These benchmarks provide a stepwise guidance for Ayurveda, against which its actual practice can be compared and evaluated. With the increasing use of Ayurveda in clinical settings worldwide, there is an urgent need for benchmarks for the practice of Ayurveda to ensure its safety, quality, and effectiveness. These benchmarks serve as a reference to national authorities to establish or strengthen regulatory standards to ensure qualified practice of Ayurveda and to assure patient safety. It describes models of practice and the practice profile of providers, and provides consensus to practitioners, professional organizations, regulators, health system managers and patients on how the services should be organized. This document will sit alongside benchmarks for the training of Ayurveda. This document is structured in nine parts: Background; Levels of practice in Ayurveda; Ayurveda health service providers (describes the different categories of providers); Infrastructure and facilities (describes the requirements); Practice of Ayurveda health interventions; Health products and medical devices used in Ayurveda practice (provides relevant requirements and considerations of the products and devices used in Ayurveda practice); Safety in Ayurveda practice (emphasizes key elements for the safe practice of Ayurveda); Regulatory, legal and ethical aspects of Ayurveda practice (presents requirements and relevant considerations); and Health data (the guidance on management of health data). These nine parts constitute a complete set of benchmarks for the practice of Ayurveda.