One year after the Parliament passed the bill amending the Indian Medicine Central Council (amendment) Act, the Union Health Ministry will soon issue the notification to formally recognise within the definition of Indian medicine the Sowa-Rigpa system that is practised in the sub-Himalayan regions in the country.
“The Department of Ayush has recognized the Sowa-Rigpa as Indian System of Medicine by amendment in the Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970. The physicians practicing Sowa-Rigpa are called Amchi in the local area of Ladakh. The amendment will come into force by notification in the official gazette which is under process,” sources said.
