Mark Rosenberg speaks at the European Parliament about building Ayurveda across Europe. He points to concrete progress: an academy has trained over 20,000 students, 800 medical doctors now practice Ayurveda, and Middlesex University offers an MSc program. He calls for coordinated standards and political support to expand further.
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Excellency, Mr. Van Gordon and Amaraji, thank you very much for this invitation and this opportunity. Yes. Where do we go from here? I mean, this is the question that now arouses in my mind. We have heard many things and I don't want to repeat how great Ayurveda is, because we know it. When I heard you, I have to say something. When it comes to India, you mentioned that India has not supported us here in Europe much. Yes and no. No, because I really received personally as a director of an academy in Germany, really some funds for our symposium, for what we have done on the one side. On the other side, more than 600,000 Europe went from India for a great research work that we have done as an academy in collaboration with the charity Medical University in Berlin. This is, I mean, great steps further from India actually to help us here to show that Ayurveda should be part of our health system, of our modern health system, part of the complementary medicine. So thank you to India because these are your taxpayers. Those really have helped us much in a small step, right? Could be bigger. Yes, but I'm a European, I'm not Indian as you. So I think we Europeans gathered here together. We have to come together, isn't it? We cannot ask India. Luckily India is there and I'm very sure that India will support us. In the moment we have found Ayurveda and in the moment we have a clear agenda, we Europeans with Ayurveda and for our patients in Europe, knowing that Ayurveda really can do much for our patients here. I have experienced it since 25 years. Now I'm a director of an academy. We have trained more than 20,000 students. 5,000 of them have received their certificate. 800 of them are medical doctors. And we have enrolled the Masters of Science program in collaboration with Middlesex University, thanks to marvel. And 250 students are enrolled at this moment. I want to share this with you because this is a step we can move forward from that point. Secondly, when it comes to the German speaking countries, yes, there are small steps. For instance, in Austria, to your knowledge, there is a state regulation for massage. Well being practitioners at least, I mean there is a step Austria, which is normally very conservative when it comes to health professions. And as we all know, there is Switzerland with an interesting model. I know Switzerland is not eu, but when it comes to education, at least EU has a very tough contract with the eu. So there's an interesting model now there in Switzerland for complementary health professions and that is Ayurveda. Twice in the state regulation now and is an approved profession as a complementary therapist Ayurveda and as a natural, as naturopath for Ayurveda medicine. These are important steps happening in the center of Europe. And as we also know, there are universities those are now getting interested into Ayurveda. We have hospitals, quite a good number now of hospitals. Those have integrated Ayurveda into their departments or have private hospitals. Those have started with Ayurveda. And the main focus, these are important steps. So what, what I want to say is let us coordinate this. Let us coordinate education. Let us coordinate, of course, the practice, the quality for good Ayurveda practice. Because this is what our patients needed. We have to give them the feeling that yes, when you come to Ayurveda, then there is profession behind, then there is knowledge behind. This is not there yet. But we in Europe, we have to see, we have to bring it up. That's very important. And of course, on the other hand, it is the patients itself. We have to bring them together also. All the success that has happened with patients through I and last but not least, political networking is very much needed. And you know, please take this as an invitation from my side. Let's meet together. Every year we have an international symposium in Peirstein, but we can meet some other time. The only thing that we have to do, and Madan is one of the great persons bringing us together, networking. Amarjee is doing a great job on that level. Many others like Karsha here in Germany and others doing already, you know, connecting each other. So let us move from here in a coordinated way to show the European Parliament as well as India that yes, we are ready, because we are. The only thing is what it's a bit missing is to put it on the table and to be real. Thank you.
