‘Taking Ayurveda to the world’ Sanjeev Pendharkar
Nowadays, India is in the news. This time all for good reasons. Not for its elephants and snake charmers like in the past. When wise men from this land used to speak about our ancient culture, values, heritage, yoga, ayurveda, food habits, meditation, surya-namaskar etc. world at large would look at us in ridicule. Not now, not only that, they themselves have now fallen prey to our way of living our values and above all our idea of healing with herbs i.e. ayurveda and medicines based on it. Countries like U.S.A., U.K., Canada and all European countries used allopathy as a system of medicine. They were suspicious about using ayurveda, and were afraid of the mystique around ayurveda. They were of the opinion that manufacturing process of ayurvedic drugs is not transparent and the product is not user-friendly. The western world is getting familiarized now, with ayurveda, and has accepted it as an alternative system of medicine. The switchover is there, from allopathy to ayurveda, th...
