NDTV debate on yoga guru Ramdev exposes Brinda's 24Karat lie.

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not bones (either animal or human) as Ms Karat had alleged. Such bhasmas are

perfectly ok, bones or skulls are never used in ayurvedic remedies revealed an

eminent ayurved participating in the debate. 3. (Buffetted by opposition from

all sides Ms Karat has already gone on record stating that she was an ayurveda

and yoga fan herself. She wanted to merely focus attention on the use of animal

products. She said her party championed the cause of ayurveda and homeopathy in

Kerala and West Bengal. She wanted yoga to be a part of the school curriculum

in India. Fair enough.) 4. Such allegations against ayurveda are not new,

revealed the ayurvedic doctor. Whenever ayurveda has sought to raise its head,

the twin "charges" of heavy metals and animal remains have been levelled at it.

But they were never debated earlier as there was no public debate on the issue.

The backstabbing was always a very private affair which had

resulted in the government banning some very effective ayurvedic remedies under

pressure from the allopathic lobby. (This is sad because the government

continues to turn a blind eye to the continuing use of many allopathic

medicines it has banned in India.) 5. There is not a single case recorded of

heavy metal bhasmas used in ayurvedic remedies hurting anybody. A very senior

mainstream doctor informed tests have been conducted on 200+ animals who showed

no traces of heavy metals in any portion of their bodies even after being

successfully treated by such remedies. The effectiveness of the remedies, the

doctor said, was amazing. (This proved that the process used by ayurveds to

prepare the remedies ensured that the heavy metals lost their toxicity and also

other ingredients used along with them ensured their elimination from the body).

6. Yet another mainstream doctor declared that ayurveda was the "mother of all

other systems of healing" including allopathy. 7. It was revealed that of the

annual health budget 97% was allocated to the system of allopathy while 3% went

to fund ayurveda, yoga, naturopathy, unani, siddha and homeopathy. These funds

went to projects headed by beurocrats and not doctors of these systems. A very

effective way to scuttle progress even while pledging help. 8. There were

more doctors practicing ayurveda than allopathic doctors. The government did

little to ensure their survival. (The government also has not ensured that the

pampered mainstream doctors report for duties in rural postings ensuring that

the rural population were left fending for themselves. The allopathic lobby

also has been vociferous against a policy mooted to post ayurvedic, homeopathic

and naturopathic doctors to primary health centres as they felt that these

doctors were "quacks".) 9. That ayurveda worked

was not the point really. The main problem is that it was "unscientific". Hence

the backstabbing. 10. Tests on ayurveda and homeopathy should really be on

allopathic methods, else these systems cannot be allowed to prosper. "For the

greater good" of humanity? Probably. 11. "Very few people" die of allopathic

drugs. "Even a single death" is a cause of extreme anguish to the mainstream

doctors. They would prefer to smother ayurveda than risk ayurveda causing "a

single death". 12. In response to the above Swami Ramdev produced a book

titled "Death by prescription" by Dr Ray Strand, MD, which revealed that death

by allopathic medicine was the third largest cause of death in the USA. (But

then all these deaths must be for "the greater good of humanity". We should

never blame the doctors.) 12. The senior doctor of G B Pant

Hospital informed the audience that "symptoms do not indicate a disease",

diagnostic tests did. An ayurved pointed out here that they too used diagnostic

tools, which was a gift of technology and not allopathy, and also that they had

additional tools like pulse reading, physical examination etc. 13. The same

doctor said that it was not enough if a patient of ayurveda declared he was

cured. It was also not enough if the ayurvedic doctor declared that the patient

was cured. There had to be a third party, read allopath, to certify the claim.

Thus it seems an allopathic doctor should be attached to every ayurved to

ensure healing. 14. A rationalist who formed a part of the programme informed

us that the atman (soul) was the mind. He thus went along to prove that as the

mind died along with the death of the body it proved that the atman too was

subject to death. Another entertainer, one

Suhail Seth, who usually participates in page 3 debates also made similiar

highly philosophical claims before being snubbed by Swami Ramdev. 15. Peeved

by such " high philosophy" Swami Agnivesh, also invited to the debate, declared

it would be wonderful if 97% of the health budget was allocated to alternative

therapies and 3% to the mainstream. Wouldn't that be fun? The circus finally

ended with the online SMS vote showing that 92% of the audience favoured Swami

Ramdev and only 8% bought the lies offered by his detractors. Opinions from

viewers who had mailed them revealed that they wanted the TV channels to

examine the issues of labelling of allopathic products, sub standard allopathic

medicines, use of animal serum by allopaths, use of heavy metals in vaccines etc

instead of trying to malign ayurveda. Regards, Jagannath. "Our ideal is

not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the

power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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