New Delhi, Nov 23 (UNI) The AYUSH ministry has made it clear that there would be no mixing of modern medical practices with the ancient Ayurvedic system, and postgraduate Ayurveda students will restrict themselves to 58 types of surgical procedures as notified by the Central Council of Indian Medicine.

"The question of mixing of Ayurveda with conventional (modern) medicine doesn’t arise as the CCIM is deeply committed to maintaining the authenticity of Indian systems of medicine, and is against any such mixing,” the ministry said in a statement.

CCIM is the statutory body that regulates the Indian Medical systems of Ayurveda, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa and Unani.

The AYUSH clarification came after the Indian Medical Association on Saturday said it would resist any form of mixing of different forms of medicine.

IMA objected to the use of modern medical names of surgical procedures as used in the notification.

“IMA exhorts the CCIM to develop their own surgical disciplines from their own ancient texts and not claim the surgical disciplines of modern medicine as its own. They have no right to the technical terms, techniques and procedures of modern medicine,” the association said in its statement.

The ministry on Sunday responded to this and said: “The modern terminologies in the field of medicine are not modern from a temporal perspective, but are derived substantially from ancient languages like Greek, Latin and even Sanskrit, and later languages like Arabic. Evolution of terminologies is a dynamic and inclusive process.

Modern medical terms and terminology facilitates effective communication and correspondence not just among physicians, but also to other stake-holders including the public. In the instant notification, modern terms are adopted as per requirement to ensure that the same is understood widely in the medical profession, in the stake-holding disciplines like the medico-legal, health IT etc., as well as by the members of the public."

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