Balendu Prakash

Balendu Prakash was born on 14 March 1959, at Meerut, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, to Vaidya Chandra Prakash, an Ayurveda practitioner. He did his early schooling at Meerut and graduated in Science with Honours (BSc Hons.) after which he secured the Ayurvedic Medicine degree of BAMS (Ayurvedacharya) from Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak. It is reported that he learnt Rasa Shastra, a traditional Indian therapeutic protocol, where metal, in powder and paste forms, are used alongside herbs, for the treatment, from his father.{{cite web | url=http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/160/mystique-of-metal-therapy/ | title=Mystique of metal therapy | publisher=India Environment Portal | date=29 November 1995 | access-date=3 November 2015}} In 1989, he moved his base to Dehradun and founded Vaidya Chandra Prakash Cancer Research Foundation (SIROs) for ayurvedic research.

His treatment protocols have been subjected to studies in International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies in 2014.{{cite journal | url=http://www.ijims.com/uploads/ea4a3f5d475faa73e8b2z1.pdf | title=A review on an Ayurvedic Approach for Cancer Treatment developed by Vaidya Balendu Prakash | author=Sanjoy Kumar Pal | journal=International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies | year=2014 | volume=1 | issue=6 | pages=1–11 | issn=2348-0343}} He has published several articles in alternative medicine research journals about his findings, covering the treatment of cancer{{cite journal|url=http://medind.nic.in/haa/t05/i1/haat05i1p169.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180417132316/http://medind.nic.in/haa/t05/i1/haat05i1p169.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2018-04-17 |title=Indigenous Approach to Combat Cancer |author=Vaidya Balendu Prakash |journal=Health Administrator |volume=XVII |issue=1 |pages=169–171 }}{{cite journal | pmc=3157111 | title=Treatment of relapsed undifferentiated acute myeloid leukemia (AML-M0) with Ayurvedic therapy | author=Balendu Prakash | journal= International Journal of Ayurveda Research| year=2011 | volume=2 | issue=1 | pages=56–59 | doi=10.4103/0974-7788.83184 | pmid=21897645 | doi-access=free }} and other diseases.{{cite web | url=http://www.worldbank.org/afr/ik/GRA/balendu_prakash.pdf | title=Positivism: An Approach to Develop Indigenous Medicine | publisher=World Bank | work=Presentation | date=2015 | access-date=3 November 2015 | author=Vaidya Balendu Prakash | pages=19}}{{cite journal | title=Sustainable Effect of Ayurvedic Formulations in the Treatment of Nutritional Anemia in Adolescent Students |author1=Vaidya Balendu Prakash |author2=Shyam Prakash |author3=Rajesh Sharma |author4=Sanjoy K. Pal. |name-list-style=amp | journal=The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine | date=February 2010 | volume=16 | issue=2 | pages=205–211 | doi=10.1089/acm.2008.0573|pmid = 20180694}} In 2000, when he set up a research unit at the Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, he found it difficult to get patient referrals from medical doctors of the Centre.{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/jul/07jose.htm|title=Medical rivalry threatens cancer cure project|date=7 July 2000|publisher=Rediff|access-date=3 November 2015}} It is also reported that a team of British medical doctors scrutinised Prakash's treatment and his patients in 1990, only to report negatively about the therapeutic efficacy of the treatment.

Prakash is a former member of the scientific advisory committee of Central Council for Research in Ayurveda and Siddha (CCRAS) and served as the Honorary Physician to the President of India from 1997 to 2000.{{cite web | url=http://www.cancerhope.org/dr.balendu.html | title=Panel of Doctors | publisher=A M Charitable Trust | date=2015 | access-date=3 November 2015}} He has sat in the Central Council of Indian Medicine and headed the Clinical Research Units of Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram and Shri Dhanvantri Ayurvedic College and Hospital, Chandigarh during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He is a member of the Research Advisory Committee of the Herbal Research Development Institute, Gopeshwar ( a Government of Uttarakhand undertaking) and the Advisory Committee of the National Cancer Control Programme of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. He is also a member of the Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani Drugs Technical Advisory Board of the Ministry of AYUSH and International Headache Society, UK and a life member of the Indian Co-operative Oncology Network (ICON).

Prakash is a recipient of several awards and honours such as Uttrakhand Gaurav, Doon Ratan, Ayurveda Chandrodaya, Paranacharya, Vaidya Ratanam, National Citizen Award and Pride of Doon. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 1999.{{portal|India|Medicine}}

• {{cite web | title=Positivism: An Approach to Develop Indigenous Medicine | publisher=World Bank | work=Presentation | date=2015 | author=Vaidya Balendu Prakash | pages=19}}
• {{cite journal | title=Indigenous Approach to Combat Cancer | author=Vaidya Balendu Prakash | journal=Health Administrator | volume=XVII | issue=1 | pages=169–171}}
• {{cite journal | title=Treatment of relapsed undifferentiated acute myeloid leukemia (AML-M0) with Ayurvedic therapy | author=Balendu Prakash | journal= International Journal of Ayurveda Research| year=2011 | volume=2 | issue=1 | pages=56–59 | doi=10.4103/0974-7788.83184 | pmid=21897645 | pmc=3157111 | doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal | title=Sustainable Effect of Ayurvedic Formulations in the Treatment of Nutritional Anemia in Adolescent Students |author1=Vaidya Balendu Prakash |author2=Shyam Prakash |author3=Rajesh Sharma |author4=Sanjoy K. Pal. |name-list-style=amp | journal=The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine | date=February 2010 | volume=16 | issue=2 | pages=205–211 | doi=10.1089/acm.2008.0573|pmid=20180694 }}

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• {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ML9CwipZFM | title=Chronic Pancreatitis - An Innovative Treatment by Vaidya Balendu Prakash | publisher=Vaidya Balendu Prakash | work=YouTube video | date=20 January 2015 | access-date=3 November 2015}}

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