Sustainable Traditional Medicine: Taking the Inspirations from Ancient Veterinary Science

Table 1

Sustainable TM: clue from ayurveda.

	Mechanism	Mode of action	Effect
1	Better preventive care	Life style modification	Less requirement of curative care leading to less burden upon resources
2	Comprehensive primary care	Promotion of home remedies, impowerment of primary care system through use of local resources	Less dependability upon curative care. Less resource utilization
3	Sustainable resource utilization	Resource utilization as per the actual need and not for the commercial gains	Less consumption of natural resources
4	Novel mechanism application	Application of xenobiosis, biotransformation and other mechanisms to improve effects	Reduced dose requirements requiring lesser resource consumption