Re : TV debate exposes lies - Reaction.

January 9, 2006

J__________ <_________ (AT) ____ (DOT) com> wrote: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 15:20:08 -0800Jagannath Chatterjee <jagchat01dear jagannathji,i really enjoy your writings.reading about the debate on ayurvedic medicines -it reminded me of a talk given by pandit shiv sharma (member of parliament at that time)and an eminant ayurvedic physician several years ago in our medical college (around 1965-66). he said that he was invited by indira gandhi for tea at prime minister pandit j,nehru"s residence.he was suffering from severe hypertension and other problems. he was not willing to try ayurvedic treatment as his personal physiscians had told him that ayurvedic medicines cause kidney damage as it contains heavy metals. it was at the insistance of indira gandhi he agreed to talk

to pandit shiv sharma. when he met PM. nehru, he said if you think ayurvedic medicines are harmful, i will suggest some herbs from your garden that your man can prepare medicine out of it and you may try that.he also sugested that i will give you ayurvedic medicines containing heavy metals which we give to patients to send it to all india institute of medical science to try on small animals like rats to observe the side effects of the drug(it was human size medicine dose to small animal). they tried this medicine on the experimental animals for resonably long time and when sacrificed to see the kidney damage, no damage to the organs was found, but they reported the result as inconclusive, since they did not want to admit that there was no side effect (damage) was observed j____ "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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