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ALTERNATE SYSTEMS OF MEDICINE* T

 *ALTERNATE SYSTEMS OF MEDICINE* The issue with most of the alternate systems of medicine or treatment with respect  to Allopathy, is  the allmost complete lack of scientific evidence about its efficacy, toxicity and even if there is some its not peer reviewed . Most of these are based on medicinal plant or animal extracts and is genearally not  chemically different from  that of Allopathic medicines, though in the case  of the latter  some are sympathetically extracted.  Systems like ayurvedha , are based on ancient texts and recipes, written by people ( termed  mistakenly as sages  ) who were alchemists using data collected over ages from people treated for illeness and then recording it. It may have been reliable thousands of years back. The human body has evolved , changed , adopted over these periods. Environment around which humans live too has drastically changed. Diseases and illness profile is vastly different. Therefore, the...

Musings of a besieged soul

  Morning from now  on means 3 or 4 am. I woke up alert as  a busy bee. My mind and body , the whole 64 years of battle hard and bruised components,  seems to be behaving as if , its to become a part of WW3 action.  Well! Its deja vu all over!!  The great predni , my cohabiting  friend for 7 to 8  yrs of the  end 21st century,  has once again decided to come back and be with me for some weeks. He was jealous to find Ms Corona , enticing me sleathly and managing to live inside my lungs for the past  ten days. By joe!  how can that be allowed to happen!!!  He beleives that this romancing  is his right!   So he , aided and abetted by our hard working and tired doctors , knocked and made his way into me yesterday, bag , baggage, lota , I pad and all.  Now hold on. I am not a party to this forced occupation. My right of self determination is not even acknowledged. Just like that   fakir in Delhi....