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Dr. Chandrashekhar R. Desai

Allopathy and Ayurveda

Allopathy and Ayurveda are two different medical systems that grew in two different cultures and two different world views. Fortunately for me, I was trained as an ENT surgeon in Allopathy and got married to Neelima who did her Ph.D. in Ayurveda. Life threw some challenges and led me to study Chinese medicine too. Exposure to three different medical systems made me question a general opinion that, except Allopathy, no other "pathy"; has a scientific basis.  I realized that the Ayurvedic worldview is as logical and scientific as the Allopathic worldview; if not more.