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Indian doctors protest herbal treatments being touted for COVID-19

Indian doctors protest herbal treatments being touted for COVID-19

Indian doctors protest herbal treatments being touted for COVID-19 As India battles a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic amid vaccine shortages, the government continues to push unproven Ayurvedic treatments and disinformation. ByNilanjana Bhowmick Email As India struggles with one of the world’s worst COVID-19 outbreaks, thousands of doctors across the nation fighting to save patients amid shortages of oxygen, medicine, and vaccines wore black armbands yesterday to call for the arrest of India s most popular yoga televangelist. Baba Ramdev, founder of a traditional medicine empire, is peddling unproven herbal pills and yoga cures for COVID-19, while calling modern drugs “stupid and blaming the country’s hundreds of thousands of coronavirus deaths on modern medicine.

Doctors furious over yoga guru s Covid claims

Doctors furious over yoga guru s Covid claims © Getty Images Indian yoga guru Baba Ramdev runs a vast business empire Doctors in India have hit out against yoga guru Baba Ramdev over his controversial statements against modern medicine. He recently said that tens of thousands died of Covid after taking modern medicines and mocked patients for trying to get oxygen cylinders. The guru withdrew his statement after health minister criticised him. But he again took a swipe at modern medicine on Monday for not having a cure for some diseases. Modern medicine, also referred to as allopathy, is the backbone of India s healthcare systems, but alternative therapies like ayurveda and homoeopathy are also hugely popular. Many gurus like Ramdev have launched successful businesses on the back of selling herbal medicines and products.

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