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MARMASUTRAM:
PAARAMPARYA SIDDHA-MARMA VAIDYASALA
PROJECT RUN BY
Arangil Baburajendran Foundation, Elathur, Kozhikkode.
and
Marmasutram:
Paaramparya Kalari-Marma-Siddha Vaidyavidya Kulam Trust’, Chombala, Vadakara
INTRODUCTION:
The
‘marmasutram’ is a non-profit charitable trust established for
undertaking the specific research work and promotional activities
related to the health care practices connected to Kalarividya,
Siddhavaidya, Marmasastra traditions in South India.
Our
initiative is inspired by the need for making a solid foundation for a
larger social movement devoted for the in-situ and institutional
conservation of the traditional Siddha-marmavaidya practices, and other
related popular healing traditions.
The
Marmasutram vaidyasala project is intended to build up an institutional
basis that enables the benefit of marmavaidyam for wider society. For
setting up a wide level health-care service delivery system intended to
provide better access to larger public, we need to create a network of
vaidyasalas with collaboration of industrialists and other enthusiasts.
However, we do not want to undertake the vaidyasala project neither
solely on commercial basis nor totally as charitable free service.
Instead, we want to make it run as economically viable,
self-sustainable, and moderate enterprise with an additional anchoring
on the activities related to research, training, and promotion of the
practices.
CONTEXT:
The
traditional Siddha-marma system of healing is being re-discovered by
the present-day world for its specialties such as speedy recovery, free-
side effect, less-expensive, less-complicated, revitalizing, etc. for
many of the chronic, degenerative, life-style ailments and
fracture-dislocation problems.
Realizing
such potential of the ancient marmasastra tradition for the development
of a wholesome therapeutic and preventive medical care practice, We
understand that there is a great need of large scale investment and
popular net-work for the effective delivery of its health care service,
research and development, education, and other patriotic, philanthropic
(social service) activities in this area.
In
spite of the glorious history and greater health significance of the
marmasastra tradition, nowadays, there is hardly any legal recognition
and other promotional gestures from the side of state or other public
sector agencies. Instead, state agencies and business enterprises are
competing to utilize the neglected and malnourished traditional
knowledge practices for their commercial benefits. That has further
accentuated the depletion and fragmentation of the source basis of the
practice. The de-contextualized and vulgarized practices have been
accompanied by the emergence of wider level misinterpretation of the
nature and identity of the practice, including its socio-cultural
history and ethnic basis. Clandestine attempts of appropriation of the
marma science and techniques are also in place, while the vigorous
campaign for de-legitimating and de-legalizing of such traditional
knowledge forms are widely/globally net-worked.
In
consequent of the depletion and disintegration of the foundation of the
practice, the availability of an authentic skill of the traditional
marma therapy has become virtually absent. In order to recover and
revive the traditional practices, there needs a comprehensive programme
for compensating the damages created due to the historical discontinuity
and contemporary commercial vulgarities. Therefore any investment
scheme meant for taping the health care potential of the marmasastra
practice needs to be furnished by a large scale initiative for the
recovery and advancement of its authentic traditional wisdom and
methods.
A
concerted effort for reorganizing the remaining fragmented skills and
utilize them by bringing a healthy integration with the useful methods
of other medical systems of knowledge might also stand in need of a
fruitful attempt in the direction of its strengthening and
popularization.
OBJECTIVES:
1. To
develop and popularize a multi-medical system health care service with
an anchoring on the traditional Siddha-marmasastra and kalaraividya
practices of South Indian Dravidian heritage.
2. To
facilitate the best available/possible delivery of health care service
in order to tap and sustain the inherent potentials of marmasastra
practices.
3. To
facilitate health service of marma vaidyam on a popular basis at the
level of an affordable coast possible, as against the prevailing
exploitative practice by way of reducing it as a luxurious treatment
only accessible only for rich elites and tourists.
4. To
facilitate recovery and popularization of less expensive, simplistic
and authentic methods of treatment available in the traditional marma
vaidyam, as against the prevailing tendency of vulgarizing the
traditional practices for the sake of commercial interests.
5. To
facilitate a multi-medical system counselling and health caring in
order to ensure a need-based, capability-based, choice-based treatment
for patients, along the principles of heath freedom.
6. To establish marmavaidya centers which work simultaneously as the place for marma treatment, practical training, research study.
7. To
identify traditional Siddha-marmavaidya practitioners who profess or
know some kind of isolated treatment for specific ailments for providing
supports required and encourage to deliver their service in a wider
circle.
8. To
build up a net work of different locality based marma vaidya centers,
wherein regionally traditional practitioners are brought together and
create a healthy atmosphere of critical interaction and sharing
experiences.
9. To
build up different centers of traditional knowledge practices as
centers of resource-pool, wherein fragmented skills and isolated
techniques are effectively coordinated along the principles of their
comprehensive theoretical basis.
10. To
establish a living-museum of traditional health practices where the
uniqueness of each technique and style are sustained in order strengthen
the diversity of traditional knowledge practices.
11. To establish tie-up with other establishments on condition of agreement with the objectives of the Marmasutram project.
12. To uphold the importance and effectiveness of traditional methods of healing and transmission of skills.
13. To work for gaining legal protection and statutory recognition of the practice.
14. To work for the protection of legal rights and entitlements of the marmavaidya practitioners.
15. To
work for the intellectual property rights that are due to the
traditional wisdom, as well as for individual practitioners for the
ingenious discoveries and inventions.
16. To
safeguard the significance of traditional wisdom and strive for
maintaining the traditional rigor and efficacy while adapting to the
interdisciplinary methods.
17. To
safeguard the authenticity and identity of the traditional wisdom as
against the attempts of de-legitimizing and appropriation by other
disciplines and agencies.
18. To
build up common school and other educational programmes with a special
orientation to the traditional Siddha marmavaidya practices, in order to
stream line the young talents to be the authentic carriers of the
traditional wisdom in the modern setting.
19. To do all that require for the in-site conservation of the traditional kalarividya, Siddhavaidya, Marmasastra practices.
20. To
explore the scope of producing and popularizing neutraceutical products
(supplementary food) from the recipe of traditional dietary practices.
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