Ayurveda need top priority

Udupi, Oct 18: Multi-centre research activities, similar to other medicinal systems, was necessary to make Ayurveda more acceptable, a member of Central Council Committee of Indian Medicine (CCCIM) said today.

"Ayurveda system was left far behind in clinical research activities which needed to be given top priority. Unless documentation and clinical researches were not given priority, whatever tall claims made about finding effective solutions to the diseases like AIDS, dengue fever or chikungunya would get no recognition, Dr S K Bannigol, member of CCCIM said.

Inaugurating a two-day state level workshop on Ayurvedic teaching methodology, jointly organised by the Dakshina Kannada Bharateeya Vidaya Sangha and Alumni Association of SDM College of Ayurveda Udupi, he said Ayurveda study was still 'Charaka-Shushruta oriented' or text book oriented.

"We even could not add anything more to ayurveda through researches" he said adding eductional institutions today needed to be converted into learning from teaching to become more knowledged based.

Over 300 students from various Ayurvedic colleges of Karnataka are participating in the workshop, in which Dr U K Krishna, Director of Institute of Traditional Medicine, Japan, gave special lectures on relevance of Ayurveda in the modern society, orthodox ayurvedic concepts, problem oriented teaching and communication skills.