Do not get proud for addressing ayurveda as tradition instead be ashamed , ayurveda is not tradition

1. BAMS graduates, a major reason to get
ashamed
Dr. Remya Krishnan MD PhD(Ay)

2. Ayurveda is addressed as Tradition
What is Traditional Medicine?
• Traditional healers are people who make others believe in their
customs and practices in order to make them get well or to heal them
while herbalists give medicinal herbs which are mainly extracted from
plants.
• Traditional medicine is basically a combination of beliefs, facts and
customs of healing practiced and passed through generations as such
with pride and pleasure spread by word of mouth in communities

3. Traditional Medicine
• In TM, the practitioners base their treatment on three factors :
a. Belief of community
b. Success of their actions
c. The belief of practitioners
Every practitioner can have wildly different comprehension and decision
about the same clinical condition and he / she is absolutely free to do
whatever he/ she wants as there are no uniform rational standards to
appraise.

4. Traditional Medicine
• There are only practitioners who practice what they believe as such every
where and not doctors who decide themselves in every clinical situation they
handle based on rational standards of background knowledge in science .
• Traditional medicine is based on the theory, beliefs and experiences
indigenous to different cultures
• The practice is mainly based on conventional use and personal experience.
• Research is required in TM to produce evidence of effectiveness and safety

5. Traditional Medicine
A traditional medicine practitioner is a person who is recognized
by the community where he or she lives as someone competent to
provide health care by using plant, animal and mineral substances
and other methods based on social, cultural and religious practices.
Traditional medicine practitioners include traditional healers,
traditional birth attendants, herbalists and bone–setters.

6. Traditional Medicine
• Traditional medicine is based on a belief that each individual has his or her
own constitution and social circumstances which result in different reactions
to“causes of disease” and treatment.
• Anything based on belief requires scientific validation to trust its safety and
effectiveness.
• Modern Medicine begins with unknown compounds and ends in less known
results by so adopting so called “scientific research” by rigorous clinical
trials to look for benefits and risks and TM is asked to do the same for
validation

7. Coming to Ayurveda
• Is Ayurveda a belief system spread by word of mouth for generations??
• Is Ayurveda practice based on belief of community, belief of practitioners
and mere success of actions??
• Are there no rational standards of clinical decision making in Ayurveda??
• Are Ayurveda practitioners herbal healers and bone setters?
• Can data of use of herbs and formulations validate the science of man
Ayurveda ?

8. Coming to Ayurveda
• Are Ayurveda medicines working by active principles?
• If yes, then what are Ayurvedic theorems and logics of pharmacodynamics and kinetics
meant for?
• Is Ayurveda medicine based science or science based medicine?
• Is Ayurveda wellness therapy or life science and medical science for man?
• Does Ayurveda recommend anywhere selection of medicine based on widespread use
and folklore?
• Does Ayurveda recommend trial and error with medicine after medicine?
• Does Ayurveda recommend to emerge temporary data of benefit risk analysis ?