Government think factory Niti Aayog is watching many reform ideas within the health sector, including aligning traditional and modern approaches for a ‘larger good’, it’s member (health) V K Paul said on Sunday.
Paul said the govt is committed to strengthening the normal system of drugs (homoeopathy and Ayurveda) also because the modern system of medicine(allopathy).
“It makes eminent logic that the simplest of traditional medicine and better of modern medicine therapies be brought together for a bigger good of individuals and there are ways of practising integrated medicine,” he told PTI.
Paul, acknowledged that it’s already happened to an extent, as yoga is now a part of practice in several conditions like in hypertension.
“There may be a scope to align these approaches for the larger advantage of society… as a think factory , we are watching many reform ideas within the health sector, aligning traditional and modern approaches for a bigger good,” he said.
Integrative medicine is an approach that mixes modern medicine with alternative systems like Ayurveda and yoga.
India’s National Health Policy (NHP) also recognises the necessity for integrated courses for ISM (Indian systems of medicine), modern science and Ayurgenomics (a combination of Ayurveda with the study of all the genes of an organism, called genomics).
It also talks about getting AYUSH systems to contribute to ‘meeting the national health goals and objectives through integrative practices’.
Recently, a gathering chaired by Paul was held to start formulating the new system.
