8 years of ‘acche din’ for ayurveda, ‘mixopathy’ has no takers: Expert

Nagpur: Young practitioners moving towards pure ayurveda due to increased support from the government in the last eight years as well as people for the traditional form of medicine was the key point highlighted at a national seminar on ayurveda held in the city on Sunday.
Nationally-acclaimed experts and practitioners of ayurveda, academicians, policy makers and more than 2,200 practising vaidyas/students of the Indian school of medicine participated the seminar which was inaugurated by Union minister Nitin Gadkari at Suresh Bhat Hall.
Tapan Kumar Vaidya, veteran ayurveda practitioner who is credited to have treated 37,000 cancer patients, vaidya Samir Jamadagni, known for treating VVIPs and celebrities, vaidya Sushmita Dhopeshwarkar, known to have managed emergency cases with standalone ayurveda, and vaidya Sachin Chandaliya, who treats neuromuscular and musculoskeletal diseases, delivered four lectures during the day long programme.
A fourth-generation vaidya based in Ahmedabad, Tapan Kumar said that ayurvedic interventions for cancer are need of the hour and becoming popular too. “Cancer is managed, not totally cured, with ayurveda. After seeing over 37,000 patients, I believe it is possible to live with cancer if you get ayurveda treatment. This life will be normal and far better than weak and difficult life that chemotherapy and other treatments give to you,” he said.
He said that young ayurveda practitioners are no longer interested in “crosspathy or other mixopathy”.
“People always had confidence in ayurveda and now the practitioners too are gaining it back. Due to support from the government in the last eight years and people, many young practitioners are now moving towards pure ayurveda. This is a good sign,” he said adding that the next decade will be of ayurveda because people of India relate to it and have faith in it.
Rakesh Sharma, president of Board of the Ethics and Registration for Indian System of Medicine under the National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (NCISM), said that there is no harm in ayurveda doctors using diagnostic tools like mammography, sonography to get the documentary evidence of their treatment. “These are technical advancements in diagnostics. We are in the process of making rule books of ethical practices for Indian medicine practitioners. This will be a milestone in our public health system,” he said.
Vaidya Sushmita Dhopeshwarkar said that many more viral infections will come in future and vaccine for every infection is not the solution. “We are not against vaccine, but you can’t depend on it for every new virus. Better option is to improve immunity. Ayurveda has the key to improve immunity,” said the doctor who claims to have handled many emergency cases in gynaecology.
According to her, despite overload of modern medicines right from first trimester, women are giving births to under-weight kids that too after surgical deliveries. “Whereas more than 80% of my patients deliver normally, and a healthy 3 kg baby,” she claimed.
The event was organized by Shri Vishwanath Maharaj Rukdikar Trust, Kolhapur, and Shri Vishwawati Ayurved Chikitsalaya, Kolhapur.