Thursday, June 4, 2009

FACTS AND MYTHS

1)Myth - ayurvedic medicines are slow to act

Fact – In fact in some diseases like bleeding, piles, herpes zoster, rhinitis etc., ayurvedic medicines can give relief within hours as compared to conventional medicines. Also ayurvedic medicines treat the basic cause instead of symptoms

2) Myth – can't treat infections

Fact – In fact ayurvedic medicines can treat all types of infections like fungal, bacterial, viral, protozoal etc. Ayurvedic medicines are proved to be beneficial on herpes, human immuno deficiency virus, Chikungunya like viral problems, where conventional medicines are not effective


3) Myth – There are no painkillers in ayurvedic medicines

Fact – As stated earlier, ayurvedic medicines treat the root cause instead of symptoms. So when root cause is treated, pain ultimately vanishes


4) Myth – ayurvedic medicines are only for chronic conditions

Fact – In fact ayurvedic medicines now a days are recommended more for day to day problems like headache, body ache and temperature, as chemical medicines in the form of over the counter products are more hazardous and toxic


5) Myth – ayurvedic medicines act like placebo

Fact – About 60 % of all the medicines available with your chemist has got their origin in plants (ayurveda) including aspirin, chloroquine, reserpine etc., therefore to call ayurvedic medicines a placebo will be a big mistake ever made by mankind


6) Myth – ayurveda is practiced by quacks with no scientific background

Fact - In fact in India there are graduate, postgraduate and fellowship courses dedicated to ayurveda in all the universities of all states. Ayurveda graduate has to learn anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, botany in a 4 ½ years course with practicals in hospitals. They also have to do a 1-year internship in Government hospitals.
There are about 800 colleges of ayurveda in India with about 12000 graduates, who are practicing ayurvedic medicines.


7) Myth – ayurvedic medicines can cure anything / ayurvedic medicines are miracle medicines / ayurvedic medicines are God send
 

Fact – There has been a clear division of diseases in ayurveda right from the beginning like curable stages and incurable stages of disease. Also surgical and non surgical disease. Also there is a good description of mind and soul in basic ayurveda philosophy, but that does not make ayurveda a miracle medicine. But description of mind and soul gives practioner and patient a different dimension to cure disease.

History of ayurveda has got description of many Gods of medicines, practicing and propagating ayurveda. But Gods have only given some good tools to diagnose and cure patients, not a miracle medicine


8) Myth – ayurvedic medicines are not safe

Fact- Ayurvedic medicines are the safer medicines as they are made from whole plant and not extract


9) Myth – ayurvedic medicines have heavy metals in it
 

Fact – Not all ayurvedic medicines have got heavy metals. Some medicines contain heavy metals but those are proven to be safe by many research institutes. In fact all over the world there is a increasing curiosity among scientific community to know about preparation of metallic medicines. Preparations include very long and tedious processes and some times take more than 1 year to make them. Basically the process is to remove the harmful part of metal and make it more effective e.g – Indians are the one, who eat gold more than anybody with no side effects from the last 4000 years.

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