Ayurveda and the battle against chronic disease: An opportunity for Ayurveda to go mainstream?

One of the most significant developments of 2009, indeed, medically speaking, of the millennium, has been the formation of the Global Alliance for Non-Communicable Diseases.[1] The Alliance has been established by agreement between the heads of the world’s top agencies directing publicly funded medical research: the US National Institutes of Health, the UK’s Medical Research Council (MRC), similar agencies in Canada, Australia and China, and most importantly for J-AIM, the Indian Council of Medical Research.