The Full form of AYUSH is Ayurveda Yoga and Naturopathy Unani Siddha and Homoeopathy, or AYUSH stands for Ayurveda Yoga and Naturopathy Unani Siddha and Homoeopathy, or the full name of given abbreviation is Ayurveda Yoga and Naturopathy Unani Siddha and Homoeopathy.
AYUSH (Ayurveda Yoga and Naturopathy Unani Siddha and Homoeopathy)
AYUSH is known as Ayurveda Yoga and Naturopathy Unani Siddha and Homoeopathy, The Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (abbreviated as AYUSH) is purposed with developing education, research and propagation of indigenous alternative medicine systems in India.
The Ministry is headed by a Minister of State (Independent Charge), which is currently held by Shripad Yesso Naik.
The ministry has faced significant criticism for funding systems that lack biological plausibility and is either untested or conclusively proven as ineffective.
Quality of research has been poor, and drugs have been launched without any rigorous pharmacological studies and meaningful clinical trial.
Ethical concerns have been raised about various schemes that increasingly compel rural populace into accepting AYUSH based healthcare; average expenditure for drugs has been roughly equivalent to that in evidence-based medicine.
The ministry has proliferated after Bharatiya Janata Party government was elected at the centre, in 2014.
