In March 2024, Patanjali Ayurveda apologized to the Supreme Court of India for misguiding the public by putting out misleading advertisements on medicinal cures of their herbal products. Exactly a year ago, in March 2023, we published real world evidence on their products along with other Ayurvedic formulations, that caused severe liver injury in stable cirrhosis patients, of whom 42% passed away due to progressive liver failure. The patients took these herbal supplements based on blind promotions & advertisements of "immunity boosting." Many such "herbal mumbo-jumbo" were also promoted by the central Government through the Ayush Ministry. The Government did not regulate potentially toxic, public health endangering interventions. In a better world and a rational society, the company officials would be in jail because their misleading advertisements cost lives. An ideal Government would dissociate themselves from these frauds and make them accountable. The whole "immunity boosting" fiasco in #COVID19 was utilized to an extreme by the charlatans at the helm of Patanjali Ayurveda. They raked in money at the cost of defrauding the public by promoting "ineffective cures." Our analysis of these products, including Patanajali Ayurveda's flagship Covid-19 quack formulation called Coronil revealed poor manufacturing and toxic components. We discuss in detail about the patients, their clinical outcomes, the liver injury, and supplements analysis in our paper here: journals.lww.com/md-journal/ful… Public health is a national treasure. A mature, scientifically progressive government is one who cares about the country's public health. Choose a Government who cares for your public health. “For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.” – Owen Arthur
@theliverdr I'm actually intrigued seeing that BAMS and homeopathy practitioners are co-authors of the publication.
@theliverdr People will consider you unbiased only if you do the same with the rampant and silly usage of drugs like Remdesivir by "modern medicine practitioners" during Covid.
100% of the commercial advertisements are misleading to the customers, be it maggi, colgate,horlicks, fair and lovely ,bournvita, perfumes, redbull. Every damn product advertisement is misleading. But they use these products get side affects go to doctors they give some medicines they have other side effects and the cycle goes on..... the only one who become bakra is the patient or customer. The companies and doctors will keep on making money.
@theliverdr How does an apology that hurts and kills people work? There should be a criminal case for negligence and jail time!