Ayurveda in Contemporary Healthcare: A Narrative Overview of Select Therapeutic Interventions and Their Emerging Clinical and Mechanistic Perspectives.

Ayurveda represents a long-standing medical tradition grounded in interconnected physiological, psychological, and environmental principles. Increasing interest in holistic and multi-targeted interventions has led to growing exploration of their therapeutic relevance in metabolic imbalance, chronic inflammation, neurocognitive decline, musculoskeletal dysfunction, and stress-associated disorders. Variations in study design, formulation quality, and mechanistic clarity continue to present challenges, and current evidence remains heterogeneous and often derived from small-scale or preliminary investigations, yet emerging scientific evaluations indicate preliminary clinical potential across several domains. This narrative review aimed to integrate selected Ayurvedic concepts with contemporary biomedical perspectives, based on a structured but non-systematic literature exploration rather than a formal systematic review methodology. The methodology involved a targeted, non-systematic search of publications from 2000 to 2025 across selected databases (e.g., PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar) to identify clinically relevant studies, mechanistic reports, and available safety-related observations focused on defined Ayurvedic interventions; however, no formal study selection criteria, quantitative synthesis, or bias assessment framework was applied. Findings from included reports suggest that botanical agents,