Indigenous holistic therapy to help traditional healers

Shillong: Mebaai Tribal Health and Wellness Centre (Indigenous Holistic Therapies and Kerala Massage) was inaugurated by Serina Wahlang, in the presence of Health minister A L Hek in Golflinks on Thursday.
The centre is being set up in partnership with Vasudeva Vilasam, Kerala to provide people with the unique healing of Ayurveda and experience the benefits of traditional Khasi massage.
Hek felt that this concept of indigenous holistic therapy with Kerala massage will boost health tourism in the state as well as promote our own traditional healers and medicines through an organised platform.
The centre will see the convergence of Ayurveda and Khasi traditional healing systems. The two systems will be beneficial for the state as it houses more than 3000 medicinal herbs and plants besides a number of traditional healers, he added.
Pradeep Jyoti of Kerala informed that they will develop medicines for various diseases and take the Khasi healing system to a different level.
Apart from it, he expressed his keenness to have skill development programmes for youths by setting up institutes for their training and to set up factories for manufacturing traditional medicines.
H Bani, a well known traditional healer and an expert on medicinal plants informed the gathering on the different types of medicinal plants found in Meghalaya. He urged everyone to spread the message about the Centre.