As the news media deluged us under barrage of news on Ayurveda and toxicity, here’s one Ayurveda Physycian, G.J.Pillai, based in Malaysia, reacting to the whole affair.
The readers will never go anywhere near Ayurvedic medicines after reading the headline. That is what the Western scientists want.
Dr Robert Sapper and colleagues who analysed and reported their findings in the Journal of American Medical Association are ignorant of the Ayurvedic medical system.
The biochemical analysis of an Ayurvedic medicine may disclose many ingredients, including heavy metals and other minerals. Such minerals are not in a pure form as base metals but as a vegetative compound which is not poisonous.
Most Ayurvedic medicines are made from herbs and herbs are God’s creation. The plant’s growth is a highly complex process. Each plant has its own different content of metals and minerals in a consumable form.
If biochemical analysis is applied to a human body, what are the results that will be obtained? Many metals and minerals would be present. These are obtained from plant-based food. These minerals are required for health.
In essence, the metals present in the body as useful elements are also the ones mentioned as contaminants of the Ayurvedic medicines analysed by the scientists.[Analysts Are Wrong About Ayurvedic System]
There is relation in between the finding of heavy metals in ayurvedic classical formulations specially rasaausdhies & producing toxicity in the users of thses medicines under a qualified ayurvedic physician.
this whole debate is irrerelevant in this cotext.
It is just to creat havoc among the bielevers of this pois integral system of medicines.
Just have a look on the study conducted in west about the restriction of SALTS in patients of high BP… advised all over the world by the doctors of modern scientific system of medicines without considering the nature of patient..that causes early deaths
Comment by Dr. Ramniwas Prasher, MD[Ayurveda] — September 22, 2008 @ 5:10 am
Do you have a medical centre in Malaysia where I can take my 11 yrs old son? How can I contact G.J. Pillai?
Comment by Ari — October 22, 2008 @ 12:42 pm