MUNCIE -- The East met the West on Saturday morning as John Peterson, a family-practice physician, introduced an audience of 20 to an ancient form of alternative medicine called Ayurveda.

A leading Indian yoga guru has been cleared of mixing human bones and animal parts in his medicines.

NEW DELHI: If the sheer numbers of those who gathered at the Sheraton Hotel in Los Angeles to celebrate Bikram Choudhury’s birthday last week are any indication, yoga is ready for its next big innings in the US. For yoga is no longer a muddled concept practised by a select few new-age Americans, but a mass brand that spawns millions of dollars in revenues each year in the US.

Charges that traditional medicines manufactured by a flamboyant television yoga guru contain human skulls and animal parts have sparked a political feud in India, pitting Hindu nationalists against communists and the federal government against a state.

KATHMANDU, Nepal : Ayurveda is a form of alternative healing and nowhere is it more widely practised than in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal.

NEW YORK: India's traditional system of medicine, Ayurveda, has been for the first time included in an advisory body to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) with the appointment of researcher Bala V. Manyam.

FOSTER CITY -- When conventional Western medicine isn't working, a Foster City doctor says, more and more people are turning to Ayurveda -- an ancient Indian healing science that treats health problems through diet, exercise and herbs.

The effectiveness of the ancient Indian healing art of ayurveda is getting a closer look in the U.S.

Hindustan Times (India), Jan. 12, 2003