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Ayurvedic medicine for plantar fasciitis

Discussion in 'Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses' started by NewsBot, Apr 11, 2013.

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    Ayurvedic management of Vatakantaka (Plantar Fasciitis)
    Veena G Rao, Nischita M S
    International Journal of Ayurvedic Medicine, Vol 4, No 1 (2013)
     
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    Ayurveda

    Dhanvantari, an avatar of Vishnu, is the Hindu god associated with ayurveda.

    Ayurveda (/ˌɑːjʊərˈvdə, -ˈv-/; IAST: āyurveda[1]) is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent.[2] It is heavily practised throughout India and Nepal, where as much as 80% of the population report using ayurveda.[3][4][5][6] The theory and practice of ayurveda is pseudoscientific and toxic metals including lead and mercury are used as ingredients in many ayurvedic medicines.[7][8][9][10]

    Ayurveda therapies have varied and evolved over more than two millennia.[2] Therapies include herbal medicines, special diets, meditation, yoga, massage, laxatives, enemas, and medical oils.[11][12] Ayurvedic preparations are typically based on complex herbal compounds, minerals, and metal substances (perhaps under the influence of early Indian alchemy or rasashastra). Ancient ayurveda texts also taught surgical techniques, including rhinoplasty, lithotomy, sutures, cataract surgery, and the extraction of foreign objects.[13][14]

    Historical evidence for ayurvedic texts, terminology and concepts appears from the middle of the first millennium BCE onwards.[15] The main classical ayurveda texts begin with accounts of the transmission of medical knowledge from the gods to sages, and then to human physicians.[16] Printed editions of the Sushruta Samhita (Sushruta's Compendium), frame the work as the teachings of Dhanvantari, the Hindu deity of ayurveda, incarnated as King Divodāsa of Varanasi, to a group of physicians, including Sushruta.[17][18] The oldest manuscripts of the work, however, omit this frame, ascribing the work directly to King Divodāsa.[19]

    In ayurveda texts, dosha balance is emphasised, and suppressing natural urges is considered unhealthy and claimed to lead to illness.[20] Ayurveda treatises describe three elemental doshas: vāta, pitta and kapha, and state that balance (Skt. sāmyatva) of the doshas results in health, while imbalance (viṣamatva) results in disease. Ayurveda treatises divide medicine into eight canonical components. Ayurveda practitioners had developed various medicinal preparations and surgical procedures from at least the beginning of the common era.[21]

    Ayurveda has been adapted for Western consumption, notably by Baba Hari Dass in the 1970s and Maharishi ayurveda in the 1980s.[22]

    Although some Ayurvedic treatments can help relieve some symptoms of cancer, there is no good evidence that the disease can be treated or cured through ayurveda.[12]

    Several ayurvedic preparations have been found to contain lead, mercury, and arsenic,[11][23] substances known to be harmful to humans. A 2008 study found the three substances in close to 21% of US and Indian-manufactured patent ayurvedic medicines sold through the Internet.[24] The public health implications of such metallic contaminants in India are unknown.[24]

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    4. ^ "Backgrounder. Ayurvedic Mecicine: an Introduction" (PDF). US Department of Health and Human Services. GovInfo: Discover U.S. Government Information. 2009. D287. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
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    7. ^ Beall, Jeffrey (2018). "Scientific soundness and the problem of predatory journals". In Kaufman, Allison B.; Kaufman, James C. (eds.). Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science. MIT Press. p. 293. ISBN 978-0-262-03742-6. Archived from the original on 7 September 2023. Retrieved 11 September 2020. Ayurveda, a traditional Indian medicine, is the subject of more than a dozen, with some of these 'scholarly' journals devoted to Ayurveda alone ..., others to Ayurveda and some other pseudoscience. ... Most current Ayurveda research can be classified as 'tooth fairy science,' research that accepts as its premise something not scientifically known to exist. ... Ayurveda is a long-standing system of beliefs and traditions, but its claimed effects have not been scientifically proven. Most Ayurveda researchers might as well be studying the tooth fairy. The German publisher Wolters Kluwer bought the Indian open-access publisher Medknow in 2011. ... It acquired its entire fleet of journals, including those devoted to pseudoscience topics such as An International Quarterly Journal of Research in Ayurveda.
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    10. ^ Saper, Robert B. (27 August 2008). "Lead, Mercury, and Arsenic in US- and Indian-Manufactured Ayurvedic Medicines Sold via the Internet". JAMA. 300 (8): 915–923. doi:10.1001/jama.300.8.915. ISSN 0098-7484. PMC 2755247. PMID 18728265.
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    19. ^ Birch, Jason; Wujastyk, Dominik; Klebanov, Andrey; Parameswaran, Madhu; Rimal, Madhusudan; Chakraborty, Deepro; Bhatt, Harshal; Shenoy, Devyani; Lele, Vandana (2021). "Further Insight into the Role of Dhanvantari, the physician to the gods, in the Suśrutasaṃhitā". Academia Letters. doi:10.20935/al2992. S2CID 238681626. Archived from the original on 15 April 2023. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
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    21. ^ Sharma, Priya Vrat (1992). History of Medicine in India. New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy.
    22. ^ Wujastyk, Dagmar; Smith, Frederick M. (9 September 2013). Modern and Global Ayurveda: Pluralism and Paradigms. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-7816-5. Archived from the original on 7 September 2023. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
    23. ^ Bhalla, A; Pannu, A K (15 January 2022). "Are Ayurvedic medications store house of heavy metals?". Toxicology Research. 11 (1). Oxford University Press (published February 2022): 179–183. doi:10.1093/toxres/tfab124. PMC 8882783. PMID 35237422.
    24. ^ a b Saper RB; Phillips RS; et al. (2008). "Lead, mercury, and arsenic in US- and Indian-manufactured medicines sold via the internet". JAMA. 300 (8): 915–923. doi:10.1001/jama.300.8.915. PMC 2755247. PMID 18728265.
     
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    I always thought Ayurvedic treatments were a little kaftan a year outy but then I visited India and www.IAD.org.in and it's super effective but maybe a little time consuming. most will never accept it as more than a complimentary therapy which seems more than fair enough without more hard results.
     
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    ..as far as clinical trials go, they do not get much worse than this one!
     
  7. Don ESWT

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    Why would you want a treatment that includes heavy metals such as Lead, Mercury and Arsenic all three can lead to agonising deaths.

    I know doctors can bury their mistakes but:sinking::deadhorse:

    Forget about "A million ways to die in the west" Great movie by the way. Have the above treatment in India and ????????:eek::butcher:
     
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    "Prospective randomised" .... yet still managed to end up with exactly 30 in each group
    Within groups analysis rather than a between groups analysis. Fail
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