Wednesday, August 17, 2016

death clock by siddha system

Can we ever live happily if we come to know our date of death in advance? Forget about happy living, life itself may not be possible if we have such knowledge. Only such mystery makes our life interesting, hopeful, helpful, fearsome and responsible.   

No science or scientist can tell when one would die. The objective of science is not to predict when death would occur, but how to improve the quality of life and indeed its longevity as well.  

But any such predictions like when one would die, when one may get the treasure, how will be the future etc., only an astrologer or numerologist or fortune teller or some God men can tell. Unfortunately, our curiosity do ends with the information that comes from these people. We neither verify the accuracy of above perditions nor would dare to counter with those people why they went wrong in their predictions.  

Some of the tenets of Siddha system of medicine surpass astrology, numerology, palmistry and what not…and has provided a wonderful ‘death clock’ for Siddha vaidyas. Whether it has any science or mathematics in it…better we should leave such question to Lord Siva and Siddha experts to answer. No science or scientist can find any science in such predictions although may find enough wonderment.   

Siddha system is promoted as medical science in India and which pays rich tributes to many such superstitious beliefs.  Interestingly they also form part of the medical curriculum. They are indeed treated as medical science as well. All those who have also studied all such superstitious wisdom are doctors as per Indian law. 
 
Look at the amazing and advanced science of Siddha system of medicine.Siddha system has incredible insight and wisdom to predict the death of the patient with great accuracy i.e. from years to months to an hour. Not only the Siddha system could predict the death with such great precision, the system also says how useless the treatment can be to the patient under such circumstances. The question is whether the scientifically proven allopathic system has ever developed such science like Siddha system?


Siddha system uses simple Tridosha concept and measurement of Vata, Pitta and Kapha to calculate how close or how far away the patient is from his or her death.   

The larger question is why most of the Siddha vaidyas never ever use Tridosha diagnosis these days and if so, can they help the scientist to understand how such diagnosis is done?  

Look at the death clock of Siddha system of medicine

1.    Kapha nadi when beats twice than normal and vatha and pitha nadi decreases, the patient would die soon.
2.    When vatha and pitha completely reduces, Siddha system says there is no use in treating such patients as they would die soon.
3.    When pitha completely reduces or kapha alone increases, then there is no use of treating such patients.
4.    When kapha combines with pitha, death will come in a day and when pitha completely reduces, followed by kapha combining with vatha, death would occur immediately. 
5.    When the pulse beat gets faster in the hip, thigh and chest regions coupled with swellings, thirst & dehydrated tongue, they are symptoms of immediate death, according to Siddha. 
6.    When all the three pulses are not in the equilibrium state or decreases or beats like lizard’s tail, death will occur soon.
7.    When three pulses combine with each other and beats like insects or like spin top or like a beetle, death will occur definitely.
8.    When respiration occurs in both nostrils continuously for three days, death occurs in one year.
9.    When respiration occurs in both nostrils continuously for two days, death occurs in two years.
10.    When respiration occurs in both nostrils continuously for one day, death occurs in three years.
11.    When respiration occurs in single nostrils continuously for ten days, death occurs in six months.
12.    When respiration takes place through mouth – death will come in 3 months.
13.    When saliva intake is not possible and it spills on the body itself, death will come in 6 months.
14.    When one see own shadow dancing, sudden death will occur.
15.    When nostril, ear, tongue, teeth, mouth changes to black color, death will occur in 6 days.
16.    When three pulses lose its equilibrium, death occurs immediately. 
17.    In morning, the kapha pulse beats & at noon, pitha beats and at evening, vatha beats – death occurs in 4-5 days
18.    When three pulses beats like an ant walking on the floor, death would occur in 3 months
19.    When kapha beats like a horse, death will occur in one month.


Can any Siddha expert explain how scientific is their death clock? Do they have such unparallel competency and sensitivity in reading the pulses so accurately? If so, why most of them use a stethoscope and modern gadgets and engage in cross pathy? 

The concept of tridosha itself is imaginary and philosophical and no one could explain where they are located and how we can measure vatha, pitta, and kapha in our body?

People do argue that all the above descriptions were part of the ancient tradition and it was evolved several centuries ago.  Hence we should take only those useful contents and must discard that are useless. The question is how to separate, sort and identify what is useful and useless when the fundamentals, diagnostic procedures, disease descriptions, products that are called drugs fail the simple definition of drug or system of medicine? 

How cross pathy by several Siddha vaidyas in private practice will help us to identify what is useful and useless in Siddha system? Only when we follow and practice Siddha system sincerely, we can establish what is useful and what is useless. 

Another big question also we must address seriously. The question is how a system that is full of superstition, lack science, and evidence can have something useful to mankind?  

Entire AYUSH needs to be re-promoted as paramedical practice and must end cross pathy by AYUSH vaidyas in private practice if we are really interested in promoting AYUSH.  

More than drugs and doctors, paramedical experts, and paramedical services our society needs the most.  

Emerging lifestyle disorders warrant the role of AYUSH to remain healthy. Healthy people and those who are after allopathic treatment need the paramedical service of AYUSH. Time has come India must promote AYUSH as paramedical practice and not as medical science. Similarly, cross pathy and quackery should not be legalized.

Dr S Ranganathan 
THE HANS INDIA |    Aug 17,2016 , 10:42 AM IST

Monday, August 8, 2016

One Doctor per 893 Patients: 1: 893

India has one doctor per 893 patients: Delhi Health Minister’s reply on WHO report


The WHO report stated that large number of allopathic doctors in the country do not have medical qualification and lower national level of density of all doctors, nurses and midwives.

By: PTI | New Delhi | Published:August 5, 2016 5:28 pm
There is one doctor for every 893 patients in the country if allopathic doctors and those practising Ayurveda, Unani and Homeopathy streams are considered together, Lok Sabha was informed on Friday. In a written reply, Minister of State for Health Faggan Singh Kulaste said there as 9.59 lakh registered allopathic doctors in the country and 6.77 lakh Ayurveda, Unani and Homeopathy (AUH) doctors.
“Assuming 80 per cent availability of doctors, it is estimated that around 7.67 lakh (allopathic) doctors may be actually available for service. It gives a doctor is to population ratio of 1:1681. If the allopathic and AUH streams are considered together, it gives a doctor population ratio of 1: 893,” the Minister said replying a question on whether the government has taken note of the World Health Organisation (WHO) report which stated that large number of allopathic doctors in the country do not have medical qualification and lower national level of density of all doctors, nurses and midwives.
He said that as per Indian Medical Council Act 1956, only the practitioners enrolled on the state medical register can practice medicine and any person who acts in contravention is liable to be punished with imprisonment and fine. Kulaste said there were 7,89,796 Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANM) and 17,93,337 registered nurse and registered midwives (RN&RM) in the country.

“Assuming 80 per cent availability of ANMs and 60 per cent availability of RN&RMs, there would be 17.10 lakh nursing personnel in service in the country which gives a nurse population ratios of 1:748,” the Minister said.

AYUSH Good Clinical Practice Guidelines


Regulation on AYUSH system of Good Clinical Practice Guidelines



The Government published Good Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clinical Trials in Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani Medicine (GCP-ASU)" in the year 2013. These guidelines encompass the design, conduct, termination, audit, analysis, reporting and documentation of the systematic studies involving human subjects for determining the safety and efficacy of Ayurvedic, Siddha and Unani (ASU) drugs. This document aims to ensure that the studies are scientifically and ethically sound and the clinical properties of the ASU medicines under investigation are properly documented. The guidelines seek to establish two cardinal principles of protection of the rights of human subjects and generation of authentic clinical trial data of ASU medicines. 

The GCP guidelines for ASU drugs at present are a guiding tool to the researchers and do not bear any legal binding, yet the stakeholders are advised to adhere to the principles prescribed in these guidelines while conducting clinical trials on ASU medicines. The guidelines are displayed for free download on the website of the Ministry of AYUSH. 

Rule 158-B of the Drugs & Cosmetics Rules, 1945 prescribes the regulatory requirements including submission of proof of safety and effectiveness for licensing of ASU drugs. Enforcement of these provisions is under the purview of the State Licensing Authorities appointed by the State Governments. Directive is issued to all State Licensing Authorities, Research Councils, National Institutes, Health Universities and ASU drugs manufacturers Associations to ensure registration of the clinical trials of AYUSH in the Clinical Trials Registry of India (CTRI). Presently, the Government has no proposal to amend or modify GCP guidelines for ASU medicines. 

This information was given by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for AYUSH, Shri Shripad Yesso Naik in written reply to a question in LokSabha today. 

Steps taken by the government for research in Unani Medicine

Steps taken by the government for research in Unani Medicine



Delhi 

Thursday, August 4, 2016

NEW GUIDELINES FOR AYUSH

ICMR norms for testing AYUSH drugs

THE HINDU--------------------------------------------------------------------------NEW DELHI, August 3, 2016
To bring research on Ayurvedic drugs closer to the practices in Western medicine, the Indian Council of Medical Research has released guidelines for testing new medicines from the AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy) schools.

NEW GUIDELINES FOR AYUSH -------- thursday, 04 August 2016 | Pioneer | in Edit





The new guidelines released by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for conducting testing medicines from Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) will give a massive boost to the much-needed importance to research and development in these fields. Practically speaking, the effort initiated by the ICMR will go a long way in bringing the indigenous research in the field of AYUSH closer to the much advanced practices and development in Western medicines. The guidelines concerning the standards required to be followed in the testing process for AYUSH medicines must be an established practice by now. The ICMR has tried to hammer out similar guidelines by highlighting that the same ethical principles must be used as it is done for drug trials, while involving human beings in the research on traditional, folk medicines and patented and proprietary variety of traditional medicines.

As frequent controversies clouded the clinical trials in the past, the ICMR guidelines once finalised, will act as one big leap which will be truly helpful for the regulator for granting permission for new trials. The new set of requirements is also covering emerging fields like synthetic biology and ethical rules governing medical diagnosis. Therefore, this will act as a deterrent in prohibiting the conduct of unsafe clinical trials in the field of indigenous medicines. Emphasis given to the involvement of experts belonging to each of these fields while supervising the trials is considered as a step ahead for preventing all possible misadventures. The guidelines give top priority in recognising the rights of traditional knowledge of a community or of an area in the process of commercialising the drugs. This rightly reflects the sense of respecting the original owners and adhering to the provisions of the intellectual property laws of the land. There has been controversies stemming from the ownership of patents and fighting the cases related to intellectual property in general is an expensive matter across the world. Thus, the ICMR's effort to streamline the paten-related issues from the beginning will probably lessen the much-talked about controversies and debates in the fields of AYUSH. Till date there was hardly any clarity in public on how Ayurvedic formulations and other traditional medicines should be tested. Finally, these guidelines will open a grand opportunity for the traditional Indian formulations to make their entry into the international market which will potentially encourage many of the domestic manufacturers to play a significant role for sure.


Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Is Aloe vera more poisonous ?

Is Aloe vera more poisonous 


Is Aloe vera more poisonous than the toxic heavy metals like Arsenic, Mercury, Lead etc.,?  Everyone would find such question quite funny. But it is not funny, Siddha system of medicine believe so. If anyone has doubt, please read the Schedule E1 of Drugs and Cosmetic Act of India. The science and logic of Siddha system behind such claim would end up like searching and finding God!
 The shocking fact is that the other traditional system of medicine claimed to have co-evolved with Siddha system of medicine – Ayurveda, considers all these metals to be poisonous substances.  

The question that boggles the mind is that the Lord Danvanthri (who gifted Ayurveda) when cautioned his disciples to play safe with these toxic metals, why Lord Siva while gifting Siddha system did not caution about the danger of these metals to his disciple?  

Should we assume that these metals are not toxic to a certain group of the population? Then such science is amazing and the scientific world should award the author for bringing such truth to light.  

The animal Koala can eat and digest the leaves of Eucalyptus but not by any other animal. Similarly, Panda can eat and digest the leaves of bamboo but not by any other animals.  
It is not Aloe vera alone, even Lawsonia otherwise called as henna is also poisonous than Arsenic, Mercury etc., according to Siddha. According to Siddha system, none of the heavy metals are listed under poisonous substances in Schedule E1.   

Ayurveda clearly specifies all such metals to be poisonous. Ayurveda consider all most all heavy metals like Gauripashana (Arsenic) Hartala (Arseno sulphide), Manahashila (Arseno sulphide), Parada (Mercury), Rasa Karpura (Hydrargyri subchloridum), Tuttha (Copper sulphate) Hingula (Cinnabar), Sindura (Red oxide of lead), Girisindura (Red oxide of mercury) as poisonous and are listed under Schedule E1. But Siddha system does not consider them as poisonous as per Schedule E1 listing.   
We can find several such contradictions between Ayurveda and Siddha if we refer to the Schedule E1 of Drugs and Cosmetic Act and other fundamental principles of both the systems.

Siddha system claims that when the plant Aloe vera is cut, the yellow coloured exudates that ooze out and accumulates beneath the cuticle is poisonous. Aloe vera being a succulent plant, the exudates or most constituents of the exudates scientifically has to come only from the plant. So how such exudates can be removed and how the plant Aloe vera can be made free from being poisonous, no explanation is available in the ancient Siddha system.   

The debate is not about Ayurveda or Siddha but how the Government of India allows one traditional system to list certain materials as poisonous and not by the other system.  

It has been scientifically proven that most of the heavy metals are extremely harmful.  What this absurd contradiction tells us?  

Next to rice and wheat, perhaps, Aloe vera is the most used and hyped herb by various industries such as food, nutraceutical, and FMCG to catch the attention and mind of the customers. But interestingly Aloe vera is poisonous than Arsenic, Mercury, Lead etc., according to Siddha system? 

Siddha experts won’t be silent than being knowledgeable in giving some wonderful explanations to the above contradiction. One such explanation is that all such heavy metals are poisonous only when they are used as such but Siddha system prescribes special procedures to purify these metals before process them.  If we ask scientifically how the metal toxicity is removed and how they ensure whether the toxic metal has become non-toxic and drug…..the answer would defy deafening silence. If we ask further, most of them would get angry, hyper-emotional and what not? 

The procedure to test whether the heavy metals are processed completely or not is filled with astonishing science.  The final product is when placed on water, it must float…it means the process is perfect. Similarly, when we touch the powder, it must fill all the fine ridges in the fingers…..then the process is perfect. How such test would say the metal has lost its toxicity and has become drug!!!??? 

The big question before the civic society is that why we value our ancient tradition barring and breaching all scientific norms and codes and promoting AYUSH as medical science….that can save humanity all over the world?  

Are the above science and scientific explanations only various Departments of AYUSH has brought out to our country since 1970 with the continuous sponsorship and patronage of the Government for meeting all most all demands?  

Why still we promote AYUSH as medical science, drug, cure, and diagnosis based system?  

Logically some AYUSH expert would ask how the early men had survived after taking all these substances so-called poisonous by modern science. 

What was the population of India before and after the advent of vaccination? AYUSH was in existence ever since humanity or over 5000 years? What was the life expectancy of man over last 100 years? 

For curable diseases, AYUSH has no drugs but claim to cure most of the incurable diseases?  If we lend our ears further, even they would cure AIDS and cancer at metastasis!!! 

Does this not sound funny, bizarre and wacky? When AYUSH products are given along with allopathic drugs, the treatment duration gets shortened and therefore AYUSH products are effective is yet another ‘wonderful science’ happening these days.  

The question is, had the ancient Siddhars developed Siddha products to be given as adjuvant along with allopathic drugs so the treatment duration could be reduced? It means Siddhars were aware of allopathic drugs several thousand years ago itself and that is how they have developed Siddha to play second fiddle to scientifically proven allopathic system. Is it so?

Does this attempt not look like somehow the AYUSH vaidyas wants to create some role for themselves and their products because AYUSH is getting exposed as unscientific and ineffective?  

Ayurveda considers snake poison to be poisonous. But Siddha, God knows whether snake poison is wonder drug or not or even they use snake poison at all.  

Even Lord Siva who gifted Siddha system too was susceptible to snake poison and that is how he got the name Neelakanda (blue-necked). It is true that the science of such system do say, if we bite back the snake that had bitten us, the venom gets neutralized!!!  

Is this ‘hilarious’ science, we have given the status as a medical science and all those who have studied such subject - doctor.   

Why do we move forward with AYUSH as medical science and instead why can’t we promote AYUSH as paramedical practice?  

It looks like are we not promoting ‘nothing’ and ‘nonsense’ as medical science?   

The Sanskrit sloka in worship of Vishnu and Veda Vyasa says 

“Vyasaya Vishnu Roopaya, Vyasa Roopaya Vishnave”

It means, Vishnu and Ved Vyasa are same.  

Today pseudo-science is the other name of AYUSH and vice versa. Otherwise why the AYUSH vaidyas in private practice engage in cross pathy, justify and demand legal right to breach allopathic system? If AYUSH is effective, like some faithful patients, should we no expect the AYUSH vaidyas to excel in the own system? Let us not forget the truth that AYUSH is indeed paramedical practice and not medical science.

S Ranganathan

THE HANS INDIA |    Aug 01,2016 , 09:40 AM IST