09 Mar The challenges of working as an ayurvedic practitioner (Ayush)

The challenges of working as an ayurvedic practitioner (Ayush)

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Why in news: Despite advertising initiatives to support AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy), there is a lack of faith in these practices.

About Ayush

• The AYUSH systems reflect healthy living with established disease prevention and health promotion beliefs and are founded on specific medical philosophies.
• The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare established the Department of Indian Medicine and Homeopathy in 1995 with the goal of maximizing and concentrating the growth of these systems.
• The Department of AYUSH replaced this department’s last name in 2003.
• The Vedas, which became Ayurveda, have left a rich legacy of medical knowledge in India.
• With its roots in Indian ethos and culture, AYUSH has long served as the primary medical practice in the nation.

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Why is AYUSH viewed with suspicion?

• Ayurvedic ideas’ reliability: The public has a general lack of faith in the validity of Ayurveda beliefs and the efficacy of its methods.
• Sophisticated dogmas are offered in place of antiquated notions that are likely to raise skepticism in the minds of educated patients.
• Not in accordance with modern science: The establishment of ayurveda has been unable to keep up with modern intellectual and scientific developments.
• Lack of scrutiny: Because of their alleged roots in such theories, treatments are designed to evade straightforward experimental inspection.
• Lack of evidence: The declining level of Ayurveda’s evidence-based quality is a significant factor in the lack of faith in the system.
• Sluggish treatment: Another typical perception that describes the way Ayurveda is viewed by the general public is that its therapies take a long time to work.

The present state of AYUSH

• From modern to contemporary science: Like every other type of medicine or school of medicine worldwide, Ayurveda has evolved and changed over time.
• National Ayush Mission (NAM): AYUSH is a centerpiece program of the Ministry of AYUSH.
• The main goal of NAM is to advance AYUSH medical systems by providing affordable AYUSH services.
• It anticipates flexible program execution, resulting in significant engagement from the UT and State Governments.

Challenges confronted by AYUSH practitioners

• Lack of application: The practitioner would learn that the knowledge they received throughout their undergraduate education is a vast body of antiquated medical knowledge, of which only a small portion is actually useful today.
• Lack of ecosystem: Ayurveda lacks a thriving scientific and research ecology, therefore the poor practitioner must rely on himself to find cures and methods that genuinely work.
• Reputational impact: The procedure necessitates a great deal of patient trial and error and predictably damages the practitioner’s reputation.
• Gimmicks: Few doctors use social media, TV shows, and regular newspaper columns to deceive their unwary patients.

Need for Integrating medicine fields

• China: With its economic and political objectives, it pushed traditional medicine in the 1970s to spread high-quality Chinese medicine outside of China, which was finally accepted by the rest of the globe.
• India: The Prime Minister of India is a yoga and wellness brand ambassador, and wellness is becoming more and more popular worldwide.
• Wellness: By approaching wellness from the standpoint of how it complements what is happening in allopathic hospitals, we should concentrate on advancing wellness throughout a wider range of time.
• Post-surgery recovery: Ayurveda can be utilized in conjunction with hospital treatments, particularly when patients need to recover from surgery.

Way forward

• Formulating policy: Many of the issues that Ayurveda practitioners (AYUSH) confront can be resolved with the right policy-making.
• Prioritise primary care: The primary care physician is a dying breed in India’s healthcare system.
• If a nation wants to ensure the health of its people, it must revitalize primary care.
• Training: If properly taught, graduates of ayurveda can make a significant contribution to this rejuvenation.
• Promotion of Ayurvedic theories: This can be accomplished by conducting a thorough, evidence-based evaluation of Ayurveda theories and practices to separate the useful from the useless.
• Modern medicine: Graduates from ayurveda schools must be permitted to practice modern medicine in designated primary care settings.

These changes would contribute to the development of a workforce capable of efficiently addressing both India’s urban and rural populations’ basic healthcare demands.

Source:

• The Hindu

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