All About Ayurvedic Medicine Programs

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.

Nonetheless, it is not recognized as actual science per se, for obvious reasons. Conventional medical practitioners perceive it as a kind of alternative medicine, and even a proto science. This is because some methods of the Ayurveda actually glean meritorious results, but they are attributed rather to external or alternative factors rather than through the process itself. It is dubbed proto by some since, according to them, it holds the trappings of recognizable science, although it wasnt originally intended to be so.

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.

That may be too metaphysical for its own good. Anyway, all the fuss about Ayurveda is not so much on its tenets and theories but on its applications. As it is, if you want some sort of praxis to be widely accepted, make it as vague as possible. Ayurvedic tradition seems to stand by this trope.

In fact, Ayurvedic medicine claims to cure almost anything, from rashes to anorexia. The most often adhered to practices include yoga, herbal remedies, special diets, various therapies, and rasa shastra, which involves treating diseases with certain metal substances. Lifestyle recommendations are also included in this all around treatment.

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.

Its saying something about Ayurveda that its continued patronage says much about its reliability and effectiveness. As with all things unproven in science, its always recommendable to not throw caution to the winds. It wouldnt to put your healing efforts in one basket. In which case, it should be integrated and alternated with conventional medical practices.




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