A treatment for cancer through yoga that does away with the need for chemotherapy is just a year away, Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Naik said yesterday.
Speaking on the sidelines of the AYUSH expo being held near Panaji, Naik said his ministry was in the process of vetting documentation submitted by a Bengaluru-based yoga university, which is said to have cured patients suffering from cancer.
“There is an institute in Bengaluru. They have found a yoga technique for prevention and cure of cancer. We have collected all documentation and the process is going on,” Naik told reporters.
Naik said that prima facie he was confident about the “cancer cure” claimed by the Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana, a deemed university headed by H R Narendra, a mechanical engineer who has worked as a post-doctoral research associate at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) in 1970 and subsequently had a stint at Harvard University.
Asked how long it would take for the AYUSH ministry to vet the documentation submitted by the Samsthana related to cancer cure, Naik said: “I think it will take about a year. The documentation should be perfect.”
Naik: confident
