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Baba Ramdev? Doctors are not unanimous
What do doctors see yoga guru Baba Ramdev as? A curer of diseases or as a person who is fooling people?
Doctors at the APICON-2006 came up with both kinds of responses to the question. They were, however, unanimous in their appreciation of his asanas and life style skills.
"Yoga is a good way to bring about life style modification and destressing oneself. But ayurvedic drugs don't have long-lasting effects for controlling diabetes and hypertension," maintained Dr Vijay Acharya, Associate professor of medicine, PMCH. He said people have to resort to allopathic medicines if they really wanted to get better.
For Dr C M P Sinha, however, yoga is also a type of medicine which helps a person remain fit through exercises and mind control.
Dr Harish Gupta from Rajasthan would simply hear nothing of either Baba Ramdev or his medicines. He said ayurvedic medicines were developed at the time of Sushruta and have no application in the present times.
"Ramdev is just fooling the people who fall in his trap by resorting to his medicines. How can medicines, which have seen no scientific research, beat modern allopathic drugs which see years of lab research," scoffed the doctor.
He even criticised these medicines as having manufacturing defects and being crude.
Dr Sanjay Bhadada from Chandigarh took a balanced view saying people shouldn't blindly follow Baba Ramdev.
"If his medicines find scientific support and are evaluated on the same platform as modern medicines, they should be adopted," he said. But his friend from Manipur, Dr N Sharad Kumar differed.
According to Kumar, yoga will not treat heart attack or kidney failure. "One has to see the doctors for these," he asserted. According to him, regular exercise and yoga is important, but it has to be supplemented with the ���right medicines at the right time', as he put it.
For Dr B P Singh, from Patna, it all depends on how you perceive it. "But they should rely on evidence to claims, coupled with quality control," he said.
So, the next time you tune to a TV channel showing Baba Ramdev talking about the efficacy of yoga and his medicines, don't forget to remember each word of caution and praise that the doctors at the conference had for you.
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