Plans to set up Oncology research centre in ayurveda

Over a century-old Kottakkal Ayra Vaidyala 

Sala has plans to set up an Oncology 

research centre and a cancer

 treatment centre in Ayurveda shortly.
Vaidyasala'sout-patient
department would be looking after

 cancer-patients three days in a 

week and on Wednesdays and Fridays fresh cases would be attended and a day

 would be set apart for the review of old-patients, Additional Chief physician and

Superintendent, K Muraleedharan told reporters here today. Answering a query, 

Muraleedharan said that though it could not be claimed that cancer could be

 cured with the ayurveda system of medicine, it would improve the quality of life 

of the cancer patients with the treatment of ayurveda. He said that opium induced 

constipation and radiation induced mucositis could be cured with the treatment of 

ayurveda. There was a large scope for curing the side-effects after the allopathy 

treatment of cancer patients, with the application of ayurveda, he said. The 47th

 national seminar on ayurveda under the auspices of the Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala 

would be held here on Sunday, the theme of which would be 'an Update on Cancer'.

 About 700 doctors have already confirmed their attendance and about 1000 

delegates are expected to participate in the seminar.