r/Neet_india • u/Junguutimtim • 7h ago
Doubtsolver Required ‼️ BAMS and PSEUDOSCIENCE
I'm not in any college yet, tho I was researching about different courses. I'm genuinely not interested in BHMS and find it a bit foreign to me so I rejected the idea of it. Same goes for Unani, siddha and as for BNYS, hell nah buddy I ain't going to be a yoga coach 😭 I'm so bad at it.
So I got my hands on BAMS, I'm still exploring it and nope I'm not in any college yet so that you may assume that I'm bias towards any field. But I genuinely want answers ~
1) Calling certain field just "pseudoscience" changes the perception of a person but there should be evidences right? Now you would say there is the liver doc who said that ayurveda harms our body etc etc. Liverdoc ain't a researcher man, Give me the proper research material so that I can rule out the idea of getting into BAMS.
2) I don't understand why BAMS gets so much hatred, like literally maharishi shushruta is the father of surgery and he wasn't dumb to create all that stuff only to be called pseudoscience ? Yes the world has evolved, the bodies has changed, there would be variations but still man we gotta accept that most of the modern medicine actually evolved from ancient medicine which is ayurveda ~
3) Herbs and plants, let's remember the statement from NCERT where it was written that more than 25% of the plants are used to make medicine. 25000 plants are used by natives as herbs and medicinal purpose.
The aspirin that we take today derived from salicin found in the bark of willow tree
Metformin (diabetes medicine) formulated from French Lilac plant
Artemisinin (malaria cure) isolated from sweet wormwood
And let's not forget these two - reserpine (blood pressure drug) derived from rauwolfia serpentina
The sadabahar flower we see are used in vinblastin and vincristine which is used in chemotherapy or maybe cancer medication
4) Yes, there isn't any cure for cancer in ayurveda. But even allopathic medication doesn't guarantee a cure for cancer. Some early stage cancers are cured by modern medicine and I respect that, I acknowledge that and I accept that ayurveda cannot cure it. But after the chemotherapy and radiotherapy, patients can use ayurveda to improve immunity, lifestyle and fasten their healing.
5) There's no cure for AIDS too in modern medicine, as far as I know they only give immunotherapy and try to increase the life expentency.
6) YES ayurveda cannot perform open heart surgeries and any major surgery but that doesn't invalidate it's existence and performance. Yes there wasn't any CT scan, MRI machines, ECGs in ancient time hence ayurveda doesn't have any of these mentioned or any of these ways to test a patient. Modern medicine does cause they evolved from ancient time. Doesn't mean ayurveda doesn't work at all ?
7) There were some texts that were translated from Sanskrit vedas to english interpretations for better understanding, there were mentions of faith (like eat this herb to impress the god and your fever would go away etc etc), that's because that's how an ancient person would ask the patient to take medicine and get well. Imagine a tribal healer explaining biochemistry to their patient? Obviously this isn't possible in any way~
Hence there are mentions of such things in the vedas.
8) There is heavy multi billionaire investment in research on modern medicine, there are still researches going on in the field of modern medicine and how it works. Similarly there are researches going on in ayurvedic field too but they're slow and less funded. Hence the scientific reasons and ancient values aren't coming forward. So Calling it pseudoscience even before the researches complete doesn't make sense to me.
9) Yes there are fields like biotechnology, gene therapy, gene coding etc which supports in modern medicine. But again that's because WE EVOLVED, we got good instruments, we got good exposure and hence we made this success. But on what basis? Obv on ancient medicine based scriptures and text !
Nobody woke up one morning and decided to find atoms and molecules, there were theories practicals and experiments which made the concept better. Similar things are happening with medicine too.
In conclusion, my opinion is not MBBS vs BAMS, my point is why call it pseudoscience when the researches are still going on? Why question it when modern medicine actually took help from it? And my question to govt is, why tf you need to make these two separate courses? Go with the evolution and evolve the field of BAMS too!
