HERE ARE THE CRUCIAL DIFFERENCES IN THE FUNDAMENTAL ATTITUDE AND APPROACH OF BOTH THE SYSTEMS

1. Ayurveda versus Modern Medicine
Dr. Remya Krishnan MD PhD(Ay)

2. Teaching from textbooks
• According to Modern Medicine , Medicine cannot be just taught from
text books.
• According to Ayurveda , Medicine can be taught only from most
authentic basic and applied science oriented three textbooks of
Ayurveda namely Charaka Samhita, Ashtanga sangraha and Susruta
Samhita

3. Nature of clinical trials
• Clinical trials in Modern Medicine are based on evaluation of
unknown compounds and is eternally unpredictable trial and error .
• Clinical trials in Ayurveda are recommended to be based on
evaluation of logics of Science Based Medicine which end up in valid
conclusions

4. Lay audience perspective
• Laymen are yearning for information which they can understand .
• They seek information in simplest language that fit their level of knowledge and
anxiety to abolish their misconceptions and fears .
• Modern Medicine currently adopts tactful ways with technical jargons to tame
the common sense of laymen in accordance to its beliefs and observations based
on incomplete and reductionist research in man. For example if they have
nothing to do in autoimmune disease other than immune suppression, they tell
public that immune suppression is the best scientific mode of treating
autoimmune disease and avoiding it will cause death.
• Ayurveda has innate measures to stimulate cellular metabolism, neutralise toxins
, rectify immune alteration etc but as laymen live in a shelter built by Modern
Medicine and owing to the professional incompetence of Ayurveda community,,
the value and merits of Ayurveda as it is- is mostly unknown to laymen

5. Reversal of disease
• Reversal of disease is either absence of signs and symptoms or
normal lab values in Modern Medicine.
• Reversal of disease is but only emergence of signs and symptoms of
health in Ayurveda .

6. Role of Science
• The objective of Science of Modern Medicine is performing empirical
trial and error with unknown compounds and generating , collecting,
classifying and analysing temporary benefit risks of the same.
• The objective of Science of Ayurveda is providing most important
sources of channels of knowledge to understand and solve the
underlying mechanisms different kinds of pathologies in human being
• Biostatistics is of central importance in practice of Modern Medicine
• Basic and Applied Science of Ayurveda is of central importance in
practice of Ayurved a

7. Difference in literature and mode of application
• The literature of western medicine comprises of algorithms for
arriving at name of a disease based on signs and symptoms while
treatment strategies are focused on mainly masking, blocking,
suppressing or altering enzymes, ion channels or chemicals or
hormones.
• The scientific literature of Ayurvedic Medicine rather focus on
understanding the subtle most and intertangled cause mechanisms of
aetiopathogenesis of entire morbid state and stage of patient,
diagnostic and therapeutic planning, educating and involving patient
and his care providers at home in his recovery process

8. Mode of reversal of disease
• Mode of initiation of pathology of same disease might vary from
subject to subject. Often sustained dehydration of tissues might result
in heart attack or stroke. Often sustained indigestion or infection or
inflammation in some part of the body might result in the same. For
Modern Medicine exploring these are no way relevant and they focus
solely on values of cholesterol or triglycerides and prescribe
suppressants for BP or cholesterol and claim to prevent the disease.
• Ayurvedic science has knowledge based algorithms to deeply probe
into the intertangled cause mechanisms and their predictable effects
and hence recommends explore the patient in specific based on his
own unique cause mechanisms to protect and save him.

9. To conclude
• Modern Medicine is 100 percent Medicine based Science
• Ayurveda is 100 percent Science Based Medicine
• Modern Medicine lacks thevery fundamental knowledge of Science of
man
• Ayurveda explains the fundamental knowledge of Science of man
with tools and methodologies to explore any old or new pathology in
human being , named or unnamed.
• The functions in man are primarily simple and secondarily
complicated unlike a machine and hence Science of man has great
role in Medicine for man