Professor, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Indian J Public Health. 2020 Jun;64(Supplement):S105-S107. doi: 10.4103/ijph.IJPH_500_20.
There is a lot of discussion on COVID-19 control strategies from the mainstream approaches, but it is also necessary to examine the contributions of the Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa Riga and Homeopathy (AYUSH) sector, which is now being brought into public health interventions nationally. Although the AYUSH sector had previously joined the management of dengue and chikungunya outbreaks in some Indian states, its participation has remained contentious and there is reluctance in mainstream public health discourses to seriously examine their interventions. This is a commentary on the efforts made by the Ministry of AYUSH, state AYUSH directorates, AYUSH research institutions, and public hospitals, based on official documents as well as official statements reported in the media, with the aim of bringing out concerns in the process of adapting traditional textual knowledge and practices to public health requirements of the current age.
关于新冠疫情防控策略，主流观点有很多讨论，但也有必要审视阿育吠陀、瑜伽和顺势疗法、尤纳尼、悉达、苏瓦里加和顺势疗法（AYUSH）领域的贡献，该领域现在正在被纳入国家公共卫生干预措施。尽管 AYUSH 部门此前曾参与印度一些邦的登革热和基孔肯雅热疫情的管理，但它的参与一直存在争议，主流公共卫生话语也不愿意认真审查其干预措施。这是对 AYUSH 部、邦 AYUSH 局、AYUSH 研究机构和公立医院所作努力的评论，其依据是官方文件以及媒体报道的官方声明，目的是在将传统文本知识和实践应用于当代公共卫生要求的过程中，提出关切。
