Wessex
NLP REGIONAL LEADER WELCOMES NEW HEALTH INITIATIVE
Ayur-Vedic Health Centre for Wessex opens in Bournemouth
Wessex News Release
October 1997
Opening
The regional leader of the Natural Law Party, Chartered Surveyor Mark Griffiths, has hailed the new opening of a unique private health centre in Bournemouth as a breakthrough in the promotion of preventative natural medicine in the Wessex region. Mr Griffiths, the NLP candidate for West Dorset in the General Election, was speaking at the inaugural opening of the Wessex Maharishi Ayur-Veda Health Centre at Oak Hall, Boscombe Manor, in Bournemouth. The health centre is the first of its kind to be established in the region and will serve patients from Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight as well as visitors from further afield.
Unique form of preventative medicine
The new health centre will specialise in both residential and out-patient natural health care services based on the ancient system of preventative medicine know as "Ayur-Veda", a name derived from a Sanskrit term meaning "Science of Life". Following consultation with a qualified Doctor experienced in both modern and traditional Ayur-Vedic medicine health centre visitors will be offered a variety of natural health regimes covering dietary recommendations, aroma and sound therapies, herbal detoxification treatments, pulse diagnosis, stress management techniques and lifestyle advice.
(Introduction to Maharishi Ayur Veda - click here)
According to health centre Director, Colin Beckley, "Ayur-Veda is the world’s oldest system of natural medicine and is rapidly increasing in popularity because of its ability to deal both with existing conditions and the prevention of future health problems, with none of the damaging side effects associated with drug based modern medicine."
NHS must switch to preventative approach
The promotion of Ayur-Vedic medicine forms the central plank of the Natural Law Party’s current campaign to divert the National Health Service away from a system which is inherently wasteful and expensive, and whose primary focus is the treatment of disease after it has arisen, towards one which is principally preventative in its approach.
" A growing body of research published in some of the world’s leading scientific journals confirms that the Ayur-Vedic approach to medicine is a highly cost effective way of eliminating major causes of ill-health in society such as heart failure, cancer, and stress related disorders - as well as dealing with the more minor but often persistent problems of personal and community health. At a time when the NHS is coming under immense pressure we are very keen to demonstrate the value of this approach to promoting good health in the community, and the opening of the Maharishi Ayur-Vedic health centre in Bournemouth provides an ideal opportunity for people from all over Wessex to experience its benefits directly for themselves. It is vital that we move towards a system of health based on more natural and preventative values," says Mr Griffiths.
(Research Papers - click here)
Party conference health initiative
At this week’s party conference the Natural Law Party has launched a national campaign to establish similar health centres across the whole of the UK in a bid to demonstrate that there are reliable cost effective alternatives to the crisis in health care currently being experienced in the National Health Service.
Maharishi Vedic
Approach to Health
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Approach to Chronic Disorders