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This is a procedure called Viddhakarma, an Ayurvedic "surgery" involving puncturing of specific points (often Nasagra or tip of the nose) with a needle, and is clamied to treat conditions like chronic sinusitis, allergic rhinitis, deviated nasal septum (DNS), and loss of smell. PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS. DO...

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I am quite happy that India's pseudoscience mascot decided to interview this Ayurveda practitioner. It clears a lot about the fact that Ayurveda is indeed a pseudoscience and none of its principles are worthy of being considered remotely "scientific" and that it can never be tested. This essentially means that we must not research anything in Ayurveda because it is a colossal waste of time and money. Listen to this intensely foolish conversation on how Ayurveda describes the cause for alopecia and how it is treated. I have never heard such utter nonsense on a large public platform like this. I am not even sure why 100s of 1000s of people login to this YouTube channel to watch the cringefest that is every millisecond, an insult to the neuronal circuits of the brain and an embarrassment to the existence of the evolved human brain. The whole aspect of Vata, Pita and Kapha principles that guide Ayurveda & diagnosis and treatment in Ayurveda are based on obsolete theories of air, mucus and bile imbalance leading to disease. These theories were made at a time when humans did not evolve to understand anatomy and physiology. "Humoral Theory of health and disease is absolute junk." Alopecia cannot be treat by rubbing a leaf. The reason for Alopecia is not a microlevel Kapha-style mucus block of the scalp. Here is what is real: HAIR LOSS TYPES: ALOPECIA AREATA DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT from I cannot beleive I have to debunk this ancient junk even in 2023. India is regressing in many ways than more in healthcare and health-seeking behaviour, it is worrisome - because seemingly educated fools like these two, who speak English, but do not make sense, are now controlling the healthcare spectrum on social media.

TheLiverDoc™

684,750 views • 2 years ago

In case you missed it, a woman in the UK died after a traditional chinese medicine therapy called "paida lajin" or "slapping therapy" which involves repeated self-slapping to "purge ones body of toxins." She did it, to "cure her diabetes." The world of alternative medicine is full of such nonsensical therapies that claim to "detox ones body of toxins in the blood, stomach and intestines" without the need for "medications." Please do not fall for such "self-healing" techniques, similar to the one shown below, which is part of Ayurvedic and Yogic practice, performed in India. Kunjal kriya in Yoga is voluntary induction of vomiting which is also part of Ayurvedic "panchakarma" called as vamana therapy. This does not detox anything. It is potentially dangerous because it can lead to a condition called Mallory Weiss tear, which is a tear of the tissue of your lower esophagus (food pipe), most often caused by violent coughing or vomiting. It can lead to massive vomiting of blood and heavy blood loss. Jal neti is the practice of guiding water through the nasal passages to cleanse them. Jala neti is a traditional Ayurvedic and Yogic practice that clears the nose and sinus passages through nasal irrigation and is though to detox the body and clean sinuses and improve mind and intelligence. It does not - only lower intelligent life forms would actually perform this. There is high risk of bacterial infections (Streptoccocal) and also risk of dreadful infection such as Naegleria fowleri (also called the brain-eating amoeba). Please be careful. Sutra neti kriya is a nasal cleansing yoga exercise wherein the nasal area and outer respiratory regions are decongested with the help of thin rubber tube or soft thread. Initially, the tubing is inserted through one nostril and is brought out through the mouth and thereafter moved back and forth. This is dangerous and does not yield and health benefits. In fact a recent report showed that such practice resulted in scar tissue formation and obstruction of nose and upper oral cavity region - a condition called nasopharyngeal stenosis. It is terrible. Even though many would not agree, Yoga practice is actually highly pseudoscientific if you study the texts, principles and practice it deeper. Please be mindful of your healthcare choices and be well-informed when it comes to healthseeking behaviour. Follow a science-based approach to diagnosis and treatment options. Stay away from pseudoscience peddlers.

TheLiverDoc™

462,626 views • 2 years ago

The classical response from Ayurveda practitioners or Ayurveda sympathizers (and other alternative medicine practitioners) when debating the role of alternative medicine in healthcare is to "go and study Ayurveda or read Ayurveda" to understand it better. This is a logical fallacy, a kind of escapism. Dr. Kanojia here, has not read the Ayurvedic texts, which is why, he keeps fielding for Ayurveda. India has a 5 year teaching course for students for Bachelors in Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery called BAMS. I have the complete syllabus collection of all curriculum approved text books of Ayurveda in my home library. I spent almost two years reading every single book taught in BAMS syllabus. Classical Ayurvedic teaching material is rich in misogyny, nauseatingly magical thinking, extreme levels of animal cruelty and meat eating, primitive observations, primal herbal and interventional therapies and principles of practice based on obsolete humoral and elemental theories of disease formation and diagnosis. For example: For treatment of large tumors, honey was applied over the growth, flies are allowed to lay eggs on the tumor and the maggots are allowed to eat the tumor from within. The residual tumor is then burned off. For women in obstructive labor, the hips, buttocks are beaten, the lady is made to inhale smoke from burned snake skin and feathers are used for tickling. For the treatment of tuberculosis (there was no germ theory at the time, but descriptions of emaciation in tuberculosis was observed) the patient is fed herbs and made to drink alcohol (alcohol is in fact one of the risk factors for tuberculosis as we know now) and cure is achieved by massages from "beautiful ladies." For treatment of seizures in children, demons were considered the cause (they still teach this in the BAMS curriculum) and such demonic possessions were slayed using prayers and chants. For treatment of diabetes (there was no knowledge of actual diabetes, it was called Premeha and there were different types of Premeha based on diet/ activity, semen quality and based on "doshas". Ayurvedic texts describe some of the causes of "diabetes" to eating meat and drinking milk. There are nearly 20 types of diabetes described in Ayurveda - which of course, is nonsense. For treatment of sexual disorders, testicles of various types of animals were boiled with herbs and the formulation applied or drank to increase sexual prowess and to "have sex with a 1000 women." The bottom line is, if you actually read/study the Ayurvedic texts, you'll realize how completely absurd & pseudoscientific the whole system is and you'll never vouch for it again. I am sharing some excerpts from BAMS textbooks in the subsequent post. Do not send your children to study BAMS and of course, do not read these texts. I did, so that you dont have to. It will take you to a dark place.

TheLiverDoc™

197,640 views • 2 years ago

When the young generation embrace a pseudoscience like Ayurveda. There is a huge problem in India. You may not realize it, but it is an open secret. Normalizing and glorifying “healthy alcohol consumption” seems to be the biggest social media tool that young content makers are cashing in from an ill-informed public. As a clinical Hepatologist who writes off close to five death summaries of young men aged 25 to 40 years almost every week – young productive men who have died due to alcohol use disorder and liver failure, leaving behind aging parents, creating widows or fatherless children, I sometimes feel like calling it quits. Maybe it is time to leave everyone to fend for themselves, because there is a limit to which me and other physicians can help and hope to bring a change in the people against a tsunami of disinformation that is directly harming the public health. It is like the Hydra. Cut off one disinformation, two others on the same topic comes in. And then we have young men like Shashank Sharma, this Instagram content creator and possibly an Ayurveda practitioner, who has made this video called “How to consume alcohol safely" according to the ancient traditional Indian (nonsense called) Ayurveda. This one video is enough for you to realize that Ayurveda is a pseudoscience that harms. It is a destructive professional choice for women and men studying it, because it reduces intellectual capacity, kills logical thinking, and murders rationality that students acquire in high school. The Government actively promotes it, runs large public-funded colleges to teach it to students who do not get good ranks in medical entrance examinations, but are dying to have the “Dr.” title in front of their names. Even after passing the course, the majority call themselves “doctors” instead of the traditionally given title of “Vaidya.” It is a profession solely built on the foundations of insecurity and inferiority, which is why you see Ayurveda practitioners always attacking medical science and modern medicine in India. They are trained to become blinded to truth, rabid against facts and hurtful towards those who educate the public on the harms of alternative systems of medicine. The principles that guide Ayurveda and which practitioners use to diagnose and treat misled patients – namely the theory of Vata, Pita and Kapha are part of the obsolete primal pseudoscientific ‘Humoral Theory’ that was philosophical and unscientific. It was buried once scientific discoveries progressed, germ theory evolved and the study of anatomy and physiology came into being. Essentially, this theory stated that the human body was filled with three basic substances, called three humors, which are in balance when a person is healthy. All diseases and disabilities resulted from an excess or deficit of one of these four humors – namely Vata, Pita, Kapha. Can you see how stupid that sounds now? Now the video tells us that based on the “humoral disposition” there are ways to safely consume alcohol – for example, after a hot bath and after taking sweets, alcohol damage is reduced in Pita-type people. This sounds even worse than the worst nonsense you would have ever heard. There is no safe level of alcohol and no healthy or safe way of drinking it. The human body wants to remove alcohol, a known social poison, quickly and effectively, when consumed. The body has no use for alcohol. It has no nutritive value and is all empty calories which the body does not want any of it. But here is a young Ayurveda guy, telling us how to do that safely. A slow and presumed safe exercise in “killing one softly.” Whether you consume alcohol based on Vata, Pita or Kapha or not, the harms of it include liver disease, seven types of cancer, alcohol dependence syndromes, psychiatric illnesses and suicides, heart diseases, injuries, and violence and 61 other diseases that reduce life expectancy. Terrifyingly, the incidence of severe alcohol-related liver disease is increasing rapidly, especially among females and individuals of lower socioeconomic status. We fail to implement proven and effective measures to reduce alcohol harm, usually due to lobbying and interference by the alcohol industry and because we have fools like this guy on Instagram, who dabble in pseudoscience like Ayurveda, misleading public at large. We must eliminate alcohol promotion: advertising, marketing, sponsorship and now “content creation,” to protect our fellow humans from falling into this trap. So, if you could, please do me a favor. Go to this link on his Instagram page and report this nonsense video made by this Ayurveda apologist and sympathizer, so that Instagram can remove it and take it back to the stupidest Hell-hole it emanated from. And remember, do not send your children to study Ayush courses in India. You are doing a disservice to them and to this country. The best they get from that is a dummy “Dr.” title in front of their names and the worst, they get to kill public-health.

TheLiverDoc™

255,790 views • 3 years ago

This is Dr. Dimple Jangda. She makes us believe that she is an Ayurvedic practitioner. But the fact is that she is not a doctor. She is not even an Ayurvedic practitioner. She has no formal training in real medicine or pseudomedicine of Ayurveda. She was a television producer. Then an investment banker. Then a podcast host. And thereafter, a talk show host. She has a masters degree in business administration. She has a virtual online degree from National American University in (?)management which she claims is "honorary." She has a diploma in Yoga from Yoga Mumbai Institute. She has a virtual and unidentifiable degree in (?) business management from Thames International University, Paris. She has no formal training in any aspect of healthcare. She is a quack of quacks. A top of the line fearmongering "wellness fraud" - a bottom feeder in the ecosystem of healthcare business. She is a female version of Sadhguru. Lots of confidently sounding English words that takes shape of a word salad containing some of the biggest health-related misinformation and disinformation in Indian social media today. See this video for instance. She tells gullible people (who are already fearmongered about modern medicine and have distrust in doctors and medical science) not to opt for gall bladder removal surgery even if it gets complicated with stones disease or inflammation (called acute cholecystitis). A dangerous misinformation that can lead to loss of life. The physiology of gall bladder function and the change in function after gall bladder surgery that she provides is top-class garbage. Complicated gall stone disease require surgery for cure and to prevent further complications. If you remove the gall bladder, you do not develop more diseases like diabetes or obesity. The bile gets stored in the upper part of the small intestine in the absence of gall bladder and keeps helping in digestion. There is no food or diet shortcut that can dissolve gall stones. The story that this lady speaks about - from her own father's experience of using Ayurveda to remove gall stones is complete fabrication. It is an unverifiable, anecdotal bluff. There is no way, gall stones can just disappear in a month. There is only ONE method to diagnose and treat gall stones disease and it is the scientific method based consensus guidelines. See this from the European Association for Study of Liver - Clinical Practice Guidelines on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of gallstones. It provides all information on 1. Prevention of gall stones 2. Diagnosis of gall bladder stones 3. Medical therapy of gall bladder stones 4. Surgical therapy of gall bladder stones 5. Diagnosis of bile duct stones 6. Endoscopic and surgical therapy of bile duct stones 7. Diagnosis and therapy of stones inside liver 8. Therapy of gall stones during pregnancy Peppermint tea, hibiscus tea, lemon water and such easy sounding kitchen-hacks are not the treatment for gall bladder disease or complicated gall stones. Gall bladder stones that are uncomplicated or incidentally detected do not require treatment. Do not worry about them unnecessarily. Gall stones that get stuck in the neck of the gall bladder or come down into the bile duct, causing bile duct obstruction, bile block and infection requires antibiotic therapy and after an interval, removal of gall bladder. Otherwise it could happen again and the second hit of infection could kill the person. It can also lead to gall stone pancreatitis that can lead to multiple organ failure. No amount of hibiscus tea and lemon water will save you when you are in septic shock due to cholangitis and a ruptured gall bladder, on the ventilator inside an ICU. High cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity and fatty liver are not caused by removal of gall bladder, but are risk factors for development of the stones themselves - that is, metabolic diseases are associated with higher risk of developing gall stone disease and not the other way around. The lady had gotten it all topsy-turvy - why? Because she has no formal education in medicine and would probably have no clue on which side of the body the liver is. Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in women aged 48-60 years prevented (a correlation) risk of complicated gall stone disease, and subsequent surgery, but is not in anyway same as not doing surgery for complicated gall stone disease. Once complicated, surgery is the best bet to prevent further complications. There is no evidence that drinking carrot and beetroot juice helps reduce complicated gall stone disease or dissolves gall stones. This is utter nonsense. You may be wondering why my post is so long and I had to keep going on and on to debunk small points made by Dimple Jangda. It is not so simple. Its because of this: The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle, also known as Brandolini’s Law, states that the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. PS: Please dont share any more of this quack's videos for me to debunk. I am getting too old for this.

TheLiverDoc™

314,064 views • 3 years ago

A scientific rebuttal to a dangerous pseudoscience. [1/2] The "leech therapy" promoted on social media and in alternative medicine clinics is a dangerous pseudoscience that bears no resemblance to the legitimate, highly specialized medical use of leeches in micro-surgery. One is a last-resort surgical tool, applied under the strictest safety protocols to manage its inherent dangers. The other is an unproven, unregulated ritual based on archaic beliefs, performed without any regard for patient safety. There is absolutely no scientific evidence to support the use of leech therapy for the treatment of cancer. The claims are based on a deliberate misrepresentation of preliminary lab research. Patients who are lured by these false promises risk abandoning effective, life-saving treatments, a decision that can have fatal consequences. The risks of severe, drug-resistant bacterial infections, uncontrolled bleeding, and the transmission of blood-borne diseases like HIV and hepatitis are not theoretical; they are real and life-threatening. Even in modern hospitals that use prophylactic antibiotics, infection rates following leech therapy are reported to be as high as 20%. Aeromonas species in leeches are naturally resistant to many first-line antibiotics making these infections incredibly difficult to treat. In an unregulated setting (like an Ayurveda clinic) where no antibiotics are given, the risk of a severe, potentially untreatable infection is unacceptably high. This is the strongest possible warning to the public: Never seek leech therapy for cancer or any other systemic disease. It is not an effective treatment and will cause you harm by delaying proper medical care. Avoid any practitioner promoting leech therapy for conditions beyond its narrow, FDA-approved surgical use. Such individuals are not offering a valid "alternative" therapy; they are marketing a dangerous and discredited practice. Trust evidence-based medicine. Decisions about your health, especially when facing a serious diagnosis like cancer, should be made in consultation with qualified medical doctors and based on rigorous scientific evidence, not on viral videos or promises of ancient cures. Choosing unregulated leech therapy is not an informed choice; it is a disastrous and potentially deadly mistake.

TheLiverDoc™

35,360 views • 9 months ago

Should you trust alternative medicine practitioners? The answer is a resounding NO. And here is an example. Trivandrum, Kerala-based Ayurveda practitioner Vaidya (not Dr.) Rekha Radhamony misleads her >100K followers on Instagram with an extremely dangerous anti-science narrative. Such narratives sow seeds of mistrust in science-based medicine among patients and general population. It generates chemophobia (that all modern medicines are chemicals), inculcating the false notion that everything "natural and herbal" are safer and primal practices are effective. This helps Ayurveds and such practitioners sell their practices and products to people. AYUSH practititioners deceive themselves first, through a study course that stuns their critical thinking centers and makes them sheeple when it comes to following dogmatic practices on healthcare. They stop questioning. They stop thinking logically. They lose rationality. They become pithed frogs on a tray waiting for controlled animation. Ayurveda/Homeopathy are like a religion. The practitioners become members of a cult. Their only aim is to protect the religious/dogmatic principles and practices of the cult and its members and have zero concerns and are insensitive towards patients and their families. This results in FIVE major issues: 1. Patients get misdiagnosed and disease worsen. 2. Patients receive wrong treatments for correct diagnoses and develop disease-related complications. 3. Patients develop severe complications related to toxicity and adverse events of untested, unregulated alternative medicines. 4. Patients end up spending more for their required timely treatments due to initial mistreatment and falsely believe that modern medicine is expensive. 5. Patients die - terribly - avoidable deaths. Practices such as Ayurveda are deeply flawed - from every perspective you look at it. The practitioners are empty vessels, they make background noise, they cannot diagnose, treat, and do not have a protocol for follow-up and has no knowledge, practice or methods to identify adverse effects within their treatments. Homeopathy is even worse - if a patient develops worsening of disease due to diluted treatments, or a side effect of the treatment, they consider it "Homeopathic aggravation" - where they are taught and believe that eveyrthing good happens after a period of worsening. Even if the patient dies, Homeopaths would not be able to understand that the person is dead, because Homeopathic practice is inherently a brain-dead practice. Practices such as Ayurveda escape the scientific method and shy away from realistic testing and rigorous trials - because they sure-shot fail. When the evidence is lacking, then how can they sell? In this video, "the primal and primitive dogmatism of healthcare" indoctrinated Vaidya Rekha does exactly that. She confirms that Ayurvedic practice is garbage-worthy & cowardly and sticks to 5000 year old nauseating and utterly nonsense principles that refuse change and runs away from scrutiny. Following such practices is extremely harmful and this WILL lead to avoidable loss of life. The biggest strength of science-based medicine and medical science is that it is humble in its principles. Every new and effective finding is embraced and old findings are discarded. Every wrong is made right, in due course. Every wrong is identified - there is a strong machinery in place. Every doctor will appreciate the flaws and change for the better. It is nowhere like the stupid alternative medicine which is adamant and anti-human and anti-health. Scientific medicine does not fear change, does not fear acceptance of mistakes and does not invest and emote with the past. Everything is futuritic and everything is for the people. Make NO mistake. Ayush practices are cultish, and for the deceptive livelihood of the person practicing. Scientific practices are humanistic, and not for a person, but for the people.

TheLiverDoc™

152,356 views • 2 years ago