Ayurveda week celebrated in SL

India – Sri Lanka cooperate to fight kidney disease through Ayurveda

​Two eminent Ayurveda experts visited Sri Lanka to conduct workshops and seminars at different Ayurveda Institutes of Sri Lanka last week. 

This is part of the extended celebration of the third International Day of Yoga. The visit is being coordinated by the High Commission of India, Colombo.

Asst. Professor, National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur Dr. Asit Kumar Panja and Associate Professor, All India institute of Ayurveda, New Delhi, Dr. Vittal Huddar interacted with the Sri Lankan doctors and scholars at the Bandanaike Memorial Ayurvedic Research Institute and Ayurveda Teaching Hospital. Discussions focused on topics of common interest like ‘Ayurveda for chronic Kidney disease’ and ‘Development of Ayurveda Management for Non-communicable diseases.’ 

Dr. Panja and Dr. Huddar also delivered lectures on interesting areas of Ayurveda applicable to conditions in Sri Lanka and interacted with students and faculties at the Gampaha Wickramarachchi Ayurveda Institute, University of Kelaniya and Institute of Indigenous Medicine and the University of Colombo. An interactive session with Yoga and Ayurveda experts from India and Sri Lanka was also organised at the Indian Cultural Centre on Lifestyle Management through Yogic Intervention and Ayurveda.

The two experts will also take part in an event organised by the Ayurveda Commission of the Central Province in Pallekelle, Kandy, on 15 July. The Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine, is extending the necessary local cooperation for the visit. Ayurveda, like Yoga, is one of the important elements of common cultural heritage between India and Sri Lanka.