Thread by @theliverdoc

1/12
Separating the #men from the #boys
Here is a #PubMed #indexed, #Elsevier published #journal reporting '#exclusive' #treatment of #covid19 through #Ayurveda leading to full recovery in a #patient. Great #news right?! No. The #proof of the #pudding is in the eating! Spoons out

2/12
The #journal. Its legit, 'becoz' its publishd by #Elsevier. Journal ownd by World Ayurveda Foundation & Trans-Disciplinary Univ, #Bengaluru. 4mer, a 4-men 'world foundation'[bit.ly/3is0CdR], latter @TDUFRLHT founded @sampitroda, vettedby likes of @kiranshaw

3/12
The study - 43yr old #newyork #banker develops fever,cough durng peak #COVID season, 'PRESUMED' to be #coronavirus. Self #Quarantine at #home, phone calls #ayurvedic #Doctors at #Chennai, #india, offer☎️ treatmnt until fever break, therby reporting #covid19 cure via Ayurveda

4/12
Be4 this saga, #patient tuk #sudarshan tabs, 3 months - gav him 'wellness, improved sleep'. But Sudarshan tabs for fever, CAN also be #quackery used for liver disease bit.ly/33s2NtF. He tuk tabs 4 fever be4 fever hit, but then fever hit him anyway. So all good😖

5/12
So how did #authors finally #diagnose #covid19? That's the best part -symptoms (ok,cool😎),season (wow🧐)&"VAST LITERATURE AVAILABLE ON PUBLIC DOMAIN" (mindblown🤯).VR wasting time, resources on #RTPCR, #antigen #tests, wen all we need was not so common, common sense, right?

6/12
How is this #COVID19 witout confirmation! No real #evidence hungry journal wud allow! SO, they did confirm. Or did they? Like a @Chris_Nolann movie. Table1, authors say patient confirmed it becoz his doc said so. But patient nevr says it. Readers, this is wer U hav 2 imagine

7/12
But V wont leave the #diagnosis! We have to diagnose, becoz that is what #alternative #medicine strives for! So they send another swab 4 #SARS_CoV_2 - 16th day frm fever start. Bummer! Insufficient material. Finally,day 33,antibody test +ve. Yeah! We diagnosed #covid.🤯🤯

8/12
What was this #life saving #phone #treatment?
▶️Mix of #herbal #drugs witout clinical evidence, no data on #safety,#efficacy
▶️Rice porridge(reality, unbalanced/malnutrition)
▶️Avoid sleeping during day, avoid waking at night😭
1 drug has semen of civet cat,elephant excreta.

9/12
There is a limitation section! Yaay!
1of the limitations was that the phone doctors could not prescribe more #medicines &they had to make do with what patient had with him.
Moral: If I wanted to have fried fish, & I did not have oil, I just ate it anyway and called it sushi.

10/12
So conclusion, after the roller-coaster ride?
Authors keep mentioning this part in the abstract & conclusions "first case, treated entirely with Ayurveda...Modern Medicine, no cure has been found" - there can only be 1conclusion made from this - INSECURITY of #pseudoscience

11/12
Real limitations - no confirmed diagnosis, irrational use of invalidated #drugs 4 #covid. Supreme eg of anecdote. @TDUFRLHT - plz improve UR journal #peerreview. @ElsevierConnect plz remove this article from UR 'Public Health Emergency Collection', its misleading& #quackery

12/12
@ElsevierConnect need 2 review ethics in publication in Journal of Ayurveda & Integrative Medicine. How can docs who havnot seen, examined report on the patient? This is not #science.
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