Anuradha Singh is a scientist with National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (CSIR) doing research on the theory and practice of Ayurveda. She has authored a book and several research papers on crossroads of Science and Indian Medical Traditions, Philosophical Foundations of Classical Medical Theories and Maternal Health & Ayurveda. She is also a founder member of Lok Sw...

Medicinal and dietary substances have been used for various purposes including nutritional from time immemorial. Various activities such as immunomodulator, bulk promoting, nutritional, etc. that enhance strength, immunity, bulk of the body resulted by the use of medicinal or dietary substances are termed in total as Balya in Ayurveda. The term Balya originally stands for all those actions that...

Indisputably the third millennium is witnessing the worldwide changes in healthcare. Ayurvedic system of healthcare has gained good popularity. Ayurveda is a profound and comprehensive system of health care that originated in India. This system endeavors to rationalize the all phenomena governing empirical experiences with natural products in medicine. Ayurvedic medicare system has attained pop...

Growing awareness about harmful side effects of modern medicine has led to interest in Ayurveda at the international level as well as within India. Ayurveda comprises of various types of formulations including fermented forms, namely, arishtas and asavas. Arishtas are regarded as unique and valuable therapeutics due to their efficacy, stability and desirable features. It prepared using decoctio...

In the last years, acupuncture treatment was mostly covered by public health insurance companies. A definite decision to integrate it into the normal treatment schemes is expected for the next months. And physicians who completed an acupuncture course may officially add acupuncture to their title. But there is no official recognition of Ayurveda at all. Nevertheless, private insurance companies...

Background : India has rich unsurpassed heritage and excellence in every field. Following our concepts of bhootdaya, we can achieve our goal of positive health which is not just disease free body but healthy mind, soul and society as well. Objective: The main objective is to advocate and convince that medical ethics is not a new concept given by cosmopolitan / conventional medicine but its vivi...

Sir, We read the comments “Leech therapy and Infection control: No clear window”[1] on the article “Pigment reduction in Nevus of Ota following Leech Therapy: A case report” published recently in the JAIM with great interest.[2] It is true that the present practice of Ayurveda does not have a validated or well–studied protocol for preventing infections and associated adverse events of applicati...

Objectives. Cardiac autonomic dysfunction in stroke has implications on morbidity and mortality. Ayurveda (Indian system of medicine) describes stroke as pakshaghata. We intended to study the effect of Ayurveda therapies on the cardiac autonomic dysfunction. Methods. Fifty patients of ischemic stroke (middle cerebral artery territory) (mean age 39.26 ± 9.88 years; male 43, female 7) were recrui...

One of great challenges faced by the Ayurveda sector today is education [1e6]. Action research can be used as a tool to bring out practical solutions to combat the problems faced by Ayurveda in teaching and training. Action research in education is interventions made in teaching methods and analysis of whether these methods are making any difference in the students' learning. Today, quantificat...

Ayurveda’s origin is critical to the development of its medical assumption. India has a rich scientific history, Ayurveda in particular dates back 3500 to 5000 years ago. It is the most ancient form of medicine in India and traces back to Lord Brahma (the Hindu God of Creation), according to Hindu mythology. Panchakarma is the cornerstone to Ayurvedic management of disease. Panchakarma is the p...