Ayurveda physicians performed wonders through their methods of treatments, Southern Provincial Council Chief Minister Shan Wijeyalal de Silva said.
He was addressing a ceremony held to vest the Abeyasundara Memorial Ayurveda Park Hospital at Karaputugala, Kamburupitiya to the people.
The Chief Minister said ayurvedic medicine system was close to the people as it was a part and parcel of the environment. Ayurvedic drugs such as decoctions, pastes, spirits etc are made from leaves, peels, flowers and roots of trees found in the environment.
Drugs made from these herbs do not affect the human body adversely, he said. The Chief Minister said ayurvedic physicians of the past considered the treatment of a patient as a deed of spiritual value.
“Often they did not take any thing from the patient as they had other sources of income,” he said.
The present generation of indigenous practitioners should pave the way for another such generation for the future, otherwise this valuable system of treatment will fade, he said.
The Chief Minister also paid a tribute to philanthropist Victor Abeysundara for the donation of his house and home garden to establish the first Ayurveda Park Hospital in the South at Karaputugala in Kamburupitiya.
Source:Daily News Srilanka
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