eMAP – e Module Application for Panchakarma

Introduction

Panchakarma is getting popularized day by day in this fast-growing world. Because of its popularity, apart from the regular undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Panchakarma formulated by CCIM many institutions are emerging out with newer courses on it. This makes the scenario more complicated. Even though teaching, learning and practice of Panchakarma is based on the ancient texts of Ayurveda there are many drawbacks in the present status of learning and teaching. Understanding and application of Panchakarma in various part of the country differ, similarly the practice also. To bring uniformity and standards in the present status of teaching and learning process we need to strengthen the Domain of Panchakarma by means of information technology and audio-visual aids.

Also we need to concentrate on the part of skill development. Panchakarma being completely practice oriented, have to improve the skill of the teacher and student in order to strengthen Panchakarma. Keeping this in mind this project has been designed.

Objectives of the Project:

Keeping the above points in mind we aim to achieve the following objectives,

• To Prepare the necessary teaching materials for the various Panchakarma courses
• To Prepare the necessary Learning Materials for the various Panchakarma courses
• To prepare the standard Audio Visual Aids for the purpose of Teaching, learning and Practice.
• To prepare the teaching aids of other formats for teaching and learning.
• To prepare various directories related to Panchakarma
• To develop and maintain Research Data base/ indexing service for the domain of Panchakarma and related topics.