Ayurvedic Treatment

The Nature Of Medical Consultation In Ayurvedic Medicine

Ayurvedic treatment comprises of providing medical consultation along Ayurveda principles. Find the supplements used for in Ayurvedic medicine for enhancing health and keeping away diseases.

In India, ayurveda doctors enjoy great legal freedom - they can prescribe modern drugs, they can prescribe ayurvedic or herbal formulations or they can devise herbal formulations for their patients.

But for International patients, ayurveda doctors should limit themselves to herbs, herbal medicine and supplements. No modern drug should be prescribed by them. The medical consideration should be left to medical doctors and health practitioners.

That is why we advise ayurveda doctors to prescribe only and only herbs based ayurvedic formulations for global consultation. Only those western herbs should be advised with which the herbalist is familiar - benefits and uses, dosage and biochemical composition, side effects and precautions and drug herb interactions, and modern herbal research.

In US, European and several other countries, the scenario is quite different. And if some ayurveda doctor is offering consultation, he should adjust according the global requirements.

Ayurvedic Treatment In India By Ayurveda Doctors

Ayurveda doctors are practicing quite differently from all the herbalists all over the world. We are pointing toward some main differences here.

Ayurvedic Treatment And The Legal Recognition:

Ayurvedic medicine and ayurvedic treatment is a legally recognized medical system and ayurveda doctors study all the modern medical subjects like medical doctors. The duration of ayurvedic and medical degree and internship is same.

However, in most other countries, particularly US and European countries, there is very poor regulation of herbal practitioners and they are not considered as qualified herbalists. Their education, course curriculum and duration is much shorter than medical doctors that is why they don't enjoy that much freedom and recognition.

Any ayurvedic doctor should offer ayurvedic treatment globally keeping the above facts in mind and the following considerations.

  1. Herbalists can't prescribe, they can suggest.
  2. Herbalists can't diagnose, they can inform.
  3. Herbs are not medicine or drug, they are only food supplements.
  4. Always advise to inform your doctor if you are taking some herbal supplements.
  5. Herbalists don't treat, they can help to cure.

Ayurvedic Treatment And Ayurvedic Medicine:

Herbalists offer herbal supplements in various forms to patients but a normal ayurvedic doctor has more choices for his patients in India.

  1. Only herbs based ayurvedic formulations in various forms.
  2. Minerals and metallic compounds like purified mercury, sulphur, tin, lead, iron, mica, borates, calcium, silver, gold, and ashes of several other minerals and organic materials.
  3. Herbo-mineral products.

Though minerals are frequently used by doctors and some herbalists as nutritional supplements, the use of heavy metals is prohibited. Most people are afraid of and frown upon the use of heavy metals in some ayurvedic preparations.

Some ayurvedic preparations that are put under "Rasa" categories are using these minerals and heavy metals. There is very little known and written about these ayurvedic preparations outside Indian subcontinent.

Holistic-herbalist.com will definitely make a balanced presentation of these ayurvedic preparations. Their benefit and safety is being proven by some ayurvedic companies in animal and human trials. Ascertaining the safety of these preparations is more easier under present conditions when we can monitor closely the effects of some medicine on physiological processes and biochemicals.

Ayurvedic doctor should use only herbs based preparations while offering ayurvedic treatment to patients globally. This policy should be clear to the patients right from the begining.

To save oneself from illegal behavior and to be serviceful to one's global clients, this is the only way. Now some pharma companies are defaming ayurvedic preparations saying that these herbal and natural products contain heavy metals.

Simply there is no sense in claiming that we found out heavy metals in a herbo-mineral preparation when the label over that medicine is clearly stating that such and such herbs and minerals and metals are present in this proportion. So this concern should be judiciously addressed for sake of professional behavior.

Another issue that comes is that some herbs do contain heavy metals or toxic chemicals. I do say that most herbs are safe for this consideration and there is no point to do heavy metal testing for every herb intended for medicinal purpose.

Some locations have polluted water and soil with abnormally high concentration of heavy metals or toxic substances. And it is natural that herbs from that area might contain such chemicals. There should be measures to ascertain the safety of herbs from these areas.

Otherwise most of wild grown or organically grown or forest grown herbs are free from heavy metals and outside toxic substances.

Ayurvedic Treatment And The Proper Knowledge Of Western Herbs:

There are many herbs that are not popular or used or taught to ayurveda doctors for ayurvedic treatment in India. The practical solution is to get good knowledge of these herbs from reputed and dependable resources. It is best if ayurveda doctors pursue some distance learning course in herbal medicine from reputed source.

Most patients will ask many questions about many herbs that are popular in their own countries or a standard remedy for an ailment in a particular country. So be well informed and resourceful about western herbs. Never fool others that you are informed when you are not. Invest some time and money and the fruits will be sweeter. All people do know that one person can't master all the herbs in world!

Ayurvedic Treatment And Ayurvedic Consultation:

I like to highlight these points in the end. Ayurvedic doctors should be well informed of the status of ayurvedic medicine and herbs in other countries of the world. And then he should practice following those guidelines.

The prescription or herbal consultation should include only herbal preparations. It is better that no preparation is containing illegal or banned herb for that particular country.

One should have sound knowledge of Western herbs and modern herbal medicine for ayurvedic treatment. So a little sacrifice when combined with some good learning and served with serviceful heart and informed mind is sure remedy for a herbalist who aims for global consultation.



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