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Advance Access Publication 20 June 2006 eCAM 2006;3(4)547–548 doi: 10.1093/ecam/nel038 Meeting Report Second World Ayurveda Congress University of Pune, Pune, Maharashtra, India, November 5–12, 2006 Alex Hankey 1 and Bhushan Patwardhan 2 1 Hethe House, Cowden, Kent, UK and 2 University of Pune, Health Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra, India The Second World Ayurveda Congress will be hosted by the University of Pune during November 5–12, 2006, with the overall theme, ‘Ayurveda for the Future’. It is anticipated that the Congress will generate even greater global interest in Ayurveda than the First World Ayurveda Congress, held at Cochin, Kerala, in November 2002, visited by over 300 000 people. For those who wish to attend the Congress, the Congress web site, www.ayurworld.org, contains all necessary information, such as time for paper submission, registration fees, visa and inoculation requirements and so on. The Congress will be addressed by many leaders of the initiative to put Ayurveda on a scientific footing, so that it can be fully integrated into the health care practices and policies of modern governments. Only then will its unique approach to prevention and treatment be available for all the people of the world. Among such leaders, special mention should be made of Padmabhushan Professor R. A. Mashelkar FRS, Director of India’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, whose ‘Golden Triangle’ vision of Modern Science, Ayurveda and Modern Medicine lies at the heart of the Indian Government’s extensive current programs to establish the scientific validity of Ayurveda in both theory and practice, Padmavibhushan Dr M. S. Valiathan, developer of the tilting disc heart valve, and Dr Ashok Vaidya, who pioneered the concept of ‘reverse pharmacology’, in order to accelerate the verification of Ayurvedic herbal medicines and their mechanisms of action. The Congress is planned around four themes as follows: education, research, industry and publications. All its activities revolve around these, with special emphasis on science as the language of our times, both for the communication of valid knowledge and the means by which Ayurveda will expand globally. Special sessions will include (i) a presentation on activities of Ayurveda in different countries around the world outside India and (ii) a workshop by Professor Edwin Cooper, Editor-in-Chief of eCAM. The first will be chaired by Professor Gerard Bodeker of Oxford and Columbia Universi- ties, a pioneer in modern programs to bring traditional systems of medicine into policy considerations of medical authorities at national, international and global levels; the second will provide training for Ayurvedic doctors and scientists in the procedures necessary for publishing studies and papers in refereed scientific journals in the West, and so upgrade the level of publications on Ayurveda. Other presentations of wide interest will concern Ayusoft and Ayugenomics. Ayusoft comprises a large e-accessible knowledge base making all of Ayurveda, including its major texts, available as a resource for research, to improve medical practice, and for general knowledge and education. The latter, the work of Pune University’s Professor Patwardhan, Con- vener of the Congress, constitutes the firm connection so far made between the Ayurveda theory and the hardcore of modern biological sciences. Two days of the Congress, November 8 and 9, will be devoted to Gynecology in Ayurveda and related practices. Scientific presentations at the Congress will be held on the final 3 days, November 10–12. Forty-eight separate sessions are scheduled in four different lecture areas. They will include three kinds of presentation as follows: plenary sessions, parallel sessions for technical presentations and poster sessions. Those wishing to submit papers should send an English language abstract of not more than 200 words to [email protected] by July 30, for the conference committee to consider. Full text of approved papers (which may be in Hindi, English or Sanskrit) should reach the organizing committee by September 15, 2006. The Congress will also showcase best practice in Ayurveda, giving demon- strations of specific techniques. A unique aspect of the Congress will be its exhibition of live medicinal plants, 300 species having already been planted on a 2.5 acre plot adjacent to the Congress Hall. A large exhibition and trade fair will also be included in the Congress, For reprints and all correspondence: Alex Hankey, Hethe House, Cowden, Kent, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Ó The Author (2006). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. The online version of this article has been published under an open access model. Users are entitled to use, reproduce, disseminate, or display the open access version of this article for non-commercial purposes provided that: the original authorship is properly and fully attributed; the Journal and Oxford University Press are attributed as the original place of publication with the correct citation details given; if an article is subsequently reproduced or disseminated not in its entirety but only in part or as a derivative work this must be clearly indicated. For commercial re-use, please contact [email protected]
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Advance Access Publication 20 June 2006 eCAM 2006;3(4)547–548
doi: 10.1093/ecam/nel038
Meeting Report
Second World Ayurveda Congress
University of Pune, Pune, Maharashtra, India, November 5–12, 2006
Alex Hankey1 and Bhushan Patwardhan2
1Hethe House, Cowden, Kent, UK and 2University of Pune, Health Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra, India
The Second World Ayurveda Congress will be hosted by the
University of Pune during November 5–12, 2006, with the
overall theme, ‘Ayurveda for the Future’. It is anticipated that
the Congress will generate even greater global interest in
Ayurveda than the First World Ayurveda Congress, held at
Cochin, Kerala, in November 2002, visited by over 300 000
people. For those who wish to attend the Congress, the
Congress web site, www.ayurworld.org, contains all necessary
information, such as time for paper submission, registration
fees, visa and inoculation requirements and so on.
The Congress will be addressed by many leaders of the
initiative to put Ayurveda on a scientific footing, so that it can
be fully integrated into the health care practices and policies of
modern governments. Only then will its unique approach to
prevention and treatment be available for all the people of the
world. Among such leaders, special mention should be made
of Padmabhushan Professor R. A. Mashelkar FRS, Director of
India’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, whose
‘Golden Triangle’ vision of Modern Science, Ayurveda and
Modern Medicine lies at the heart of the Indian Government’s
extensive current programs to establish the scientific validity
of Ayurveda in both theory and practice, Padmavibhushan
Dr M. S. Valiathan, developer of the tilting disc heart valve,
and Dr Ashok Vaidya, who pioneered the concept of ‘reverse
pharmacology’, in order to accelerate the verification of
Ayurvedic herbal medicines and their mechanisms of action.
The Congress is planned around four themes as follows:
education, research, industry and publications. All its activities
revolve around these, with special emphasis on science as
the language of our times, both for the communication of valid
knowledge and the means by which Ayurveda will expand
globally. Special sessions will include (i) a presentation on
activities of Ayurveda in different countries around the world
outside India and (ii) a workshop by Professor Edwin Cooper,
Editor-in-Chief of eCAM. The first will be chaired by
Professor Gerard Bodeker of Oxford and Columbia Universi-
ties, a pioneer in modern programs to bring traditional systems
of medicine into policy considerations of medical authorities
at national, international and global levels; the second will
provide training for Ayurvedic doctors and scientists in the
procedures necessary for publishing studies and papers in
refereed scientific journals in the West, and so upgrade the
level of publications on Ayurveda.
Other presentations of wide interest will concern Ayusoft
and Ayugenomics. Ayusoft comprises a large e-accessible
knowledge base making all of Ayurveda, including its major
texts, available as a resource for research, to improve medical
practice, and for general knowledge and education. The latter,
the work of Pune University’s Professor Patwardhan, Con-
vener of the Congress, constitutes the firm connection so far
made between the Ayurveda theory and the hardcore of
modern biological sciences.
Two days of the Congress, November 8 and 9, will be
devoted to Gynecology in Ayurveda and related practices.
Scientific presentations at the Congress will be held on the
final 3 days, November 10–12. Forty-eight separate sessions
are scheduled in four different lecture areas. They will include
three kinds of presentation as follows: plenary sessions,
parallel sessions for technical presentations and poster
sessions. Those wishing to submit papers should send an
English language abstract of not more than 200 words to
[email protected] by July 30, for the conference
committee to consider. Full text of approved papers (which
may be in Hindi, English or Sanskrit) should reach the
organizing committee by September 15, 2006. The Congress
will also showcase best practice in Ayurveda, giving demon-
strations of specific techniques.
A unique aspect of the Congress will be its exhibition of live
medicinal plants, �300 species having already been planted
on a 2.5 acre plot adjacent to the Congress Hall. A large
exhibition and trade fair will also be included in the Congress,For reprints and all correspondence: Alex Hankey, Hethe House, Cowden,Kent, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
� The Author (2006). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
The online version of this article has been published under an open access model. Users are entitled to use, reproduce, disseminate, or display the open accessversion of this article for non-commercial purposes provided that: the original authorship is properly and fully attributed; the Journal and Oxford University Pressare attributed as the original place of publication with the correct citation details given; if an article is subsequently reproduced or disseminated not in its entiretybut only in part or as a derivative work this must be clearly indicated. For commercial re-use, please contact [email protected]
some 300 stands of all sizes ranging 3 m · 3 m upwards are
being planned. Those interested in exhibiting should contact
the web site for details of stand sizes and prices.
The host institution, the University of Pune, is familiar with
Congresses of the anticipated size, having already run two,
one of which, in 2000, attracted over half a million visitors.
It is host to a number of world-renowned institutes and
national laboratories, such as C-DAC, the originator of India’s
Supercomputer, where Ayusoft was developed; IUCAA,
founded by Professor Narlikar; the Tata Institute for Funda-
mental Research; the National Chemical Laboratory; and the
National Centre for Cell Science. The university is situated on
a beautiful campus of �400 acres. It is one of India’s leading
universities with thousands of foreign postgraduate students.
It possesses a flourishing and expanding Department of
Ayurveda. The university has already declared the year 2006
as ‘Ayurveda Awareness year’.
The other chief organizer of the Congress is Vijnana Bharati,
the largest humanist scientific organization in India, with
membership spread across the country. It is a dynamic
movement aiming to include sociospiritual sciences such as
Yoga along with natural material studies in the courses it
promotes throughout India.
The Organizing Committee invites all the people with
connections to Ayurveda, or other interests in the traditional
sciences and medical systems of the East, to come and enjoy
this celebration of Ayurveda’s traditional medical system.
Come and see how Ayurveda is adapting to the demands and
requirements of the 21st century, so that it can continue to
provide its unique systems of diagnosis, healing and restora-
tion of perfect health and well-being to those in need.
Received May 14, 2006; accepted May 19, 2006
548 Second World Ayurveda Congress, November 2006
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