In a bid to make alternative medicine more popular in the US, Indian experts may soon start teaching medical students about Ayurveda in some of America’s best colleges.

“The proposal is in the pipeline. We want to make Indian alternative medicine more popular in the west,” Shiv Basant, joint secretary in the Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy told PTI.

The ayurveda experts are likely to take a short course for the US medical students under the Complementary Alternative Medicine in 16 colleges. Basant said for the past two years they have initiated international exchange programmes to promote India’s traditional

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