While Ayurveda can substantially contribute to sustainable global health, it is not yet recognized for its full potential, be it as preventive and curative medicine or as a philosophy of life. SAMA’s mission is to promote the recognition of Ayurveda as a medical system in the West. The scopes are awareness raising, as well as bridging of the cultural and scientific gap between East and West during the sensitive phase of institutionalization of Ayurveda. The means are communication and access to essential and game changing information.
Health is a basic right for humanity and for the planet, which must be promoted and protected. In the face of global health issues, the evidence arises worldwide that traditional medicines, with an integrated systemic approach of the human being and respect to nature, need to be developed alongside modern medicine. While modern medicine excels in surgery, emergency and intensive care, its focus has moved away from health towards disease, symptom management, and over-specialization. It relies on a synthetic pharmacopeia and on compartmented principles, with little regard for health disorders before they reach a certain stage. Treatments generate numerous side-effects and contribute to ecological imbalances by chemically polluting water and soil.
With Ayurveda, SAMA seeks to promote a medical system which offers a nuanced understanding of health, with effective means for its maintenance as well as a time-tested system for collective and individual preventive medicine. It is equally effective as a curative medicine in the field of acute and chronic disorders with a minimum of side-effects. Unlike other traditional medical systems, Ayurveda is still practiced and taught today in Indian universities in its globality along its founding principles.
Beyond a medical system Ayurveda is a philosophy of life based on a deep rooted and time-tested traditional knowledge system. The patient becomes a responsible partner in the therapeutic process and beyond. Ayurveda in its educational aspect can thus contribute to a society striving for physical, mental and social health, while preserving the environment.
SAMA is founded in 2003 as a therapy and training centre under the name Kalaguna-Sadhana, as a result of the collaboration between Dr Simone Hunziker, a Swiss medical practitioner trained in traditional and complementary medicine…
The academic website of SAMA-Swiss Ayurvedic Medical Academy, Center of therapy and training in Ayurveda, was created from 2010 onwards. Its scope being to provide professionals, media, authorities and general public in the West with genuine information about Ayurveda…
The SAMA ETHICAL CHARTER guarantees the principles guiding the institution’s actions in the areas of science, tradition and research in Ayurveda. Under the aims of this charter, the activities of SAMA promote Ayurveda through science and research…