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Balanced and sustainable growth needs to happen at the level of more standardized education, clinical practice, research and pharmacy levels. Since few decades, there has been tremendous growth in Ayurveda happening globally. But, there is an urgent need for strategic planning to address certain challenges. Healthcare policy decisions in India are largely opinion-based and often fail to consider regional differences in culture, socialeconomic conditions, population characteristics,healthcare-seeking behavior, literacy levels, and other relevant factors. This “one-size-fits-all”approach falls short in the context of Ayurveda.This fact becomes obvious when one compares the model of Ayurvedic education that prevails in southern India with the one that predominates in the northern states. While many institutions in northern states, including Banaras Hindu University in Uttar Pradesh, have adopted an integrative model of Ayurvedic training, those located in southern states like Kerala have largely opted for a “classics-oriented” approach.Thus, the goal of promoting uniformity in training may be unrealistic [34] . Furthermore,advocates of these different approaches lack sufficient evidence to categorically state that either model (integrative or “pure” Ayurveda) is superior to the other.
Most importantly, there is almost no research on Ayurvedic educational policy happening in India. Unlike most nations,India has yet to found either government or university-based institutes dedicated to research on medical education policy. As a result of this research gap, huge disparities in training between different streams of healthcare professionals persist. A wellthought-out strategy is clearly needed to address this problem. Data from well-designed educational surveys and experiments is essential to policymakers’ ability to craft informed decisions. To date, only a handful of published papers that provide such data are available on the research databases such as PubMed. The establishment of an institution focused on medical education policy research and equipped with a mandate to guide the development of evidence-based policies in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Ministry of AYUSH would go a long way toward resolving these issues.
Ultimately, the advancement of Ayurvedic Medicine both within and beyond India will require a multi-pronged effort to align it with modern science. Pharmacoepidemiological studies documenting its safety and effectiveness and new clinical processes, research protocols,and whole system treatment regimens are needed. Much remains to be done. Yet as a knowledge system that pioneered a holistic,personalized approach to medicine that has thrived for thousands of years, Ayurveda promises to play an innovative, dynamic, and highly valued role in the continued evolution of integrative healthcare.
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