Endorsing Bangalore's credentials as a major global healthcare hub, British royal couplePrince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall arrive here Saturday for a week-long holistic healing session.They'll check into Dr Issac Mathai' s Soukya Holistic Health Centre in Whitefield. Soukya practises different systems of medicine like ayurveda, naturopathy, homoeopathy, yoga and other therapies on a 30-acre organic farm. The couple will undergo several ayurveda and naturopathy procedures like yoga, mud therapy and hydro-therapy and will be on a South Indian vegetarian organic diet.A presidential suite has been readied for them. Dr Mathai has been a health adviser for the royal family for the past two years. A Scotland Yard team came to Bangalore last week for a recce as part of security preparations.The Duchess came to Whitefield in September 2010 for rejuvenation when Prince Charles was in India to inaugurate the Commonwealth Games. Soukya is a global model for holistic andintegrated medicine where guests and patients from over 70 countries come for treatment.The royals' association with integrated medicine and Bangalore began after Prince Charles, as founder of the Royal College of Integrated Medicine, London, met Dr Mathai last year to collaborate with Soukya. The collaboration included clinical training to European and Western doctors in ayurveda and homoeopathy and traditional forms of medicine to integrate them in their practice.The foundation stone for the extended campus of the Royal College known as the International Institution for Holistic and Integrated Medicine was laid by Dr Michael Dixon in 2011 in collaboration with the Royal College of Medicine.
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