There is a great divide between medicine and pseudoscience, but it gets blurred in one respect: the patient.
T.Complementary and alternative medicine industry in India, formally popularly known as Ayush, does not offer evidence-based medical options to treat acute or chronic diseases. Practitioners rely on their own irrational principles for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases not even addressed in classical texts. or cultural values, but measurable and valid scientific evidence is lacking.
Yet, even an entire system that does not follow actual evidence to treat disease, a system based on superstition, belief, and hit-and-miss methods with no realistic data on safety, ayush has been criticized for the data on violence against doctors. practitioners rarely appear. So why are science-based practitioners consistently satisfying patients when evidence-based medicine is real medicine?
empathy not sympathy
Merriam Webster
author
Ciriak Abbey Phillips
Cyriac Abby Philips is an acclaimed, award-winning liver disease expert and clinical scientist based at The Liver Institute, Rajagiri Hospital, Kochi. His seminal research includes the introduction of healthy donor fecal transplants for patients battling severe alcohol-related liver disease. He has also authored disruptive, peer-reviewed publications on Ayush-related liver disorders, herbs, and dietary supplements.
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