Prakash Rambhauji
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, India
Title: Study on healthcare management through integration of ethnomedicine
Biography
Biography: Prakash Rambhauji
Abstract
India is one of the 12-mega diversity regions in the world including 15 agro-climatic zones. It is also one of the world’s richest sources of biodiversity in terms of medicinal plants. With its uninterrupted living tradition of health care, it provides India with a tremendous opportunity to meet the growing national and international demand for herbal products. India has a vast potential to develop multiple products for nutritional, preventive, promotive and curative care. The World Health Organization (WHO) has compiled a global atlas of Traditional Systems of Medicine. The global atlas presents that traditional complementary alternative medicine continues to be widely used in almost all the countries across the world. If traditional medicine is adopted as a part of a global strategy for primary health care (PHC), it would then provide the people of India and all other countries with an opportunity to achieve universal health care.
Development of resistance to currently used drugs for management of infectious diseases has led to increased emphasis on the need for use of natural resources including plant materials as a reliable source of medicines for a wide variety of human ailments in order to achieve the goal of health for all.