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Jan 23 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
I hope those MBBS and MD doctors who are prescribing Azithromycin or Doxycycline or Amoxycillin or sometimes both or all three for #COVID19India know this 👇🤌
clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-…

"Bacterial co-infection is relatively infrequent in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. The majority of these patients may not require empirical antibacterial treatment."
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Oct 11, 2021
Bitter Gourd (Karela) or Bitter Melon

For Diabetes

Every Ayurveda / Naturopathy video promotes it

Should you take it?
Is it safe?

A 🧵+
Scientific name: Momordica charantia

Used as hypoglycemic agent for lowering blood sugar in diabetes patients in traditional medicine

Evidence for bitter gourd reducing glucose levels is PREDOMINANTLY from cell and animal based studies

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… +
Validated, replicated & properly powered high quality clinical trials are lacking

meaning,

actual evidence for Karela juice/extracts is not present in medical literature

most of the videos/recommendations r based on flimsy foundational level evidence and appeal to tradition +
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Jul 8, 2021
Patient has psoriasis vulgaris

Modern med long term treatment

Hears Ayurveda can cure psoriasis - no steroids, no harm, completely safe

Meets Ayurveda person who gives 3 wks treatment

Treatment includes sitting and bathing in a special oil once daily for 1 hr

1/4
First oil bath skin erupts into red boils, blisters, fever

Husband calls Ayurveda guy who tells him during treatment, Kapha-Pitta-Vata gets balanced, disease worsens then improves

Body is getting detoxed, bad stuff out

3rd day patient bed ridden, dehydrated with low urine

2/4
Husband frantically calls Ayurveda guy

He says, in some balance takes longer

'But, my wife is bed ridden and not able to get up
Eating very little'

Call me back, says Ayurveda guy

He calls back, phone switched off

3/4
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Jun 19, 2021
1/5
 Wow
My mind is blown

Ayurveda's classical teaching from Charaka Samhita mentions
WHEN A DOCTOR MUST NOT TREAT A PATIENT

From Panchakarma, Sidhi Sthana

Sit back, think why this nonsense is still allowed in India

This is causing radicalization
⬇️

#medtwitter #science
2/5
 Ayurveda Physician must not treat a patient who is

Cowardly
Fickle minded
Does not respect authority
Whom authority disrespects

🙏
Real science embraces all, everyone, even the incarcerated and is truly apolitical and is not ideally controlled by authority
3/5
 Ayurveda Physician must not treat

Grieving patients
Patients who DONT BELIEVE IN GOD
Who are dying, end of life

🙏
Ayurveda does not believe in treating persons when they need help the most / doesn't treat atheists! / and has NO PRINCIPLES FOR PALLIATIVE CARE. Shameful
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Jun 18, 2021
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😑

1/5
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😐

2/5
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😶

3/5
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Jun 5, 2021
1/
 Ayurveda for management of Alzheimers disease or AD

Wear your seat belts bcoz this is a crash course in ultimate pseudoscience nonsense - 'twisted' to look credible with weak evidences

Let is discuss with this thread as an example

2/
The author of the thread, very explicitly state that there is NO CURE for AD. It is true, treatment is aimed at reducing symptoms, delaying progression and improving quality of life.

Now see what he does next.
3/
He now strongly brings in Allopathy (or modern medicine which is what he meant)...

as ther is no treatment for AD in Allopathy.
Bcoz there is no Allopathy in 2021.

So the use of the word Allopathy means...

...the author of the thread is naiive, amateur.

But leave that...
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Jun 1, 2021
1/
 Ayurvedic management of Mucormycosis (black fungus)

First author: Professor of Ayurveda, Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya, Hubli, India

Other authors: Post graduate students in Department of Panchakarma, Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya, Hubli, India
2/
 Why was study done? (Aim)

Because modern medicine treatment and amphotericin B is very expensive.

Yes.

Not to show that the Ayurvedic treatment is effective
3/
Included patients

High risk --> Covid recovered

Actually no patients are included and there is no patient data in this paper

But, the authors still discuss patients and methods
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