Press Release
Systems of Medicine should work together to provide better healthcare to the
society: Dr. Jindal and Dr. Kothe
The International Centre, Goa and Taleigao Chess Academy organized a half-day
interactive session on “Different Systems of Medicine & Our Health” on Sunday
28th June 2009 at the premises of International Centre at Dona Paula.
Dr. Arvind Kothe, Principal, Kamaxi Homeopathic College & Hospital, Shiroda Goa
initiated the discussion on the theme of the session. In his remarks, he spoke
about the origin and functioning of Homeopathy and its merits and demerits in
treating various health related problems. He welcomed the idea of a common
platform for the doctors of all streams to exchange their views with the aim of
serving the society better.
Dr. V N Jindal, Dean, Goa Medical College also initiated the discussion. In
his remarks Dr. Jindal said that Indians are fortunate that we have so many
systems of medicines but it is unfortunate that some of these systems are
antagonistic to each other. He also spoke about the strengths and weaknesses
of system of allopathy. He mooted for a strategy for understanding the merits
and demerits of various systems of medicine by these systems together and give
a wider choice to the people.
Dr. Venkatesh Hegde, teacher – Art of Living, Goa also spoke about the
spiritual health of the people which will help in keeping people healthy.
All the speakers urged the medical practitioners to come together on a common
platform and exchange their views as to how better healthcare cane be provided
to the society by understanding the merits of each of these systems of
medicine.
In this regard a special session on Homeopathy will be organized by ICG & TCA
in collaboration with the Kamaxi Homeopathic College & Hospital on Sunday 12th
July 2009 at ICG.
Shri Ramanath Palang, septuagenarian tradtional medicine given for Harpis and
Zondice from Marcel, was honored at this occasion.
Mr. Shrikant Barve welcomed the guests and the participants and compeered the
programme while Mr. Arjun Halarnkar, Programme Manager, ICG proposed the vote
of thanks. The session was attended by ayurvedic, homeopathic and allopathic
doctors and general public.
Shrikant Vinayak Barve
Convener: We Love Ayurved
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Full speech of Dr. V. N. Jindal.
Good morning friends, first of all I will like to compliment International
Centre Goa, and Taleigao Chess Academy for organizing this meet. The topic is
very relevant and interesting ‘Different Systems of Medicines & our Health’.
In fact, I must say, we are very fortunate that in our country so many
different systems of medicines.
You will know that our Auryveda system is many thousand years old, infect
Allopathy started much later, and we in addition to Allopathy, Ayurveda we
have homeopathy Unani and Yoga and what not. Yoga is again given to the world
by our country. But, in all this systems it is unfortunate that not in the mind
of public, but also in the minds of practitioners of different systems of
medicines, there is a feeling that all this systems are antagonistic to each
other. While my personal opinion is that most of all these systems are
compliment to each other. They are not antagonistic to each other because
basically the aim of any system of medicine is to put a person at ease. What is
disease is that one is not at ease.
WHO widen a definition health now, not in extent of disease but positive
aspects of health which Dr.Hegde already spoken to and need not comment on
that, so my strong belief is that all the system are complimentary and are not
antagonistic, however having said that we must ??? that all the systems has
evolved over a long period of time like I said Ayurveda is many thousand year
old Allopathy may be about two thousand year old Dr. Kothe said the Homepathy
is two hundred years old, so over all the period of time all the systems have
evolved, now why they were evolving each systems has got certain strength and
certain weaknesses, so I think that it is very very important that we must
analyse what is a strength of each system and what are the weaknesses of each
system, so that we can peek up the strong point of each system, and then follow
the system which suits us most, now in that glide, because I am practitioner of
allopathic system, I am not qualify to
speak much on Ayurveda, homeopathy etc. I will like to tell you what are the
strength or what are merits and what are de-merits of allopathy.
Now traditionally you always starts with merits of system I will do it reverse
I will start with weaknesses of our system, that is modern system we call it
or a system of Allopathy, first of all I must confess that the biggest weakness
of Allopathy is as side effects of medicines, while most of our traditional
indigenous system of medicine and Dr.Kothe is there he will agree with that the
homeopathy system will not do any harm if not good, but Allopathy can do harm
instead of doing the good, reason for that is unlike homeopathy, Ayurveda etc
most of our medicines are synthetic medicines, they are not from the plant
region or not the herbal medicines, so why they are very strong they can take
care of many problems but at the same practically I must say each medicine have
got inherent side effects so you are practically way between the benefits and
the side effects, so that is one of the weaknesses of our system that is
Allopathy.
Second problem with our system of Allopathy is unlike Homeopathy unlike
Ayurveda we never had a holistic approach to the disease what we had to do is
if patient comes to us with throat infection we use to treat his throat
infection, if come to pain in a knee we use to treat his knee pain, we use to
take a patient as a whole, of course of late the things have started changing,
we have learnt from Homeapathy we have learnt from Ayurveda that the holistic
approach have brought lots of benefits and slowly we are moving towards the
holistic approach in Allopathy also.
Third think the weakness of Allopathy is that we have a so much obsessed in
treating the people from the disease that we over looked the positive aspect of
health , of course of late again now we are putting lot of stress on nutrition
on mental health and other thing which is still recently we never gave
importance.
Last thing which I fill is very big set back of our system of medicine is that
it is very expensive. It is very very expensive as compare to all other systems
medicine, so in our country I think that is a big weakness of our system.
But having said thet having numerated weaknesses of system of medicine, we do
have many merits, we do have many strong points and that is evidence of
mushrooming medical colleges, mushrooming hospitals and clinics. So what are
the strong points let me take few minutes to enumerate what are the strong
points of our system of medicine.
The strongest point of our system of medicine is that this is an evidence base
system, I mean probably no other system of medicine has such a strong evidence
based medicine as we have, now you all know that the clinical trial for drugs
or procedures are so stringent that to bring out a new medicine a new drug it
take it takes, why it takes ten years because there trials it takes to
different levels, unless the regulatory authority absolutely sure that the drug
will not cause any harm it will not be marketed, we had a very bad experience
few years back for you might be knowing that leodomight drug was introduced it
caused lot of problems when it was given to pregnant the children was born
without their limb, so from that we learnt that no medicine should come to
market unless it effective and safety to beyond dought so that is very strong
point of our system of medicine.
Second is reproducibility we have because of our system research that is we can
test it in laboratory so drugs are reproducible and the drugs etc everything is
standardized. Now the problem with Ayurveda that they do not has standardized
drugs, of course now they are moving in that direction and I am sure that will
defiantly help them.
So having enumerated strong points of our medicine and weaknesses of medical
system I personally fill, we should make a decision, we should not start
condemning one particular system or medicine, we should not criticize
particular system of medicine. We must see which system is good for what
purpose, now I will give you an example all of you know that surgery is our
strongest point, no other system of medicine has the system of surgery that we
have in our Allopathy. Now no body else can matters as far as trauma is
concern, suppose tomorrow Mr.x has an accident had an clot in a brain, no other
system can take care of that patient except Allopathic system of medicine. So
that is our very strong point, similarly all acute problems we have a very
strong point, now no body have the guts to any other system of medicine if a
patient have got a acute heart attack, they have to come to use the reason for
that again saying that our is evidence based system of
medicine, but at same time I personally feel we have no answer to the chronic
problems, now the chronic problems are very important today because we have
almost conquered the infective diseases and we are moving towards what known
as an conmen parlance the lifestyle diseases and this lifelessly diseases are
chronic diseases like Dr. Hegde, and Dr. Kothe said a hypertension, diabetes,
stress all these are lifestyle disease and they are on the rise, and these are
for which we do not has answer, we treat them symptomatically.
Patient comes to use with stress we give them anty depression, though we try in
to the depth of finding the cause but it is not as good as what Dr. Hegde, Dr.
Kothe does, so this is weakness.
Firstly I believe that we should find out what are the strong points of each
system and what are the demerits of each system and then advise a strategy as
to which patient should go where. In fact some of you know even the government
of India has taken the cognize in this aspects. There are new scheme I will not
say very new but ultimately new scheme have started by AYUSH even at primary
health centre level, they are employing, earlier they use to do in with
Allopathy doctor, now you have Allopathic doctor, Ayurvedic doctor, Homeapatic
doctor so other system of medicines also, so the aim is to give wider choice to
the people, as per a patient is suffering lifestyle disease or a chronic
disease he/she has a choice to go to the alternate medical system other then
coming to the Allopathic system of medicine and at the end I will like to say
that in allopathic system has a very strong laboratories were lot of research
can be done I think various medical
system can join hands together and we can extend the helping to Ayurveda to
Homeopathy and we can also look into their system of medicine and try to
convert it as evidence based medicine like to give an example that in fact I
was talking last year to Dr.Kothe like in case of AIDS we don’t have treatment
today probably they will have the answer because basically what you want is to
strengthen the immune system in the body.
So, in fact I have offered in case you want to do any trial with your
medication we can help in the sense we can find out particular time of
treatment weather the immune system of the person we have those facilities, so
we have every willing to extend this facilities to other system of medicine, so
I think we should all live in harmony, instead of criticizing each other we
should peek up the strong points of each system of medicine, basically the aim
is to help person who is suffering or even help ordinary who is healthy to make
him further more healthy as Dr. Hegede said not only physically and mentally
but also spiritually with this words once I will like to thank to organizers
for giving me this opportunity to interact with you thank you very much.
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