Preserve Western Ghats as reserve for medicinal plants : P Parameswaran
The raging controversy and violent protest over the Gadgil-Kasturirangan report deserve serious consideration and effective remedies. It is absolutely necessary that the delicate environmental balance should not be rudely upset because that will spell disaster for the future. At the same time people who are engaged in and also those who are interested in cultivating the land in an environment friendly manner should be given opportunity to utilize areas in sufficient and viable manner.
Kerala is the cradle of Ayurveda though it is our national system of medicine. Kerala has innovatively developed and promoted it by adding new dimension like Panchakarma. Inspite of the growth of the modern medicine with all its attractive marketing system, Ayurveda still remains the favorite system for the majority of people. But Ayurveda is facing the danger of loss of credibility because all the necessary ingredients are simply not available. In this competitive era it is our duty to preserve and protect Ayurveda in its purity and efficacy. It is necessary not only for the sake of thousands of Ayurvedic physicians but also to give employment to lakhs of cultivators engaged in growing herbal plants sufficiently extensively. Western Ghats are ideally suitable for this. Cash crops like rubber are largely dependent on foreign markets and hence unpredictable. Ayurvedic herbs are totally independent of the fluctuations in foreign markets. It will be wise for us to make a virtue of the present crisis and save both nature as well as Ayurveda.
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