It is important that all traditional medicine practitioners and relevant organizations should be aware about how the national documents have been addressing the traditional medicine. For their convenient,the following text was copied from the Nepal Health Sector Program-Implementation Plan-II. For detail of the document, please click on the link given below. 

4.3 Ayurvedic and Alternative Medicine

Ayurveda is a method of therapy/treatment in Nepal. Nepalis remain attracted to Ayurvedic treatment. In 2064/65 a total of 706,128 people received treatment through 291 Ayurvedic centres of the government.

According to the National Ayurveda Health Policy-2052, the Government will establish new Ayurveda health services and make all the services well-equipped in proportion to population density, public demand and participation. New Ayurveda Health services will be established in different parts of the country, not only in the Government sector but also in the non-state sector.

The top ten diseases identified for Ayurvedic treatment are Amalpitta (Gastritis), Udara roga (abdominal disease), Swasan wikar (respiratory disease), Vatavyadhi (Vataja disease), Bal rog (paediatric diseases), Stri rog (gynaecological diseases), Karna, Nasa, Mukha, Danta and Kantha-roga (ENT, oral and dental diseases), Jwar (fever), Vrana (wounds, abscesses) and Atisar/Grahani (diarrhoeal disease).

 Actions during NHSP-2 include the following:

•  Continue treatments with special focus on top-ten diseases at central, regional, zonal, and district hospitals, centres and dispensaries.
•  Based on comparative advantages, promote an integrated treatment system with modern medicine.
• Continue to improve availability of human resources with special focus on quality and linking to research activities to enhance quality and reliability of Ayurvedic treatment.
• Establish a National Ayurvedic Research and Training Centre furnished with the required equipment for research of international standards in matters related to the use of Ayurvedic medicines, commodities and Ayurvedic treatment. This institution will be engaged in producing post-graduate level human resources and various training programmes.
• In the remaining four development regions, establish regional hospitals with 30 beds and a medicine production branch in each hospital.
• Improve effectiveness of supervision, monitoring, evaluation and referral for the Ayurvedic hospitals and other institutions.
• Prepare inventory of endogenous knowledge (related to traditional medicine), and skills, carry-out research to validate and update the endogenous knowledge and skills (linking with academic programmes with proper research back-up), respect patient rights and publish.
• Design and implement research for the promotion of herbal medicine, technology and procedures.
• Produce, collect and promote herbs locally available for utilisation in Ayurvedic treatment. Existing District Ayurvedic Health Centres and zonal will be consolidated.
• Ayurvedic dispensaries currently operated will be equipped and made capable of producing, protecting, and promoting herbs available in local level.
• Build Ayurvedic hospitals, health centres and dispensaries and develop model herb farms to encourage herbal production.
• Coordinate with governmental and non-governmental associations related to herbals, so as to maintain standards in domestic trade and export to foreign countries by identifying genuine herbals.
• Establish governmental and non-governmental Ayurvedic medicine manufacturing companies with a quality assurance mechanism.
• Develop one Ayurvedic Medicine Examination Committee and Laboratory for maintaining the quality of Ayurvedic Medicines.
• Naradevi Ayurveda Hospital (Central Hospital of Ayurveda) will be developed as a specialized Ayurvedic medical service centre with different departments of Kaya Chikista (general medicine), Shalakya (ENT and Eye), Shalya (surgery), Stri Prasuti (gyn/obs), Kaumarabhritya (paediatrics), etc.
• Establish 90 Ayurveda Aushadhalaya in different districts (as in the three-year plan).
• Continue the Senior Citizen Rasayana Programme, Lactating Mother Programme, Ayurveda School Health Programme, Local Ayurveda Kit Programme, etc

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