While the word Allopathy was used by Samuel Hahnemann for the first time in 1827, Sushrut was born in 800 BC. As most of us are not even aware of how conditioned we are, it is not easy to choose the better out of the two. We see what we want to see, loving the status quo.

As an example, even during the 18th Century, people opposed innovative efforts to such an extent that Jonas Hanway was attacked while carrying an umbrella in London in 1780. Similarly, there was a gap of 78 years in a widespread acceptance of the smallpox vaccination.

Let us understand how Allopathy has flourished so well globally. It has been mainly because of continuous research and the usage of modern-most technology for precise diagnosis, followed by the development of quick cure to ailments, using new medicines.

The dictum is what is measurable must be measured; and what is yet not measurable, efforts should continue to make it measurable. However, within the best of medical fraternity abroad as well, there has been near-cruel opposition to creativity and brilliance due to the prevailing conditioning amongst the medical professionals.

The pioneer of laparoscopy in the sixties, Kurt Karl Stephan Semm was fiercely opposed while he was in the middle of a slide projection. His projector was unplugged with the assertion that such unethical surgery should not be presented. He had to even undergo a brain scan because his colleagues suspected that only a person with brain damage would perform such a radical and dangerous procedure as laparoscopic surgery. However, his journey of excellence continued and today, laparoscopic surgery has become the way to go in many surgical procedures.

Mahesh Yogi published his research on Transcendental Meditation in Scientific American, and his professionals presented their research papers at the International Congress of Physiology in Frankfurt.

Another success story is that of Padma Shri Professor K.N. Udupa, founder-Director of the Institute of Medical Science, B.H.U. He had a degree both in Ayurvedic Medicine and an M.S. (Allopathy) from the University of Michigan in 1948, along with an F.R.C.S. from Canada. He was a legend, an icon. The government of India had appointed a Committee under his chairmanship, which was named Udupa Committee.

What best can we do today? Firstly, Government should go through the report submitted by the Udupa Committee in April 1959 and implement the recommendations made in that report. Secondly. we must follow what Nobel Laureate Francis Crick wrote in Nature (U.K.) on 6-2-2003: “In Nature, hybrid species are usually sterile, but in science the reverse is true. Hybrid subjects are often astonishingly fertile whereas if a scientific discipline remains too pure it usually wilts.”

We have holy hope that our learned Union Minister of Health Dr Harsh Vardhan ensures that holistic and integrated medicine authentically helps us with lesser “TOL-MOL” and more “TAL-MEL”, etymologically true to his name: “Enhancement of Joy”

By: Prof Bhoomittra Dev
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Prof. Dev has had a long and throughout First-Class career as a student and as an academician. In the course of his education, he was the Chancellor’s Gold medalist and as an academician, he has served as the Vice-Chancellor of Gorakhpur University, Rohilkhand University Bareilly, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University Agra, and Mangalayatan University Aligarh. He is the author of several books, including “Happiness in the Knowledge Century”. He is credited to having solved an international controversy Between the U.S.A. and Germany pertaining to the functioning of the Kidney. He presently lives in Lucknow and travels across the country for academic seminars.

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