The Integrative Medicine-An Indian Perspective Pivoted on Ayurveda
There is rising global demand for alternatives to mainstream medical system owing to its inability to satisfactorily address all the current healthcare needs. It is making the case for one such alternative model of Integrative Medicine (IM) that has Ayurveda in the pivot and combines other systems like yoga, physiotherapy and certain elements of Allopathy, to be investigated as a feasible model of IM specifically in the context of India. This paper probe into the possibilities and advantages of developing different kind of integrative medicines pivoted on an established traditional healthcare system, taking Ayurveda as an example. This paper postulates the evolution of integrative medicine through a process of summative medicines where entirely two different paradigm of healing system come together to solve a problem.
Conclusion
It has been a long recognized need that India should take up the initiative of developing a healthcare model pivoted on Ayurveda by integrating traditional and modern systems. As a first step it should attempt to look for commonalities in the various traditional practices like Ayurveda, Siddha, folk medicines etc. and then invest in rigorous clinical documentation of their clinical outcomes in an integrative framework that is made available in a form that can be accessed and understood by any modern scientist. While medical pluralism may be the future direction and indeed the new form of healthcare, the shift from singular knowledge systems to new plural systems cannot happen without very serious and long term investment in research, followed by comprehensive educational programs. India can be a world leader in this new field of ‘Integrative Health Sciences and Technology' because we have over the last century or so assimilated and achieved a reasonable degree of competence in bio- medical and life sciences and we possess an incredibly rich medical heritage of our own. Revitalization of the TM sector is essential for this leadership role.
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