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Global meet on ayurveda
in Jamnagar
For
the first time in the country, a three-day global conference on Ayurveda
and conventional diagnosis system’ will be organised by the Ayurveda University
at Jamnagar on January 5, in which over 100 Ayurveda experts and
students from India and abroad will participate.
Governor Sundar Singh Bhandari
will inaugurate the international conference, while Union Human Resource
Minister Murli Manohar Joshi will attend the concluding session of the
meet on January 7. Representatives are expected from the USA, Canada,
France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Greece, Argentina, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
State Health Minister Ashok Bhatt said here on Wednesday that deliberations
will be on challenges the Ayurveda system of medicines and conventional
diagnosis system may face in the new millennium. The participants will
be apprised of the research being conducted by the Jamnagar Ayurveda University
on AIDS patients using Ayurvedic drugs.
The Minister said that participants,
both from India and overseas, will present as many as 260 research papers
at the three-day conference, the preparations for which were being undertaken
by the Jamnagar Ayurveda University vice-chancellor and his staff members
for the last one year. The exercise is aimed at popularising globally
the Indian Ayurveda system of medicines, he added.
Responding to a query, Bhatt
said the 15-member study group was at present engaged in research work
to find out whether the patients suffering from the deadly AIDS disease
could be cured through Ayurvedic drugs and conventional diagnosis system.
The research group led by
Dr Shriram Sharma, president of the Akhil Bharatiya Vaidya Parishad, and
Dr Devendra Triguna from Delhi has been conducting research on 70 HIV
positive patients at the Surat Civil Hospital and on 20 such patients
at Jamnagar hospital for the last one month.
The final results of the
research, approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), are
expected to come out in six months.
A paper on the final outcome
of the research will be submitted to the ICMR. "If the results of the
research turn out to be positive, the Jamnagar Ayurveda University may
get patented the Ayurvedic drugs used on the AIDS patients," the Minister
said, adding that the State health department also proposed to carry out
a similar research on cancer patients.
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