Myth of “Allopathy treats only symptoms and does not cure the disease”
Modern medicine does cure. Allopathy is a misnomer. Traditional knowledge systems do have a role in mainstream medicine.
Tag: health
Podcast on the Carvaka Podcast – Pseudoscience and Alternative Medicines
Did a freewheeling podcast with Kushal Mehra on some controversial and touchy topics:
Celebrating our Scientists, Reliving The Trauma
The Vaccine War: Movie Review Rating: 8/10 The latest offering by Vivek Agnihotri is a daring venture: a tribute to the scientists at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) who played a vital role in India’s battle against the COVID pandemic. The movie is an adaptation of Balram Bhargava’s book Going Viral. It sensitively […]
“Now show me your face!”
The first time I saw her face was when she was being put under general anaesthesia for her surgery. Even when she visited my consultation room with her husband for a neck swelling, she was wearing a top-to-toe burkha with gloves, covering every visible part of the body, following the directions of the holy book […]
For the first time in several months
She’s a frail old lady, barely five feet in height, just 30kg in weight. She looks every bit of her eighty years. And now she’s looking at me, absolutely quiet and afraid of what I may tell her. She’s been having bouts of severe abdominal pain and has been unable to eat her meals properly. […]