The responses to your editorial "Integrating systems of medicine" are
based on ignorance of the basic principles of alternative systems. I teach
in college of Ayurveda and I know for sure that Ayurveda is the outcome of
following very sound method of "science".
There is a evidence in Ayurvedic texts like "Charaka Samhita" that
there existed a method for arriving at scientific conclusions. So much so
that, there are sound guidelines mentioned for writing a clinical trial
protocol in all detail. Modern guidelines for writing clinical trial
protocol match very well with those of Ayurveda.
This commonness between Ayurveda and modern medicine should act as a
foundation for integration of the two. As such, as modern medical concepts
are advancing, they are coming closer to ancient Ayurvedic concepts of
health and disease.
Regards,
Dr Patil Milind
Competing interests:
None declared
Competing interests:
No competing interests
28 July 2004
Milind A Patil
Teacher in Ayurvedic College
YMT's Ayurvedic college, Kharghar, New Mumbai, India
Rapid Response:
Re: Integrating systems of medicine
Dear Editor,
The responses to your editorial "Integrating systems of medicine" are
based on ignorance of the basic principles of alternative systems. I teach
in college of Ayurveda and I know for sure that Ayurveda is the outcome of
following very sound method of "science".
There is a evidence in Ayurvedic texts like "Charaka Samhita" that
there existed a method for arriving at scientific conclusions. So much so
that, there are sound guidelines mentioned for writing a clinical trial
protocol in all detail. Modern guidelines for writing clinical trial
protocol match very well with those of Ayurveda.
This commonness between Ayurveda and modern medicine should act as a
foundation for integration of the two. As such, as modern medical concepts
are advancing, they are coming closer to ancient Ayurvedic concepts of
health and disease.
Regards,
Dr Patil Milind
Competing interests:
None declared
Competing interests: No competing interests