13th
February
2009
Jama Should Stop Disinformation About Ayurveda
Anjan asked:
JAMA Should Stop Disinformation About Ayurveda.
New Delhi: Veteran freedom fighter and former member of both houses of Indian parliament Mr. Rama Chandera Vikal said, “America should stop disinformation about Ayurveda”. Mr. Vikal was inaugurating the seminar on ‘Respect, protect and promote Ayurveda for healthy living’ at Constitution Club in New Delhi on the occasion of Dhanwantri Jayanti.
Mr. Vikal said,”Ayurveda is the oldest medical system in the world. Its recorded origin goes back about 5000 years to the Vedic civilization of India. It’s one of the three great Vedic life sciences, the other two being Yoga and Tantra, each having a different main perspective on human life.
References to Ayurveda are found in the Atharva Veda, the fourth veda, which deals with herbs, healing and mantras to cure illness and prevention of diseases. Ayurveda has now become fashionable in the West. Film stars, politicians, new age seekers from California to Moscow seek information about Ayurveda.
Ayurveda places great emphasis on maintenance of health of healthy people through diets, life style regulations and herbal food supplements. Mr. Vikal said Indian Ayurveda is getting popular in USA and other parts of the world because Ayurveda therapy is comparatively safe and affordable for almost all patients of different income group. ‘Ayurvedic medicines have no side or after effects,’ said Mr. Vikal.
The seminar was organized by Vaidya Kirpa Ram Health Foundation (Regd). While presiding over the seminar, founder of Vaidya Kirpa Ram Health Foundation, Ayurvedacharya Dr. Harish Kumar Verma said JAMA article published on 15th December 2004 has caused confusion among consumers. He said Drs Saper, Eisenberg, Phillips, and Davis of Osher Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, tested Ayurvedic medicines on the parameter of food supplements. There is a difference between testing parameter of food supplements and medicines. Moreover they never tested the toxicity of these products, which are mentioned in the said article.
Dr Verma said various compounds of Arsenic, Mercury and Lead are used in manufacturing of few prescription based Ayurvedic medicines, which are used for serious disorders like Leukaemia, Multiple Seclerosis or Cancer etc. But these heavy metals are not used in free form, rather these heavy metals are converted into safe compounds after centuries old professional processing, which is duly approved by the Indian Regulatory Authorities, before their usage in Ayurvedic medicines.
Dr. Verma said lot of poisonous substances are used in manufacturing of Allopathic drugs, that does not mean that public should be scared about those medicines. People should know the difference between food supplements and medicines.
While addressing the seminar Dr Raj Kumar Sharma, Principal of DAV Ayurvedic College Jallandhar said that it is unfortunate that AYUSH Deptt. of Govt of India could not effectively counter this disinformation about presence of heavy metals in Ayurvedic Medicines. He said JAMA should withdraw this article from its website because users of Ayurvedic medicines are getting scared by this disinformation.
Dr .V K Tripathi of Sanat Products Limited said JAMA article is spreading disinformation about Ayurvedic medicines. He said when America issued a patent on Arsenic Trioxide for Leukaemia, then the same scientists of Boston university never talked about toxicity of Arsenic for human consumption. When compounds of Arsenic are used in Ayurvedic medicines then American scientists of Boston University are publishing disinformation about Ayurveda and scaring the public by saying Ayurvedic medicines may be toxic due to presence of Arsenic in these medicines. This is a professional discrimination, said Dr. Tripathi.
On this occasion American Pediatric Gastroentrologist Dr Shivinder Narwal was honoured by Sh Ram Chander Vikal for promoting Ayurveda in USA. The president of foundation said that its organization will organise similar seminars in 500 districts of India to counter JAMA disinformation about Ayurvedic medicines.
By: Dr Raspal Kaur A 138 Madhuban,
Delhi-110092
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JAMA Should Stop Disinformation About Ayurveda.
New Delhi: Veteran freedom fighter and former member of both houses of Indian parliament Mr. Rama Chandera Vikal said, “America should stop disinformation about Ayurveda”. Mr. Vikal was inaugurating the seminar on ‘Respect, protect and promote Ayurveda for healthy living’ at Constitution Club in New Delhi on the occasion of Dhanwantri Jayanti.
Mr. Vikal said,”Ayurveda is the oldest medical system in the world. Its recorded origin goes back about 5000 years to the Vedic civilization of India. It’s one of the three great Vedic life sciences, the other two being Yoga and Tantra, each having a different main perspective on human life.
References to Ayurveda are found in the Atharva Veda, the fourth veda, which deals with herbs, healing and mantras to cure illness and prevention of diseases. Ayurveda has now become fashionable in the West. Film stars, politicians, new age seekers from California to Moscow seek information about Ayurveda.
Ayurveda places great emphasis on maintenance of health of healthy people through diets, life style regulations and herbal food supplements. Mr. Vikal said Indian Ayurveda is getting popular in USA and other parts of the world because Ayurveda therapy is comparatively safe and affordable for almost all patients of different income group. ‘Ayurvedic medicines have no side or after effects,’ said Mr. Vikal.
The seminar was organized by Vaidya Kirpa Ram Health Foundation (Regd). While presiding over the seminar, founder of Vaidya Kirpa Ram Health Foundation, Ayurvedacharya Dr. Harish Kumar Verma said JAMA article published on 15th December 2004 has caused confusion among consumers. He said Drs Saper, Eisenberg, Phillips, and Davis of Osher Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, tested Ayurvedic medicines on the parameter of food supplements. There is a difference between testing parameter of food supplements and medicines. Moreover they never tested the toxicity of these products, which are mentioned in the said article.
Dr Verma said various compounds of Arsenic, Mercury and Lead are used in manufacturing of few prescription based Ayurvedic medicines, which are used for serious disorders like Leukaemia, Multiple Seclerosis or Cancer etc. But these heavy metals are not used in free form, rather these heavy metals are converted into safe compounds after centuries old professional processing, which is duly approved by the Indian Regulatory Authorities, before their usage in Ayurvedic medicines.
Dr. Verma said lot of poisonous substances are used in manufacturing of Allopathic drugs, that does not mean that public should be scared about those medicines. People should know the difference between food supplements and medicines.
While addressing the seminar Dr Raj Kumar Sharma, Principal of DAV Ayurvedic College Jallandhar said that it is unfortunate that AYUSH Deptt. of Govt of India could not effectively counter this disinformation about presence of heavy metals in Ayurvedic Medicines. He said JAMA should withdraw this article from its website because users of Ayurvedic medicines are getting scared by this disinformation.
Dr .V K Tripathi of Sanat Products Limited said JAMA article is spreading disinformation about Ayurvedic medicines. He said when America issued a patent on Arsenic Trioxide for Leukaemia, then the same scientists of Boston university never talked about toxicity of Arsenic for human consumption. When compounds of Arsenic are used in Ayurvedic medicines then American scientists of Boston University are publishing disinformation about Ayurveda and scaring the public by saying Ayurvedic medicines may be toxic due to presence of Arsenic in these medicines. This is a professional discrimination, said Dr. Tripathi.
On this occasion American Pediatric Gastroentrologist Dr Shivinder Narwal was honoured by Sh Ram Chander Vikal for promoting Ayurveda in USA. The president of foundation said that its organization will organise similar seminars in 500 districts of India to counter JAMA disinformation about Ayurvedic medicines.
By: Dr Raspal Kaur A 138 Madhuban,
Delhi-110092
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13th
February
2009
Ayurveda - Art of Being Part 3
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Ayurveda - Art of Being Part 3
The knowledge of Ayurveda was handed from Brahma to Daksha Prajapati, onto the Ashwin twins (the divine doctors), then passed to Indra. Sage Bharadvaja volunteered to go to heaven to receive this wisdom from Indra, and so become the first human to receive the knowledge of Ayurveda. He passed it to Atreya, then onto Punarnavasu and finally Agnivesha.
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