Thread by @drabbyphilips

#Ayurveda 2 prevent surgical site infections. Is this the #future? Looks good. But it's smoke & mirrors. How did this start? A team of scientific practitioners (including #orthopedic #surgeon below) performed worlds 1st surgery(prostate)wit only #herbals without antibiotics. 1/

4 yrs back this was published in a newspaper. Yes. The same 'scientific newspaper' deal that ruined real #COVID19 public awareness.
m.timesofindia.com/city/meerut/In…
The authors of 'study' gave 10 days of giloy, guduchi and 'anti infective herbs', & performed surgery in an elderly man 2/

What happened then? Voila! There was no infection and the authors claimed that herbs prevented surgical site infection! This happened after consulting top brains in Ayurveda in the country.
Again this happened in 2016. Thats close to 5 years back. Fast forward. 3/

The group published their study in the #pseudoscience #quack journal of Ayurveda and Integrative medicine in 2017 bit.ly/38e8cFX
Its cringe worthy. Some snippets. The patient was compelled by authors to go for surgery. Was informed consent not given? It's unethical. 4/

Authors then start bashing scientific medicine...words like 'not his cup of tea' feature in a scientific publication. They also state that 'patient behaved well' during procedure. Patients undergoing procedures without herbal support usually throw temper tantrums? 5/

A member of same group is now delivering the future of antimicrobial therapy. 4yrs after original report on Ayurveda 4 infections in surgery➡️ZERO studies conducted. AND, antibiotics for infection prevention is not mandated in the particular surgery authors performed (HOLEP) 6/

How does this impact?
First, those with infections might believe that they can be cured of infections without antibiotics. This will result in sepsis, organ failure and death without timely antibiotics in those who need them.
An example is this study: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11728765/ 7/

Second, thos with tuberculosis, especially India, highly morbid, deadly infection, tat can B cured wit antimicrobials may default on their treatments, damaging TB control programs and also promoting resistance. #ayush isnt aware of such good programs
who.int/tb/en/ 8/

These #quackery #pseudoscience promoting programs must be stopped. #MedTwitter #fraud #mixopathy
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Thanks to @Indiangunner for bringing this up and sharing with me 🙏👍