Panjim: The recently-concluded four-day Ayurvedic Congress witnessed COVID-19 successful treatment being the most highlighted alongside other diseases at the Expo by many companies.
Dr Manjiri Walinjkar, Ph.D, Jamnagar, in a poster case report, noted that the World Health Organisation (WHO) reported 20% to 30% of Covid patients suffered from persistent lung damage due to SARS-COVID invading and forming residue that damaged ‘alveoli’ and capillaries in the lungs.
A 57-year-old COVID patient with high BP and smoking and tobacco-chewing habit – who gave up allopathic treatment and turned to homoeopathy in September 2021 – experienced improved health till date, she added.
Homoeopathy too was highlighted at the Expo, where Dr Avijit Shee Burman of NIH (National Institute of Homoeopathy), Kolkata noted that 3 out of 5 medications – Arsenic Alb 30 (in winter), Bryonia Alba 30 and Gelsemium 30 (summer) tested in Uttar Pradesh during COVID-19 in 2020 had “Fantastic” results.
Burman said that homoeopathic preventive medicines given during COVID-19 in India and abroad witnessed not a single death of those taking the prescribed dose (once morning for three days) from 2020 to 2022.
Dr Annapurna of NAMMA Homoeopathy highlighted a new invention in homoeopathy, that successfully treated over one lakh cases — involving diabetes, varicose veins, asthma, psoriasis, arthritis, thyroid, PCOD, piles, sexual problems — through “Ïmmunogenic Miasmatic 6th Generation Homoeopathic Treatment.”
Dr Neha of Dr, Basu Eye Hospitals (Delhi and Bareilly) pointed out Jagat Pharma’s 42 years successful legacy in providing holistic Ayurvedic body wellness solutions including its signature product – Isotine eyedrops – treating initial stage diseases like cataract, myopia, diabetic retinopathy, color blindness, glaucoma without any operations.
Dr Mahanya Neerpady of Hassan, Karnataka, narrated an ‘uncommon’ poster case about “Chronic Pancreatitis” in a 13-year-old female patient. “The girl’s mother took some medicines during her pregnancy that disturbed her “digestive fire” (Jathar Agni) and affected her baby’s digestion while causing pain from abdomen to lower back,”she said, adding that the child was now 80 to 90% healed.
Dr Kishan Senjalig, 2nd year PG, Ahmedabad, highlighted the complete recovery in a case study of “Äscites” (Liver Cirrhosis)of a 59-year-old patient undergoing “Änti-Tubercular” treatment before being treated through Ayurveda.
Ayurveda literally means “Science of Life” and is has been practiced over 5,000 years. India represents 49% of the worlds diabetic burden with 72 million cases and expected to double by 2025.
Zandu’s Dr Sadanand Patri (Medico Marketing Expert—HCD Ethical and Generic) highlighted the company’s beginnings from 1864 and its registration as a pharmaceutical company in 1910 in Mumbai before it merged in 2007 with the company Emami to reach 2022 through sale of over 300 products with the present financial turnover of Rs 45,000 crores.
“While we are not exporting our products, our “Zandopa” has proved 80% effective in treating Parkinsons disease while also scientifically cultivating “Kaunch Beej” (Mucuma Provins),”
Another unique treatment was ‘Music therapy’ highlighted through Goa’s “Äshwaas” at the Ayurvedi Expo by Ayurvedic practitioner Dr Neelesh Korde and celebrated Opera singer Canadian Dr. Margaret Plakeway Lobo.
“Goa was the first state to integrate Ayurveda with modern medicine and during the Covid menace, we supported the public by providing free “Goduchi Churna” to sufferers and as prevention also to traffic police, social workers and others exposed to this disease,” he said.
However, “Ashwaas” (meaning “Ïmparting Confidence”) began in Goa in 2019 through providing specifically-designed diploma training courses for trainers in providing Indian music therapy to people suffering from Autism, “Downs” Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Cancer, mental, psychological and speech disorders.
“Ïn blood-brain disorder, there is a blood-brain barrier unreachable by medicine — except for “sound” which is a drugless therapy with positive side-effects only while improving quality of life and communication for the sufferers,” he added.
Goa’s Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant came in for praise from the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who described him as “popular young Chief Minister Vaidya Pramod Sawant.”
Noting that the event was happening during India’s journey to the “Ämrit Kaal” (golden age) of independence, Modi said Ayurveda went beyond treatment into wellness., while the world’s first and only global center for traditional medicine has been opened in Jamnagar (Gujarat) by the WHO, and the whole world celebrates International Yoga Day as a global festival of health and wellness.
“We have also created an Äyush Research Portal” for evidence-based research data and have about 40,000 research studies including 150 specific research studies related to AYUSH even during the Corona period,” Modi said, adding “We are now forward towards forming a “National Ayush Research Consortium.”
“Today, about 40,000 MSMEs, small scale industries are boosting the local economy through their products and the Ayush industry – Rs 20,000 only eight years ago – has grown to Rs 1.5 lakh crore, besides the market for global herbal medicine and spices being around 120 billion dollars (Rs 10 lakh crores), and lakhs of new jobs being created.”
