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eCAM 2008 5(2):129-131; doi:10.1093/ecam/nen013
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Second World Ayurveda Congress (Theme: Ayurveda for the Future)—Inaugural Address: Part I

R. A. Mashelkar

National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India

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   Introduction
 
In November 2006, the Second World Ayurveda Congress was held at the University of Pune, often known as the ‘Oxford of the East’. For the Congress to be held alongside the University's hallowed halls speaks much for the progress, Ayurveda has made in recent decades, particularly as it was housed just behind the main University administration building, once the summer residence of British Viceroys, including Ayurveda's most ruthless persecutor, Lord Macaulay. The choice of Pune was particularly due to the University's Professor of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Professor Bhushan Patwardhan, also an editorial board member of eCAM who did much to organize the event.

The last 5 years, in particular, have seen a sea change in Ayurveda's national profile. India's ancient medical system has slowly grown through a long period of rehabilitation from the depressed state in which it was left at independence by British antipathy. Although over half British materia . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Inaugural Address (Eliminate personal points between)
 

   New Interest in Ayuveda
 

   Ayurveda and Modern Science: The ‘GOLDEN TRIANGLE’
 

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