Made in India, adopted by the Westerners ! Ayurveda’s growing popularity can be gauged from the international line-up of celebs like Madonna, Sting, Demi Moore, Cindy Crawford and Goldie Hawn who have faith in it. The centuries old traditional system of Indian medicine has now become a popular way of holistic healing worldwide. But of late, Ayurveda has been attacked by one controversy after the other. While the latest one on the use of animal products by Baba Ramdev’s pharmacy refuses to die down, more recently, New York banned the sale of three Indian herbal products, claiming that they contain dangerous levels of lead or mercury.
The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) had found that Jambrulin contained 24,300 ppm of lead, Lakshmivilash Ras contained 14,100 ppm of mercury and Maha Sundarshan contained 2,190 ppm of mercury. Vaid Devendra Triguna, president, All India Ayurveda Congress, who is treating former Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee for ailments and has also been advisor to many former Presidents, says, “It’s a drug war between the MNCs of US, UK, Europe on one hand and India on the other. The MNC lobby is working against us. The reason is that ayurvedic medicines don’t have any side-effects and are cost effective. We have an export worth Rs 1,500 crores. Since 1978, I have been visiting major universities in the US and Europe for delivering lectures on this traditional system of medicine and today we have thousands of followers. 95 percent of ayurvedic medicines are herbs and do not contain any metal compound.”
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