film makes us discover this thousand year old medicine, in Kerala in southern India, its original birthplace. Along with the doctors and therapists, we’ll discover at its source the Ayurveda’s spirituality and ancestral tradition. We will follow patients coming from the city as well as the Reunion island during their first Ayurvedist treatment. Excited or worried, they all have decided to engage in this mysterious medicine.

A film by Valérie Jourdan 

Producer: Camera Lucida productions
International distribution: CLPB Rights 
 

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