What was said then, is exactly as it is even today in my village. The village practices parallel Ayurvedic practices so closely. And Ayurveda is a system they are able to engage with and accept, with complete validation of their own knowledge and identity.
And the self-confidence, and self-respect and identity of a people is the most central requirement.
W. ADAM ON STATE OF NATIVE MEDICAL PRACTICE
(pp.195-200)
"The only difference that I have been able to discover between the educated and uneducated classes of native practitioners is that the former prescribe with greater confidence and precision from the original authorities, and the latter with greater doubt and uncertainty from loose and imperfect translations. The mode of treatment is substantially the same, and in each case is fixed and invariable."
- 'The Beautiful Tree', Dharampal.
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