How holistic medicine was sidelined in India.
To know how it happened you have to go through archives of medical history and documents that are not easily available. They simply stopped being published once thugs like Rockefeller took over medicine. But still a lot of references are available when one goes through literature that addressed the resistance between traditional systems of medicine and the modern system that was based upon a mechanical view and was called heroic because its basis was "cut, slash and burn".
It is common knowledge that ayurveda
and other holistic systems of medicine including Unani were a thorn in the
sides of the British rulers particularly when they tried to enforce practices
like variolation and vaccination. These holistic systems based upon body
constitution and environment were thoroughly against introduction of foreign
matter of doubtful origin into the body as their basis was about detoxification
and elimination of disease matter. No amount of persuasion was enough to
convince the traditional healers on whom the public had great faith.
The first attempt was when the
British planted a malicious article in a Madras publication that it was the
Brahmins who had introduced vaccination in India in the past. But the name of
the author who called himself a "mischievous devotee" was a dead giveaway.
However even this did not work and ultimately such practices were enforced at
gun point by using police and military might. The atrocities are recorded in
the archives of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics.
However there were ethical doctors
among even the British fraternity who resisted the practice of vaccination as
they watched the harm first hand and could comprehend why epidemics of cholera,
tuberculosis, leprosy, and mental disorders were gripping the nation even as
the small pox vaccine was mandatorily enforced on the people, causing disease
epidemics that were ironically used as the pretext calling for more
"heroic" interventions.
These ethical doctors were in favour
of public health interventions like nutrition, better town planning, waste
management, sanitation, and hygiene that were yielding tremendous results in
the UK in the fight against small pox. They talked to Indian allopathic doctors
and these doctors together formed a group and were known as "public health
doctors".
As Gandhi was a naturopath and a
great lover of herbal and homeopathic modalities he was first informed about
the reasons why small pox was becoming uncontrollable in India despite
mandatory vaccination and why epidemics of other diseases were taking place. Gandhi
then started writing on these subjects that influenced leaders like
Rajagopalachari, Patel, Lala Rajpat Rai and others who championed the cause of
holistic systems and questioned allopathic practices.
In fact after Gandhi it was
Rajagopalachari who led the public health movement in India and opposed the
ineffective tuberculosis vaccine. There were also public luminaries like
Justice Dewan Harish Chand and other eminent members of judicial and
administrative services who organized themselves along with the public health
doctors to oppose the British imposition and provide all support to the
holistic systems.
Thus health consultations were
arranged that called for holistic systems to be given top priority. In the
early years of my campaign I owned a Yahoo group called alt_health_india that
still exists and many very senior doctors were members of the group. They
discussed these issues in the group. I later received further confirmation when
I was made members of various medical and medical ethics groups.
This history is well known among
seniors and those who closely study the history of medicine. These were not
simply Indian incidents but have happened across the globe, even in Islamic
countries. Unani which is extremely similar to ayurveda and a highly effective
system never received the attention it deserved.
When the British ultimately left
India they did not provide independence. They gave dominion status to India and
Nehru and Jinnah who were perhaps half brothers became the British representatives.
Nehru always acted in accordance with the instructions of his British masters.
In his correspondence he addressed them also as such. He scuttled the move to
make holistic systems the mainstream in India - like many other decisions he
made in favour of the East India Company.
The large Dams and mammoth corporate
industry structures he set up promoting them as "Temples of India"
defying Gandhi and other socialist leader’s model of rural development were in
reality essentials for the East India Company we are still fighting today.
While he championed the cause of "scientific medicine" at their
behest his own preference for homeopathy and yoga however never faltered, Dewan
Harish Chand a pioneer homeopath being his personal physician and also of other
eminent members of the Congress. His father Motilal Nehru too championed the cause of homeopathy.
Indira too depended exclusively on
homeopathy and her personal physician was Dr Bholanath Chakroborty, the eminent
homeopath of Bengal. Whenever she fell sick Indira's official Jet flew down to
Calcutta to bring Dr Chakroborty. Even today our eminent politicians tend to
use ayurveda and homeopathy themselves continuing the tradition of their
predecessors and use allopathy only in emergencies.
Our Presidents and Governors are
great champions of herbals and homeopathy. Sri Narendra Modi uses homeopathy as
his first choice and also recommends it to others. Sri Naveen Pattnaik the
Chief Minister of Odisha is a herbalist and has authored a wonderful book on
the subject. The Governor House in Odisha has a herbal garden.
Many Bollywood celebrities too use
holistic systems including Lata Mangeshkar and Sharukh Khan who have publicly
confessed to their first choice. Ashok Kumar the versatile actor was a
homeopath who attended to super stars like Pran, Dileep Kumar and Jeetendra as
per a Filmfare article I had read many years ago.
But for the sake of the economy and
bowing down to international pressure the common man faces disease epidemics
and death in the hands of allopaths. Worldwide too the elite ranging from the
Rockefellers, Rothschilds, to the Royal Family of England are fans of
Naturopathy and homeopathy. They stay away from GM foods, electronic gadgets,
and their progeny never receive vaccinations preferring organic food and a
traditional lifestyle. Their slaves are however treated differently.
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