Return to Health : Response of Subhasish.

March 1, 2006

Your realization is profound and your decision has the aroma of sanity. My two cents:1. Keep religious conotations away from medicine, no matter how strongly you or the practitioners believe they are linked. Inculcate a culture of factuality in practice. The followers will double in no time (look at the successful example of Kerela's ayurvedic practice of massages- they never overwhelm the patient with religious philosophies or their beleifs). 2. Plan specific campaigns. Focus an objective and strategy, define a period of the campaign, source its funding, implement it. Then move to the next. example. Have a "Cancer month". Create documentaries, news campaigns, beneficiary seminars- increase faith in people of the claims of success of Ayurveda in cancer. Do not abuse or compare other medicine during these campaigns. The result will be self explanatory. 3. Develop quality programs. A. Ask every Ayurvedic center to set up voluntary

"monitoring centers". Ask patients to report problems they have faced by medication or treatment.With your confidence in Ayurveda, I would encourage if they can promote a "no return for the same disease" policy. You will be amazed at the self generated audit results. USE THIS to thwart criticism in near future. B. form an Ayurvedic excellence council. Let the leading practioners form a practice council and audit the qulaity of practice nationwide. Develop a certification program. A stamp that should become the symbol of quality and any practitioner certified by the council shall become the symbol of reliability for common man. C. Spread free education on holistic health. This is the most difficult task. But the more knowledge we spread, the wider will be its acceptance. Secrecy and mystery should give way to enlightenment. This shall attract all cross sections of society. regardsSubhasish "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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