Pal has addressed an issue that is of greater significance than his brief on complementary and alternative medicine. The West belatedly realized that many people used non-allopathic therapies. Logically, ayurveda may have to be considered as mainstream in India because it had been there for centuries before allopathy came along. Western systems patronizingly define complementary and alternative medicine as 'therapies generally not taught nor practised in regular hospitals, lacking evidence of effectiveness and generally not reimbursable by third-party payer. Ayurveda emphasizes that lifestyle measures are integral to comprehensive management. Homeopathy also seeks to allow the body's own systems to correct imbalances. There should be no controversy in applying these principles to preserve health and to treat diseases.
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