This past weekend, the BUSM Family Medicine Interest Group, BMC Dept. of Family Medicine, HMS Holistic Medicine Interest Group co-sponsored a workshop designed specifically for medical students to learn more about Ayurvedic Medicine, a traditional medical system of India.
Students from BU, Harvard, and UMass came together for two days of didactic and interactive sessions designed to give a brief introduction to Ayurveda. These sessions featured Dr. H. S. Palep, the only faculty of Mumbai University recognized in both Western Medicine and Ayurveda. Drs. Palep (wife to H.S.), Anusha Sehgal (Ayurveda) and Rob Saper (Western, Family Medicine) also facilitated this unique exchange between medical systems.
During the workshop's didactic sessions, Dr. Palep spoke of the overlap of Ayurveda and Western Medicine. For example, he compared Ayurveda's understanding of information/knowledge inherent to our humanness to the understanding in Western medicine of DNA as the molecular substrate of genetic information.
The didactic sessions were complemented by a session on Ayurvedic therapeutic cooking, a guided meditation and a demonstration of the variety of herbal therapeutics used in Ayurveda.
On Sunday afternoon, the workshop was closed with delicious food catered by Kashmir Indian Restaurant.
Keep an eye out for a more personal account from one of the workshop participants, also a BUSM I student.
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