Review Article
Year: 2020 | Month: March | Volume: 10 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 55-68
Globalizing Ayurveda - Opportunities and Challenges
Santhi Krishna1, Dinesh K S2, Nazeema P K3
1Junior Research Fellow, AYUSH Extra Mural Research, Department of Kaumarabhritya, Vaidyaratnam P S Varier Ayurveda College, Kottakkal, Kottakkal
2Professor and Head, Department of Kaumarabhritya, Vaidyaratnam P S Varier Ayurveda College, Kottakkal, Kottakkal.
3Professor, Department of Kaumarabhritya, Vaidyaratnam P S Varier Ayurveda College, Kottakkal, Kottakkal.
Corresponding Author: Santhi Krishna
ABSTRACT
Though the prevalence of ethnic medicines is active around the world, Āyuṛveda with its philosophical and conceptual background thrives less hard to incline all towards it. Though the principles of Āyuṛveda are immortal, it’s the need to be contemporary marking up to the current scientific trends together with the integration of technologies and propagating Āyuṛveda to the mainstream globally. The present review article discusses the possibilities of bringing resurgence to Āyuṛveda and also elaborates upon the challenges and solutions to meet the International standards and accept it globally as a mainstream health profession from a beginner’s point of view. With growing interests and acceptance, eventually marking its place among other licensed health care professions globally, advanced visions to focus on the formal scopes of global competitive marketing sectors should be promoted in order to reap its future prospects in the global economic front concurrently and this is inevitable. Moreover Drastic revisions on Āyuṛveda Epistemology, minimum standards & requirements of statutory bodies, planning commissions, culminating the serious flaws existing in the graduate level Āyuṛveda education and upgrading & strengthening existing R&D institutions through vertical integration & clustering of related bodies, and other endowments adding to its viability should be in forefront of amendments. Well structured and concrete collaborations across nations via MoU will also have an impact on implementing its soft power globally. Thus Āyuṛveda in the current global trend proposes a different approach towards the nurturing & globalization, making it marginal and adaptable in the international scenario.
Key words: Āyuṛveda, Review, Globalization, Epistemology, MoU