Ayurveda for Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders at IISc

I would like more allocation for studying this 'placebo effect'.

Not kidding. What is it that allows some people to recover with sugar pills? Wouldn't we, as a society, want more such people?

There is instructive story from the field of engineering. The story of J B Gunn, the inventor of Gunn diode.:

"In 1962, while working for IBM, he discovered the Gunn effect[9] based upon his refusal to accept inconsistent experimental results in Gallium arsenide as simply "noise".[10] This led to the invention of the Gunn diode, a miniature microwave generator.[11]"

Do not classify anomalous behavior as 'noise'. It may teach us something we didn't know.
 
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dpandey said:
Do classify anomalous behavior as 'noise'. It may teach us something we didn't know.
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Was going through link by @kiran6680 :
en.m.wikipedia.org

Antiviral drug - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org en.m.wikipedia.org
finding developing antiviral drugs are extremely difficult even now.

Went through the page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex_virus
and found:
"The extensive use of antiherpetic drugs has led to the development of some drug resistance,[citation needed] which in turn may lead to treatment failure. Therefore, new sources of drugs are broadly investigated to address the problem. In January 2020, a comprehensive review article was published that demonstrated the effectiveness of natural products as promising anti-HSV drugs.[65] Pyrithione, a zinc ionophore, has shown antiviral activity against herpes simplex."

Found Pyrithione is isolated from Persian Shallots, plant which was used in Central Asia for long time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_stipitatum#Medicinal_properties_and_health_effects

Now this is the kind of research I like to see tracing through Ayurveda. Aka, should be our kind of 'Gunn Effect'.
 
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