Swami Ramdev accused of misleading public about disease cures
Never far away from controversy, famous yoga-guru Swami Ramdev could face court action over exaggerated claims of the health benefits of the breathing exercises he teaches. It is alleged that Swami Ramdev has made a number of far-fetched and improvable claims about the effects of pranayama on the treatment of serious diseases.
January 29th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Yoga cured my Eye-Disease
Long ago in 1963, my both eyes were suffering from Trochoma-of third degree, which caused etching of eyes. For eye examination, I went to three hospitals in Prayag [Allahabad], Lucknow and Vizag [ Andhra Pradesh]. The doctors in all respective hospitals recommended surgery, otherwise, it would lead to blindness- they predicted.
Being a follower of Nature Cure, I decided to conduct Yoga exercises, especially Sarvangasana. In morning, when the stomach is usually empty, I practised above asana for two weeks. Result was that eteching and burning in both eyes reduced considerably.As such, I continued it for another three months- and the result was: both eyes were totally cured. Thus in time period of a total of 6 months, I found that there was no trace of Trochoma anywhere! I went for a check up at the Vizag Hospital, and the doctor confirmed that both eyes had been cured!
Being afraid that the disease may come back, I continued it for the next 50 years!
Conclusion: Doing Sarvangasana- along with its Viloma Asana- helped in curing eye disease Trochoma!
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January 29th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
Yeh I hate when big corparation pick on the little guy, at least ram devji is doing something about india’s help look @ america and the UK!…
January 30th, 2007 at 6:34 am
My eyesight became normal after doing the Yoga Pranayama of Swami Ramdev for just two months. I was using glasses for last 34 years. Now what you say?
Any court even thinking of trying Swami Ramdev, shall think a trillion times before even thinking of Swami Ramdev, as all the people cured by him have already given him their medical reports. His disciples have become very alert now. Anyone trying to defame Baba Ramdev may have to pay for the damages to his image & working through their nose, like they make the offenders pay in USA & other advanced countries. The Brinda Karats and Health Ministers, Ramdosses, certain TV Channels of this world, out to drag Swami Ramdev in controversies, better watch out.
Swami Ramdev is curing millions in India, after successfully having cured millions of their so called incurable diseases with his Yoga Pranayama regimen & little doses of Aurvedic Herbal medicines. All TV Channels in India are full of such success stories.
HIV & AIDS:
On ‘India TV’ & couple of other TV Channels, on Dec. 22 & 23, 2006, Swami Ramdev Ji said that Yoga Pranayama & the Aurvedic & Herbal Medicines suggested by him can control & cure AIDS. He added that the CD4 Cell count of the people affected by AIDS, which had fallen to 50; 100; 150 have gone up to 400; 500; & even 600, which is quite normal. He added that even the people with CD4 Cell count of 5 to 10 have benefited. CD4 cells (T4 count, T-helper cells) are a class of immune cells that gradually get depleted in HIV infection.
On Dec. 22 & 23, 2006, ‘India TV’ also showed a lady, declaring openly, in one of his Yoga Science camps to have been cured of AIDS. This lady had come to know that she had AIDS, after she lost her husband due to AIDS.
Cancer:
Quoting from page 55 of the monthly magazine “Yog Sandesh” (English) September 2006 issue, of Swami Ramdev Ji’s Trust in India, “Yoga Guru Swami Ramdev while addressing the people said that Yoga & Pranayama have been successful in curing 200 cancer patients and he is ready to give evidence. The ancient science is also beneficial in case of AIDS and experiments are being carried out in that area. He would make formal announcement once the tests are completed”. Swami Ji said, “Till now I have completed more than ten thousand scientific experiments. The patients of diabetes, obesity, hypertension, depression, can take part in the seven-day camp and check the results on their own. They will notice 50% improvement within a week”.
This magazine is also available along with all the Back Issues of Yog Sandesh Monthly, online at http://www.yogapranayama.com/yog%20Sandesh.htm
Swami Ramdev has largest followers in India, who get up early mornings & follow him on TV from 5.30 - 8 AM. No doubt that in India, his TV shows are having the largest TRP.
Western world is recognising this now, as most of the request for holding his week long camps are coming from Western world. Queen Elizabeth II of U K, invited Swami Ramdev to a tea party on the first day of his arrival in London, in July 2006. As people know he cannot visit their Country/ City, even healthy people are fallowing his Yoga Pranayama regimen, as available in his DVDs, VCDs, Books & magazines etc., to keep fit.
Do not get depressed. There is hope & there are results.
More details at www.YogaPranayama.com
Swami Ramdev is no ordinary swami, he has been keeping all records of what he says, complete with medical test reports of the patients cured by him in his Ashram, in safe custody. During a visit to his Ashram, the President of India was shown all such records.
It is now for the Government of India to verify such records and accept the facts and tell the world about the beneficial effects of Yoga Pranayama regimen of Swami Ramdev.
January 31st, 2007 at 11:29 pm
As the years have gone on there is clear evidence that ayurveda has much to offer modern medicine. But modern medicine is based on the show me principle: do the controlled trials, do natural history trials. Publish them. That will be a great boon to wo/mankind. (I don’t expect them to listen at first, but when their kids are ill, they make take notice if the data is out there. They won’t if it is only a guy in a funny robe)
hariaum
February 1st, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Swami Ramdevji is doing a good job. It has no after effects and he is not curing the people, but people are coming themselves and saying very loudly that they are getting benefited from doing Pranyam.
February 4th, 2007 at 8:57 am
hhhhhhaaaaaaaa hahahaha
The Indian Medical service has failed the poor and are now scared that thier monopoly on healing and being backed by big pharma is being challenged by the ancient arts of Hindu healing.
Can you imagine the discussion in imperially accented english that happened in medical centres and big phrama boardrooms…
“damn some hindu is teaching the poor what we and our western masters have been trying to discredit for decades, that you can heal yourself. Damn we better do something or our dodgy side effect inflicting medicines will go down with our expensive lifestyles.
Quick lets take down ramdev. We’ll call it GET RAMDEV and get those western lackey’s in Congress to help out.
Quick first lets makes some crapola about him attacking Gandhi.
Damn that didn’t work. Okay lets mis quoye him and try again.”
“Jesus” (of course) if the hindu’s start healing themselves and then pass it to their muslim and christian neighbour’s we are done for!!!!”
QUICK GEEEEEEEEEET RAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMDEVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
have a good week
JB
February 23rd, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Ramdev is doing what Hinduism has always taught from Vedas to health nutritionists. All hindu scriptures state discipline gives a clear state of mind from physical to spiritual . The body has been given asanas to perform since centuries it is not a new concept.
Scriptures even teach us how to attain sex in an approapite manner.
Ramdev is not God, please understand this he should not be bowed before .
Gita states that there will be many that will use demigods to achieve their pleasures although pleasures from the ultimate godhead is most rewarding.
ramdev must not be confuised with saint or any higher being ..he is only teaching us what he has learnt from the scriptures himself. he is no enlightended being or miracle healer , he is an adviser and guide .
please use his yoga with caution as we can sometimes overlook the origins of our faith and culture.
jai sanatan dharma
jai agama dharma
jai veda dharma
jai brahma dhrma
March 10th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
The second annual “Yoga in America” survey, has found that 16.5 million Americans practise yoga & spend $2.95 billion a year on yoga. Each year thousands of westerners come to India to learn yoga from Pattabhi Jois of Mysore or BKS Iyengar of Pune or at various Ashrams in Rishikesh, Nashik, Goa, Kerala etc.
So why the westerners are wasting time & money on Yoga (pranayam is a part of yoga) ? The answer is simple ,Yoga gives results.
March 16th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Special interest groups and big corporations are selfish and greedy. They do not care how they make money. Anytime someone like BRJ(Baba Ramdev Ji) does some thing for the poor, selfish and greedy elements pop up.
BRJ does not charge as much as doctors do for their teachings. He teaches the science that has been practiced for thousands of years. He is not teaching anything new. He just has made it easy and took it to the masses. Until now nobody has tried to help common folks with Pranayam this much.
These modern MDs are good but they are not perfect and so is BRJ. MDs charge a fortune if someone want to use their services and still they do not guarantee that the patient would live.
BRJ does not advice people to stop getting their treatment from MDs.
So where is the problem?
May be the opponents have some illwill or they do not have anything to do. I would advice them to go to the slums and poor neighbourhoods and help them anyway possible.
May 16th, 2007 at 8:14 am
Iam daily doing yoga espically 7 pranayam when i feel that it really works and i feel happy and i am suffering my eye sight problem when i am doing anulom vilom pranayam, my eye sight is really better than iam using opticals i never want to take opticles on my face after this i feel very happy i am daily doing yoga and thankful to swami ram dev.
May 16th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Some may recall the publication in November 2000 of the Report of the House of Lords Committee on Science and Technology on Complementary and Alternative Therapies. In this report, Ayurveda was listed as a Group 3 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) discipline. The report further explained that, “[…] in the absence of a credible evidence base it is our opinion that the therapies listed in our Group 3 cannot be supported unless and until convincing research evidence of efficacy based upon the results of well designed trials can be produced. Such evidence must be capable of showing that the effects of any therapeutic discipline are superior to those of the placebo effect […] It is our view that for those therapies in our Group 3, no such evidence exists at present.” In its Response to the Report, the Government too stated that “[t]he therapies in our Groups 3a [which included Ayurveda] and b also aim to operate as an alternative to conventional medicine, and have sparse, or non-existent, evidence bases.”
I was at the time quite disappointed by this until shortly after, when I attended an academic seminar on Ayurveda at a British University at which one of the speakers was the primary advocate of Ayurveda in response to the Call for Evidence disseminated in the research period for the House of Lords report. One comment made at this seminar essentially summed up the view of not only the pro-Ayurveda attendees at the Seminar, but even this supposed expert himself. The argument went something like this: “Ayurveda has been used for over 5000 years in India; surely that’s all the evidence you need!” Suddenly, it became clear to me why it is that the mainstream medical world does not take Ayurveda seriously. If this was the only exposure I had to Ayurveda, I would laugh it off as a joke too! In addition, as the Government Response warns, “[t]he Government expects CAM practitioners in all disciplines to be realistic about the claims they make for their therapy. If need be, action can be taken under consumer protection legislation against practitioners who make blatantly unjustifiable claims for their therapy.”
The encouraging thing over the past few years has been the increasing number of individuals and organisations who have taken up the challenge and done actual work to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of Ayurvedic remedies - the Tata Institute, Deendayal Research Institute, various projects instituted by the Government of India, and as we all know, quite contraversially, a number of US firms. Medical literature now abounds with trial work, occasionally of a good standard, that demonstrates the value of a number of Ayurvedic treatments; this data bank is increasing constantly. Indeed, one highly respected Professor of Medicine from Manchester accompanied Swami Ramdev on his British tour and has been conducting clinical research into his principles and techniques. However, it should be noted that, as stated in the Government Response, “[…] traditional herbal medicine systems from outside the western tradition can be supported by very substantial bodies of research data but that in many cases the studies purporting to demonstrate efficacy have not so far been replicated under the rigorous conditions that would be required in order to gain wide credence in orthodox western medicine.” When one looks at some of the papers that have been published on Ayurvedic trials, this becomes highly apparent.
The world of allopathic medicine is not, and never has been, averse to accepting traditional remedies, as long as they can be demonstrated to be effective and safe. Indeed, there are numerous examples of drug (and other) treatments that have been ‘discovered’ by travellers to foreign climes and, following appropriate testing, have been incorporated (generally with full due credit given) into mainstream medicine. However, what it does demand is some kind of scientific rigour. To say that a treatment is good because we believe in it is clearly absurd - do the research and prove that it is both effective and safe by the standards of modern medicine. At this point, the Government “[…] recommend that if a therapy does gain a critical mass of evidence to support its efficacy, then the NHS and the medical profession should ensure that the public have access to it and its potential benefits.”
The work that has been, and is being, done on Ayurveda, is good; more yet remains to be done. Hopefully, by next time the Government looks at this issue, Ayurveda will be in a position to rightfully claim to meet the very reasonable standard stated above.
Incidentally, it is worth noting that whilst Ayurveda was included in Group 3 of the report’s list, both Maharishi Ayurvedic Medicine and Yoga were included in Group 2, which, whilst also being described as “lack[ing] a firm scientific basis” (i.e. good quality clinical evidence, as discussed above), were nevertheless admitted to “give help and comfort to many patients when used in a complementary sense to support conventional medical care” and to “often fulfil an important role.”
The full text of the House of Lords Report is available online at:
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199900/ldselect/ldsctech/123/12301.htm
The Government’s Response is at:
http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm51/5124/5124.htm
February 13th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Hi ,
I have eye sight of 6 .
Is this reduded by Yoga or some medicines9Avurvedic)
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:56 am
Can anyone tell me what pranayamas i have to do and for how long in order to get rid of spectacles. i ve been wearing it since i was 5 yrs old. now 24.
thank you
September 1st, 2008 at 7:34 am
Pranayaam is part of more comprehensive Dhyaanyoga. Meditation is to keep one’s mind in tune, Yogas are to keep good physical health and Pranayaam is to keep good supply of oxygen to one’s body and five senses; sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.
October 17th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Hanuman Chalisa is very good with meaning. I noticed one correction needs to be done. Bhoot Pisachhnikat nahee avai. Add nahee.