Ayurveda is playing a growing part in Europe. Questions regarding the role of religion and spirituality within Ayurveda are discussed widely. Yet, there is little data on the influence of religious and spiritual aspects on its European diffusion. Methods. A survey was conducted with a new questionnaire. It was analysed by calculating frequency variables and testing differences in distributions ...

Amongst the mandates of United Nations, health of mankind is the thrust area of UN through World Health Organization (WHO). Planning and execution of policies for mainstreaming of traditional medicines (TRM) of respective countries along with conventional system of medicine (allopathy), first in the country of origin followed by the international arena, is the priority agenda of operations of W...

Quick Response Code: without a fall in it. It is also the responsibility of the students to have trust in the science and the teachers. Researches in Ayurveda are something that have to be taken up seriously. It is propitious to customize the developmental process according to the need of the present era. However, imitating the modern sciences completely and compromising with the gist of Ayurve...

The paper attempts to critically engage with the idea of integrative medicine as a marker of pharmaceuticalization of Ayurveda in the recent decades. It examines what it means to say 'integrative' medicine using the metaphor of language from philosophy of science. Drawing upon fieldwork with Ayurveda practitioners, the paper also discusses the ramifications of integrative medicine in the curren...

Mother and child care has been described in great detail in Ayurveda. All basic principles of Ayurveda need to be applied to deal with the problems of maternal and foetal mortality. Rules of Ahara (diet), Vihara (lifestyle), Sadavrutta (moral conduct), along with varied therapies are used in tackling the various problems. There is need to take an in depth view at causes. Major changes in lifest...

This article concerns the 20th century saga of Ayurvedic Education up to the current situation, based on a general appreciation of knowledge in Ayurveda. In this light, it considers how to improve quality of teaching and teachers. This is most important, because in education, teachers are the custodians of tradition and knowledge. As those most responsible for maintaining or restoring quality, ...

A quote from Charaka Samhita depicts the entire world as a teacher, suggesting Vaidyas should study other systems of medical knowledge in addition to Ayurveda. Chandrakant Prabhushanakar Shukla, former Dean of the Institute of Post Graduate Training and Research in Ayurveda, Gujarat Ayurveda University, Jamnagar, has practiced this vision himself for over five decades. He is known as ‘Charaka V...

Of the several of minerals used in Ayurveda practice as Vaikranta, the most commonly used were procured from reputed Ayurveda pharmacies all over India and those responding to physical characteristics of Vaikranta as mentioned in Ayurveda texts were subjected to physical, chemical and spectral analysis. X-ray diffraction study of Schorlite was undertaken to conform mineral constitutions of the ...

Haritala (Orpiment), Manashila (Realgar) and Gouripasana (White arsenic) are the three commonly used Arsenicals in Ayurveda and other codified traditional medicine of India for wide range diseases after Sodhana (Purification) and Marana (Calcification). Gouripasana (White arsenic) is now accepted in western medicine as first line chemotherapeutic agent against certain hematopoietic cancer. Mall...

Students of Ayurveda and qualified Ayurveda practitioners were assessed for awareness about bibliographic databases. One hundred and four volunteers (age range 17-64 years; group mean±SD, 24.3 ± 7.9 years; 62 females) participated in this cross-sectional study. There were 3 groups. Group I had 60 undergraduate students of a bachelor's level course in Ayurveda, Group II had 20 graduate students ...