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Calls for AYUSH centres in every state

One of India’s leading alternative medicine practitioners has called for AYUSH centres practising these systems to be established in every Indian state.  Dr V. B. Vijaykumar – vice president of the Central Council of Indian Medicine, a body under the Union Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) – issued the …

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Scientists fume over AYUSH Ministry note

The Union AYUSH Ministry has alienated the scientific community following an advisory note effectively banning non-AYUSH researchers from studying the effectiveness of alternative medicine products. The note, dated May 2nd, referred to the systems of alternative and traditional medicine covered under the AYUSH umbrella – ayurvedic, unani, siddha, naturopathy, homoeopathy, and yoga – as an …

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India and Sri Lanka to enhance healthcare relationship

“”Diseases know no boundaries”” India and Sri Lanka will enhance their relationship when it comes to working together on health, India’s top diplomat to the country has said. “Diseases know no boundaries,” Indian High Commissioner Taranjit Singh Sandhu asserted in a public statement while inaugurating a three-day Medicare conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He continued, …

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Ayurveda is becoming even bigger business in India

Ayurvedic products are increasing in popularity. A recent report unveiled at the Global Ayurveda Summit in Kochi found that 77 percent of Indian households used them in 2017. This is up from 69 percent of households in 2015. The rise of ayurveda is being fuelled by growing emphasis on the importance of healthy lifestyles,  suggested …

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Natural home remedies or potential public health threat?

Can suggestions that home remedies and natural treatments cure disease be dangerous? A recent article on TimesNowNews has covered potential treatment options for malaria. Their claim: malaria can be treated using herbal remedies. The article does mention that these treatments should only be used until proper treatment can be received from a doctor. However, issues …

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Traditional medicine gaining popularity in India

Support for traditional therapies is growing in India – potentially at the expense of public health. Many now express enthusiasm for homoeopathic remedies over allopathic treatments, believing Western medicine to be only a short term relief. This sentiment is perhaps best summarised by Paryda Krishnamurthy, chairman of the Telengana Medical Services and Infrastructure Corporation.  At …

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When superstition endangers lives

Reports have surfaced from the south Indian state of Karnataka of the abduction and murder of a ten year old girl called Ayesha. The killing is believed to have been carried out on the advice of a “sorcerer” to cure a paralysed man. This presents itself as an case of extreme alternative medicine taking advantage …

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