It's just a ride wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> I don't think anyone was "prescribing" any alternative health care
>> stuff. Instead suggesting things to try. After all ayurveda is just
>> biochemistry.
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> Ayurveda is biochemistry NOT. It is alchemy. It deals with the Indian
> equivalents of humours, the equivalent of earth, air, fire, water and
> phleghm.
Labels for things that are identified otherwise in biochemistry. But
then I bet you probably don't even know much biochemistry let alone
ayurveda. What brand of hat is that you're talking through? :-D
> Now perhaps once upon a time people could dissect the doshas,
> subdoshas, subsubdoshas, ... and come upon a real diagnosis and a real
> cure. Perhaps someone like Triguna can intuit it all. Then again no one
> has run a double blind test with Triguna to see if journeying long and hard
> to stand in line for hours on end to see Triguna doesn't install some
> expectation effect into his herbs. Panaceas work almost as well as western
> medicines at times and have fewer side effects.
>
> It's a good thing noseguru isn't paid any real attention to.
>
Is that so?
> And let me see. You can convince someone to come out of depression with a
> cup of kalpha tea.
>
Didn't convince. It was clinical depression probably caused by a
reduced metabolic rate. Kapha tea would raise the metabolic rate and
thus lifted her spirits. Maybe you ought to take some courses in
ayurveda or at least read a book or two about it.
> Hmm. If I weren't already built to everyone's satisfaction, I'd consider
> buying some of those herbal capsules offered for sale in my email 75 times a
> day. After all, they are herbal and therefore biochemical. And my ...
> Hmm. Something doesn't compute here.
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>
Built to be a fool, eh?
