Health issues in India
Ayurvedic products are increasing in popularity. A recent report unveiled at the Global Ayurveda Summit in Kochi found that 77 percent of Indian households used them in 2017. This is up from 69 percent of households in 2015. The rise of ayurveda is being fuelled by growing emphasis on the importance of healthy lifestyles, suggested […]
This article has been republished under a Creative Commons license from The Conversation. The original piece was authored by Ajay Patel, senior lecturer in food law at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. It can be accessed here. Full credit goes to the original author and publisher. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In India, you can buy saffron that is “useful in asthma, indigestion, […]
India and Sri Lanka plan to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation in the areas of traditional medicine and homeopathy. The aims of the agreement are to establish the exchange and accommodation of experts in the fields of homoeopathy and traditional medicines. These experts will be used in the training of practitioners, paramedics, […]
Support for traditional therapies is growing in India – potentially at the expense of public health. Many now express enthusiasm for homoeopathic remedies over allopathic treatments, believing Western medicine to be only a short term relief. This sentiment is perhaps best summarised by Paryda Krishnamurthy, chairman of the Telengana Medical Services and Infrastructure Corporation. At […]
