Stress on integration of Allopathy with Ayurveda

The two-day event ‘Amrita Samyogam’, which saw participation of 60 experts and 1,000 delegates from around the world, brought together allopathic doctors, Ayurveda practitioners and modern scientists on a common platform to identify strategies for integrating Ayurveda with Allopathy in the management of cancer, auto-immune diseases like arthritis, diabetes, neuro-degenerative diseases, and mental health. 

Rajesh Kotecha, Special Secretary, Ministry of AYUSH, said, “In integrative health, all streams of health sciences come together to impact health outcomes. The Government is serious about promoting a model where experts in different domains contribute to health science and some migration of knowledge occurs between each stream.” The government is setting up a nationwide AYUSH grid connecting all hospitals and research labs to record case histories and observations so that a huge amount of evidences can be generated through data analytics about efficacy of Ayurveda, he added. 

Dr P Ram Manohar, Research Director, Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda, said, “We have a pluralistic healthcare system which is officially promoted, but the irony is that there is no national policy for integrative medicine in the country.”