Скачать или смотреть Working to save ancient medical knowledge from western companies

(4 Jun 2009)
London, United Kingdom, February 11th 2009
1. Various of yoga pupils doing postures
Mumbai, India - 18 May 2009
2. Close up jars of Unani herbs
3. Wide shot Aryuvedic herbalists
4. Close up dry lizards used for Aryuvedic remedy
5. Close up Unani practitioner
6. Close up customers
Ghaziabad, Delhi, India - 13 April 2009
7. Wide shot Doctors at computers
8. Close up woman reading
9. Close up Persian text
10. Close up man reading
11. Close up Arabic text
12. Woman at computer
13. Close up Aryuvedic textbooks
14. SOUNDBITE: (English), Vinod Kumar Gupta, Traditional Knowledge Digital Library:
"We so far have done 130 books in Aryuveda, Unani and Siddha. We plan to do 270 books more related to Aryuveda, Unani, Siddha and Yoga. We are also targeting around half a million traditional medical manuscripts, which are written in ancient language which many people even in India cannot understand."
14. Various Web site of Traditional Knowledge Digital Library.
Mumbai, India - 18 May 2009
15. Wide shot spice merchants
16. Close up spice merchant
17. Various dried turmeric
Ghaziabad, Delhi, India - 13 April 2009
18. SOUNDBITE: (English), Vinod Kumar Gupta, Traditional Knowledge Digital Library:
"In 2000 alone, year 2000, there were more than 5000 patents granted on medicine plant and 80 percent of them were on six plants of Indian origin. And then we did a sample study of around 700 patents, we found that 50 percent should never have been granted."
Mumbai, India - 18 May 2009
19. Close up ground turmeric being weighed
20. Close up spice merchant
21. Close up turmeric drying in the sun
Mumbai, India - 20 May 2009
22 SOUNDBITE: (English), Dr Raghunath Mashelkar, Research Scientist:
"Now you can't keep on challenging everything, so I went to the US patent office, spent a full day, they were extremely fair by the way, they took me to their database and showed that to me and said, look when such a patent gets applied for, we put turmeric, wound healing powder and see what comes up on the screen. Nothing comes up on the screen because its either in your head, up here, or buried in some text book with no access. That is where I got the idea of creating a Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, where all this knowledge will be actually be put in a form that can be understood by the patent examiners."
Mumbai, India - 18 May 2009
23. Wide shot woman sorting spices
24. Wide shot spices in street
Ghaziabad, Delhi, India - 13 April 2009
25. Various doctors reading at computer
26. Close up computer monitor
27. SOUNDBITE: (English), Dr Raghunath Mashelkar, Research Scientist:
"And I'm sure this will benefit the whole world, its not just India who should be researching on this and developing new drugs and new cures, the whole world needs it."
Ghaziabad, Delhi, India - 13 April 2009
28. Various Web site of Traditional Knowledge Digital Library.
29. Close up hand moving mouse
30. Mid shot woman reading Aryuvedic text
31. Mid shot Aryuvedic book
32. Woman at computer
33. Man reading Aryuvedic text
34. Close up ancient text
LEAD IN:
India has declared war on western pharmaceutical companies claiming traditional medicines as their own.
It's the world's first developing country to license more than 200 thousand traditional treatments as public property.
STORYLINE:
Yoga in the UK today, but it has its origins in India.
Along with Ayurveda it's an element of an ancient system of health care that has been practiced for more than 2000 years.
Vinod Kumar Gupta, of the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library says
EDITORS NOTES :
Keyword medical- health

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