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Ayurveda Should Not Be Considered An Alternative To Healthcare : Experts

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : People should not consider traditional Ayurveda merely as an alternative healthcare, said experts at seminar along the sidelines of the ongoing National Arogya Expo 2015 here. Inaugurating the seminar on Entrepreneurship in AYUSH Sector, Chairman and Managing Director of HLL Life Care Limited Dr M Ayyappan said Ayurveda, which has been practiced for centuries, provide cures and relief for chronic ailments that allopathy has not been able to successfully treat. Steps should be initiated to promote Ayurveda outside India.



Proper steps should be taken to promote Ayurveda other than India. M Ayyapan said the government have to take the initiative to do evidence-based clinical trials. “Herbal health care products have a 20 billion-dollar stake in the global market, which is estimated to increase to five trillion dollars in the near future,” he said. Globalisation and post modernisation are creating new opportunities for ayurveda in the Middle East. The UAE offers huge opportunities for Ayurveda as there are only about 70 ayurvedic experts based there. Opportunities for quality therapists are also tremendous, said Dr Syam VL, a panelist at the seminar.

The UAE offers huge opportunities for Ayurveda. Chairman and Managing Director of HLL Life Care Limited Dr M Ayyappan said while inaugurating the seminar on Entrepreneurship in AYUSH Sector that Ayurveda, which has been in practice for hundreds of years only , provide cures and relief for chronic ailments that allopathy has not been able to successfully treat.

Although laboratory experiments suggest it is possible that some substances in Ayurveda might be developed into effective treatments, there is no evidence that any are effective in themselves. Ayurvedic medicine is a system of Hindu traditional medicine native to the Indian subcontinent. Practices derived from Ayurvedic traditions are a type of alternative medicine. Ayurveda is a discipline of the upaveda or “auxiliary knowledge” in Vedic tradition. The origins of Ayurveda are also found in the Atharvaveda, which contains 114 hymns and incantations described as magical cures for disease.

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