Jiva Ayurveda seeks global recognition to Indian system of medicine
New Delhi, July 13 : Jiva Ayurveda, which runs 80 clinics and hospitals across India, has come out with diagnostic protocols in a bid to get global recognition to the ancient Indian system of medicine. The protocols will be launched on Monday.
"The ayurveda industry has long been wanting a set of protocols to transform the age-old healing tradition into a data and evidence driven system of medicine for wider acceptance in the world," Jiva Ayurveda Director Madhusudan Chauhan told IANS.
Jiva Ayurveda, which created the protocols after analyses of consultation records of two lakh patients its doctors treated over the last decade, has concluded that the practice can be standardized but not treatment as it is personalized.
Unlike allopathy, ayurveda is fundamentally a personalized system of medicine. "Ayurveda is a far more evolved science. Same medicines for same symptoms do not work here. Personalized medicine based on genomics and the 'systems view' of human health is only now coming into fashion in allopathy, while ayurveda is built around these very concepts," he said.
Yet, ayurveda is not accepted as a medical science in many countries as the scientific community asks for data and evidence -- on what basis are the medicines given and how is their effect proven? Chauhan said ayurveda did not have this data and evidence.
Set up in 1992 with the head office in Faridabad, Jiva Ayurveda has more than 350 doctors and 400 healthcare professionals. It has been collating data since 2009 for the purpose of evolving protocols.
"Four years ago, Jiva began a huge data analytics project, reviewing the consultation records of two lakh patients by using artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer modelling. The protocols are now ready," he said.
The protocols and the decision support system built over them will actively help ayurveda practitioners through the entire process of consultation that incorporates patients answers. The system assigns weightage to various factors and arrives at an authoritative diagnosis.
It also suggests diagnostic clues that the doctor may have missed which may lead to a possible different line of treatment.
The protocols, which have been run successfully on 20,000 patients so far, will create a wealth of data that will be validated by domestic and international institutes and universities which will eventually go on to validate ayurveda as a legitimate science of treatment.
"It's a long battle but at least the protocols will open the gates. I believe it will take seven to eight years before ayurveda gets its due recognition. Ayurveda can be India's biggest contribution to the world in this century," said Chauhan.
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BJP candidate Kangana Ranaut’s gaffe on BJP's Tejasvi Surya, Tejashwi Yadav reacts
Shimla, May 5: In a gaffe, actor and BJP candidate Kangana Ranaut mistakenly named her party colleague Tejasvi Surya while intending to target RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav during an election rally.
The faux pas also elicited a response from the former Bihar deputy chief minister.
Addressing a gathering in the Sundernagar area of Himachal Pradesh's Mandi on Friday, Ranaut -- the BJP candidate from the Mandi Lok Sabha seat -- while referring to the INDIA bloc, said the opposition alliance is full of "spoiled princes".
"Bigde hue shehzadon ke ek party hai, chahe woh Rahul Gandhi ho jayen, jinhe chand mein aalo ugane ho; Tejasvi Surya ho jayen, jo apni gunda-gardi karte hai, machli uchal uchal ke khate hai (There is a party of spoiled princes like Rahul Gandhi who wants to grow potatoes on the moon or Tejasvi Surya who does hooliganism and shows off while eating fish)...," she had said, after which several netizens poked fun at her on social media.
Tejasvi Surya is the Bangalore South MP and the party's candidate from the same constituency while Tejashwi Yadav is an RJD leader who recently came under fire from the BJP after he posted a clip in which he is eating fish during the Navratri festival.
He had claimed that the footage was shot before the festivities began.
On Saturday, Yadav reacted to Ranaut's gaffe, sharing a clip of her speech with a cryptic remark, saying, "Yeh kaun mohtarma hain? (Who is this lady?)."
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