See it Whole
treatments are used along with mainstream medicine, of course, not as replacements or alternatives. It is observed that it is crucial to hold alternative therapies up to scientific scrutiny rather than dismissing them outright. Even finding about what doesn’t work can be valuable to the community. Here the aim should be to guide people away from quackery and dangerous therapies to the right direction. This side of the globe is replete with health-care philosophies, relevant to the local contexts of life- style, beliefs, culture and climate. Cultural beliefs woven into day- to- day life are inextricable. Doctors in Asia encounter such stone- walls in their daily practice, which are difficult to break into. People simply love to link food, water, air, and climate, religious rites, past life, planets and everything with a life event, birth, health, disease or death. In India, the science of longevity, the Ayurveda, and the science that helps unite body, mind and spirit, the Yoga, are wholesome health sciences if you look at it in the correct perspective.
Ravindranatha Kamath. C, B.A.M, M.B.B.S, F.P.M ( Fellowship in Palliative medicine) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Family Medicine ( CMC Vellore), HOD of Holistic medicine in Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi.
Holistic medicine is a natural outcome of changing perspectives in the contemporary health-care domain. It is nothing but Integrative medicine born out of the realization that Complimentary Alternative Medicine makes good of the lacunas created by conventional medicine. When conventional medicine fails to address the undercurrents such as
psychological as well as social and spiritual issues attached to the disease in question, integrative medicine takes into consideration these factors even to reach a diagnosis. When one takes to integrative medicine, the doctor forms a kind of partnership with the patient and the aim is to treat the mind, body and the soul at the same time. Such
According to them, everything under the Sun are mutually contributory. The visionaries of ancient Indian sub-continent effectively utilized inanimate and animate objects, of herbal, animal or mineral origin and, of course, planetary influences etc. to maintain health and attain longevity. Doing so, they made it a point to maintain the delicate harmony of life with nature. Holistic medicine is a point where Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy converge, along with the cutting edge knowledge of modern medicine under one canopy. As we progress more into science and try to explain and fit everything into the rigid frame of science, we are forced to realize that we encounter more uncertainties. Let me explain this a little bit. To reach the point where we are now, AYURVEDA & Health Tourism 39 MARCH 2014