Welcome Eva: So, as you can see, on Silklist one does not need a lawyer to respond to 'legal' queries ;-)
But really, that seems like a pool of ready information there, even for a lawyer in India who does not practice medicine law. -Anil Kumar (fone post) Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -----Original Message----- From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:46:50 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [silk] introduction On Wednesday 12 January 2011 09:38 AM, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: > I am not a lawyer, but one of the comments that concerned me was about the > use of heavy metals in popular ayurvedic medicines like Chawanprash. As far > as I know, naturopathy and ayurveda are loosely regulated as compared to > allopathy. The Indian government has tried to document some of these > practices through the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library. Hah. Forget heavy metals - thats "supposed" to be part of some ayurvedic medicine apparently. For what you need, look at, for example, http://ayurbhishak.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/%E2%99%A3-official-tests-confirm-musli-power-extra-of-kunnath-pharmaceuticals-as-adulterated/ That's an "ayurvedic viagra" - heavily marketed on tv, sponsors sports teams etc. So what do they do but adulterate their product with tadalafil (aka cialis) so it does get you the "expected results". They're not alone - several other commercial ayurvedic medicines have been at various times shown to have been adulterated with antibiotics, steroids etc etc allopathic drugs.
