Fundación de Salud Ayurveda Prema: 14 years of postgraduate Ayurvedic education in Argentina

Resumen

he Fundacion de Salud Ayurveda Prema (Prema Ayurveda Health Foundation) is a nonprofit organization registered with the Argentine government. Its goal is to contribute to the promotion of Ayurveda medicine and all its preventive and therapeutic resources of value in the health field. Our efforts are focused both on the medical profession and benefit to the general public. In the fields of teaching and research, our goal has been to preserve the wealth and purity of Ayurveda teachings while demonstrating its usefulness for modern science. Throughout the years, our interest has always been to integrate the useful elements of traditional medical approaches such as Ayurveda, which is our specific field of knowledge, with mainstream medicine and the scientific method of research in an atmosphere of mutual respect, acknowledgment and positive assessment.We have been spreading Ayurveda in the Argentine Republic and Latin America for over25 years. From the year 2000, we are delivering university courses on Ayurvedic medicine. More than 2500 students from 20 countries received long‑term Ayurvedic training programs, this included 600 doctors and 600 health professionals.