An overview of "OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN AYURVEDA"

1. OPPORTUNITIES AND
CHALLENGES IN AYURVEDA
Dr Yadu N Mooss

2. Introduction
• Ayurveda-5000 year old science
• Labelled ‘slow yet steady’
• Major opportunities - Healthcare, Industry and
Research
• Major challenges- Regional diversities, Lack of
command over Sanskrit, Lack of innovation

3. OPPORTUNITIES - CHALLENGES
Education Healthcare
Research Employment

4. Education
• Qualitative education rather
than quantitative
• Lack of command over
Sanskrit
• Clubbing the regional
diversities and interdisciplinary
approach
• Lack of confidence in
ayurveda pulls many young
doctors towards other systems
of practice.
• Introduction of ayurvedic
basics in high school education
•Online education

5. Healthcare
•Identifying the areas of
maximum benefits
•Non availability of same drugs
through out the country
•Personalized medical practices •Difficulty in standardising
treatment protocols.
•Identifying the new arenas •Lack of emergency care
•Unethical practices

6. Research
•Expanding the ayurvedic
research methodology
• Lack of unified methodology
•Multidisciplinary research • Lack of acceptance on broad
spectrum
•More than 20000 species of
plants and 1000 tribal practices
in India are unexplored
• Policy issues like patency,
export – import
•Neo formulations
•Documentation and
publication

7. Employment
•Credit based collaboration
with other medical systems
•No parameter to distribute the
supply effectively
•An added degree - an added
advantage
•Economically less attractive
•New operational areas

8. Conclusion
• A thorough understanding of the past, present
and probable future is essential to realize both
opportunities and challenges.
• Most of the Challenges itself are
opportunities.
• Be PROACTIVE…

9. THANK YOU