PANAJI:
Stressing that India is a home for alternative medicine, the Vice-President of India Jagdeep Dhankhar today called for focussing on alternative medicine and for evidence based validation of our ancient texts to make them accessible and applicable to contemporary challenges.
Addressing an event in Raj Bhavan, Goa, Dhankhar underlined the ancient civilizational knowledge and said that the entire West will be stunned if we learn more about our treasure of knowledge…. Charaka, Sushruta, Dhanvantri, Jivaka, renowned Ayurvedic physician.
“We are a nation with a difference….We are rediscovering our roots, and we will get rooted in our roots. I strongly focus on alternative medicine because India is the home of alternative medicine. It is being practiced now very extensively….Let us not confine our ancient texts to libraries,” the Vice President said.
He said that India’s ancient treasure is not meant for shelf of library but are meant to be widely disseminated.“Let us bring timeless ideas to life through research, innovation, and reinterpretation using modern scientific tools. Let us pursue evidence-based validation, digitisation, translations, and cross-disciplinary studies to make these treasures accessible and applicable to contemporary challenges,” Dhankhar said.
The Vice President expressed happiness to the very fact that the World Health Organisation has recognised India’s treasure by establishing a global centre for traditional medicine in Jamnagar, Gujarat. “What a powerful recognition of universal relevance of our systems like Ayurveda,” he commented.
