At home, we have always followed a mix'n'match of ayurvedic and allopathic cures for common illness. My mom is pretty wellversed with ayurvedic medicines for common illnesses as she comes from a family related to ayurvedic medicines. My dad, having worked with a pharmaceutical company, has thrown light on allopathic medicines.So the first aid box at home is a mix of both ayurvedic and allopathic medicines and we often avoid a visit to the doctor for common illness like cold and fever unless it looks serious. Its usually some arishtams and lehyam for cold and paracetamol for fever.Ayurvedic medicines are preferred for cold as general physicians very often prescribe medicines like Vicks Action 500,one of the contents of which is a banned drug abroad or a course of antibiotics, repeated doses of which are not considered good in the long run and many times cause the illness to repeat in due course of time and the patient growing resistent to that particular antibiotic.[Thats my perception from my experiences. I dont want to enter into an argument with anyone who is a hardcore supporter of allopathy]
But here is one of my not-so-healthy experience with an ayurvedic practitioner. When my son was around 7-8 months, he had fever.To avoid giving him a course of antibiotics at such a small age, we took him to an ayurvedic doctor near our home. He prescribed a concoction of some 6 ayurvedic medicines in addition to Crocin drops. Crocin drops didnot surprise me as it helps to bring down the fever quickly. But it was shocking to learn that one of the ingredients of the concoction was something like an ayurvedic equivalent to a sleeping pill. The doctor might have prescribed it as my son was having difficulty sleeping with blocked nose. But the question remains should it have been given to such a small child? Wouldnt it have done more harm than a course of antibiotic he would have had to take?
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