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AYUSH: Promoting what?

AYUSH- is a department under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. This acronym stands for Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy. In short it this department deals with all the popular medical systems that are less popular than the Allopathic or western or modern medical system. Now why there is a separate department for these set of medical systems? These systems do not share anything in common other than that they are Medical systems which have been scientifically documented and traditionally practiced over a long period of time and that they are less popular than the Allopathic medical system. Otherwise, they are essentially different from each other. The DNA of these systems itself is different. How you can club Ayurveda with homeopathy where the former relies of the medicinal properties of plants and herbs, the later works on esoteric principles of "Memory of Solvents" (at least esoteric to other systems of medicine).So...