A two-day international conference on Ayurveda and Yoga commenced here on Friday at RD Memorial Ayurved College and Hospital, Berkhedi Kalan, Bhadbhada Road. The attraction of the day was the lecture by Dr Oleg Sorokin from Russia who elaborated about his inventions related to Ayurveda and the correlation between western studies and Ayurveda.
The conference was inaugurated by Science and Technology Minister Umashankar Gupta on Friday. He also released a souvenir on the occasion.
The main objective behind the conference is to discuss on the topic Ayurveda and Yoga and psychosomatic disorders on a single platform.
On the first day, speakers talked about importance of Ayurveda, Psychological counseling, Herbal Treatment and the preventive measures of various harmful diseases which is available in Ayurveda.
Prof Dr PK Prajapati talked about Importance of Ayurveda Chikitsa in Social Media Addiction. According to him, our social media is harmful to the extent it is of our use as it has stopped out mental development. Students don’t refer books for the knowledge. They prefer internet to find the recent inventions and more but that leads to its addiction and blocks mental development.
The irregular lifestyle is also leading to many diseases like, insomnia, computer visionary syndrome and more which can be corrected through the regular practice of Yoga.
Dr Madhav Singh Baghel talked about ‘Vishad’ which means Neurosis, anxiety neurosis, and anxiety disorder which is very common in this era with everyone due to dreadful lifestyle which the youngsters are living with. He explained how anxiety neurosis is managed in Ayurveda and anxiety disorder is coming from the time of Mahabharat.
Dr Nitin Agrawal, National Secretary Vishwa Ayurveda Parishad focused on elaborating on ‘Quality Control in Ayurveda Industry’.
Dr Oleg Sorokin, Chief Executive Officer of NAMA from Russia, presented on ‘The development of national ayurvedic medical for Russia’. He talked about his invention of an ‘Analog for pulse reading’ which he made 15 years ago to prove western doctors. As western doctors work on facts and figures they need prove to accept any fact on the grounds of safety and more.
Dr. Oleg is also finding correlation between Ayurvedic terms and terms of western physiology, so that it could be easily understand by western doctors.