Is Ayurveda a Farce?

Hi All,

I had gone through the original post and all the rest in reply too and I am completely concurring with the views expressed there. You all should also know that besides Ayurveda, the other valuable systems available are Siddha, Unani and Homeopathy which are all equally good ways of treatment for any ailment besides allopathy. We should know that allopathy alleviates the sufferings but does not cure the disease since it treats the symptoms only which are the result of a root cause where in the other alternate systems of medicine come in to prominent play. They all go to the root cause of the complaint and treat the individual as a whole and not the symptoms alone. In those systems different persons with the same complaint gets different remedies depending upon their individual special physical and mental symptoms like, one person with a certain complaint may be feeling better with warmth while the other in a similar position may feel better with cold etc., It is this approach which gets the person cured. But this may take some time which, since we have got used to cures in a jiffy as advertised in the media by the various OTC remedies, cannot wait for and hence go to allopaths for quick cures which are in fact only temporary ones. A few days back a neighbour of mine got hurt in her hip due to a fall and was suffering from severe pain. I gave her a homeopathic remedy one dose each for two days and left it at that. IN three days she has been completely relieved of her pain and added to that she was performing her duties at home without any rest during the interval too. That is the power of the alternate system. Though these allpaths talk derisively about the other systems, they do prescribe many ayurvedic and other remedies to their patients. We should go back to our wonderful systems which are not so costly on our purses as also give us gentle cure. :thumbsup

geetha

 

geetha,

i am not so certain that ayurvedic treatment is not expensive. there are so many ayurvedic centres claiming to be ayurvedic centres (how does one check out their claims) and a couple of places i contacted were very highly priced.

 

It's believed that Aurveda reaches to the root cause of the ailment. It diagonoses the exact malfunctioning and start repairing the sickness. It takes a long time though. It doesn't have any side effects. Aurvedic Vaidya (Doctor) always advises not to stop one's regular Allopathic medicines but still finds it way to treat the patient. It has NO side effects as compared to other medicines.

 

ayurveda s indeed the ancient science.But like allopathic science a lot of research needs to be done to know its real benefits.
Nowadays lot of people claim they are ayurvedic doctors and give medicines to people.But the claim that they are without side effects is not true.Many so called vaidyas give bhasmas which are laden with heavy metas which get depositd in the kidneys causing kidney failure.
My cousine went to a reputed aryudic doc for tratment of arthritis.He took the treatment for about 2 years.His feet started swelling so we adviced him to have a urine check up. His creatinine was found to be 3+ which is alarming .The Allopathic kidney specialists after some tests found some heavy metals deposited in the kidneys.Then followed dialysis first once a wk, theen twice, then thrice,His pasma had to be replaced,he was admittedto ICU for a fortnight. His health kept diteriorating. finally yesterday it was all over.
My cousine a very tall hefty guy could not be saved.
The doctors at the hospital blamed it to the heavy metals(bhasmas)given to him.Anybody claiming to be ayurvedacharya without full knowledge of it tries to give medicines, we must be careful while using them.

 

I totally agree with the above poster. I dont know a single place where they practice Ayurveda as it supposeed to be. All ayurveda medicines are commercialised and you dont know the composition of any of them .
If you practice it in the right way , it works . But in our generation I doubt we have all the basics covered when it comes to Ayurvedic treatment.

 

Ayurveda is a beautiful science which educates the practitioner to live a holistically healthy life all in all (mentally, physically and spiritually). In addition it doesn't just treat the a particular disease or symptom, it treats the body as a whole. Ayurvedic-practitioners recognize that all systems of the body are connected and therefore if there's dis-harmony in one area theres did-harmony in another. It's Sanskrit title says it all: Ayu(s)- longevity and Veda]- related to knowledge/science

I'm an African-American woman who loves the principals of Ayurveda and I'm quite eager to further my knowledge on this well established beautiful ancient (over 5000 yrs. old) scientific art form.

Westernized culture has never given credit to, respected nor understood any people's of color cultures. Yet they thrive off of the very knowledge and sciences they disregard & disrespect...

 

I am sorry about your cousin. But please understand ayurveda doesn't use any bhasma for the treatment. It must be siddha treatment which the ayurveda doctor followed. ayurveda is misunderstood by so many just because of this kind of combination treatment of doctors who for a short cut to the effect use siddha products in the name of ayurveda. this science clearly use things which is available in the living world of our nature. I am afraid your cousin is handled in a very dangerous way in the name of ayurveda. this is the fault of human being who commercialised the ancient science. if you go to tribal folk they use the available medicinal plants, whether it is in desert or mountain, no matter, accordingly which has the particular medicinal property... they are very effective in destroying the root cause of the illness. I am agreed about the readymade ayurveda products available in the market leave a doubt in our mind. the thing is major medicinal plants are not available in many places to make a fresh medicine. also time has changed so the technology help to keep the medicines fresh for a time period. isn't it a big help to us.. ? we don't have to make the medicine at home finding out all the ingredients.. even if we try we will not be able to find many plants.. this is writing with pain because it is clearly unfair to blame ayurveda for the human greediness... again sorry about your cousin and my prayers