Alternate Medicines - The concept is local

The concept of alternate medicines is very interesting indeed. 

While in UK I had tough time in explaining too many people about Ayurvedic medicines. I am not a medical rep; however, while travelling from India, I had carried a few medicines that were Ayurvedic. It's a common practice among Indians. They depend a lot on the local medicines and while travelling to a foreign land they assume that their curative drugs would be unavailable there. So your parents, aunts or uncle will give you a bundle to help you stay healthy. 

Indians consume this in the foreign land as medicines and strangely enough many a medicines of the west are considered mild by many and hence not considered effective on us. While I personally feel that these are mild psychiatric conditions, I have yet observed people for whom this is probably very true. 

As for me I have mostly stayed away from Allopathic medicines all through my life. It's confusing for an Indian when he talks about this medicine with the general public in UK. The moment he utters 'Allopathy' he gets an ignorant expression from the western sister he is talking to. He then immediately uses the alternate term 'English Medicine' to try and make himself understood. However, this only confuses the English women a little further, sometimes even annoying her. The Indian mind has not yet learnt that for the British there are only medicine and then the alternate medicines. This ignorance is further propelled by the fact that he assumes that the common British know about 'Ayurvedic Medicines' as for him every white man seen at the various Ayurvedic centres in India is either British or American if not Chinese. He assumes that Auyurveda is popular in the west. 

The only rescue for the Indian is in the utterance of just the word 'Medicine'. Though for him it's Allopathy or the English medicine, the British mind comprehends only 'Medicine' without the racial addition of the word 'English' to it. 

For many (not most in the current world) Indian the term medicine could first mean Ayurvedic medicine or Homeopathic Medicine. And 'Medicine' or 'Allopathic/English Medicine' for his mind is an alternate medicine. I guess this could be true even for Chinese who might think of the 'Acupuncture Technique' as medicine and all other forms of medicine as alternate. 

God wasn't evil, when he divided men on the basis of languages and incomprehensibility of each other. He was protecting them from becoming largely arrogant of assuming to have gathered enough knowledge that could help him go wrong foolishly. How much ever one might argue each system of medicine mentioned in my blog works, whether or not there are scientific proofs for the same. Scientific proof could come very late but if all thought the same way the world would not have been explored as much as it has now been done.   




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