How can one include ayurveda into mainstream when the demands of physicians are stringent and allopathic treatments standardized?
Agreed that ayurveda has no standardisation. We all know that Chywanprash is good for health, and the bottles prescribe one teaspoon twice a day. But how much do you give for an adult and how much to a child? This is something that has been handed down from one generation to the other and so everyone has a different concept. In two months time the clinical study on the leukemia patients will begin. How do you intend to standardise your treatment? Let s first discuss the western concept. How does one reach a conclusion? We try to discover a new therapeutic agent from a known traditional prescription by spending crores of rupees just to ensure international acceptability. This takes around 12 years, funding from outside agencies, several other inputs, legal, ethical, patent marketing and so on. Instead of all this we need to find a solution that suits the Indian scenario. Unlike the western model, where you begin with a theory, then reach a hypothesis, observation and then medicine, posi
