Is Ayurveda an alternative medicine?
By arlerambabu
@arlerambabu (1079)
India
3 responses
@Makena1968 (682)
• United States
31 Jan 09
The way I see it, people in America seem to think that our 200 year old medicine, or history, or morals, or culture, or whatever...is more important and superior than any other medicine, culture, morals, history..than anywhere else in the world, even if other places in the world have cultures that go back many thousands of years. If it isn't "made in America", it's "alternative." That's why insurance won't cover preventative medicine, or "alternative" medicine. What's wrong with this picture???
@arlerambabu (1079)
• India
31 Jan 09
"if an ailment can be cured with simple home remedies by a time tested healing system, drilling a hole in your pocket by forcing you to go for expensive medications and of course with a plethora of side effects"---is the number one wrong. Being gullible to the Medicine Mafia from the advanced countries is the mother of all wrongs
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@zigzagbuddha (4601)
• United States
1 Feb 09
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Medicine Mafia! Very funny... and an excellently accurate descriptive phrase for them!!!!
Any practice that promotes healing by restoring balance to the system is a far superior practice in my opinion. The medicine mafia won't be drilling any holes in my pocket, hehehehehe.
@zigzagbuddha (4601)
• United States
1 Feb 09
Well, it certainly is an alternative to medicine!!! But I don't necessarily agree with you that it is the influence of the 'advanced' countries that has relegated Ayurveda to it's 'alternative' status... I think it is mankind's love of all things new and modern that has done that.
@plasma (673)
• India
31 Jan 09
It's because of the branding and promotion that the conventional medicine has received. Also, there are very few quality practitioners left of this ancient system of medicine coupled with the lack of awareness and sometimes incorrect information being circulated about it.
