Quackery passed off as Ayurveda treatment
Published On: August 31, 2009, 6:11 am
By Staff Writer
By Staff Writer
In the recent past, it has been noticed that many clinics offer wrong Ayurveda treatments. Such clinics claim to cure all the diseases ranging from the recent pandemic, swine flu, to diabetes. This has raised an alarm in the Health Ministry and they are in the process of releasing new regulations. More essential than these regulations is the need to spread awareness about these therapies.
The number of such clinics is increasing with the cases of people who are suffering from the wrong medication given. Some are treated for a particular ailment while other body parts are ignored. These cases end up in fatalities. Some clinics use recycled oil and charge very high prices. There have also been reports of sexual assaults in the name of a mixed massage.
The required certifications do not matter at all to such quack clinics. This has raised a concern in the AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy) department of the Health Ministry. They have felt the dire need to standardise these practices in five other countries apart from India.
The standards of these age old therapies have drastically declined in the past few years as they have become more and more popular in India as well as abroad. Due to these reasons the regulations are needed as they will help people in recognizing the real clinics from the false ones.
Until the government comes out with latest regulations, one should be careful and choose a well qualified doctor. Care must be taken not to fall prey to the promises of overnight cures as they cannot happen in any therapy. One should keep in mind that a spa is not a clinic, rather and many therapies for treating small ailments can be done at home.
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