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is the allmost complete lack of scientific evidence about its efficacy, toxicity and even if there is some its not peer reviewed .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...