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| India is emerging as health tourism destination. Ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of healthcare with its non-invasive medications is increasingly gaining acceptance as an effective alternative system of medicine. In several areas, where the allopathic system has drawbacks, Ayurveda has an answer. Homeopathy, the European |
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transplant, which withered in Europe but evolved as a full-fledged system of medicine in India, is another holistic system that attracts people from many countries for treatment as well as to study. Siddha, Naturopathy, Yoga and Unani are the other holistic systems that are practiced in the country. Siddha is an indigenous system prevalent in the South and in approach similar to Ayureveda but its medications are mainly synthesized minerals and metals that include sulpher and mercury. Unani, like Homeopathy is an import. It has its origins in Greece and came to the sub-continent along with Alexander the Great. The word is a corruption of 'Yevana', the Indian name for Greek. However, it was the Arabs who shaped it into what it is today. |
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