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Saturday, December 1, 2018

By Catherine Kennedy


Addresses to healthcare and wellness are an ancient enterprise. Methods and approaches greatly differ in every time and place. In some cases, common denominators can be deduced from seemingly incongruous practices. Such is the case with Ayurvedic Medicine Programs, which has much common ground with some medical approaches the whole world over.

This medical approach is an ancient development. It actually had its provenance in Hindu traditions. Given that, its apparent that it integrates metaphysical and religious beliefs, those which outlined in given Hindu scriptures. Although it was founded at most three thousand years ago, Ayurveda still maintains a considerable following, even outside the Indian subcontinent.

This concept is based on ancient Hindu scriptures. Its etymology is based on the combination of two Sanskrit words, ayur meaning life, and veda meaning science or knowledge. All in all, its pitched to be some kind of life science. At most, it was probably founded at least three thousand years ago, and its quite significant that its still has a grand following of adherents and believers.

Anyhow, this ancient practice is based on the oft pitched concept about elemental balance. It claims to cure someone by aligning his or her bodily systems with one another and the elements of the Earth. It explains how people are affected by the dissemblance of natural order both inside and outside their bodies. This principle proffers the concept of universal interconnectedness among persons and the entire universe.

Ayurvedic practices are so ancient that they predate even written records and were therefore handed down to posterity through word of mouth. That said, it may be gleaned from this fact that some adhered to methodologies are embellished, misunderstood, or interpolated. Because of its antiquity, it has also been widely criticized as obsolete.

What makes Ayurveda so controversial and popular, however, are not these categorization. Like most alternative medicine tropes, it claims to cure a wide range of diseases and complaints. However, some of these healing techniques are quite counterintuitive to the hard thinking individual. F

For example, one might not be able to form a logical premise right off the bat, why Ayurvedic practitioners stand by the fact that leeching cures baldness or that vomiting cures anorexia. That can be really mind boggling when one thinks too much about it.

What gives it the much higher recognition of proto science are approaches such as rasa shastra. This involves the intake of metal elements such as lead, mercury, and arsenic. That wouldve made sense a century ago. However, whats the moot point nowadays are that these metals are widely recognized to be toxic in even small quantities. And though the last two are used in some medicines, they are actually intermixed with lots of compounds to make them nonpoisonous. It cannot be established, however, whether the same is done for Ayurveda. Also, there are the herbal medicines, which makes use of considerably unquestionable herbs such as basil, turmeric, and aloe vera, although unproven and toxic plants like birthwort, betel nut, and madder root are sometimes dragged into the picture.

It might say a lot in the favor of Ayurveda that its probably effective and reputable. Nothing else can account for its continued popularity and patronage. Its recommendable, nonetheless, to stand by conventional and modern medicine and only use alternative medicines complementarily, and with the approval of ones doctor.




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