Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000

Ernst, Waltraud

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“…Chyawanprash is beneficial for health in several ways. It is an excellent ergogenic (enhancing physical performance), tonic, rejuvenator, anabolic, immunomodulator and promotes strength to the gastrointestinal tract, digestive organs, cardiovascular, respiratory, and cerebrospinal systems, neuronal circuits, and renal and reproductive tissues [86].…”

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Chyawanprash: A Traditional Indian Bioactive Health Supplement

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Chyawanprash (CP) is an Ayurvedic health supplement which is made up of a super-concentrated blend of nutrient-rich herbs and minerals. It is meant to restore drained reserves of life force (ojas) and to preserve strength, stamina, and vitality, while stalling the course of aging. Chyawanprash is formulated by processing around 50 medicinal herbs and their extracts, including the prime ingredient, Amla (Indian gooseberry), which is the world’s richest source of vitamin C. Chyawanprash preparation involves preparing a decoction of herbs, followed by dried extract preparation, subsequent mixture with honey, and addition of aromatic herb powders (namely clove, cardamom, and cinnamon) as standard. The finished product has a fruit jam-like consistency, and a sweet, sour, and spicy flavor. Scientific exploration of CP is warranted to understand its therapeutic efficacy. Scattered information exploring the therapeutic potential of CP is available, and there is a need to assemble it. Thus, an effort was made to compile the scattered information from ancient Ayurvedic texts and treatises, along with ethnobotanical, ethnopharmacological, and scientifically validated literature, that highlight the role of CP in therapeutics. Citations relevant to the topic were screened.

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“…Discussions recognized value in professional delivery of clinical services to address some forms of human hardship, and through engagement with the research findings, came to more clearly articulate the limits of clinical care and a delicate balance in engaging without subsuming local tribes' traditions for promoting individual and community wellness. These comments spoke to interest in medical pluralism, a health service model promoting horizontal power structures that recognize differently credentialed voices, healing traditions, and support services to fit local agendas for health and wellness (Ernst, ; Khan, ). While not all clinicians were able to discuss findings in‐person with the first author, those who did also identified a need for policy change in CMH to allow for greater autonomy to pursue local agendas for wellness informed by respected community members and BH service users.…”

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A Return to “The Clinic” for Community Psychology: Lessons from a Clinical Ethnography in Urban American Indian Behavioral Health

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2017

American J of Comm Psychol

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Community psychology (CP) abandoned the clinic and disengaged from movements for community mental health (CMH) to escape clinical convention and pursue growing aspirations as an independent field of context-oriented, community-engaged, and values-driven research and action. In doing so, however, CP positioned itself on the sidelines of influential contemporary movements that promote potentially harmful, reductionist biomedical narratives in mental health. We advocate for a return to the clinic-the seat of institutional power in mental health-using critical clinic-based inquiry to open sites for clinical-community dialogue that can instigate transformative change locally and nationally. To inform such works within the collaborative and emancipatory traditions of CP, we detail a recently completed clinical ethnography and offer "lessons learned" regarding challenges likely to re-emerge in similar efforts. Conducted with an urban American Indian community behavioral health clinic, this ethnography examined how culture and culture concepts (e.g., cultural competence) shaped clinical practice with socio-political implications for American Indian peoples and the pursuit of transformative change in CMH. Lessons learned identify exceptional clinicians versed in ecological thinking and contextualist discourses of human suffering as ideal partners for this work; encourage intense contextualization and constraining critique to areas of mutual interest; and support relational approaches to clinic collaborations.

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“…14 El Comité Mudaliar incluyó a un médico, P. M. Mehta, interesado en los sistemas indígenas, particularmente en ayurveda. Para una introducción a estas aproximaciones a la salud, a su relación con el movimiento nacionalista, así como a la relevancia que han adquirido en la época independiente, véanse: Ernst, 2002;Ernst, 2007;Khan, 2005;Jaggi, 2000, y Mukharji, 2009 15 Sólo tres integrantes del Comité Bhore sugirieron que los vaid y los hakim podrían atender a la población.…”

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El Comité Mudaliar (1962): evaluación de los comienzos

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2020

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El Comité Mudaliar fue integrado en los primeros años del periodo poscolonial en India para hacer una evaluación de la salud de la población y hacer recomendaciones. El Comité buscó producir conocimiento que diera legitimidad al Estado y que sirviera de guía en la definición de la salud pública. Mudaliar manifestó tener una postura crítica, pero el Reporte que produjo junto con el resto del Comité estuvo marcado por limitantes contradicciones. Al estudiar este proceso, busco contribuir a una mejor comprensión de los primeros años del periodo poscolonial y mostrar que el paso de un periodo a otro no se reduce a rupturas absolutas ni a continuidades simples, sencillas.

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Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000

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Chyawanprash: A Traditional Indian Bioactive Health Supplement

Chyawanprash: A Traditional Indian Bioactive Health Supplement

A Return to “The Clinic” for Community Psychology: Lessons from a Clinical Ethnography in Urban American Indian Behavioral Health

El Comité Mudaliar (1962): evaluación de los comienzos

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