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Science can add punch to tribal medicine: experts

Kozhikode: Tribal healing methods and the application of indigenous medicine can be effectively modernised with the help of modern science, said several speakers at a seminar here on Sunday.

The discussion was held in connection with the inauguration of a five-day national workshop on tribal healing at the Kerala Institute for Research Training and Development Studies (KIRTADS) campus.

The Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, KIRTADS and the Indian Indigenous People Service Society are the organisers.

The workshop features an exhibition of tribal medicines and a treatment camp employing indigenous and tribal medicines.

K.C. Kunhiraman, MLA, who inaugurated it, said tribal people should be issued identity cards through tribal welfare societies to let them freely move around in the forest and collect medicinal and other allowed forest resources.

He had brought this issue to the notice of the Chief Minister recently.

Mr. Kunhiraman said the growing “anti-patriotic” feeling among the tribal people in India was because of a “sense of insecurity” they had “in their own habitat.”

“It is the role of the government to make them feel secured in their own land,” he said.

Tribal healers and experts in indigenous medicine from across the country are participating in the workshop, which will help them exchange their experience and expertise in their respective fields.

Discussions on various possibilities of tribal medicine will be held, besides seeking ways to make it easily accessible to people in its most effective form. The public can interact with the tribal medicine experts from across the country.

Tribal medicine experts from Wayanad and other places in the State are attending the meet.

As many as 200 tribal and indigenous medical experts from across the country will participate.

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