Ayurveda

Ayurveda veya Ayurvedik tıp (Sanskrit: आयुर्वेद), kökeni Hint altkıtasına dayanan bir alternatif tıp sistemidir. Ayurvedik tıp, bilimsellikle metafizik kavramlarını iç içe geçirdiği ve temeli bilime dayalı olmadığı için sözdebilim kabul edilir.^[3][4][5][6]

Günümüzde Hindistan, Nepal ve Sri Lanka'da uygulanmaktadır. Çin ve Tibet tıp sistemleri üzerinde etkileri olmuştur. Ayurveda "Ayur" ve "veda" olarak iki kelimeden oluşmuştur. "Ayur" hayat veya hayat ilkesi anlamına gelen "ayus" kökenlidir, "veda" ise "bilgi" anlamına gelir. Ayurvedik bilginin Hindistan'da Rişi ve Munilere atfedilen spiritüel bilgiye dayalı olduğuna inanılır.

Ayurveda'nın herhangi bir hastalığın tedavisinde etkili olduğuna dair kayda değer bir bulgu yoktur.^[7]

1. ^ A. Berridale Keith, The Yajur Veda - Taittiriya Sanhita 29 Ekim 2008 tarihinde Wayback Machine sitesinde arşivlendi. 1914, full text, (online at sacred-texts.com). For specific verse, see [Kanda V, verse 5.1. http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/yv/yv05.htm 26 Temmuz 2008 tarihinde Wayback Machine sitesinde arşivlendi.] "all the deities are Agni; the sacrifice is Visnu; verily he lays hold of the deities and the sacrifice; Agni is the lowest of the deities, Visnu the highest"
2. ^ The Sanhitâ of the Black Yajur Veda with the Commentary of Mâdhava ‘Achârya, Calcutta (Bibl. Indica, 10 volumes, 1854-1899)
3. ^ Semple D, Smyth R. Chapter 1: Thinking about psychiatry. Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry (4.4yıl=2019 bas.). Oxford University Press. s. 24. doi:10.1093/med/9780198795551.003.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-879555-1. 29 Eylül 2020 tarihinde kaynağından arşivlendi. Erişim tarihi: 29 Ocak 2021. These pseudoscientific theories may...confuse metaphysical with empirical claims (e.g....Ayurvedic medicine) (abonelik gereklidir)
4. ^ Kaufman, Allison B.; Kaufman, James C., (Ed.) (2018). Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science. MIT Press. s. 293. ISBN 978-0-262-03742-6. 4 Ocak 2021 tarihinde kaynağından arşivlendi. Erişim tarihi: 29 Ocak 2021. Ayurveda, a traditional Indian medicine, is the subject of more than a dozen, with some of these "scholarly" journals devoted to Ayurveda alone..., others to Ayurveda and some other pseudoscience....Most current Ayurveda research can be classified as "tooth fairy science," research that accepts as its premise something not scientifically known to exist....Ayurveda is a long-standing system of beliefs and traditions, but its claimed effects have not been scientifically proven. Most Ayurveda researchers might as well be studying the tooth fairy. The German publisher Wolters Kluwer bought the Indian open-access publisher Medknow in 2011....It acquired its entire fleet of journals, including those devoted to pseudoscience topics such as An International Quarterly Journal of Research in Ayurveda. 
5. ^ Sujatha, V (July 2011). "What could 'integrative' medicine mean? Social science perspectives on contemporary Ayurveda". Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine. 2 (3): 115-23. doi:10.4103/0975-9476.85549. PMC 3193682 $2. PMID 22022153. 
6. ^ Quack, Johannes (2011). Disenchanting India: Organized Rationalism and Criticism of Religion in India. Oxford University Press. s. 213. ISBN 9780199812608. ordinary members told me how they practice some of these pseudosciences, either privately or as certified doctors themselves, most often Ayurveda. 
7. ^ "Ayurvedic medicine". Cancer Research UK. 3 Aralık 2018. 24 Kasım 2020 tarihinde kaynağından arşivlendi. Erişim tarihi: 29 Ocak 2021. There is no scientific evidence to prove that Ayurvedic medicine can treat or cure cancer, or any other disease.