 Ayurvedic medicine takes a somewhat similarly holistic and balance-oriented approach to the person and their health (Rastogi, 2014) (note also that holistic bodily balance is central to the Hippocractic medicine described in  Section 1.2).  One way that manifests in Ayurvedic practice—in contrast with biomedicine—is that the biological characteristics of two individuals might be similar but their recommended treatments might be quite different. For instance, while biomedicine routinely hands out standardized advice on what sorts of foods are best for someone of a given age and sex, Ayurvedic medicine rejects the assumption that such standardization within a single age-sex grouping is even a good default. Other factors play larger roles than in biomedicine, including bodily changes over the course of the day and one’s (internal) body type (affecting how one metabolizes specific foods, etc.). Complicating matters is that Ayurvedic medicine grew as a part of Hinduism in South Asia, and Hinduism itself is a substantially heterogeneous family of beliefs/practices that vary between communities (Desai 1988).