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 ...