But I suggest just one thing! When we have a problem, before assuming anything else, we should do a simple common sense check about the daily routine, physical activity, diet, mental factors such as stress, environment we live in, and the habits we practice. We analyze all other problems we may have. For example, if our performance is poor at work, we analyze that. If we fare poorly in exams, we analyze that. More so, if India looses a cricket match, we not only analyze but almost have sure ways of success for Tendulkar on our lips. Then why do not we at least try when we are ill?
Do you remember or have heard of the old "poultice", a bandage applied with or over a paste to a wound. Mustard plasters were taught to nurses until the 1960's. A poultice of willow bark treated pain. Willow bark contains acetylsalycylic acid. The base ingredient in aspirin. Bayer, the German corporation that also brought us Heroin ( brand name website for their pain reliever narcotic) and Methadone (to help people get off their heroin addiction) made and marketed aspirin.
The stress Ayurveda over allopath and pressure of the situation took toll on her health. Within five years of her husbands death she was diagnosed to be suffering from nervous exhaustion.
Ask yourself, what's wrong with a medical community that doesn't want to suggest a cure but rather make you nothing less than a junkie? Addicted and dependent on a drug. And here's the best part to come full circle to my initial statement that doctors shouldn't be allowed to take the Hippocratic Oath. Those medicines they prescribe. You pick the medication, diabetes, osteoporosis, cholesterol or blood pressure - some of the more popular ones - all have side effects that can be categorized as "doing harm".
When a cholera epidemic spread through Tokyo, Usui was struck down with the disease. During his hospitalisation as he was close to death he had a spiritual experience. This inspired Usui to study the ancient teachings of his ancestors. He joined a Zen monastery and began reading the ancient Sanskrit and Sutras.
The University of Virginia School of Medicine is a highly ranked medical school. They offer the MD as well as a combined MD/PhD in a Medical Scientist Training Program.