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This concluding paragraph of an article on the growing popularity of Ayurvedic Medicine (sic) in the US sums things up neatly.

While ayurveda is often used in India by people too poor to receive Western medicine, panchakarma treatments in the U.S. cost $1,500 to $3,500 a week and are mainly the province of the wealthy, devoted or desperate. Holmstrom says he has treated some Hollywood celebrities, including Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. ...

Jenny Hontz, Los Angeles Times: Balm from the East

Richard Evans Lee
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I use Ayurvedic toothpaste, because its first ingredient is chalk. It leaves my teeth feeling like they were just cleaned at the dentist. Every other commercial toothpaste leaves my mouth tasting like mint and sugar. I don't think it wise to brush my teeth with something sweet. I don't think my toothpaste will cure anything, but it sure gets my teeth cleaned. As to the rest of Ayurvedic tradition, not all of it is medicine. There is also the traditional Indian hair oil, and other bodily care products that don't contain things ending in 'sulfate'. I just figured the word translated as 'natural', and didn't give it a second thought. The harm comes by believing in something, not in that something (unless it's poison... hello, chemotherapy?)

Posted by: Eli Sarver | January 27, 2004 5:59 PM

Ayurvedic can be used by anybody to label anything. Several years back I was looking at things that were support to be good for backpain. At the local GNC I found a 'Ayurvedic' cream. The label boasted about the special herb it contained. The ingredients list showed it contained capcaisin (makes red peppers hot). The latter is effective but much cheaper when sold with out the magic word at a regular drugstore. I used to use toothpaste made by "Tom's of Maine" for the same reason as you.

Posted by: Richard | January 28, 2004 5:59 AM

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