Do Ayurvedic Treatments Really Work or Is It Just Another Hoax?
Question by Norah: Do ayurvedic treatments really work or is it just another hoax?
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Answer by Gregory
It can work well and should be tried but it also depends on how good the dr is
Answer by Gary Y
Ayurvedic is a traditional or folk medicine which uses crude herbal drugs, typically of unknown quality or safety. It can contain dangerous quantities of heavy metals, including lead, mercury, thallium and arsenic; not just as contaminants, they are added deliberately in order to supposedly return the body to health by rebalancing allegedly essential minerals.
Ayurvedic IS DANGEROUS. From Wikipedia (check the sources):
“Safety (Ayurvedic)
Rasa shastra, the practice of adding metals, minerals or gems to herbs, is a source of toxic heavy metals such as lead, mercury and arsenic.[77] Adverse reactions to herbs due to their pharmacology are described in traditional ayurvedic texts, but ayurvedic practitioners are reluctant to admit that herbs could be toxic and the reliable information on herbal toxicity is not readily available.[78]
A 2008 study of more than 230 products found that approximately 20% of remedies (and 40% of rasa shastra medicines) purchased over the Internet from both US and Indian suppliers contained lead, mercury or arsenic.[77][80][81]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurvedic#Safety
Last year, the New South Wales (Australia) government issued a safety warning for Ayurvedic, after a man died from lead poisoning:
“According to the Public Health Unit Director of Sydney South West Area Health Service, Dr Stephen Conaty, testing of a sample of the Ayurvedic medicine showed that it contained high levels of mercury, arsenic and especially high levels of lead. The medicine contained 2.3% lead by weight.”
http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/2010/20100804_01.html
And Ayurvedic is quack medicne – it’s underlying concepts include ‘life forces’, ether, air, water and fire as elements which control basic body functions such as cell division and immune response. This is pseudoscientific nonsense and shows they have no idea about how the human body works. Typical of quackery, clinical trials of Ayurvedic have been small, badly designed, lacked appropriate control groups, or had other issues that affected how meaningful the results were. There is no valid evidence that Ayurvedic medicine works for any condition.
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