@Amiri_70 NGOs have called out nationality-based differences as discriminatory, noting that private-sector expats (especially lower-wage workers) often get basic/minimal plans with restrictions, network limits, or higher co-pays, while citizens employees enjoy broader access.
Dear Friends, please help this message reach the makers of the malayalam movie Vazha 2. It is long, but very important.
A recent malayalam movie, called Vazha 2 portrayed a character who keeps consuming ayurvedic medicine -(arishtam, a herbal liquor, with 10-15% alcohol, which Ayurveda practitioners blindly claim to have "health benefits")- and ends with serious fatal liver disease.
The people behind the movie are intelligent and well-informed. For decades, the Ayurveda community has been feeding public and patients the narrative that herbal medicine is safe and effective, even the ones containing toxic botanicals and alcohol. This narrative is now being challenged because there is a large body of peer-reviewed evidence that without reasonable doubt show that Ayurvedic herbals can be extremely toxic to the liver, sometimes even leading to death or liver transplantation. Now the movie format is bringing this to public's notice.
My most impactful publication on this was literally about a 14 year old girl developing severe alcohol-related hepatitis due to long term use of PRESCRIBED ayurvedic herbals (the same category mentioned in the movie) for epilepsy management.
Published paper: https://t.co/m1xklJH4eh and media report: https://t.co/8P6BKsEyLM
There are also other reports that show ayurvedic herbals can cause cirrhosis (https://t.co/bVhEfxm7N6), severe liver injury (https://t.co/DUM6upItUL, https://t.co/7vus6pBDQi), liver failure (https://t.co/XWRkbH9H4q) and death (https://t.co/oJcSFUi2eD).
Analysis of Ayurvedic herbals - classical formulations, proprietary herbals as well as traditionally prepared ones have consistently shown alcohol, liver toxic botanicals, liver toxic heavy metals and organ damaging adulterants (https://t.co/t8EzBeDS9S). Ayurveda is a harmful pseudoscience which which even global experts agree with (https://t.co/maJjdzYffe).
Now, the Ayurveda Medical Association of India (AMAI), which is in fact, a third rate society of Ayurveda practitioners and the herbals manufacturing companies that they are in cahoots with, has served legal notice against the movie writers and producers. They have threatened further action if the specific segment in the movie was not removed.
The same AMAI group sent complaints against me to the police, Courts and also Prime Ministers Office also when I published peer reviewed papers on harms of Ayurvedic herbals. They could not even scratch my epidermis with all of that legal drama, because science wins. Evidence shines.
These so-called Ayurveda Practitioners are losing business because public is realising that their products and services are one, useless (no evidence) and now two, dangerous also (more side effects than beneficial effects). An existential crisis is looming over their quackery business.
I would like to offer my complete and highest level of academic expertise and support to the makers of the movie Vazha Part 2 to fight these cheap, fragile ego suffering so-called alternative medicine practitioners (SCAM) of Ayurveda who think they, and their unscientific businesses are above evidence based medicine and public health.
DO NOT. I REPEAT, DO NOT, modify or remove anything from the movie. It is perfect and a huge needed public health activism. Keep up the good work! Do not bow down to any legalized glorified quacks!
And for everyone here, watch both parts of Vazha movie. It is brilliant and worth your time and money.
- The Liver Doc
abbyphilips(at)theliverinst(dot)in
Iranian drone attack near Dubai International Airport terminals forces suspension of flights.
Black smoke was seen rising over the airport after a loud boom, Euronews correspondent's Jane Witherspoon and Lilly Douse report.
Airport operations are reportedly now resuming.
🇦🇪/ 🇮🇷 It’s debris/shrapnel of Iranian missiles that fell on Fairmont Hotel, in Palm Jumeirah Dubai, UAE.
The UAE has the absolute right to defend itself, and now is the time to join the US and Israel in retaliating against Iranian aggression.
🚨:Islam is Islam.There are no modifiers.”
-quoted by Erdoğan
Former U.S. Admiral James L.argues that Islam is presented by its political advocates as a singular,uncompromising ideology,with democracy as a means,not the end
Will we listen-or keep pretending this doesn’t matter?
Under Sharia law, women are treated as property. But this isn’t just “Sharia.” It’s a mindset where women are seen as lesser, owned, controllable.
You’re watching a man beat woman.
And this worldview migrates, it spreads, it clashes directly with Western values.
The West keeps calling this “culture” and “diversity.”
Women pay the price.
How long before this is normalized here too?
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
Florida is designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations.
Florida agencies are hereby directed to undertake all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities by these organizations, including denying privileges or resources to anyone providing material support.
#WATCH | Kozhikode, Kerala: Former Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) regional director KK Muhammed says, "...I had said Muslims should give up 2 more historical places and these are the temples also - Mathura which is the birthplace of Lord Krishna and Gyanvapi which is associated with Lord Shiva. So, these are the two important places which Muslims should hand over to the Hindu community for constructing magnificent Hindu temples. Because these 2 important places are as important for Hindus as Mecca and Medina are for Muslims..."
"Muslims should appreciate the fact that even after giving a separate country Pakistan for the Muslim community, if India is a secular country today, it is only because of Hindu majority. Had it been a Muslim majority country, it would never have been a secular country. So, this fact also Muslims should realise and they should understand it. There should be certain gestures from their side...You should not speak about all these things with communist historians because in the earlier case also it was the communist historians like Irfan Habib and a few JNU people who had complicated the issue. Section of the Muslim community was ready to handover the Ram Janmbhoomi also because I had spoken to many people. So, we should not bring in these communist historians, they would complicate the issue and poison the minds of Muslims. Hindu leadership and Muslim leadership should come to certain terms and conditions. At the same time, what Hindus should do is that beyond these three, they should not go behind every mosque..."
After RG’s press conference, India Today tried visiting one of the residence and found the claim to be true.
Flat owned by BJP affiliate had 80 regt voters.
If you are still sleeping, you are wasting 100s of years of struggle that got us Independence.