[arjo129]

Not all ayurvedic medicine require heavy metals. There are herbs like boswellia (now also an allopathic drug) that genuinely do what they are supposed to do. Ayurveda, prevented black death in India. Granted there is a lot of bs out there that gets passed of but there are parts that do work. Distilling these parts is important. I think the lack of quality control in eastern medicine is what has given it a bad name. Granted we don't have antibiotics or anti cancer drugs but there were surgical procedures like rhinoplasty that were successfully carried out. Of course any medicine that is 2000 years old is going to be nowhere near what modern medicine is because we have had 2000 years to evolve it. Reason why easterners set store by it is it provided a bit more protection than what the doctors of medieval Europe could do. 1000years is a long time and lots changes, sadly eastern medicine didn't.