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Ayurveda teachers, students plan dharna

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KANNUR: The Ayurveda Aikya Vedi, a joint forum of Ayurveda students and teachers, will stage dharnas and marches on July 2 in front of District Collectorates in the State to demand withdrawal of a government order which, it says, encourages fraudulent Ayurveda practice in the State.

The Vedi, which comprises 13 organisations in the Ayurveda sector, will observe Doctors’ Day on Wednesday as ‘anti-quackery day,’ its district chairman P.V. Balakrishnan and convener K.C. Ajith Kumar said at a press conference here on Tuesday.

They said the government order excluded traditional Ayurveda practitioners in the Malabar region aged 21 in 1987 and having five years’ experience and traditional Siddha practitioners above the age of 21 and having five years’ experience in the central and southern districts from the registration process under medical rules.

The order, which overrode all existing rules, would reverse the progress made in the Ayurveda sector, they said.

Exclusion of over 70,000 unauthorised practitioners from the legal procedure in the State, which had less than 10,000 registered medical practitioners, would create anarchy in the health sector, they said.

They said Ayurveda practice required scientific knowledge about Ayurveda medicines and their reactions as many Ayurveda drugs contained ingredients that were harmful if not used properly.

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