Do Ayurveda formulations stand scientific scrutiny?

I spent several years studying herbs and natural solutions, speaking to experts in Tibetan, Ayurveda, modern medicine, and scientists. Let me summarise the understanding that I developed.

A majority of modern medicines available to us are of plant origin. Post discovery, to produce on a scale and maintain consistency, most of these medicines started getting manufactured using chemicals.There are standard globally accepted protocols before any drug can be permitted to enter the market. The regulatory approvals worldwide are robust. All modern drugs have to go through repeated trials efficacy trials, and all medicines are required to mention side effects.Ayurveda education and training stands on the foundation of Charkha and Sushruta Samhita, written by ancient scholars 2500 years ago.Medical formulations available and prescribed are still largely based on these ancient recommendations.Clinical trials on Ayurveda formulations are not robust and universally accepted for their efficacy.Ayurveda medicines do not provide details of the analysis of chemical combinations found in the formulations, and there are no safety and efficacy trials available for the consumers.Most Ayurveda practitioners have little or no understanding of constituent herbs of the formulations that they prescribe. The botany, collection methods, processing, medicine formulation processes, quality control are not part of the training curriculum.It is fallacious to believe that herbal medicine has no side effects.Ayurveda is wrapped in cultural nationalism. It is time it is unshackled from this wrap and put on a purely scientific basis.

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