Ayurvedic medicine
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This topic is a pseudoscience, and is not accepted by the scientific community as a valid discipline.
Although it may use scientific terminology, it does not use scientific methodology.
Remember: just because it sounds right doesn't mean it's actually right.
Ayurvedic medicine (at least as practiced by Deepak Chopra) is a form of alternative medicine that claims descent from ancient Hindu medicine, filtered through the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's bastardized form of Hinduism for Westerners known as Transcendental Meditation. Proponents of the practice of ayurvedic medicine claim to be able to cure almost anything, from the common cold to AIDS, by getting your bodily systems in line with one another and with the elements of the Earth. This is achieved by ingesting some herbs, slathering oneself with paste made by herbs and oils, or Panchakarma, which is described as a 5-step program for therapeutic cleansing and includes blood-letting.[1]
[edit] External links
- Ayurveda article at Wikipedia (not very useful—heavily slanted towards Ayurveda with little presentation of outside research)
- Skeptic's Dictionary entry
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