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eCAM Advance Access published online on May 14, 2008
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© 2008 The Author(s).
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.

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

R. A. Mashelkar

National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, Maharashtra, India

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   The Traditional Knowledge Digital Library
 
That, ladies and gentlemen, is how the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (1) came to be. As Dr Bhatkar told you, that is why, if you put ‘Traditional Knowledge Digital Library’ into Google, you are now one of 30 million plus hits. That is the magnitude of the transformation that has taken place. What we have done is to take Ayurvedic text, Sanskrit text and converted them into English, codified them and created a traditional knowledge resource classification. This has then been linked to international patent classification. Why is it important to have done so? Because we discovered that, of the 10 000 international patent classification subgroups, only one was for traditional medicine. How can you have only one subgroup out of 10 000 for such a rich system? Now, thanks to our Indian effort, there are 200 subgroups. I am sure, that as other systems come in, that . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Ayurveda as a World Medical System
 

   Science-based Ayurveda Products
 

   Questions of Toxicity and Mechanism
 

   Conclusion
 

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