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A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to to the Union of India to establish parameters for products to qualify to be labelled as Ayurvedic, as all kinds of chemicals are being sold in the name of Ayurvedic or Herbal products.

The petition filed by Shailendra Mani Tripathi has further sought directions to establish Ayush T.V. Channel and Social Media Platforms to take naturopathy, yoga and meditation to the masses.

Tripathi has submitted that he has been practicing yoga, Dhyan and naturopathy for past 10 years, specially Neti and Jal Chikitsa (water treatment) to cure severe migraine, insomnia and hypertension and has been successful in eliminating all mentioned diseases.

The petitioner has further submitted that “Every physical ailment affects mental health to a certain extent, depending on the severity of the ailment. Modern medicine system does not take this into account, it deals with mental health separately. It merely focuses on the physical aspect when it is dealing with the physical disease, whereas our traditional systems such as Ayurveda take an integrated approach which includes both, healthy body and healthy mind. Therefore it is imperative to propagate the above mentioned health systems to the masses.”

In this regard the petitioner has sought a direction to the Ministry of AYUSH to focus on all the streams of traditional systems of health in equal proportion, as streams like naturopathy and acupressure etc are being eclipsed by excessive commercialisation of Ayurveda.

A direction has also been sought to establish separate branches of Meditation and Shathkarma and Research Institutes under AYUSH.

The petitioner has pointed out that at present the budgetary allocation of Ayush is extremely inadequate, hence there is an urgent need to focus on Ayush and make it more viable

 

The petition has been filed through Advocate Ratnesh Kumar Shukla.

 

Case Title: Shailendra Mani Tripathi vs UOI and Ors