Experts in Ayurveda have said that Ayurvedic medicines prepared as per traditional methods and according to the texts like Ashtangahrudayam and Charaka Samhita are completely safe.
Reacting to the news that presence of lead was found in Indian-made Ayurvedic medicines in the tests done by Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) of New York city, Dr B L Sankaran Nair said there have been reports in the past as well to denigrate the Indian system of medicine, which uses mostly herbs. Nair said that the Ayurvedic medicines made by the authentic firms will not have any trace of such minerals.
Nair, a special officer for the Mahe Ayurveda College, said that there have been allegations of lobbies working against the traditional medicines of Indian origin. A top executive of a Coimbatore-based Ayurvedic medicine manufacturing firm also said that the medicines are produced with strict quality check and as per the authentic text books.
The executive said that the medicines used by pregnant women might have been manufactured by certain firms, which did not have the quality check done. But mostly the medicines may not contain any harmful elements, he added.
Another practising Ayurvedic doctor said that the Ayurvedic medicines are always safer and the Indian system always acts in a natural way to the human body without causing any side effects. All these campaigns by the foreign-based companies are baseless and was targeted against the growing acceptance of Ayurveda globally, he said.
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