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To provide accurate and authentic information to the public regarding Ayurveda through educational seminars and workshops.To conduct scientific research at the highest level and to add to our understanding of the efficacy of this medical system in the treatment of disease.

To provide information about Panchakarma Detoxification Therapy, which is available through Ayurvedic Medicine Of New York.

The National Institute of Ayurvedic Medicine (NIAM) is recognized as the largest and most authentic resource of information on Ayurveda in the United States. It was established in 1982 by Scott Gerson, M.D., Ph.D. (Ayurveda) who is the nation's only medical doctor to hold degrees in both Ayurveda and conventional allopathic medicine. Dr. Gerson works principally as a physician specializing in diagnostically difficult cases. He currently is an associate professor in the Faculty of Ayurveda, University of Pune. He has earned his Fellowship and Master's degrees in Ayurvedic Medicine from the prestigious Tilak Ayurved Mahavidyalaya and is a Ph.D. (Ayu), the highest level of recognition in the field, from University of Pune, where he is active in teaching and research.

He holds the academic position of Clinical Assistant Professor at New York Medical College in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Gerson's medical practice has combined authentic Ayurveda and state-of-the-art conventional medicine for nearly twenty years. He is widely regarded as this nation's most experienced Ayurvedic physician and researcher. His Ph.D. dissertation in Ayurveda at the prestigious University of Pune is on Panchakarma and its Effects on Human Immunity. He recently published part of his work on the antifungal activities of certain Ayurvedic plants (Gerson, S, Green, LH, Preliminary Evaluation Of Antimicrobial Activity of Extracts of Morinda citrifolia Linn., Abstr. Am. Soc. Microbiol. A-66:13 May 2002).


 

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