Treatment with modern medicine and Ayurveda will now be possible under one roof. The Centre for Integrative Medicine and Research will be inaugurated in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi on June 22 by health minister JP Nadda. The centre is spread over four thousand square feet on the seventh storey of the ten-storey Convergence block at AIIMS.
The centre aims at doing rigorous scientific research to compare alternative forms of medicine and their effects on health as compared to modern medicine. "At this point, there are many claims of benefits of Ayurveda on health.
The centre will pursue hard scientific evidence to understand safety and efficacy of alternative therapy drugs and Yoga," said a professor of Cardiology at AIIMS.
The centre is divided into two parts – a gargantuan Yoga studio with wooden flooring and an Ayurveda and Naturopathy therapy centre.
Doctors from modern medicine and alternative medicine fields like Ayurveda do not see eye to eye. This is set to change with different streams of medicine being integrated under one umbrella at the centre. Integration will help patients seek safe treatment and ensure it does not have a conflicting effect on their health, due to wrongful cross-prescription. Most ayurvedic medicines are available over the counter leading to their abuse and regulations are not stringent to control their use.
"It is planned to be an ideal system of hospital setting where modern medicine will be supplemented with Ayurveda, Naturopathy, Unani and Yoga. While modern medicine is great in tackling emergency situations and deadly bacterial infections, alternative therapies are said to be effective in chronic conditions. These points will be studied at the centre, while patients will be able to avail of alternative therapies in a dependable set-up," said Dr Chandrakant Pandav, Head, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS.
"All departments of modern medicine will be encouraged to participate in comparative research at the centre. Infertility in women due to stress is a major issue we are looking at taking up. Also rehabilitation of patients who have suffered from a stroke or a heart attack will be studied in the centre. Apart from this therapy of patients with respiratory illnesses including asthma will be addressed," said Dr MC Mishra, director, AIIMS.
Yoga like modern medicine too, if practiced mindlessly or overdone can lead to fatal side effects, warn experts. Therefore, a need for a scientific centre was felt. "Cases of death have been reported due to overdoing of Yoga," said Bengaluru-based Dr HR Nagendra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Yoga guru.
Doctors say that Yoga should be learnt with help of well-certified professionals only. "It is very easy to attain certification to teach yoga. Norms for certifying instructors should be made stricter," said Dr Pandav.
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