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Indigenous medical knowledge (IMK), also termed as folk, rural, tribal knowledge and time and often criticized in the name of science as primitive and non-scientific, in fact, is a scientific knowledge because community has handed it down several generations with observation and experiments at every generation as a culture.

By Dr Prasuna, MD (Ay); (PhD)

Agni is a key factor in transformation of consumed ahara viharadi dravyas of vijateeya origin to sajateeya nature and converts the food consumed and produces energy. Hence the term comprehends various factors which participates and regulate the course of digestion and metabolism or any transformation in the tissue of an organism.

The Srilankan government has implemented a series of programmes for the development of indigenous medicine during the last four years, said Indigenous Medicine Minister Tissa Karaliyadde.