GCP-ASU AYUSH is the acronym of the medical systems that are being practiced in India such as Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy. These systems are based on definite medical philosophies and represent a way of healthy living with established concepts on prevention of diseases and promotion of health. The Ministry of AYUSH is a governmental body in India purposed with developing, education and research in Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine), yoga, naturopathy, unani, siddha, and homoeopathy, Sowa-rigpa1 (Traditional Tibetan medicine), and other Indigenous Medicine systems.
See also: Department of Health The Department of Health deals with, including awareness campaigns, campaigns,. June 27, 2013. Retrieved August 1, 2013., The Hindu, July 24, 2013, retrieved 1 August 2013. Ipc.nic.in. Rath, Goura Kishor (Winter 2014).
Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology. 34 (4): 288–90. – via National Institutes of Health.
^. Retrieved 2017-10-26. ^ Goss, Paul E; Strasser-Weippl, Kathrin; Lee-Bychkovsky, Brittany L; Fan, Lei; Li, Junjie; Chavarri-Guerra, Yanin; Liedke, Pedro E R; Pramesh, C S; Badovinac-Crnjevic, Tanja (2014-04-01). 'Challenges to effective cancer control in China, India, and Russia'. The Lancet Oncology.
15 (5): 489–538. ^ Rath, Goura Kishor (Oct–Dec 2014). Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology.
35 (4): 288–290. – via NIH NCBI. CS1 maint: date format. ^. Retrieved 2017-10-26. ^.
World Health Organization. Retrieved 8 December 2017. Rath, Goura Kishor (Oct–Dec 2014).
Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology. 35 (4): 288–290. – via NIH NCBI.
CS1 maint: date format. Gulia, Seema; Sengar, Manju; Badwe, Rajendra; Gupta, Sudeep (2016-10-28). Journal of Global Oncology. 3 (3): 271–274. Retrieved 27 September 2014. Archived from on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
^ '. External link in title= ; Missing or empty url= (RAJYA SABHA MEMBERS, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, 1952 – 2003: S). Retrieved 28 September 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
Retrieved 24 October 2014. Retrieved 22 October 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
Archived from on 6 November 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
27 May 2014.External links. (Available in English, Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil and Punjabi).
Contents.Ministers. (MoS IC) (31 May 2019)History Successive had allotted considerable focus to alternative (and esp.
![Ministry Of Ayush Ministry Of Ayush](/uploads/1/2/5/5/125537020/231520097.png)
Indigenous) forms of medicine under the healthcare sector. Numerous committees set up by the Government of India for the development of the healthcare sector:- Bhore (1946), Mudaliar (1961) and Srivastava Committee (1975) emphasized upon the improvement of traditional systems of medicine in India. The National Health Policy (1983), National Education Policy in Health Sciences (1989) and National Health Policy (2002) highlighted the role of Indian School of Medicine (ISM) in improving healthcare access and asked for enabling its penetration to the rural masses.A diploma course in Ayurveda was launched in the 3rd (1961-1966) five-year plan and the Central Council of Indian Medicine was established in 1970 followed by Central Council of Homeopathy in 1973. The 6th (1980-1985) and 7th (1985-1990) five year plans aimed at developing novel ISM&H drugs and utilizing ISM&H practitioners in rural family healthcare. The 8th (1992-1997) five-year plan lend considerable emphasis on the mainstreaming of AYUSH.
The Department of Indian System of Medicine and Homoeopathy (ISM&H) was thus launched in March 1995, under the.The 9th five-year plan (1998-2002) ensured for its integration with western medicine and was also the first to tackle different aspects of the AYUSH system in a standalone manner and focused on an overall development ranging from investing in human resource development and preservation and cultivation of medicinal plants to completing a pharmacopoeia and outlining good manufacturing processes.The department was renamed to AYUSH in November 2003. The was launched in 2005 to integrate AYUSH practitioners in national health programmes esp. In primary health care (AYUSH medical officers at community health centers, para-professionals et al.) and provide support for research in the field.On 9 November 2014 it became a ministry in its own right.
Observers have noted increased focusing on AYUSH healthcare; post the. Activities Healthcare The ministry runs multiple healthcare programs; primarily aimed at the rural population. More than 50,000 children have been enrolled in ‘Homeopathy for Healthy Child'. It observes different days to raise general awareness about AYUSH and promote each of the systems.AYUSH is supposed to form an integral backbone of the and the ministry had long worked for integrating the different systems of AYUSH with modern medicine, in what has been described as 'a type of “cross-pathy”'. The proposal has been criticized and the remains strongly opposed to it.The ministry had collaborated with the (CSIR) to set up the (TKDL) in 2001, on codified traditional knowledge on Indian systems of medicines such as, Siddha and Yoga, as a means of preventing grant of 'bed' patents on traditional knowledge and thus counter.
Institutions Economics A 2018 study by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) estimated the market share of AYUSH medicines at around US$3 billion and that India exported AYUSH products of a net worth US$401.68 million in the fiscal year 2016-17. The Department of Pharmaceuticals had allocated a budget of ₹ 144 crore to the ministry for 2018-2020 for manufacture of alternative medicines.As of March 2015, there were nearly eight lakh AYUSH practitioners, over 90 per cent of whom practiced homeopathy or ayurveda. Criticism has noted the efforts behind the revival of Ayurveda as a part of the ruling party's rhetoric of restoring India's past glory to achieve prosperity in the future.
It also noted of the Ayurveda-industry being largely non-standardized and that its critics associated the aggressive pushing of Ayurveda into healthcare services as a product of the Hindu nationalist ideology of the ruling party.Some researchers have argued that the provision of AYUSH services is an example of “forced pluralism” which often leads to disbursal of incompetent healthcare services by unqualified practitioners. Pseudoscience There is no credible efficacy or scientific basis of any of these forms of treatment. A strong consensus prevails among the scientific community that Homeopathy is a pseudo-scientific, non-ethical and implausible line of treatment. Ayurveda is deemed to be but is occasionally considered a, or trans-science system instead. Naturopathy and Unani are considered to be forms of pseudo-scientific quackeryineffective and possibly harmful, with a plethora of issues about their practice.
Research The quality of the research done by the ministry has been heavily criticized. Clinical trials of homeopathic drugs, conducted by their research wings were rejected in totality by the and, Australia. There has been an acute dearth of RCTs on Ayurveda and multiple systemic reviews have highlighted several methodological problems with the studies and trials conducted by AYUSH and its associates in relation to developing an Ayurvedic drug for diabetes. A tendency to publish in dubious predatory journals and non-reproducibility by independent studies has also been noted. India is also yet to conduct a systematic review of any of the systems of medicine under the purview of AYUSH.
Drugs The ministry (in conjunction with other national laboratories) has been subject to heavy criticism for developing, advocating and commercializing multiple sham-drugs (, IME9, Dalzbone, Ayush-64 et al.) and treatment-regimes for a variety of diseases including dengue, chikungunya, swine flu, asthma, autism, diabetes, malaria, AIDS, cancer et cetera despite a complete absence of rigorous pharmacological studies and/or meaningful clinical trials. A 2018 review article noted the existing regulations to be in-adequate for ensuring the safety, quality, efficacy and standardized rational use of these forms of treatment. Monitoring of adverse effects from the usage of these drugs and contraindication trials were absent, too.The average expenditure for drugs on AYUSH and allopathy has been found to not vary widely.The ministry had attracted international criticism after publishing a pamphlet titled Mother and Child Care through Yoga and Naturopathy which asked pregnant women to abstain from eating meat and eggs, shun desire and lust, hang beautiful photos in the bedroom and to nurture spiritual and ‘pure’ thoughts among other advices. Response The ministry had rejected the claims of inefficacy. The ministry had rejected the 's study on homeopathy; despite its critical acclaim as the most rigorous and reliable investigation into homeopathy ever and in 2017, set up a committee at the (CCRH) to counter western propaganda against homeopathy; which was ill-received. Reception A NSSO survey in 2014 found that only 6.9% of the population favored AYUSH (3.5% ISM and 3.0% homeopathy) over other lines of treatment and that the urban population was slightly more conducive to seeking AYUSH forms of treatment than their rural counterparts. A 2014 study did not report any significant difference between the usage of AYUSH services by rural and urban populace, after adjusting for socioeconomic and demographic variables.
Low-income households exhibited the highest tendency for AYUSH followed by high-income households and on an overall, AYUSH lines of treatment were majorly used to treat chronic diseases. The treatments were more used among females in rural India but no gender-differential was observed in the urban populations. Chhattisgarh (15.4%), Kerala (13.7%), and West Bengal (11.6%) displayed the highest AYUSH utilization levels.A 2018 review article noted that the states exhibited differential preference for particular AYUSH systems. Ayurveda and Siddha respectively show greater popularities in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Unani was well-received in Hyderabad region and among Muslims whilst Homeopathy was highly popular in Bengal and Odisha.
It further noted that the preference among the general population for usage of AYUSH revolved around a perceived 'distrust or frustration with allopathic medicine, cost effectiveness, accessibility, non-availability of other options and less side effects of AYUSH medicines'. References.