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Science at the Sabha - Session 1
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Jyothsna Mani
5:10
Dr Mukerji delves into the concept of 'prakriti' in the school of Ayurveda, which refers to different people's body constitutions, stressing the need for an individualised mode of treatment.
5:12
She explores how Ayurveda describes the Covid-19 pandemic and what it encapsulates, further diving into how 'prakriti' or body constitutions are "fixed at birth."
5:14
5:15
Dr Mukerji emphasises the concept of Tridoshas -- a common organising principle in Ayurveda -- in order to determine a person's baseline health state and support interventions via diet, environmental and lifestyle modifications for one's recovery.
5:16
5:19
She also focuses on the spatio-temporal side of 'prakriti', which notes that a person's body constitution is governed by conditions like geography and ethnography.
5:21
Delving into the differences between Ayurveda and Modern medicine, she notes that while the former follows a more pro-active approach to recovery and health, the latter prescribes to a more reactive mode of treatment.
5:25
Dr Mukerji elaborates upon an Indo-Russian initiative under the ILTP program of 2002, which aimed at differentiating between homogenous pockets of the population with the aid of the Ayurvedic realm of prakriti.
5:30
Further exploring the genetic differences among people, she stressed that the realm of Ayurveda assigns 'prakriti' to a habitat based on their characteristics.
5:31
Dr Mukerji posits that the EGLN1 gene determining hypoxia plays a role in the high-altitude adaptation of different people with varied constitution types.
5:34
"You have, at every age, a way to assess why you're getting what you're getting through understanding vatta, pitha and kapha," she notes.
5:36
Dr Mukerji concludes by stressing the need to build integrative medicinal models to bridge gaps between modern medicine and Ayurveda via events like Ayur-Thinkathons.
5:39
That's a wrap on session 1! Thank you for tuning in, please join us for the second session post-break.
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