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Saturday 13 August 2011

Health ministry goes big on yoga, funds studies on its benefits

Yoga is now the Union health ministry's buzz word. The ministry is giving funds for several important studies being conducted to see how yoga actually benefits our health.
While around Rs 19 lakhs were sanctioned in 2010-11 under department of Ayush's extra mural research scheme, over Rs 70 lakhs were sanctioned under the clinical research scheme being implemented by the Central Council for Research in Yoga and Naturopathy.
The department has funded St Johns' Research Institute (Bangalore) to see the effects of yoga on stress and cognitive functions in 7-9 years old school going children and Yoga Bhavan (Mumbai) to see stress management in mothers of students appearing for competitive examinations through yoga.
Baba Farid Centre for Special Children in Punjab is being funded to see the effects of yoga on stress and quality of life of caregivers of subjects suffering from autism and Vidyasagar Technology Institute of Physical Education in Uttar Pradesh on the effects of yoga on C-Reactive protein and other biomarkers in coronary atherosclerosis.
Nisarga Naturapathy Yoga hospital has been sanctioned Rs 5 lakhs to see the effect of yoga on diabetes. Swami Vivekananda Yoga Samsthan in Bangalore is working on seeing the effect of yoga in prevention of complications in high risk pregnancies while ALN Rao Memorial Ayurvedic Medical Colleges has been given around Rs 4 lakhs to study the efficacy of yogic postures in varicose vein.
All Life in Hyderabad is studying the effect of yoga on non Hodgkins Lymphoma while Yoga and Nature Care Home in Manipur is looking at yoga's beneficial role in post-stroke rehabilitation.
The Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga, a fully funded autonomous body under the department of Ayush, has already set up 132 training centres for spreading yoga education in the states. The institute is also planning to set up 200 more such centres in the country in the next two years.
Meanwhile, the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) has completed documenting 1,300 'asanas' which will soon be uploaded making them "public knowledge" in order to protect them from western pirates. Around 250 of these 'asanas' have also been made into video clips with an expert performing them.
According to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the department of Ayush, "Once the database is up online, patent offices across the world will have a reference point to check on every time a yoga guru claims patent on a particular asana."
Nine well known yoga institutions in India have helped with the documentation. TKDL will have photos and explanation of the postures. "Experts have screened through several ancient books like Srimad Bhagwat Gita, Vyas Bhashya, Yogasava Vijana, Hatha Praditika, Gheranda Samhita, Shiva Samhita, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and Sandra Satkarma to exactly document all known asanas and yoga references.
Till now, there are estimates that the US patent office alone has issued over 200 yoga-related copyrights. Experts say yoga has become a $225 billion market in the West. Americans supposedly spend about $3 billion a year on yoga classes.

Source:TNN

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