MINNEAPOLIS, UNITED STATES, 13 June, 2005: “A few years ago, we could not have thought of having such a large number of people registering for an introductory three-day course on Ayurveda. But now this is a reality,” said, Vandana Tilak, an Ayurveda practitioner in California and organizer of a three-day seminar-cum-workshop on this Indian system of medicine at the City of Orange, south east of Los Angeles recently. Ayurveda seems to be slowly but firmly gaining ground across the United States of America. Among the 80 people who attended seminar recently include physicians, yoga instructors, therapist, masseurs and even quite a few health conscious people. Classes were taught by Dr. Vasant Lad, known in the U.S. as an authority on this traditional Indian system of medicine. In 2006, Lad is planning to hold a major conference on Ayurveda along with the mainstream doctors to deliberate on case studies and hold discussions on integrating this with the allopathic system of medicine. “All this shows that Ayurveda is gaining ground in the U.S.,” she said. “Often the cause is not purely physical but physiological as well. In this medicine system the patient is treated as a whole and treatments are tailored to each person uniquely,” said Tilak. Attributing increasing popularity of Ayurveda, she said: “The entire credit goes to yoga which is now visible in every nook and corner of this country. As a result, people have now become more curious about Ayurveda. Many of them have even started taking it as an alternative or supplementary to the main system.”
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