Global Convention On Ayurveda
The year-long centenary celebrations of renowned Ayurveda physician and founder of Coimbatore Arya Vaidya Pharmacy Arya Vaidyan P.V. Rama Varier will culminate with a global convention on Ayurveda. The four-day event to be held in Coimbatore from August 21 would focus on three major themes facing healthcare practitioners all over the world, said P.K. Krishnakumar, chairman and managing director, Arya Vaidya Pharmacy (Coimbatore). Geriatric problems, metabolic disorders and nutrition would be the three focus areas of the convention.The deliberations would be on the relevance of Ayurveda in addressing these critical areas of healthcare. The sessions were structured with keynote address to be followed by three plenary lectures as well as two independent sessions on concepts and research. The keynote speaker would provide a perspective of the issue under discussion from both the Ayurvedic and Allopathic points of view.
The plenary sessions, to be attended by around 12 resource persons, would address macro-level issues facing the three areas. Apart from this, panel discussions would focus on the following topics: Ayurvedic pedagogy: global needs; Science in the context of Ayurveda for global acceptance; Ayurveda and Biotechnology; Health and illness: global challenges and Ayurvedic solutions; Transcultural perception and regulatory issues; Evolution of Ayurvedic industry in the global pharma milieu. The highlight of the global convention was participation of practitioners of modern medicine and researchers along with experts in Ayurveda.
Experts from India and abroad would take part in the deliberations. The sessions were structured to provide a ‘modus operandi’ for applying Ayurveda to these three areas of healthcare. The discussions were also expected to generate possibilities and projects for collaborative research involving at least one Ayurveda institute and an institute specialising in relevant field of science at the national/global levels.
