Resistance and Legal Regulation of Ayurveda Medicine in Nepal- Need of Modernization in Contemporary Practices: Multi-perspective Review

Abstract

Background: Decolonizing knowledge is considered as one of defining attitude in any disciplines in modern century. There are literature produced, analyzed and used by white with their method and is phenomenally became part of most of knowledge generated in different part of world. This is same case for a wide resistance for global recognition of Ayurveda as an equal and significant discipline and associated medicines as in compare to others. Hence, the objective of this article is to see the legal recognition of Ayurveda medicine in Nepal in new strcture of the government. Materilas and Methods: This paper is prepared based on primary and secondary soruces of authorities. The doctrinal research method is used for accomplishing the paper. The laws, policies, rules, diectives and also commentarties on primary sources are used as refernces. The nature of data reflected in the paper is more qualitative. Results and Discussion: The government of Nepal must give more protection in forms of promulgating the laws and adequate legal infrastructure for the Ayurveda medicine. The state and local government considering their constitutional obligation also require to act promptly for the purpose of legal assurance of practices of it. Conclusion: The continuous tension between the Allopathy also called western medicine and Traditional system of medicines including Ayurveda is the medical science which is not only limited to the disciplinary subject rather has an overarching impact and narrowly construed in a colonial landscape even in non-colonial setup. The nature of laws and policies, the government of Nepal has adopted as compare to the other field of medical science for legal recognition of Ayurveda. This paper has also justified; whether affirmed recognition to Ayurveda medicine in Nepal is a product of continue resistance of individuals.