title: The alternative for survival*.
abstract: The need of the time is to develop the traditional health care systems as a people oriented health care system. The factors that dominated the health care structure of our nation has been systematically pushing the traditional systems of medicine away from the people. In this background, an attempt has been made to reflect upon one's own experience, to understand the pattern of domination and to probe and suggest further on what could be the possible alternative development strategy and suggest specific tasks that would help define the development problematique in a meaningful manner in order to progress further in a self-determined manner.
authors.affiliation: International Institute of Ayurveda, Coimbatore 641 018, India.
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Krishnakumar