I have to admit I agree with you on this, although I have received benefit from some "ayurvedic" herbs - actually not formulas but single herbs that have helped me with both diabetes and kidney stones - I know that folks are lionizing Triguna and I had no personal experience of him but when I read the stories of people who did like telling Chopra to look at the moon I am thinking "this guy was some sort of health wizard?!?!?"
If he was then Marshy used him to give credibility to the TMO. ________________________________ From: salyavin808 <fintlewoodle...@mail.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2013 11:33 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Triguna Passes --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > Trigunaji 1916- 1 Jan 2013 > > > > In honor of Trigunaji's passing, Interesting start to a story that seems to underline the whole ayurveda story to me. It doesn't work. > Triguna's herbs were bitter. I managed to get the herbs past my taste buds by > mixing them with a small shot of tea, bolting it down and then chasing it > with a big cup of tea. Never drink anything is India that isn't boiled. > Anyway, the herbs didn't seem to work and I ended up taking Western medicine, > which knocked out the bug in my "bad bowel." Taking western medicine Raunchy, very shrewd. I've always thought that experimenting with auyrveda (and all alternative health scams) was fine *as long as there is nothing wrong with you* I know people that would still be alive if they hadn't swallowed, hook line and stinker, the whole "perfect science of health" bit that Marshy via Triguna was plugging. In fact I know someone who is very seriously ill because he eschewed anti-biotics in favour of stone age hopefulness. Upon becoming ill he took himself off to Marshy's favourite ayurveda clinic where, after a predictably large fortune had been spent -and a cure not forthcoming- he was told "there must be some doubt in you". Good medicine! Still, there's always the yagya programme to fall back on. Throwing good money after bad IMO but when you truly believe this stuff what else can you do? The TMO abandoned common sense a long time ago, leave it in the hands of the gods! Might as well as spend any more money on ayurveda . My friend will probably die a long slow miserable death and everyone will rationalise it in the usual way and blame it on his "planets" or rakshasas or something similarly untestable. Sometimes I think a crime is being committed but maybe it's just the crime of stupidity. After all we are intelligent people who are free to make choices based on evidence or beliefs. Seems a shame that an org like the TMO with its proclaimed belief in science has such a shaky superstitious core lying just beneath the surface, they might be in a position to help people by recommending they go to a proper doctor instead of clinging to the dream that they have all the answers by taking your pulse and telling you to stare at the moon. So why all the reverence? Would you really want to live in a world where ayurveda was the only method of healthcare? Anyone? > Jai Guru Dev, Trigunaji, rest in peace. >
