EMERGING CAREER IN AYURVEDA

Ayurveda or Ayurvedic science deals with the study of health care covering a broad area of god living & wellness. This is not only a medical science but this is ‘Science of life’. The job of a Ayurvedic Professional is challenging keeping in view the wide rang of incurable diseases newly emerging diseases and failure of other system of medicine specially allopathic System of Medicine.

Future of Ayurvedic Professionals

Ayurveda is India's traditional, natural system of medicine that has been practiced for more than 5,000 years. Ayurveda provides an integrated approach to preventing and treating illness through lifestyle interventions and natural therapies. Ayurvedic theory states that all disease begins with an imbalance or stress in the individual's consciousness. Lifestyle interventions are a major ayurvedic preventive and therapeutic approach. There are 10 ayurveda clinics in North America, including one hospital-based clinic that has served 25,000 patients since 1985.

In India, ayurvedic practitioners receive state-recognized, institutionalized training in parallel to their physician counterparts in India’s state-supported systems for conventional Western biomedicine and homeopathic medicine.

Ayurvedic medicines are produced by several thousand companies in India, but most of them are quite small, including numerous neighborhood pharmacies that compound ingredients to make their own remedies. It is estimated that the total value of products from the entire Ayurvedic production in India is on the order of one billion dollars (U.S.). The industry has been dominated by less than a dozen major companies for decades, joined recently by a few others that have followed their lead, so that there are today 30 companies doing a million dollars or more per year in business to meet the growing demand for Ayurvedic medicine. The products of these companies are included within the broad category of "fast moving consumer goods" (FMCG; which mainly involves foods, beverages, toiletries, cigarettes, etc.). Most of the larger Ayurvedic medicine suppliers provide materials other than Ayurvedic internal medicines, particularly in the areas of foods and toiletries (soap, toothpaste, shampoo, etc.), where there may be some overlap with Ayurveda, such as having traditional herbal ingredients in the composition of toiletries.

Eligibility: - for taking admission in the B.A.M.S. (Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine & Surgery) course the minimum requisite qualification is 10+2 with Physics, Chemistry and Biology (PCB)..................

Where to Study: - Presently there are more than thousand Ayurvedic colleges in the country which are imparting the BAMS degree. Some major Institutes of Ayurveda are .....

Job opportunities: - Job opportunities are not a constraint; one can go for the post graduation (M.D. /M.S.); the minimum qualification for the post of Lecturer or Assistant Professor. For getting admission in the M.D. /M.S. there is a state level test in every state. Apart from this some central universities like BHU. NIA etc. takes national level entrance examination for M.D/M.S. the subjects for the post graduation are.............