Q. 151: Gurudev, while Ayurveda is considered to be indigenous system of medicine, then why does English medicine have a government take over Ayurvedic medicines. Also English medicine claims to have a faster recovery rate?

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

You know statistics show contrary to this. Even in modern medicine, the probability factor of medicine not affecting is very high. 

Research says Placebo effect with modern medicines is nearly 40%.
Modern medicines are being discovered every day and those which were used 10 - 12 years ago are being discarded. Problem is that these pharmaceutical companies have lot of economical interest. 

It is economy which is ruling modern medicine rather than effectiveness. I feel we should have a combined, holistic approach. Ayurveda has some very good qualities, allopathic medicines also have some very good aspects and also homeopathic. 

Holistic medicine is the best. It is wrong to completely discard modern medicine and it is equally wrong to discard natural cures, ayurveda. Allopathy does well in case of emergency, and ayurveda has a unique way of attending to the root cause of disease and not only symptoms, and healing without side effects. 

Today many such researches have been done on this and many have experienced this. E.g. Probability of remission of piles by allopathic treatment is very high but in case of ayurveda it is less than one percent. These are the things one should adopt about ayurveda. 

Ayurveda is anyway adopting modern methods of investigation. So best is to adopt a holistic approach. Our aim is not to benefit pharmaceutical companies but people.

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