@theliverdr Simple remedies such as clove oil for tootch ache, turmeric as antiseptic, cumin/ajwain seeds for digestion - all these are directly from Ayurveda. Are you saying there's no merit in the above?

@Ekam_Sathyam @theliverdr They were tried and tested methods used for a millennium. After the modern scientific method was standardised, there were a lot of tests done on the remedies you mentioned and they came out as great solutions. Science is trying to know the unknown and getting things wrong

@Ekam_Sathyam @theliverdr Our ancestors got things wrong and got things right, it is our duty to appreciate the things they got right with the limited technology they had and move on from the things they got wrong and focus on modern science and stop believing in these quacks

@mastero_mr @theliverdr True. Our ancestors made mistakes, but today's science is more or less built on their groundwork. Progress doesn’t mean we erase and ignore the past by calling it "quackery". It means learning from it, refining it, and evolving. Dismissing it all as quackery misses the point.

@Ekam_Sathyam @theliverdr Your first statement is true . Our science did not just get invented one day. It was refined by many methods that many cultures contributed too . Indian culture had a big contribution to it . Nobody is saying to erase the past , but to preserve it in a history museum

@Ekam_Sathyam @theliverdr Not to use it in our lives when we know it is either disproved or unproven. During toothache do you put a clove in your gums? This wasn't discovered yesterday. It is a remedy by our Indian ancestors. They were limited by the technology of their time, they got some things right

@Ekam_Sathyam @theliverdr and other things wrong. The same way we may get some things wrong that get disproven by our future generations. We have developed a scientific methodology and people from around the world contribute to it to improve it further and further

@Ekam_Sathyam @theliverdr we have learned from it, we have refined it, and we have evovled our understanding of medicine the people that peddle the things that are already proven wrong are quacks and must be called that so people dont fall prey to their predatory practices

@mastero_mr @theliverdr Well - his post states that Ayurveda is the mother of all pseudosciences. You may write passages about what-not but such sweeping statements hold no ground.

@Ekam_Sathyam @theliverdr I don't know what you are not understanding How is it not a pseudo science

@mastero_mr @theliverdr On one hand, you write that "Indian culture had a big contribution to it," yet you ask "how is it not a pseudoscience?" My stance is simple - Ayurveda has its place. Dismissing it entirely as quackery reflects a superficial understanding of a complex tradition.