Ayurveda week celebrated in Sri Lanka

• India-Sri Lanka cooperate to fight kidney disease through Ayurveda

​Two eminent Ayurveda experts were in Sri Lanka to conduct workshops and seminars at different Ayurveda Institutes of Sri Lanka from 10 to 15 July. 

This formed part of the extended celebration of the 3rd International Day of Yoga. The visit was coordinated by High Commission of India, Colombo.

Dr. Asit Kumar Panja, Asst. Professor, National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur and Dr. Vittal Huddar, Associate Professor, All India institute of Ayurveda, New Delhi interacted with the Sri Lankan doctors and scholars at Bandaranaike Memorial Ayurvedic Research Institute and Ayurveda Teaching Hospital. 

Discussions focused on topics of common interest like ‘Ayurveda for Chronic Kidney Disease’ and ‘Development of Ayurveda Management for Non-Communicable Diseases’.

Dr. Panja and Dr. Huddar also delivered lectures on interesting areas of Ayurveda applicable to conditions in Sri Lanka and interacted with students and faculties at Gampaha Wickramarachchi Ayurveda Institute, University of Kelaniya and Institute of Indigenous medicine, University of Colombo. 

An interactive session with Yoga and Ayurveda experts from India and Sri Lanka was also organised at Indian Cultural Centre on Lifestyle Management through Yogic intervention and Ayurveda.

They participated at a function organised by The Ayurveda Commission of Central Province, Pallekelle, Kandy on 15 July. The Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine extended the necessary local cooperation for the visit. Ayurveda, like Yoga is one of the important element of common cultural heritage between India and Sri Lanka.