Ayurvedic medicine
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Basically, the idea is that you can make yourself healthier by vomiting, [[Colonic|crapping]], and bleeding out your body's contents, even if you're already perfectly healthy. Sounds good. | Basically, the idea is that you can make yourself healthier by vomiting, [[Colonic|crapping]], and bleeding out your body's contents, even if you're already perfectly healthy. Sounds good. | ||
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| + | Bloodletting is thought to be effective for excessive drowsiness, baldness, urticaria, rash, eczema, acne, scabies, leucoderma, chronic itching and hives, enlarged liver, spleen, gout, [[Cancer|tumors]], and genital infections.<ref>[http://www.bioline.org.br/request?jp11068 Bloodletting - An Ayurvedic perspective]</ref><ref>[http://www.ayurvedaireland.ie/treatments/raktamokshana.html Raktamokshana(Siraveda & Jalokacharana)], Ayurveda Health Clinic.</ref><ref>[http://www.allayurveda.com/panch_bletting.asp Bloodletting therapy helps to remove toxins], Allayurveda.com.</ref> | ||
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| − | In Ayurvedic medicine, [[leeching]] is thought to be | + | In Ayurvedic medicine, [[leeching]] is thought to be good for baldness.<ref>[http://www.altmd.com/Articles/Ayurveda-for-Alopecia Ayurveda for Alopecia], AltMD.</ref> |
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Revision as of 03:12, 27 August 2013
| Against allopathy |
| Alternative articles |
Ayurvedic medicine, at least as practiced by Deepak Chopra, is a form of alternative medicine that claims descent from ancient Hindu medicine, filtered through the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's bastardized form of Hinduism for Westerners known as Transcendental Meditation. It is based on the theory that the body has three elements, and that disease is the result of elemental imbalance. Proponents of the practice of Ayurvedic medicine claim to be able to cure almost anything (by just taking cow urine!),[1] from the common cold to AIDS, by getting your bodily systems in line with one another and with the elements of the Earth. This is achieved by ingesting some herbs, slathering oneself with paste made by herbs and oils, or Panchakarma, which is described as a 5-step program for therapeutic cleansing and includes bloodletting.[2] Western naturopaths and CAM supporters are usually both pretty anti-mercury and anti-vaccine, and support Ayurveda. Which is ironic, considering that Ayurvedic medicine uses not only mercury, but also lead and arsenic.
Ayurvedic medicine promotes the use of unproven and carcinogenic plants (such as birthwort, betelnuts, and madder root).[3][4][5]
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Treatments
Panchakarma
Panchakarma is an Ayurvedic treatment which supposedly clears the body of toxins and balances the body's "energy" (whatever that means). It's recommended to be done every year as a "tune up".[6] It consists of five parts: Vomiting, purging, enema, herbal inhalation therapy, and bloodletting.[6] The vomiting is used to balance the body's Kapha, the purging is for clearing the body of toxins, the enema is used for various things, the herbal inhalation balances the body's Prana, and the bloodletting "purifies" the blood and clears it of toxins (again).
Basically, the idea is that you can make yourself healthier by vomiting, crapping, and bleeding out your body's contents, even if you're already perfectly healthy. Sounds good.
Bloodletting
Bloodletting is thought to be effective for excessive drowsiness, baldness, urticaria, rash, eczema, acne, scabies, leucoderma, chronic itching and hives, enlarged liver, spleen, gout, tumors, and genital infections.[7][8][9]
Leeching
In Ayurvedic medicine, leeching is thought to be good for baldness.[10]
Rasa shastra
Rasa shastra is an ancient body of medical folklore in Ayurvedic medicine. It holds that it will do you good to eat mercury, lead, and arsenic, but only if they've been purified by baking them in burning cow shit. Not recommended.
In Ayurvedic medicine, arsenic,[11] lead and mercury are thought to be effective remedies. Accordingly, about 20% of Ayurvedic herbs sold on the Internet (by both Indian and American companies) contain dangerous amounts of substances such as lead, arsenic, and mercury.[12] In one study, researchers bought imported Ayurvedic herbal remedies from several stores in the Boston area, and 20% of those products also contained dangerous levels of the same heavy metals.[13] Ayurvedic practitioners opposed a global ban on mercury trading because of the impact it would have on Ayurvedic medicine.[14]
External links
Skeptical
General
- Rasa Shastra, iloveindia.com.
- Rasa Shastra
- Heavy metals in Ayurveda — An article by an Ayurvedic practitioner who claims the mercury used in Ayurveda is not such a big deal.
Footnotes
- ↑ cowurine.com
- ↑ Ayurvedic Medicine: Cancer Natural Ayurvedic Cure
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ Manjishta - Uses & Benefits of Manjishta, Rubia Tinctorum, ILoveIndia.com.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Ayurveda - Panchakarma, holistic-online.com.
- ↑ Bloodletting - An Ayurvedic perspective
- ↑ Raktamokshana(Siraveda & Jalokacharana), Ayurveda Health Clinic.
- ↑ Bloodletting therapy helps to remove toxins, Allayurveda.com.
- ↑ Ayurveda for Alopecia, AltMD.
- ↑ http://www.academia.edu/1439765/Arsenical_Compounds_in_Ayurveda_Medicine-_A_Prospective_analysis]
- ↑ Study finds toxins in some herbal medicines, Liz Szabo, USAToday.
- ↑ Heavy metal content of ayurvedic herbal medicine products, Saper RB, Kales SN, Paquin J, Burns MJ, Eisenberg DM, Davis RB, Phillips RS, JAMA. 2004 Dec 15;292(23):2868-73.
- ↑ Mercury Ban may Hit Ayurveda