Cure breast cancer

So many doctors are nowadays advertising themselves in papers and on television claiming to have TV TV cures for all kinds of diseases. I always thought that they were not allowed to promote themselves just like lawyers are not allowed to promote themselves but it looks like I was wrong. Recently I came across a Doctor who claimed to be able to cure breast cancer. That was quite shocking to hear because doctors all over the world and researchers in Big pharmaceutical companies are still trying to find a cure but here was this man claiming that he had already done it. A drowning man would clutch at a straw so he will be willing to try anything. Nobody has found the complete cure to every disease. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. Medicines used on these patients vary from Complex chemical compounds to simple garden ingredients. India had a fine tradition of medicine but it was ignored or suppressed by our colonial rulers. Of course it was always in our subconscious mind but we stopped using all these types of traditional  medicines. Big international drug companies have instead started pushing their medicines in India. Even today if you go to the villages very rarely will you will see a man or a woman being rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. If you get hurt or if you were to fall ill 9 times out of 10 the village elders would come and give some advice which would mostly consist of feeding him some different foods and a concoction of crushed or ground leaves.  Those are all very effective treatments but I am afraid those are all going to vanish unless somebody documents it and keeps them for the future. The other problem is of intellectual property. Everybody in the world is trying to take our ancient knowledge and that of the Chinese and the Arabs and then trying to pass it off as if they are new discoveries of pharmaceutical companies. Unless we learn how to make Ayurvedic medicines scientifically I am afraid it would be a losing battle.

Anupama Ganesh, Bangalore

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