Thread by @drabbyphilips

Just finished a fiery @Clubhouse talk on
Is Ayurveda a pseudoscience?

Included Ayurveda vaidyas also

Salient points:

Can Ayurveda diagnosis a disease - No
Ayurveda can only describe symptoms

How does Ayurveda differentiate between viral hepatitis A/B/C
Ans: It cannot😑

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How does Ayurveda identify a cough due to pneumonia versus lung cancer?

Ans: Through pulse method, past history, clinical questioning, energy imbalance types

But how does it confirm it is infection versus cancer?
Ans: It cannot, Ayurveda only treats it as cough😐

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Ayurveda has pathology.
Do not say that it has no pathology.

Ok, how does Ayurveda confirm liver nodule is simple cyst versus liver cancer or a spread from another cancer?

Ans: Pulse method, questioning, energy imbalance types

But how is it confirmed?
Ans: It cannot😶

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Hw Ayurveda diagnose Covid-19?

Ans: We hav a publication on it
Ayurvedic principles wer applied to 14 patients
Covid identified

So hw was tat done?

Modern doctors already diagnosed Covid thru RT PCR
We translated clinical symptoms 2 Sanskrit
Called it Ayurvedic evidence😐

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So can we test Ayurvedic principles to show that they work for diagnosis/treatment?

Ans: No you cant
It is not to be tested
It is to be believed

So u mean to say
One cant prove if Ayurveda works or not
But we have to have faith?

Ans: Yes

That is called pseudoscience🙏

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