“Doctors prescribing non-ayurvedic medicines are anti-nationals”: BJP Minister Shripad Yesso Naik

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“Doctors prescribing non-ayurvedic medicines are anti-nationals”: BJP Minister Shripad Yesso Naik
The latest to join the fray of 'anti-nationals' are the medical practitioners who prefer giving their patients allopathic medicines rather than ayurvedic.
Mohammed Uzair ShaikhonMay 2, 2016 at 3:04 AMEmail
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New Delhi, May 2:Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators and lawmakers are busy distributing certificates of nationalism to ideological opponents across the nation. The latest to join the fray of ‘anti-nationals’ are the medical practitioners who prefer giving their patients allopathic medicines rather than ayurvedic.

Heading the Ministry of AYUSH, BJP MP Shripad Yesso Naik made a highly objectionable statement in Kolhapur saying, “Doctors prescribing non-ayurvedic medicines are anti-nationals.”

“Some ayurveda practitioners have told me that doctors prescribing allopathy medicines often advise patients not to opt for ayurveda. Such doctors are anti-nationals,” he was quoted as saying by TOI.(ALSO READ: Government ready to help in construction of Ram temple: Shripad Naik)

Naik inaugurated an ayurveda research centre in Kolhapur on Saturday. During the event, he stressed on the importance of adopting ayurveda as a primary source of medicine. “How can anyone oppose ayurveda when the whole world is showing interest in it and trying to find remedies of diseases that modern medical science cannot?” Naik said, adding that Ayurveda is one of the precious aspect of Indian culture.

Ministry of AYUSH was formed in November 2014 by the Narendra Modi government. It is tasked to promote the use of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy as mainstream medicine.(ALSO READ: AYUSH Ministry rejects purported RTI reply that claimed it does not recruit Muslims)

The ministry had earlier too entered into a controversy after a purported RTI application making rounds on the internet said, “As per government policy, no Muslim candidate could be invited, selected or sent abroad.” However, the AYUSH ministry rejected the reports calling the RTI application as “fake” and “mischievous”.


http://www.india.com/news/india/doc...nals-bjp-minister-shripad-yesso-naik-1152147/

 

[jamahir]

okay, let the honorable minister go to a cancer hospital and tell the patients and their family and friends that other than the "patriotic" work of the patients giving in money to be treated ( unlike the silly free medical system in socialist countries ) these indian patients should now also reject their allopathic cancer treatments because of course they must separate themselves from the anti-nationals.

the honorable minister should make the views of the patients and their friends and family into public view.

 

[DesiGuy1403]

Well, I came into this thread to admonish the idiot Sanghi BJP leader.

After reading the article fully I realized the BJP leader said something else and the presstitutes twisted to mean something else.

 

[Soulspeek]

Totally opposite news. He didn't say Allopathic Doctors are anti-nationals. He said those Doctors who discourage patients to seek Ayurvedic treatment are anti-nationals.

Press these days!

 

[Skull and Bones]

Ayurvedic is good for general well being, but allopathy is a necessity for people who already succumbed to diseases and illness. There is considerable difference between the two.

And Homeopathy should be banned, that **** doesn't work.

 

[Levina]

why should any muslim be among cranks who desire to cure diseases using cow urine??

I hope you know this is a banned topic.

And for your KIND information- Ayurveda is not about what you have assumed it to be.
Me and my immediate family members are strong believers and practioners of Ayurveda.

 

[jamahir]

Totally opposite news. He didn't say Allopathic Doctors are anti-nationals. He said those Doctors who discourage patients to seek Ayurvedic treatment are anti-nationals.

Press these days!

there is a difference between useful herbal products ( like boroplus and himani navratna hair oil, i use both ) and mindless over-hyped products with "ayurvedic" pasted on them.

how about the usa 'food and drug administration'[1] warning against their use :

The presence of metals in some Ayurvedic products makes them potentially harmful. A study published in the August 27, 2008, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), demonstrated that one-fifth of U.S.-manufactured and Indian-manufactured Ayurvedic products bought on the Internet contained detectable lead, mercury, or arsenic.

Researchers found 25 Web sites selling Ayurvedic products. After identifying 673 products, they randomly selected 230 for purchase. Of those, they received and analyzed 193 products. Nearly 21 percent were found to contain detectable levels of lead, mercury, or arsenic.

All metal-containing products exceeded one or more standards for acceptable daily metal intake. The researchers concluded that several Indian-manufactured products could result in lead and/or mercury ingestions 100 to 100,000 times greater than acceptable limits.

This study followed a previous study published in JAMA on December 15, 2004, which found that one out of five Ayurvedic "herbal medicine products" produced in South Asia and available in South Asian grocery stores in Boston contained potentially harmful levels of lead, mercury, and/or arsenic.

more info and recorded ill effects[2] :

"[They're] mostly made from metal ashes. Those are called rasa products," Saini says. These medicines, also known as bhasmas, come out of an Ayurvedic tradition practiced for thousands of years in India where highly toxic heavy metals like lead, arsenic, mercury and cadmium mix with herbs or spices. Saini says she won't sell them because her American customers have questioned the safety of those concoctions.

Sometimes those warnings come too late. In 2010, a retired lawyer in Iowa brought bhasma medicines home from India. Six weeks after he began taking the medicine, he started struggling to remember simple things. Over the next eight months, he lost almost 40 pounds. He became weak, tired, anemic and depressed.

"It was only several months later that his wife alerted his providers that he was taking Ayurvedic medication, and that there was a possibility lead was being ingested," says Dr. Laura Breeher, an occupational medicine physician at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., who was part of the team that treated the man in 2011. When physicians tested his blood lead levels, the results were nine times over the threshold considered acceptable for adults.

That medicine turned out to have hundreds of thousands of times the Food and Drug Administration's recommended limit for lead and arsenic in candy or water. Concerned that others were using the same or similar medicines, his doctors and the local health department reached out to Ayurvedic practitioners and centers in Iowa asking people to get themselves and their medications tested for heavy metals.

In a paper published online last month in the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, Breeher and her team report that 40 percent of the 115 people tested who were using Ayurveda had lead poisoning.

This is the largest recorded cluster of lead poisoning from Ayurveda in the United States to date, but health providers and researchers have been struggling with heavy metals poisoning from alternative medicinal or herbal supplements for at least a decade.

For some products, heavy metals might have leached into purely herbal formulas from the environment where the plants were grown or the manufacturing equipment used to make the medicine. But concoctions with extreme concentrations most likely had metals intentionally added as part of practice called rasa shastra. Ayurvedic practitioners say that heavy metals can increase the potency of an Ayurvedic mixture. "If they're used properly and in the right ratio, they're very effective properties," says Saini of New York Ayurveda.

let us remember that ground-water in much of india has fluoride and arsenic content after a certain depth, so this poisonous metallic concentration the herbs absorb, and on top of that many ayurvedic products have added heavy metal.


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[1] http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm050798.htm

[2] http://www.npr.org/sections/health-...aminates-some-traditional-ayurvedic-medicines

 

[Sinnerman108]

Mr minister must be running a supply company for herbs etc and wants more business !

 

[DesiGuy1403]

there is a difference between useful herbal products ( like boroplus and himani navratna hair oil, i use both ) and mindless over-hyped products with "ayurvedic" pasted on them.

how about the usa 'food and drug administration'[1] warning against their use :




more info and recorded ill effects[2] :





let us remember that ground-water in much of india has fluoride and arsenic content after a certain depth, so this poisonous metallic concentration the herbs absorb, and on top of that many ayurvedic products have added heavy metal.


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[1] http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm050798.htm

[2] http://www.npr.org/sections/health-...aminates-some-traditional-ayurvedic-medicines

You have zero knowledge about Ayurveda.
I can give you recommendations to read up and learn but I am afraid your mind is already made up, just like how your mind is made up that RSS is a terrorist org..

Good luck.

 

[Soulspeek]

There should be some regulatory authority on Ayurvedic medicines so that no xyz comes up with random ghaas-foos in the name of medicine. It should come under Ayush Mantralaya.

there is a difference between useful herbal products ( like boroplus and himani navratna hair oil, i use both ) and mindless over-hyped products with "ayurvedic" pasted on them.

how about the usa 'food and drug administration'[1] warning against their use :




more info and recorded ill effects[2] :





let us remember that ground-water in much of india has fluoride and arsenic content after a certain depth, so this poisonous metallic concentration the herbs absorb, and on top of that many ayurvedic products have added heavy metal.


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[1] http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm050798.htm

[2] http://www.npr.org/sections/health-...aminates-some-traditional-ayurvedic-medicines

 

[jamahir]

There should be some regulatory authority on Ayurvedic medicines so that no xyz comes up with random ghaas-foos in the name of medicine. It should come under Ayush Mantralaya.

yes, your recommendation would be the right step.

 

[RedLabel]

There should be some regulatory authority on Ayurvedic medicines so that no xyz comes up with random ghaas-foos in the name of medicine. It should come under Ayush Mantralaya.

For classic Ayurvedic drugs, the manufacturer is required to provide name of product, ingredients , name of medicine along with reference book with Adhikar.

For new ayurvedic drugs, the ingredients can only be from books mentioned in first schedule of Drug &Cosmetic Act. Also proof of efficacy is required.

So all the relevant laws are in place and there is no need for a new 'regulatory' body and bring back the license Raj.

 

[jaunty]

Has the clarification come yet like it always does, that he actually meant to say something else and it was twisted by media?

 

[Zibago]

Not required since the author of the article was "Mohammed Uzair Shaikh"

@litefire
And you were saying?

 

[AbRaj]

Totally opposite news. He didn't say Allopathic Doctors are anti-nationals. He said those Doctors who discourage patients to seek Ayurvedic treatment are anti-nationals.

Press these days!

My point is Why these morons are judging ones Patriotism/nationalism with things like religion, eating beef/pork, singing Vande mataram????
They are insult to Human intelligence