Health issues in India
Ayurvedic products are increasing in popularity. A recent report unveiled at the Global Ayurveda Summit in Kochi found that 77 percent of Indian households used them in 2017. This is up from 69 percent of households in 2015. The rise of ayurveda is being fuelled by growing emphasis on the importance of healthy lifestyles, suggested […]
Can suggestions that home remedies and natural treatments cure disease be dangerous? A recent article on TimesNowNews has covered potential treatment options for malaria. Their claim: malaria can be treated using herbal remedies. The article does mention that these treatments should only be used until proper treatment can be received from a doctor. However, issues […]
Support for traditional therapies is growing in India – potentially at the expense of public health. Many now express enthusiasm for homoeopathic remedies over allopathic treatments, believing Western medicine to be only a short term relief. This sentiment is perhaps best summarised by Paryda Krishnamurthy, chairman of the Telengana Medical Services and Infrastructure Corporation. At […]
Reports have surfaced from the south Indian state of Karnataka of the abduction and murder of a ten year old girl called Ayesha. The killing is believed to have been carried out on the advice of a “sorcerer” to cure a paralysed man. This presents itself as an case of extreme alternative medicine taking advantage […]
