In spite of the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommending the National Health Policy for Integrative Holistic Medicine, which has attained the status of a board certified specialty in the USA, and it being so beneficial across all diseases, why is it not popular amongst the people?

• I may attribute conventional human inertia in the general population as well as the medical profession to change as its first cause.
• Then, to the medical profession, the term ‘integration’ implies prescribing medicines of different systems of health to a patient at the same time. It’s not acceptable to the medical profession for no allopathic medicine can be concurrently prescribed with Ayurvedic, Unani, Siddha,  Tibetan, or even Homoeopathic remedies. They are all based on altogether different philosophies, lack standardisation, and for the fear of unknown hazards of their drug interactions due to such ‘mixopathy’. It’s resisted by the respective medical councils, and also restricted by an order of the Hon’ble Supreme Court.
• Medical doctors go through such intense rigours to attain their specialty qualifications that they aren’t ready to believe that sickness can be overcome without their ‘allo’ interventions by mere conservative ‘life-style’ management or drug-free regulation of the ‘life-force’ by well described traditional, time honoured ‘vedic’ practices across ancient Indian and Chinese civilisations.
• I, as a versatile medical physician having studied the basis of all traditional AYUSH systems and pioneering the practice of integrative Holistic Medicine with its distinct benefits endorsed by who’s who of the country as its beneficiaries, question my peers that why they don’t do their self-audit and question the limitations of what they practice, and that why in spite of all the technological gains of the  last 3-4 decades, the incidence and morbidity due to all common diseases is progressively rising even in most developed nations of the world with optimum medical resources.
• It’s because of established limitations of the modern medicine based conventional practice of health that the W.H.O. recommends integration of all the  recognised systems of health so that the benefits of each respective system are extended to the sick and minimise their inherent deficiency, inevitable side-effects or cumulative toxicities. For its necessity, the same has been promulgated in our National Health Policy. Unfortunately, the expertise for this optimum integration is not available in the official echelons.
• I may attribute conventional human inertia in the general population as well as the medical profession to change as its first cause.
• The term ‘integration’ implies prescribing medicines of different systems of health based on altogether different philosophies to a patient at the same time. No one knows the ‘hazards’ of such ‘mixopathy’. It’s not acceptable to the respective councils of different systems.
• In the absence of its adoption by the mainstream profession it’s being offered as ‘magic remedies’ by unqualified QUACKS with serious harm to helpless and gullible patients.
• Therefore, I appeal to all concerned authorities to sanction controlled scientific studies at recognised medical institutions, especially in conventionally incurable ailments, to establish scientific credibility of this integrative model of health and give a path breaking lead to the whole of the world.