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Measles has been one of the most common and prevalent “rash” infectious disease through-out the history of human kind; is an acute, serious, highly contagious viral infection [1] that has different names depending on the language or country and also depending of the historical moment. It was apparently described, for the first time in the Indian ayurvedic texts [2]. Ayurveda is considered one of the oldest integrative medicine systems; its foundation comes from the ancient schools of Hindu Philosophical teachings named Vaisheshika, since the 2^nd Century BC [3].

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