CAM regulation in India

A Standing Committee of Experts formed to scrutinise the ‘new streams’ of alternative medicines recommended not to recognise any of them and the government has accepted the committee proposal. The committee considered 14 new streams of medicine, including electropathy, electro-homoeopathy, acupuncture, magneto therapy, Reiki, reflexology, urine therapy/autourine therapy, hypnotherapy, colour therapy, pranic healing, gems and stone therapy, and music therapy. The committee was to consider and give its recommendations on the efficacy and benefits of these systems, and also examine the feasibility of making legislation to define essential and desirable criteria for granting recognition to new streams of medicine. The committee felt that only the already recognised traditional systems of medicines, Ayurveda, siddha, unani, homoeopathy, yoga and naturopathy, fulfil the essential desirable criteria developed and considered by the committee for recognition of a system of medicine.

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