Did Gandhiji consider AyurvEdic medicines as poison?

-
ybrems
This post, I have made, originally at my blog on Gandhiji. It seems more relevant to AyurvEda. Hence, I am re-posting it here.


Gandhiji wrote to his son dEvadas Gandhi, on Jan. 1, 1945.
Source: Vol.85 of Collected Works of MahatmA Gandhi.

CHI. DEVDAS,
Having written my first letter to Rajaji I now write this to you. Do not at all worry on my account. I am paying for my sins. I had too much of Ayurveda and I suffered. And now I am slowly throwing off the poison. I have therefore grown very weak but I am watching the developments. Hook-worm and amoeba, my old enemies, won’t leave me.
All this is but flushing out the poison that I had taken. I do not know what other suffering is in store for me. I shall go on doing as God dictates. You should not worry. Ramdas[1] has come. And now Nimu[2] too.



ybrems
1. Gandhiji and Swami Vivekananda has one thing in common. 'I am paying for my sins." Vivekananda called this "my karma".

2. Gandhiji: "I shall go on doing as God dictates."
Vivekananda had a habit of going by the dictates of "Mother".

3. Did somebody tell Gandhiji about the mercury, sulphur, lead, and other heavy metals used in Ayurvedic medicines? At least 75% of the AyurvEdic medicines are 'rasa' aushadhas i.e. mercury mixtures.

4. Gandhiji had come to a near conclusion that he had taken poison. Flushing out the poison!

5. Since Gandhiji wrote this letter in 1945, i.e. at the fag end of his life, I believe that he had not changed his opinion between 1945 and 1948.

What the Ayurvedic physicians have to say about this?

Comments

sandhyabandi said…
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
October 9, 2012 at 11:47 PM
ybr (alias ybrao a donkey) said…
Reason for deleting the above comment: Spam.
April 15, 2020 at 9:52 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

011 A discussion about the impact of CURD (yogurt) on our body, as per ancient Ancient Indian Native Medical Texts

-
Image
This is in continuation of my post No. 1065 at my blog problemsoftelugus.blogspot.com. Link for those who are interested to study it: Click here if you wish to go to 1065 at problemsoftelugu.blogspot.com. That post, dealt with extensively and intensively with different types of curds, and their beneficial/detrimental effects on human bodies (Indian bodies which are heated by 45 degrees summer heat and cooled by drenching monsoons?), according to the Ancient Indian Traditional Medical Treatise Sarangadhara samhita. Curd (yogurt) is a dairy food. It is obtained and consumed in Indian homes on daily basis, by fermenting milk for about 12 hours, by adding a little of previous day's curd, to milk at room temperature. Going back to mythology, I am unable to trace anything about consumption of curd in Valmiki Ramayana, by Ramayana characters or its citizens or the Citizens of Kishkindha or Lanka. There are some references to liquor, meat, wine made from honey etc. My readers who...
Read more

How far AyurvEdic system of medicine has progressed since Gandhiji's comments of 1942-46?

-
This post was originally made by me at my blog gandhijiyb.blogspot.com . It seems equally relevant here, as well. Hence I am re-posting here. Gandhiji wrote to an Ayurvedic physician, Vallabhram Vaidya, on 28th June 1942. From the context of the letter, we get an impression that the doctor was seeking Gandhiji's help for getting Government's monetary support to promote AyurvEda. Source of the letter: Vol. 83 of Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: BHAI VALLABHRAM, I have already told you that Ayurveda cannot be saved either by money or by State help. Would the State be able to revive Ayurveda even if it gave thousands of rupees every month to the purveyers of indigenous tonics? Hundreds of people have laid down their lives to spread allopathy. Allopathy by itself is not expensive but the doctors and the chemists have made it so. You have not seen their books giving the formula and cost of each important medicine. The cost price of Bayer’s Sarsaparilla is one and a half pice b...
Read more

004 Comments on Hyderabad fish medicine for asthma

-
INFO Distribution time : June every year. Likely to take place this year also. Advent of Mrigasira karte. (Astronomically: Time when Sun is in conjunction with Betelguese in Orion Constellation.) India will be midway through the hot summer, land will be parched with heat and the environment is ready to receive rains. Who distributes : A family known as Bathini Gowd Brothers. They claim hereditary succession of 160 years. Hereditary tradition may be true. Type of Medicine : Some traditional powders loaded in a live murrel fish. The patients are made to swallow the fish and its contents. Three more doses are also administered with fifteen days interval. Government recognition/support : Government of India or the Government of Andhra Pradesh should not provide support. But it is taking place under the pretext of providing security. Price Free. The price of the live fish is to be borne by the patient. Annual Controversy at hand Rationalists demand that the Bathini ...
Read more