After the Indian Medical Association (IMA) demanded against Baba Ramdev for his statement on allopathy, the yoga guru has hit back at the doctors' body by asking it to answer a total of 25 questions related to allopathy.
In an open letter, Baba Ramdev posed 25 questions to the IMA doctors, asking if allopathy offered any permanent solution for problems like hypertension and diabetes.
This open letter posted on Twitter further asked if allopathy offered relief from hypertension and type-1 and 2 diabetes. “Does the pharma industry have permanent treatment for thyroid, arthritis, colitis and asthma?”
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Ramdev went on to ask if allopathy had medicines for fatty liver and liver cirrhosis. “Like you found a cure for TB and chickenpox, look for treatments for liver ailments. After all, allopathy is 200 years old.” The yoga guru also asked if allopathy had a cure for infertility, could reverse ageing, or raise haemoglobin.
In a viral video, Patanjali founder Baba Ramdev was seen as questioning allopathy practices and criticised the doctors. He had said, “lakhs have died from taking allopathic medicines for Covid-19.” The IMA condemned Baba Ramdev’s remarks and asked for an FIR against him.
“We had written to the health minister about it and Delhi Medical Association had asked that an FIR be filed. But, if he is withdrawing his statement, it is good,” said Dr JA Jayalal, IMA chief.
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However, Baba Ramdev's colleague Acharya Balakrishna later clarified that the yoga guru was only reading WhatsApp messages and that they were not his personal views. Despite Acharya Balakrishna's clarification, the controversy refused to die down and Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan was forced to ask Baba Ramdev to withdraw his remarks which the yoga guru did.
Ramdev has courted controversy even in the past with his remarks. Last year, his company launched Coronil after claiming it was a medicine for Covid, only to withdraw the claim months later. In 2012, he claimed that yoga could cure cancer and HIV-AIDS, drawing strict censure from medical councils. The next year, he claimed homosexuality was a disease and yoga could cure it, triggering outrage from both activists and doctors.
