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Surya said:
But these things are never mentioned here, outside of India, on...say the Discover Channel! Most of the things that the discover channel shows here, are programs like, 'THE ABOLA VIRUS BREAKS OUT IN AFRICA' or 'INDIA, THE BIGGEST AIDS CARRYING COUNTRY' or 'THE BUCKINGHAM PALACE, A MODERN WONDER!' I think that there is some truth is in this, but I remember seeing on one of the channels, either Discover(y?) or History in Australia, informative documentaries about Ayurveda , Yoga, Dance etc. According to one of these documentaries, Ayurveda is still practiced widely in Kerala and some times cures or improves the conditions of the patients in diseases which often cannot be handled by the standard western medicine.( But one of the same channels credits the British with breaking the Enigma code where as it seems to have been done by Polish Graduate students and given on a platter to the British). My impression is that now there are efforts to catalogue the traditional medicinal plants, and standard western type research to test some of the claims. It would be good if some body can find the names and addresses of such organizations.
Swarup