2006-12-13 16:48:00 · 2 answers · asked by SashiG 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Ayurveda ("life science") is one of India's traditional systems of medicine, the other being South India's Siddha medicine
Allopathy is conventional medicine practiced by physicians who graduate from medical school and write “MD” or "DO" after their names.
Ayurveda will never fully replace Allopathy because the traditional does not evolve to accommodate the new discoveries in synch with the times.
Allopathy will always embrace emerging technologies -- the new imaging modalities, surgical techniques, genetic and cell therapies, pharmaceuticals and other aspects of conventional medicine.
Ayurveda will still rely on the 'trusted tried and true' traditional therapies upon which it is based for eons.
Most certainly there is adequate room for both but I don't really see them being totally complementary given the cultural differences and the industrial aspects of corporate medicine's money making apparatus.
The field of 'holistic' medicine is more in tuned with Ayurveda but it lacks the mainstream support enjoyed by practitioners of Allopathy.
2006-12-13 22:52:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe in India, but not likely in the United States. The reason, people here are too comfortable with Western medicine. ie. allopathic medicine. The traditional theory: find a disease or symptom, and treat that disease or symptom with medicine. It is scientifically based on observation and hypothesis.
Osteopathic medicine has a greater chance of at least being equivilent to allopathic medicine in the US, as they have all the same rights and priviledges as MD's. And are board certified physicians.
Good Luck!!
2006-12-13 17:22:25 · answer #2 · answered by wilbedoc2003 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋