Ayurvedic treatment for indian rates

amarama

Nick, the days when things were real cheap, the global economy is flattening out. Meaning a pound of cheese is going to cost the same everywhere.
As mentioned above, start with a diagnoses, and Dr. Triguna is a fine place to begin. It will give you a sense of where the locals go.

Nick-H

That is frighteningly true. Cooking oil has increased in price by 30% here last week --- front-page news and a political issue.

But there is still a difference. I would be very poor if I tried to live in UK on the same as I do here.

Certainly one of the things that is cheaper is medical treatment. An appointment with a consultant at a top private hospital won't cost much more than Rs500, a full health check up is very reasonable, and surgery is affordable compared to UK private.

Everything happens in layers in the Indian economy. The poor go to Rs5 doctors, the wealthy to Rs500 doctors, and many steps in between. There are many grades of hospitals, outside of the government hospitals. friend of mine was paying Rs85 per night in an open ward. It was clean, with dedicated caring staff. The five-star stuff costs five-star rates, and then there is the treatment on top of that.

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amarama

An ayurvedic doctor here in America is between 3,000 to 6,ooo ruppess. For now, what ever your health concerns, go to India. Not to mention the Food and Drug Admin has outright banned a majority of ayurvedic herbs and books. A town in California has an ayurvedic free clinic, the doctor was from India, he said he came to America to study ayurvedic medicine. He was curious how to treat someone with so few herbal choices.

Nick-H

Ayurvedic medicine has not been without controversy.

snonymous

Contact Kottakal Arya Vaidya Sala
www.aryavaidyasala.com

There are also some very reputed therapeutic Ayurvedic centres in Coimbatore but I cant remember the names, will post if I do.

snonymous

Found it - Very reputed, dont know about rates, you will need to enquire.

Arya Vaidya Chikitsalayam & Research Institute

Location : 136 - 7, Trichy Road, Ramanathapuram, Coimbatore - 641045, India.

Phone #(s) : [+91] 0422 - 2313188


Description : A Unit of AVP {Coimbatore} Limited

girlfromvenus

a well reputed Ayurveda hospital is:

P.D. Patel Ayurveda Hospital, College Road, Nadiad

a friend has been there once and the rate was about 400€/4 weeks

I have read that AMMA also got a ayurvedic hospital close to the ashram, I am sure that will be reasonable priced also

crvlvr

Anyplace that charges less than $50/day will not be able to put up a website for you to find via Google.

Many ayurvedic doctors provide free service (you can donate anything you want) But, these are for out patients only. Hospitals will be expensive.

atala

If any "doctor" offers free services, it is often what they call a "charitable clinic" one day a week or so, and you can expect to find a few hundred people attending it that day. Homeopaths do that a lot because their remedies do not cost them much.

What you always find with Ayurveda etc practitioners is that they claim that the consultation is free, but this is really a sham because they always charge for their prescriptions. Unkowledgeable Westerners (and Indians) fall for this trick: Their consultation consists in nothing but the prescription, and the prescription results in you spending a few hundred to a few thousand rupees that you spend in their own pharmacy.

Some also advertise with this and make you think how charitable they are that you get a free consultation. But they never consult you on anything. It would be better they would ask for a serious fee and do a serious job, namely the thing they claim to have learned, namely to do a thorough analysis of all the signs and symptoms that a person presents. Instead they come with their 2-minute pulse-reading, if at all, often it is just a few seconds.

Another funny claim is the constant reminder: No side effects, of the remedies they prescribe. Often you would be lucky if you feel any effect at all. But joking aside, most of the ayurvedic remedies are untested, and can contain serious contaminations that can cause side-effects that the ignorant doctor would prefer not to dream about. And continuous use of any substance, including a simple peppermint tea, will cause side effects... this is just to say that it is meaningless to repeat the "No side effect" mantra.

In a general way one can guess what a simple-minded person (as these vaidiyas generally are) may mean by "no side-effects". But one should remain aware of the misleading side of what is said there.

Beware especially of any remedy that includes mercury in some kind, even if they say that they purified it. And avoid the silver-foil covered Chyavana Prashs, among others.

Brisso

Au contraire, Amma's hospital is brand new and high-end ... while the treatment I imagine is high standard it certainly is not cheap. I was quoted 2,000 rups for a massage.

Himalaya products are safe and cheap (in India at least) ... would recommend them ..

snonymous

Dabur products are also good, not necessarily cheap, as are Kottakal Aryavaidya shala products and Coimbatore Aryavaidy products.

Surprised to hear that Amma's prices are high end, although I read somewhere that they get the best professionals. I thought they mostly ran charitable institutions.

Nick-H

So did I. Maybe one of the ways they raise funds for that is to charge high rates to visitors?

atala

A good institution in Chennai is IMCOPS (Indian Medical Practitioners Co-operative Society) with products at very reasonable prices. It is on Lattice Bridge Road, Adyar. They have an affiliated hospital too.

federica

Just realized that you are from Germany, too. Friends of mine, a German-Indian couple, offer homestay-Ayurveda in Trivandrum.

You can check their website here:

http://www.ayurveda-intensiv.de/

For all international IMers: The website is in German, but you can use the contact email adress and write in English, too.