Ayurveda needs to come to mainstream. - Nimhans professor

Ayurveda needs to come to mainstream. - Nimhans professor

Mangalore Today News Network

Udupi, Feb 25, 2015 :  Speaking after inaugurating the national level seminar on ’Mental Ailments: Neutrality through Ayurveda Symphony’, here at SDM - Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshawara College of Ayurveda,  Nimhans Department of Neurophysiology, Prof Dr T N Sathya Prabha said that Ayurveda should strive to bring the pattern of medicine into the mainstream and prove that the Ayurveda is not only a complimentary medicine.

The Prof  wemt on to state that Ayurveda is always treated as an alternative and complimentary medicine. She stressed that  we Indians should not go by the say of the western world alone, Ayurveda has its origin in India. Indians should always believe in Ayurveda and make it the mainstream medicine and allopathy as the complimentary medicine’.

Calling upon the youth to take up the challenge, the expert said that youngsters who study the Ayurveda course have to take up the challenge to bring the alternative medicine into the mainstream. She added that the documentation of the Ayurveda is poor.  She said in India there are only four psychiatrists to 10 lakh people. The status of mental illness is in the second position, next only to cardio vascular diseases. The percentage of patients suffering cardio vascular diseases in India is 31 per cent and patients suffering mental disorders is 25 per cent. There are only five per cent allopathy psychiatrists who treat mental illness.

The total patients in India suffering from depression, mental disorders, schizophrenia is around 6.7 crore, which accounts to the total population of Karnataka. There are 65 patients suffering from depression and mood disorders for every 1000 populace, while three people for every 1000 populace suffer from schizophrenia. Elaborating over the world scenario, the expert added that as many as 154 million people suffer from depression, another 75 million are subjected to the drug abuse and 25 million people in the world suffer schizophrenia, she added. Asserting that there is no health without mental health, the expert added mental disorders will massively affect the relationships and interrelationships. She said the students of Ayurveda should take up multi-centered projects with the same protocol to establish firmly the type of drugs to respective diseases. There was a lot of positive thought all around on this subject.