It’s all ayurveda from Holland to Ludhiana

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It's all ayurveda from Holland to Ludhiana

 

Megha Mohan

 

Ludhiana, November 20: A BUBBLY group of four female students of

European Institute of Scientific Research in Ayurveda (EISRA),

Holland, are in the city to study the intricacies of manufacturing

of ayurvedic drugs. These students, who are on a study tour to

Ludhiana and Jalandhar, study at EISRA in four-year degree course

and are here under an academic exchange.

 

``These students are studying under the continuing medical education

programme, wherein they are polishing their skills,'' says Dr

Sanjeev Sood, Head of Department of Panchkarma at Dayanand Ayurvedic

College and Hospital, Jalandhar, who is the coordinator of the

group. These students are a part of the batch of 15 students who

would be visiitng India in January 2006 for further studies. They

have come to India for theoretical training at Dayanand institute in

Jalandhar and to take practical knowledge at local ayurveda firm,

Pentavox India Limited, which claims to be the only manufacturer

having good manufacturing practice (GMP) certification.

 

 

 

The students are also taken to Gujarat Ayurvedic University,

Jamnagar, for theoretical knowledge. ``However, for the past four

years students have been coming to our institute at Jalandhar. So

far we have imparted theoretical skills to 35 students.

 

``Ayurveda is the need of the hour in Holland and as a move to

secure my future I am taking education of this system of medicine,''

says 26-year-old Sandjli Bisseser, an Indian whose forefathers

settled in Holland decades ago. Sandjli is basically an informaton

techonology professional who is diversifying towards ayurveda.

Besides Sandjli, other people in the group included Jneke

Willeboordse from Amsterdam, Lydia Reuter from Maastricht, Carryn

Bea and Den Haag. Dr Sood said that in India, the birthplace of

ayurveda, it's seen as an alternate system of medicine. ``But in

countries like Holland it's given proper recognition and called

Vedic system of medicine or proper ayurveda, which is heartening,''

he adds.

 

Dr Pradeep Nagrath, chief executive officer (CEO) of Pentavox, said

his firm has a tie up with EISRA wherein students come for practical

knowledge. ``These students are being taught urban drugs

manufacturing of ayurvedic medicine,'' he added.

 

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