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`No cure yet for Parkinson's disease'

Staff Reporter

Only an improvement in quality of life possible: seminar

KOZHIKODE: Papers and discussions at the 43rd annual ayurveda seminar on `Parkinsonism' held here on Sunday observed that there is no cure to Parkinson's disease in ayurveda, allopathy or any other streams of medicine.

But an improvement in the quality of life of the patient was very much possible.

Only 5 per cent of the persons affected by Parkisons get them genetically. The rest get them owing to a variety of reasons, including environment pollution, injuries to head, pesticides and loss in the number of cells in the human brain. Briefing press persons on the observations and conclusions of the seminar here on Sunday, Dr. K.G.Paulose, chief editor, Arya Vaidya Sala (AVS), Kottakkal publications said that Parkinson's disease is generally a male disease with very few number of women being affected with this disease.

A point that was raised at the seminar was that single drugs were not in the tradition of Ayurveda. Ayurveda prescribes formulations of various medicines. Hence, certain herbal drugs (which was a single drug) promising cure was not following the Ayurvedic tradition. Dr. A.P.Haridas, consultant to AVS, Kottakkal and Dr.P.Madhavankutty Warrier of AVS, Kotakkal also spoke at the briefing.

Dr.K.G.Ravindran, medical director, Arya Vaidya Pharmacy Limited, Coimbatore and Dr.S.Ram Manohar, Senior Consultant Neurologist, PVS Hospital, Kozhikode were among those who presented papers at the seminar. Dr. C.R. Agnives, principal, Mannam Cooperative Ayurveda College, Pandalam was the moderator of the interactive session.

Earlier, inaugurating the seminar, Dr. P.K.Warrier, managing trustee and chief physician, AVS, Kottakkal said that Ayurvedic development was possible as it transformed from the realm of private knowledge to a knowledge of the society. Making an observation on the kind of treatment in the past, Dr.Warier said that in the past the treatment confined to an inexplicable bond between the physician and the patient. Then patient did not to think twice when he\she gets affected by a disease. But now patients have the facility to choose the doctor and the type of treatment, Dr.Warrier observed.

More than 1000 persons including 900 doctors across the State participated in the seminar.

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