Traditional Medicines Enter the Mainsteam with Quality Control

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.. Traditional Medicines Enter the Mainstream with Quality Control

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/

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NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 29, 2003: Many people opt for traditional medicines

because they are affordable and believed to be less harmful. As a result,

the market is flooded with scores of Ayurvedic, Unani and Siddha cures, but

there is no official machinery to give them accreditation. Experts have

voiced concerns about their safety, quality, licensing of providers and

standards of training in connection with traditional medicine. The World

Health Organization (WHO) has recently come out with a traditional medicine

strategy for 2002-2005, which focuses on these issues. According to WHO, 70

percent of the Indian population use traditional medicine for their primary

health needs. Last week, a group of experts met here to plan out an

adequate strategy for integration of traditional medicine with the health

care system in India. They have recommended a separate set of standards for

regulating traditional medicine and the setting up of a body to provide

accreditation to medicinal claims.

 

 

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