All India Ayurvedic Congress on Thursday began with a clarion call to restore the supremacy of Ayurveda system and adopt holistic approach to improve the food cycle of humanity. The Ayurvedic Congress is being held in north India for the first time with 2,992 delegates from all over the country, BRIC and SAARC nations assembling for a brain-storming session.
It is being held with a sole purpose of evolving a broad based approach to make Ayurveda system a part of life. Punjab Health and Family Welfare Minister Surjit Kumar Jayani, inaugurating the Arogya Mela, said that India, the land of Dhanvantri and Ayurveda, has potential to become torchbearer in Ayurveda to provide healing touch to suffering humanity especially in the third world countries, which cannot afford costly medical care system.
Giving a call to Ayurveda doctors to evolve themselves according to the changing requirements of medical science, Jayani said that with the new pesticides, weedicides in the food cycle, it was imperative for Ayurveda to develop medicines to prevent the outbreak of new diseases afflicting humanity.
“Ayurveda has to combine ancient Ayurveda system of Dhanvantri besides strengthening research and development network to come out with preventive and curative medicines for new diseases like Ebola, swine flu, cancer and come out with cost effective system that could be adopted by masses living in the remote rural areas,” he said.