Brighter prospects for conventional medicines

The significance of Ayurveda, continuing for thousands of years at a stretch, is predominant in the Indian subcontinent especially India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. This commendable and highly important contribution of the ancient Hindu system of medicine is still surmounting and is practiced in high esteem. What is more in the contemporary world it is expanding its realm of performance by leaps and bounds and is also extending its tentacles in the Western world.


However, there are still misconceptions of its effectiveness and modes of operation. But it seems that this will also end in the coming days if the innovative approach of the Shriram Institute of Industrial Research gets successful. This noteworthy institution in the recent days adopted an epochal decision of monitoring the excellence, safety and efficacy of traditional medicine and will thereby provide worthful technical inputs to the Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) in the Union ministry of health.

 

To a section of the pundits, this will heighten the prospects of the essence and implementation of these conventional forms of medicine in the coming days. To the consideration of Anita Das, Secretary of the Department of AYUSH, though there has been a rich legacy of these medicines for centuries, the mounting skepticism of these has given an edge to the believers of allopathy. This overwhelming conviction in this western concept had become a formidable obstacle before India that was hindering its destined steps of expansion and also to benefit from the growing global demand for traditional medicine. In this absence China was dominating the market. But this new approach would set all in a new manner and also boost the acceptability of these drugs, being manufactured by over 5,500 manufacturers across the country.

 

There is hardly any debate over the notion that quality issues have plagued popular traditional systems of medicine such as Ayurveda, Unani and Homeopathy for long. The best evidence of this age-old weakness was the banning of the import of Ayurvedic and Unani medicines by both governments of United States and Canada two years ago. Both of them were compelled to take this decision since these medicines were found to contain high levels of heavy metals such as lead, mercury and arsenic, which are considered dangerous for human physique. To their findings these heavy metals are competent enough to gather in the body and result into scores of health problems like dizziness and muscle cramps to mental retardation.

 

These conclusions also encouraged Canada to issue another set of warning on last May 8, and again termed some Ayurvedic medicines as sinister for containing heavy metals in high proportion.

 

The methodology of Shriram Institute of Industrial Research would, hopefully, make them close their lips forever. 



 
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