I have always wondered why application of scientific method fails in medicine for chronic diseases. Essentially, the trust in advice of allopaths in chronic diseases is low. Scientific methodology i.e. measurement and animal models are employed by Ramdev in state-of-the-art facility to position Ayurveda successfully as cutting edge plantation based medicine. But why will he & modern medicine practitioners get poor results?
There are at least two flaws, applicable to mm and Ramdev both – short term positives and placebo-nocebo effects.
- Episodic versus
historical statistics.
- 1.The failure is systemic
and will require CHANGE in methods of data collection and analysis
(historical not episodic statistics). Placebo is curing from
believed proper care and nocebo
is reporting expected side-effects! It is particularly true in
transient diseases – very common in acute care requirement. The
number of patients who THINK homeopath-criminals are particularly
good at curing colds is legion! Further cleverer studies can usually
remove the effect. Another famous homeopath-exposure-method is for a
group to drink the most potent medicine of a system by liters!
- Short term positives –
well known to addiction therapists. If you feed an alcoholic wine to
one trying to quit, addict feels better for a short time, even
though very injurious long term! Same is likely in insulin in
diabetes-2. A standard prescription across many religions is
periodic fasting. Under doctor care, does it work? Trying, detox
diet is much easier and may work – fasting with green tea, stevia
lemonade and watermelon. Goal is crushing of hunger pang, not speed
since it looks like this periodic fasting benefits many systems and
can be continued for life. There are many pain-suppressing medicines
and drugs. It is common for physician at border to prescribe
alleviations in guise of cures. Patient feels better, praises the
doctor, moves away from border, continues the prescriptions, and the
disease returns! Can blame the moving away, lost contact, even
medicine admixtures! But not the motherfucker thug! I call it short
term positives. A drug may prove to be short-term beneficial but
long-term cancerous. Hence very important to suffer whenever
medicine that fixes is under 50 years old, unlessokayed by a
physician with enormous practice and reputation od being
conservative; or rquired for emergency purposes.
Ayurveda has the concept of kiaya-kalpa where fasting is carried out with one thing allowed – lemonade, skim-milk etc. Since total disrespect to Ayurveda, why only one? May be my kaya-kalpa will happen with these, more than 1, we shall see!
So I am original nut not following strict mm or Ayurveda solely widely read rational skeptic conservatively experimenting with self. Unreasoned detractors, please lay off for your own good.
In other words, hundreds of empirical flawed experiments, published in peer-reviewed journals, likely mean nothing!
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