In my small experience of last 10 to 12 year of Ayurvedic practice, I could get an opportunity to treat number of cases of malignancies of various origins. Although this number does not exceeds in hundreds of cases, still was quite a good number. Most of these cases were with concomitant contemporary allopathic therapies, viz. chemotherapy or radiation therapies.

There were few patients who were strongly against of taking these chemo or radiation therapies. They were only on our Ayurvedic therapies. Usage of siddha gritham & rasayana kalpam were found out to be really of great use in many cases. There has been a studies published on Chyavanaprash avaleham, about its utility in combating ill effects of chemotherapy.

At times we have to refuse to treat case only with Ayurvedic therapy. I recall one case history, there was one family came to me from far off distance to show their one year boy baby. They showed me his first birthdays snaps. In all these snaps one could see a greenish glue, a golden green glue at the site of his both pupils (in eyes). As if it was cats eye seen in the dark!

When clinically examined I could see Cats Eye reflexes in both his eyes. When checked his vision, we could realize that he could not actually see, but due to sound he use to look towards that direction. I told his parents, please ask his mother & granny to wait out, granny refused & stayed in, I told them, “ look if my diagnosis will go wrong then I will be really happy, but I think this seems to be a case of Retinoblastoma, a cancer of retina.”

His granny said , “Yes, doctor sab, we knew it.” She showed me 4 papers of different leading ophthalmologist from Mumbai with the same diagnosis. All of them have suggested for removal of one eye & radiation to other. I said, “Well, unfortunately, that was destined, so please go ahead with surgery.” That old lady said , “ No doc, we wont go for Allopathy, please you only treat him with Ayurveda, cure him.”

It was a really though time , a very difficult task for me to convince them? that in such case a role of Ayurveda is nil at that moment, they must enucleate the eyeball, otherwise cancer would spread in a great way & they might loose their child as well ! I suggested them not to waste as single minute & rush up to the Tata Hospital.

Finally they went to Tata Cancer, & got him operated, The child was saved. We gave Ayurvedic therapy when he was been kept on radiation therapy. I am very happy to say that even today also he is well. Now he is 9 years old, able to see with one eye, other eye has been provided prosthesis.

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What I am trying to say over here is as an Ayurvedic Consultant we must know definitely our scope & limitations. I really don’t know how one can say with confidence that, ‘I can cure all kinds of cancers’, & that to without examining the patients, without going through their reports. How come only one wonder drug or group of drugs can cure all types of cancers? Think people; patients themselves or their relative should understand; should think about it very seriously. In fact these things brings about bad name to entire pathy, Ayurveda.

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I am sure with sincere pulled efforts of many devoted Ayurvedic physicians, modern medical Oncologists, Once surgeons, Pharmacologist., experimental biologists, with a holistic approach, with a multidisciplinary approach we may find out an appropriate solution for this disease, cancer. We can then proudly help the rest all world with a unique therapy of cancer which has been tested on the basis of evidence based medicine.

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