[nukkad] Fw: Alternative Therapies??

["Mahesh chandra Gupta" <>]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. M.C.Gupta" <healthlaw@now-india.net.in>
To: <parag@bsil.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: Alternative Therapies??


> Let us get the facts straight. And facts alone, without subjectiveness.
>
> 1. Ayurveda and Homoeopathy are NOT alternate therapies. In fact, they are
> NOT therapies at all. They are well developed and well recognised systems
of
> medicine. Examples of alternate therapy are aromatherapy, magnetotherapy,
> acupuncture, acupressure etc.
>
> 2. Even among alternate therapies, some have scientifically proven value.
> [Please differentiate between scientifically proven  value and
> scientifically proven mechanism. The latter is not a prerequisite for the
> former. As per history of science, an event is usually observed first and
> attempts to find its mechanism follow.]  In the present context,
acupuncture
> is a good example of an alternative therapy of value, whose mechanism is
not
> yet well understood. It has been around for, may be, 2500 years.
>
> 3. You state, "Here I would like to raise some questions on Ayuerveda :
> There are some critics of this therapy (critics are well known doctors)
> which raise some doubts and question about the claims made by these
things."
>
> Please let me know the name of a single well known doctor who is a critic
of
> Ayurveda. [Well known is presumed to mean well known in medical academic
> circles, not in the local neighbourhood. He should be well known for his
> academic and research credentials].
>
> No learned medical scientist today would criticize Ayurveda, because he
> would be aware of the contributions of Ayurveda to modern medicine and
> thought. I can list those contributions later, if you so wish.
>
> 4. Please explain your statement: "In Ayuerveda , there are no
> standardization of medicines which really  hampers the effect ". The
effect
> of a phenomenon can not be hampered simply because the phenomenon itself
can
> not be standardized. Will the effect of a star on a planet be any less
> because the related astronomical variables are not properly quantified?
> Rauwolfia and  cinchona,  are standard plant source medicines  used in
> modern medicine today. They have been used by people for thousands of
years
> earlier. Their effect was just the same before allopathy took note of
them.
> It was same even after such note was taken but the medicines remained
> unstandardised.
>
> 4. You state that: "does that mean in todays world of molecular biology
and
> gene  therapy we should still stick to the old method just because it
> belongs to  us?" No, it does not mean that. But gene therapy will not cure
a
> boil or jaundice. Shall we discard the good old treatments for these
> conditions because we are living in the modern days of gene therapy and
> molecular biology? Who is, according to you, advising that we should stick
> to an old, but useless, treatment when a newer, effective treatment is
> available?
>
> 5. Regarding American "petant" for neem and haldi etc., even after double
> blind trials etc., do neem and haldi become useless if quoted from
Ayurvedic
> texts, but become virtuous if bearing a US patent?
>
> Parting comment: Please do not miss the wood for the trees. Real good gems
> lie buried in Ayurveda, some of which are beginning to be unravelled by
> scientists of repute. You might have heard of CDRI.
>
> MC Gupta
> Aug 30
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>
> From: "Parag Dharmadhikari" <parag@bsil.com>
> Subject: Alternative Therapies??
>
>
> > There is a lot of noise and claims made by the alternative therapies and
> > there scuess. But how much is real truth below it?
>
>


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