While the deracinated elites and the woke in India scoff at Ayurveda, UN-SDG awardee Acharya Balkrishna has been recognised as one of the top 2% of scientists in the world in a study conducted by Stanford University and Elsevier. Professor John PA Loannidis and his team from Stanford University, the US, have recently published this list together with Elsevier, Europe.
This is an unprecedented global recognition of Ayurveda as a science and yoga as a healthy way of life (not merely physical exercises), an elated Patanjali said, seeking "extreme pride and honour" in a statement, calling it global recognition for ancient Indian science.
Acharya Balkrishna acknowledged the dedication and diligence of his team of more than 500 working at Patanjali institutes and Patanjali Research Institute (PRI) (under the aegis of Patanjali Research Foundation Trust), with the statement saying they have been "relentlessly engaged in making Ayurveda a modern trend through evidence-based modern scientific research on the ancient rationales and principles."
"PRI has already established a compelling body of scientific evidence to explain the rationales behind Ayurvedic principles. These research works have been published in different high-impact peer-reviewed international journals, and are currently, receiving critical appreciation from the scientific community across the world," the statement read.
The statement says Patanjali has state-of-art NABL, DSIR, CPCSEA and DBT-accredited modern research laboratories and NABH-recognised hospitals. "PRI has published 75 out 109 volumes of the World Herbal Encyclopedia that has enlisted numerous medicinal plants with hand-painted taxonomic representations. Additionally, PRI is reviving the ancient scientific texts and documents on Ayurveda and yoga and preserving and translating them into modern languages," read the statement.
Acharya Balkrishna has published several books based on these ancient documents on Ayurveda and yoga in more than 80 languages.
This is the best example of #MakeInIndia
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"The vision of Patanjali Research Institute is to help the society achieve a disease-free healthy life," the statement said while mentioning Coronil, which it called a "bright example of this effort that was evident during the Covid-19 pandemic". The community of modern medicine practitioners did not accept Coronil as a coronavirus-resistant drug, let alone as a cure. Social media platforms went to the extent of banning users who as much as mentioned the Ayurvedic drug or did nothing more than report the claim of Patanjali as news of that day.
In 2021, Facebook banned a Sirf News reporter for merely sharing the news of Patanjali's Coronil in 2021. He did not say it cured Covid. He did not say it worked in any way. Reporter Siddharth Raghuvanshi merely said Baba Ramdev had launched the product, saying which was his job as a journalist. Sirf News was blacklisted thereafter and its Editor-in-chief Surajit Dasgupta kept getting warning notifications thereafter until the staffer resigned and the Facebook page of the media house established in 2014 was deleted.
Patanjali said in its statement today: "These scientific efforts from PRI have led to (the) formulation of remedies, such as Livogrit, Neurogrit Gold, Memorygrit, Madhugrit, BPgrit, Swasari Gold, Peedanil Gold, Bronchom, Eyegrit and Eargrit, for several intractable metabolic and lifestyle disorders. On this proud occasion of yet another worldwide recognition for Ayurveda and yoga, Swami Ramdev Ji and Acharya Balkrishna Ji have applauded and expressed immense gratitude towards everyone associated with (the) Patanjali family, across the globe."
