Thanks, seems a relevant article. JAMA had a paper about a year or so ago with published results of tests done on Ayurveda products by taking products from store shelves and testing them. The ones from India in particular were toxic with metals. As a hypothesis it would be interesting to survey long-term TM movement meditators for incidence of neurological disease who have taken the preparations now for a few decades. Looking around makes one suspect a trend-line. My wife a long time ago worked as a clinic nurse early on for the Ayurveda clinic on campus. They would receive product from India in the early days which was pretty clearly third world preparation including these lead preparations that were real special. The Doctors and special people got those. It was too expensive for regular employees or common people to take.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : Italian Article referencing Fairfield, IA. So I thought it would be appropriate to share here since it is FFL. This is a Google translation with the original link at the bottom. Ayurveda really work? Ayurveda is one of the most popular alternative medicines, but what is the basis, and what is the evidence of its effectiveness? Published April 24, 2015 Ayurveda is a form of alternative medicine and as such is often defense based on the principle " I have nothing to lose to try it http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&tl=en&u=http://www.wired.it/scienza/medicina/2014/01/29/cure-miracolose-aifa-pubblica-guida-pazienti/&usg=ALkJrhgccxCS3KBaAvbK8NPSq-nfPs5SbA ", but the reality is quite different. In April 2011, in Iowa, a man has undergone a medical examination because of intracranial hemorrhage he suffered two years earlier. Doctors riscontrarono worsening of neurological deficits, and it identified the cause of lead poisoning from an Ayurvedic preparation bought in India with which man was treating. For six months after a group of epidemiologists then offered screening to patients of the same community who practiced the 'Ayurveda. In early April, were published http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&tl=en&u=http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/2049396715Y.0000000009&usg=ALkJrhhYB-y8inlMioElM8ZZRfLEjLAqIA the results of the study of 115 people tested, 40% had concentrations of lead in the blood much higher than normal. In Ayurvedic preparations provided by the patients (pills, powders, liquids) were present http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&tl=en&u=http://www.idph.state.ia.us/IDPHChannelsService/file.ashx%3Ffile%3D4DD9A166-D8D3-4429-9A07-11D177FA5B09&usg=ALkJrhhRL3-VgWJx1-M82xvZ_csgenSQ2w , in addition to lead, even high levels of mercury, arsenic and other heavy metals. Over the years it emerged several cases of poisoning http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&tl=en&u=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/%3Fterm%3Dayurveda%2Bpoisoning&usg=ALkJrhgtFldzIPxg-PWGD5bCRyZtiW5mYw linked to Ayurveda, but this is the most serious incident to date documented. These anomalies comparable to cases of food poisoning, or are the theory and practice of 'Ayurveda that carry more risks than benefits? What is Ayurveda The history of Ayurveda is very similar to that of Chinese medicine http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&tl=en&u=http://www.wired.it/scienza/medicina/2014/08/22/medicina-tradizionale-cinese/&usg=ALkJrhjVB2s4ujh50I_1EXK7FiMk3QpH9w (MTC): both practices are born thousands of years ago, before modern science, in specific geographic locations, and mystical-philosophical roots. Behind them it sees a principle similar to that of the Western theory of humors, that diseases always derive from some form of imbalance between fluid or vital energy, that nell'Ayrveda are called doshas. The treatments focus mainly on the 'ingestion of preparations of various origins and changes in their lifestyle, with the help of massage and meditation. There are also surgical procedures derived Ayurvedic, but today they are much less popular. Both the MTC that the 'Ayurveda were then exported to the rest of the world, and in particular have become popular among Westerners, always looking for ancient wisdom. A famous preacher of Ayurvedic medicine is Deepak Chopra http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&tl=en&u=http://skepdic.com/chopra.html&usg=ALkJrhj6Kcq_BbTtFx9SbilSxf4EEc9UZg , doctor of Indian origin that thanks to The Oprah Winfrey Show '90s has become familiar to many Americans. Chopra, with the help of the inevitable quantum mechanics, is one of many who in recent decades have worked hard to give all 'Ayurveda a scientific legitimacy. Ayurveda test As with all alternative medicines, there are abundant anecdotal evidence of the effectiveness of 'Ayurveda, but were made very few rigorous clinical trials. Some Ayurvedic treatments seem to have some positive effects http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&tl=en&u=http://edzardernst.com/2014/08/ayurvedic-medicines-efficacy-doubtful-with-considerable-risks/&usg=ALkJrhi9tPJFKgXtGFV9Fi2MLaP_9ZEDBQ (in some cases comparable to drug therapies) for pain, while for the treatment of symptoms or conditions less subjective efficacy trials are virtually absent http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&tl=en&u=http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/13-10-09/&usg=ALkJrhjy_i1EJUHQsEJoRV6ZlMgdcQ8cEQ . Many of the benefits attributed to Ayurveda are probably due to the change of lifestyle that imposes, which enhances the role of 'exercise of' power and sleep, the importance of which is also known to medicine. As for the remedies that come from plants, it is then reasonable to expect that among the hundreds of preparations with thousands of species may tick molecules that are of real interest to the medicine: for example reserpine, one of the first real drugs against psychoses, was isolated from the roots of Rauwolfia serpentine, used in Ayurveda. It is also certain that plants such as Boswellia serrata have analgesic and anti-inflammatory http://www.bmj.com/content/337/bmj.a2813.long , and according to some test would lower blood cholesterol levels. In the latter case, however, it is yet to be determined if its effectiveness is desirable than, for example, to a change in diet or medications already on the market: as with any treatment you should understand not only if it works, but what. But the discovery of new therapeutic molecules from dall'etnobotanica is not nothing new https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&tl=en&u=https://meristemi.wordpress.com/2012/09/21/dati-etnomedici-bioprospezioni-e-drug-discovery-a-pesca-di-molecole/&usg=ALkJrhjn7uDEy6MIy_12iUehOtXDh6K85Q, legitimate and not one iota pre-scientific principles of mysticism and ancient Indian medicine. Moreover, it is was demonstrated http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&tl=en&u=http://edzardernst.com/2013/11/unreliable-diagnostic-techniques-must-lead-to-idiotic-treatments/&usg=ALkJrhjE6UHcD-0XaHINoTXxgS9PknQBLQ that the diagnostic methods used by healers are completely inconsistent. He writes about it with your doctor Edzard Ernst: "It is as if you went by your family doctor and these measure your blood pressure, or your weight or cholesterol level or any other parameter with a test that produces a different result every time someone tries to repeat it." "I have nothing to lose to try it" If efficacy trials are virtually non-existent, you can not say the same risk. In this case it is not just the danger that someone abandon medicine in the hope of healing: there is a real risk of poisoning, as demonstrated in the case of Iowa. Part of the problem is common to all practices herbal: when using direct parts of plants is impossible to accurately assess the amount of a certain molecule in the final product that goes to the consumer. A herbalist prepared traditionally or for education, certainly knows how to avoid problems with the plants more dangerous, but as you can control all the products which, legally or not, are sold all over the world? In Ayurveda also the recipes are very complex: a single treatment may contain, in addition to metals and minerals, dozens of plants, sometimes previously cooked. This means that although it is theoretically possible to produce Ayurvedic preparations in line with the rules euorepee, it is virtually impossible to have a capillary controls quality of imported material that are equal to those of Western herbalism. In India most of the population is "care" with Ayurveda, but this is especially true because the drugs that are discounted for us are too expensive for many people In Italy, fortunately, Ayurveda is generally practiced by doctors, Salvo Grazia (aka Medbunker) but recommended http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&tl=en&u=http://medbunker.blogspot.it/2013/01/la-medicina-ayurvedica-tra-energie-ed.html&usg=ALkJrhiVpqiGPg-xUX0rZtg1CvTn1ZgwZg : "In conclusion then: be wary of unsafe products and unaudited. Relying only doctors are registered as qualified, always talk with your doctor to see if you can resort to this type of practice or if it was not advisable to view their disease. Suffice to say that the Ayurvedic medicine, which we considered almost a "whim" a bit 'quirky, in India it is used by the poorer class (because often practiced by healers improvised) but for real diseases, even in that country, are turning hospitals, when they exist. " L'Ayurveda funziona davvero? - Wired http://www.wired.it/scienza/medicina/2015/04/24/layurveda-funziona-davvero/ http://www.wired.it/scienza/medicina/2015/04/24/layurveda-funziona-davvero/ L'Ayurveda funziona davvero? - Wired http://www.wired.it/scienza/medicina/2015/04/24/layurveda-funziona-davvero/ L'Ayurveda è una delle medicine alternative più diffuse, ma su cosa si basa, e quali sono le prove della sua efficacia? View on www.wired.it http://www.wired.it/scienza/medicina/2015/04/24/layurveda-funziona-davvero/ Preview by Yahoo
