If we can combine essences from the theories of scriptures like Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Acupuncture and modern medical systems, we can get a great medical science.
We can look to Tibetan medicine as a prime example of the beneficial results of a truly integrative medical system. Tibetans took native, Indian, Hellenic and Unani medical ideas and created a viable, safe and effective natural medicine system. This process of integration took centuries of work by scholars, clinicians and translators.
In the modern context, however, biomedical industrial products such as Complementary and Alternative medicine, Integrative Medicine and Functional Medicine have become the norm. Each was promoted to try to increase market share for the biomedical industry, and maintain its dominance in the face of growing interest in and use of so-called alternative medicine approaches.
With the advent of modern communication, it may not take centuries to establish credible integrated medical systems. Nevertheless, achieving this will demand the same patience, meticulousness, and rigorous approach that the Tibetans employed over centuries to develop Tibetan medicine. Anything short of this will not result in a "great medical science" but rather a jumbled assortment of techniques, therapies, and products that will insufficiently benefit individuals and will instead erode the quality and value of traditional Asian medicine systems and other natural medicine disciplines like homeopathy.
Furthermore, we must acknowledge and value the diversity of human knowledge. The tendency to hypothesize (or fetishize) about a singular, all-encompassing, coherent theoretical framework that fully elucidates and connects all aspects of the universe is dubious. Cultivating new ideas, approaches, systems, and epistemologies is vital for human progress. However, this cannot be achieved by merely reducing the multidimensional nature of human knowledge and culture to a single flat paradigm.
It is also important for practitioners of traditional Asian medicine to modernize our professional approaches, allowing us to communicate fluently across disciplines and cultures, and collaborate to preserve and develop our centuries-old medical traditions. The persistent tendency to perpetuate traditional forms of sectarianism and chauvinism, or to give in to the hegemony of biomedicine and its ideologies, such as Evidence Based Medicine, cannot foster progress.
Thank you very much for your thoughtful comments. There are several truths in the various medical systems and there are valuable effective medicines and their methods of administration. It would be great to combine all the knowledge to give birth to a new genre. But it will be very difficult to get some keen minded people with versatile knowledge and experience to do it. Moreover, it requires a lot of money.
Undoubtedly this is needed. As a homeopath, have tried to educate myself in other therapeutic systems such as Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine and many more disciplines, to understand to help the body return to health. Each system has expanded my perspective and has the potential of increasing treatment success.
Yes , it can be expected and hope to be the invaluable boon to the human society
yes, definitely dear Sir. If we proactively follow our traditional system of medicines we can prevent so many common seasonal diseases as well as minimizes the use of modern medicine except emergency conditions.
Vata Pitta Kapha of Ayurveda, and Psora Psycho Syphilis of Homeopathy help us a lot to understand the nature of the patient and cure the disease of the patient.
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