Breaking: Our exhaustive paper on liver toxicity of various herbs/ plants used in Ayurveda, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (Ayush) systems of alternative medicine is out now (free to read)
with @arifhussaintm

This paper was initially an invited paper by an Indian journal. The reviewers and Editorial board rejected the "invited" paper because they thought the paper was "too critical" of traditional, cultural and religious [unscientific] aspects of healthcare practice among Indian community and feared backlash from the alternative systems regulatory body (Ayush Ministry) and Ayurveda and Homeopathy practitioners & their organizations of they accepted their own "invited" paper.

The Indian medical science community is now hostage to it's unscientific past due to a deepening lack of scientific temperament among doctors, worrying knee-jerk response style assault from the alternative medicine industry/practitioners/regulators and general apathy towards patients & public health. It's disappointing.

Since they were spineless to publish our factual paper, we sent this to a neutral journal for peer review (which is got through) and paid open access publication fee, so that everyone could read it for free.

Please read and share this important paper which educates physicians on herbal liver toxicity from seemingly benign plant sources which they need to be aware of.

The subsequent posts also highlights infographics summary of various toxic Ayush-based botanicals that are increasingly reported to harm public and patients.

Thanks in advance, and I hope doctors in India start fearlessly respecting science rather than intentionally embracing ignorance & selfishly covering up themselves in a safety bubble, thereby endangering public health in the process.journals.lww.com/md-journal/ful… Continued: Summary on Tinospora cordifolia (Giloy)

The classical response from Ayurveda practitioners or Ayurveda sympathizers (and other alternative medicine practitioners) when debating the role of alternative medicine in healthcare is to "go and study Ayurveda or read Ayurveda" to understand it better. This is a logical fallacy, a kind of escapism. Dr. Kanojia here, has not read the Ayurvedic texts, which is why, he keeps fielding for Ayurveda.

India has a 5 year teaching course for students for Bachelors in Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery called BAMS.

I have the complete syllabus collection of all curriculum approved text books of Ayurveda in my home library. I spent almost two years reading every single book taught in BAMS syllabus.

Classical Ayurvedic teaching material is rich in misogyny, nauseatingly magical thinking, extreme levels of animal cruelty and meat eating, primitive observations, primal herbal and interventional therapies and principles of practice based on obsolete humoral and elemental theories of disease formation and diagnosis.

For example:

For treatment of large tumors, honey was applied over the growth, flies are allowed to lay eggs on the tumor and the maggots are allowed to eat the tumor from within. The residual tumor is then burned off.

For women in obstructive labor, the hips, buttocks are beaten, the lady is made to inhale smoke from burned snake skin and feathers are used for tickling.

For the treatment of tuberculosis (there was no germ theory at the time, but descriptions of emaciation in tuberculosis was observed) the patient is fed herbs and made to drink alcohol (alcohol is in fact one of the risk factors for tuberculosis as we know now) and cure is achieved by massages from "beautiful ladies."

For treatment of seizures in children, demons were considered the cause (they still teach this in the BAMS curriculum) and such demonic possessions were slayed using prayers and chants.

For treatment of diabetes (there was no knowledge of actual diabetes, it was called Premeha and there were different types of Premeha based on diet/ activity, semen quality and based on "doshas". Ayurvedic texts describe some of the causes of "diabetes" to eating meat and drinking milk. There are nearly 20 types of diabetes described in Ayurveda - which of course, is nonsense.

For treatment of sexual disorders, testicles of various types of animals were boiled with herbs and the formulation applied or drank to increase sexual prowess and to "have sex with a 1000 women."

The bottom line is, if you actually read/study the Ayurvedic texts, you'll realize how completely absurd & pseudoscientific the whole system is and you'll never vouch for it again. I am sharing some excerpts from BAMS textbooks in the subsequent post.

Do not send your children to study BAMS and of course, do not read these texts. I did, so that you dont have to. It will take you to a dark place. Proof 1:

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"There is a place, but it is a long journey
If there is any hope for your jaundiced father, this place holds it"

"Where is it?" - the young man enquires

"A place called Kochi"

A son
A dying father
A terrifying battle
A terrible liver disease

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Few months ago, Deepak, a middle aged man started losing appetite

As days progressed, he felt lethargic and every small work became a chore

Hailing from a small town and with a small family in Telangana, he was taken to a local doctor...

Number of people dead from small pox from 1900 to 1980 - THREE HUNDRED MILLION.

Number of people dead due to small pox after 1980
- ZERO. https://t.co/AyC2qFAvkp

https://twitter.com/FedUpKentuckian/status/1674363652579762177

Diphtheria

Number of deaths in 1920's before introduction of vaccine, reported annually in the United States - 13,000 to 15,000.

Number of deaths reported from 1996 to 2018 in the United States - ONE.
https://t.co/ISKQJuqHeA

https://twitter.com/FedUpKentuckian/status/1674363652579762177?s=20

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Ok some friends sent me private messages that I was harsh on Rachit. They feel that I have to correct Rachit's presumed "Busting" of my tweet content by "Busting" his tweet content on mine. So here goes. Stay for the real science friends. 2/
Rachit says creatine is FOR ALL but gives no evidence to back his claims and goes on to copy paste biochemistry of creatine from a Google search.

International Society of Sports Nutrition position specifies creatine use in sports & athletics only...
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

This is some real epic sh*t from Ankur Warikoo. So epic, that its worthy of immediate flushing.

➡️Whey protein for special populations - atheletes, sportspersons, bodybuilders, chronic liver and kidney disease ✅️

➡️Omega 3 supplements is only useful in people with high… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Collateral damage. Local creatine dealer feeling the heat.

I was invited to The Hindu Parley Podcast via @the_hindu to discuss and debate the Indian Government's new move on integrating Ayurveda & Homeopathy with conventional (modern, science-based) medicine.

I spoke with @zubeda_h and discussed "against" the standpoint that… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… PS: Here is the excerpt section from The Hindu Opinion published today (I suggest listening to the close to 43 minutes podcast for a fat better take on the subject from two viewpoints). twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

2 mins of silence for all the people who ditched table sugar, and opted for jaggery as healthy sugar alternative, & special 2 more mins of silence for the ones drinking sugarcane juice after watching health benefits advertised on YouTube, FB, & WhatsApp. You've all been scammed. You can add this so called "orthodontist" to the likes of Luke Coutinho "superdumb" nutritionists cult. The idiotic explanations are so cringe, all you have to do is check the carb, calorie and sucrose profiles before making a fool of yourself.

How to effectively 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐔𝐋𝐓 frontline healthcare professionals - alive and dead, the scientific community, vaccinologists and immunologists in India in one go?

Learn from the masters themselves, the Indian Council for Medical Research, the supposed "apex scientific body" in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Post script 1: This is what happens when you dont attend school, become an adult and directly login to Twitter. Don't be this person, dear people!

In India, students choose Ayurveda bachelors degree (BAMS) and spend 5y learning both Ayurvedic texts as well as modern medicine books only to pass out and prescribe "medicines" like this to patients with jaundice.

Tell me why Ayurveda needs to be still taught in colleges as a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… All coming in favor of Ayurveda, this is what it is.
Medical science is not about treating symptoms, it's about treating the disease causing the symptoms. Ayurveda and such related practices, falls flat here.

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Breaking: Our new peer-reviewed paper is out. It may anger you, make you sad or even numb you.

During the start of the pandemic, various governments published national guidelines on management of #COVID19

Guidelines from India was unique. 2/
Apart from featuring science-based data, it also featured prevention and treatment options for Covid from The Ministry of Ayush, the apex pseudoscience promoter in the country.

Ayush stands for Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy.

Emergency services in Ayurveda Hospitals!

Just brilliant!
I loved the "ancient 🥕 torchlight!"

By: isachinawasti, Instagram instagram.com/isachinawasthi…

https://twitter.com/Kishor_Ayu/status/1638419393364496384?t=hZca4qofSztKUpoViNFSBw&s=19

Leaving it here without comments.

This time, from Solapur, Maharashtra.

Our ongoing large multi-center study on Herbal & Dietary Supplements related liver injury in India will give us information on this burden and it's outcomes. Read more:
scienceintegritydigest.com/2020/12/20/pap…

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"There is a child being shifted from a hospital abroad," my ER doc tells me

With rapidly progressive hepatitis & signs of poor response

I keep my fingers crossed, palms sweat & heart races as I ready myself to enter Dante's innermost circle of Hell

Pediatric Hepatology. 2/52
A week back, this chirpy little girl, Jiya was the happiest. Being one of the twin girls whom her parents cherished, she was always in the company of her sister.

They were like a pair that could not be separated.

7 days back, Jiya started showing low interest in food.

Hello @AnujaJaiswalTOI you have stolen my words and my tweet on Green Juice detox without crediting me or my tweet and it's content for your story in @TOIIndiaNews

A bunch of other doctors who had nothing to do with the reported content beautifully feature in your report.

I'm a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… @IndianExpress has done it properly. They cited sources and interviewed other experts on the same.
indianexpress.com/article/lifest…

Ok hear me out and please let me know whom I should tag or file a complaint with for this serious issue.

A Chivas Regal 12 year old blended whiskey containing 40% alcohol costs 3300 Indian rupees for 1000ml. That is 330 rupees for 100ml, expensive. It's available only in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… By the way, we have ALREADY analyzed potentized Homeopathy formulations and found that they DO CONTAIN purely and only ALCOHOL - some going up to 90%. Mother tinctures also contain herbal components and sometimes, insects, cockroaches etc.

https://twitter.com/theliverdr/status/1628794440826630144?s=20

I don't know how to break this to you

But India's largest newspaper has reported that a couple of Homeopaths in Bhopal city has discovered that the reason why Homeopathy works is...

...because of electromagnetic waves.

First, Homeopaths said, Homeopathy works because of water… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1. You call yourself a "faculty" of IISER, IIT and UNC Charlotte, YET, you do not have the minimum required intelligence to understand that the paper is NOT published in The Lancet, but another non-medical Elsevier journal called Materials Science & Engineering

2. They have not… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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I am looking at the young mother lying on the hospital bed

She's shivering & the fever is high

Her liver functions are climbing

Her baby girl is waiting back home

Her father is troubled

I'm faced with an unknown foe, tiny, yet so powerful, it nearly broke me.

Nearly. 2/52
Silvia is a cheerful and happy mother to a 1 year old baby girl

Everything was set in stone. The family was happy, things looked great.

Until a week back when she started to lose appetite and then waves of fever came in, rolling sweats and deep seated body aches.

This thread is gold.

It shows how to look at clinical research from an actual clinical research point of view instead of posting an abstract

The difference between a medical scientist and a basic scientist when it comes to interpreting clinical research shines through

Will… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Update 1:

https://twitter.com/StuartJRitchie/status/1632360272710062080?t=EB4vL50TrddJmP4kaUu-Xg&s=19

1/5 In this searing report based on our published work on Homeopathic remedies and liver injury, @AzeefaFathima & @TeresaMRaju dissects Homeopathy into what it really is - a magnificent mistake that survives on the scientific illiteracy among lay persons.
thenewsminute.com/article/study-… 2/5 And that is not all

@drlibinabraham & @arifhussaintm provide great insights into why Homeopathy is a reckless fraud & wastage of taxpayers money.

Thanks @AzeefaFathima for our small but powerhouse research group, only one in country working on real-life events of Ayush

Not gonna lie,

Yoga is better than NO physical activity. These are the kind of responses that I was waiting for. Grab your 🍿

What does distancing from the mind mean?
Dead?