Timeless message

Posted on May 6, 2012 by stella79

Tribal people all over the world view the world with the most sensitive and insightfull intelligence and which have a profound respect and responsibility for life.

The tribal concepts of the interdependence of life may well be worth listening to.

The Kanis (owner of the land) know that the earth’s cycle is intimately connected to the birth and death of all living creatures. They have elaborated beliefs, rules, and rituals which embue them with the duty to ensure that those cycles continue revolving without upset. This is part of an pressarticle that I wrote for the Indian Express in january 15th, 1995. The title of this article was ‘A Simple Message.’ I wrote this for the festival that was conducted by the International Centre for Cultural Development (ICCD) for the tribal community from Kerala, South India.

We organized a 5 days program with the Kani Tribes for our foreign guest who where residing at ICCD at that time.

Now it is May 2012, I right away can write the same message as 17 years before. It is even more relevant now then it was at that time. We really have to take the words of my great teachers, whom I learned so much, very seriously. Be nice to each other and yourself and ultimately be nice to the whole world.

Cornelis Peters

IOU-TASTAM works on GP for Ayurveda in Europe

Posted on May 4, 2012 by stella79

During the last decade, use of traditional medicine has expanded globally and has gained popularity. It has not only continued to be used for primary health care of the poor in developing countries, but has also been used in countries where conventional medicine is predominant in the national health care system.

With the tremendous expansion in the use of traditional medicine worldwide, safety and efficacy as well as quality control of herbal medicines and traditional procedure-based therapies have become important concerns for both health authorities and the public.

Various practices of traditional medicine have been developed in different cultures in different regions without a parallel development of international standards and appropriate methods for evaluating traditional medicine.

The challenge now is to ensure that traditional medicine is used properly and to determine how research and evaluation of traditional medicine should be carried out. Governments and researchers, among others, are increasingly requesting WHO to provide standards, technical guidance and information on these issues. IOU-TASTAM from the Netherlands and interested partners from EU member states are combining their expertise to work on GP for Ayurveda.

Ayurveda in the primary healthcare

Posted on May 3, 2012 by stella79

With the growing need for a renewal in the primary health care Ayurveda, the Mother of all Medicines might give an important boost to an healthcare that is more caring, equitable, accessible and affordable. In this post genomic time we need an healthcare that oversees the whole picture. The two systems of traditional and Western medicine need not clash. Within the context of primary health care, they can blend together in a beneficial harmony, using the best features of each system, and compensating for certain weaknesses in each. “We have to think big, act accordingly, dare to fail and stop talking…now it is time for action.

IOU-TASTAM’s profile is now on the Fit for Health database.

Posted on May 2, 2012 by stella79

The Fit for Health database offers both profiles of SMEs and research institutes interested in becoming involved in FP7 research projects as well as partner searches of research consortia looking for SME partners.

Cornelis Peters is coordinator of a research consortia preparing a project proposal about Ayurveda-GP for an open call in the 7th Framework Programme. Now it is time to look for research and SME partners. For that reason our profile is on the Fit for Health database. This database is a gateway for the European SME and research partners to react on the proposal and join this consortium.