Panchakarma is Ayurveda’s very advanced method of treatment. In olden times, through this method people cured themselves from all types of diseases. But for a few years, this method had been ignored. However today the whole world has started recognising Panchakarma once again. We will understand Panchakarma
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In respect to Ayurveda, the experience of detoxifying your body naturally is nothing but pure bliss. In a typical human body, we accumulate toxins daily due to the mechanism of the digestion process. We eat food, the Food gets digested, then the Nutrition goes to every cell
Read more →We live in a fast paced world. The effects of technology are clearly notable as they play a major role in building a stress free society. However, the power or natural medicinal systems like Ayurveda are still very much effective as they once were. “Ayurveda is a
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for its members.
A Brief History of the AAA
The History of the AAA is linked with the history of the development of Ayurveda in
Australia. It all began in 1979 with the 1st International Congress on Traditional Asian
Medicine, known as ICTAM, organised by the renowned Indologist and Head of the
Department of Asian Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra,
Professor A. L. Basham, the author of A Wonder That Was India. Prof. Acharya
Manfred Junius and Dr. Krishna Kumar were invited by Prof. A. L. Basham as Italian
delegates to attend this breakthrough congress. This was the largest gathering of
like-minded scholars, physicians, and practitioners of Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese
Medicine, Tibetan Medicine, Korean Traditional Medicine, Japanese Traditional
Medicine and other forms of traditional medicine that ever took place on the subject on
an International level.
From India alone there were over forty delegates including Ayurvedic scholars and
practitioners, writers, physicians attending this congress led by the famous scholar,
writer and physician, Vaidya Shiva Sharma of Bombay (now Mumbai).
The Congress was an astounding success, which led to the establishment of the
International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine, also known as
IASTAM.
Is Ayurvedic Medicine Effective?
A few studies suggest that Ayurvedic preparations may reduce pain and increase
function in people with osteoarthritis and help manage symptoms in people with type 2
diabetes, but most of these trials are small or not well-designed. There is little scientific
evidence on Ayurveda’s value for other health issues.
How much do we know about Ayurvedic medicine?
Although Ayurvedic medicine and its components have been described in many
scholarly articles, only a small number of clinical trials using these approaches have
been published in Western medical journals. About 240,000 American adults use
Ayurvedic medicine.
