Government think tank Niti Aayog is looking at many reform ideas in the health sector, including aligning traditional and modern approaches for a ‘larger good’, it’s member (health) V K Paul said on Sunday.
The government is committed in strengthening the traditional system of medicine (homoeopathy and Ayurveda) as well as the modern system of medicine(allopathy), Paul mentioned.
He told, “It makes eminent logic that the best of traditional medicine and best of modern medicine therapies be brought together for a larger good of people and there are ways of practising integrated medicine.”
Paul said like yoga is now a part of practice in several conditions like in hypertension therefore traditional system of medicine has already happened to an extent.
“There is a scope to align these approaches for the larger benefit of society… as a think tank, we are looking at many reform ideas in the health sector, aligning traditional and modern approaches for a larger good,” he said.
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Integrative medicine is an approach that combines modern medicine with alternative systems like Ayurveda and yoga.
India’s National Health Policy (NHP) has recognized the need 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, Paul chaired a meeting which was held to begin formulating the new system.
