@red dragon
Totally common man here in these aspects.
But, as a person whose family member was saved solely because of Ayurveda, I've deep respects for it (but not blind, irrational and blackmagic quackery kind). It worked for thousands of years when Allopathic medicine were not available to common man.
Have similar respect for treatments like
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-32117815
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200728113545.htm
Don't think Ayurveda should be studied as concept written in several century old books. And have no interest what-so-ever in blindly following it and moronic people around who spread lot of negativity for Ayurveda because they have vested interests.
Same disinterest against so called pro scientific chronic haters against Ayurveda. These days, taking a balanced stance will be mocked at unfortunately by those who are hooked to extreme view points. According to them, when Ayurvedic compound selected from old books, is properly studied, isolated the root compound, then all credit goes to Allopathic medicine ! That is disingenuous in my conscience.
Have difficulty in understanding and accepting what is happening in Andhra Pradesh's Bonigi Anandaiah case. Hope authorities does some proper studies and alert people.
Similar thing happened in south during severe Dengue spread, people there traditionally used tender leaves of Pappaya in rice grail which used to help them. It allegedly helps in Dengue to increase platelets. Called out as pseudo science, some experts were later okay with it, still don't know the reality. Edit:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3614241/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3638585/
India misses a lot because of pseudo science, they should properly do analysis and research on ayurvedic herbs and compounds which could've helped people. Speaking of that, they had such interests from ages of 'Hortus Malabaricus'. Foreign companies are already doing lot of research on this, being sold as medicines (Brucine, Strychnine, etc. comes to mind) 'health supplement', nootropic, what not. There are companies in India who supply herbs in bulk to such foreign entities. Ironically, they use such herbs /extracts, but have no qualms to shit on traditional medicine or even Indians too.