LONDON, ENGLAND, May 1, 2011: In less than a decade, Ayurveda has made a huge impact on many Londoners as more of them turn away from invasive allopathic treatment. But a new ruling comes as a blow to both the industry and patients, making it hard to obtain the medicines.
Director of Ayuspa Ayurvedic centre Muneet Dohil said, “We have seen the number of practitioners double every year, we now have Ayurvedic courses and degrees here which can train the lay person. There are probably about 600 practitioners as well as clinics in UK. We’ve been going nine years and we have 9,000 clients on our books.”
The growing popularity of Ayurvedic treatments will suffer but patients have still some way to get medicated. The EU ruling allows for sale of stock ordered before the ban, and sellers are hoping this will last for at least a year. Dohil further added, “Practitioners have had to place big orders to make sure they have enough stock to last them for at least one year until the statutory regulation.”