The Scientific Basis of Ayurveda:Analytical Fingerprinting & MR Neurospectroscopy|Satya Samvad Ep 8

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The global health landscape faces unprecedented challenges, with diseases proliferating despite advances in medical knowledge and technology. Despite significant investment in research across multiple disciplines, including physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering, some diseases remain elusive to diagnosis and treatment. In contrast, pre-colonial India boasted a healthy populace with a robust understanding of health and effective indigenous medical systems like Ayurveda. However, the dominance of Western medicine during colonization marginalized these traditional practices. Now, there's a resurgence of interest worldwide, including in India, in alternative approaches like Ayurveda,

signaling a shift away from solely chemical-based treatments. The systems approach of the Tridosha model of Ayurveda holds a lot of relevant and intriguing aspects that have been found to be effective in diagnosing and treating various physiological conditions.

Having said that, in today's world, with the recent Patanjali lawsuit, it is important to delineate what is truly scientific within Ayurveda as well as protect this age-old tradition from those who want to destabilize it, due to ideological reasons.

To discuss all this and more, we have with us one of Bharat's most illustrious practitioners and scholars of Ayurveda - Dr. Rama Jayasundar. Dr. Jayasundar heads the Department of NMR, AIIMS, New Delhi. She has had a rather fascinating trajectory, having received her doctorate in Physics from Cambridge University with training in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. While pioneering biomedical NMR work in Bharat, she went for a medical degree in Ayurveda (BAMS – Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery), and today is the only one at both the national and international levels to hold dual degrees in Physics and Ayurveda. Her current research interests harness the distinctive facets of her expertise (NMR, Physics, Ayurveda and Allopathy) to shed light on the scientific basis and working of Ayurveda.

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