STRESS AND HOLISTIC MEDICINE: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

The stress is unavoidable turbulence within us. One of the factors leading to such stress or turbulence in us; is non- availability of holistic medical assessment, investigations and treatment under one roof. The only way to manage this kind of stress is international and national policy of adopting holistic medicine in mainstream medical education, training, practice and research.

Our stress would certainly be managed if we actually witness development of medical institutions, which would engage in teaching, training, practice and research of holistic medicine and holistic health care.

The most essential and the core aspect (and also the asset) of these institutions would be that; everyone involved in them would be encouraged to practice NAMASMARAN. The practice of NAMASMARAN could vary as per one’s religious beliefs.

Second characteristic would be encouragement to practice of PRANAYAMA.

The third feature would be encouragement of vegetarianism. The food served on campus to the patients and the staff members; would be vegetarian and would include green vegetable, fruits, roots, tubers, different grains, spouted beans, and different variety of nuts, different oils, cow milk and plenty of drinking water.
Drinking water would be available in earthen pots (matkas) and the fridge water would best be avoided.

There would be plantations of herbs such as tulsi, neem, bel, kmari, gulvel, aghada, putrajeevak, shivalingi, kadamba, lemon grass, pudina, jaswandi, pipal, banyan etc and other edible fruits and vegetables also.

There would be quotes, portraits, photos, paintings, specimens, murals of (from Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy; of scientists, instruments, techniques, herbs etc), which would empower, inspire and motivate the patients, the students the staff members for working together to blossom one another!

The curriculum would include compulsory introductory course as a foundation in which holistic approach, holistic medicine, holistic health are introduced and explained; so as to inculcate the unity amidst apparent diversity of people as well as medical systems, so as to enable everyone; to appreciate the contribution of every walk of life and every system of medicine in contributing to holistic health.

The OPD and IN DOOR treatment would be in consultation with the experts from different systems of medicine and different specialties. Different modalities of treatment (under the supervision and control of experts) such as yoga, pranayama, panchakarma, shatkarma, naturopathy; besides; physiotherapy, intensive care, surgery and rehabilitation would be available.

There would be a team of doctors to advise the local, state and central governments; on designing and implementing policies in different fields such as agriculture, industries, education, information and broadcasting; and so on; for achieving holistic health, on routine basis as well as during critical periods such as endemics, epidemics and pandemics.

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