Is Ayurveda magical?

It is not as magical as what is spread on the Internet, and it is by no means an unfounded IQ tax. As a traditional Indian healing system that has been passed down for five thousand years, its effectiveness is very clear. The "magical" look often comes from the positive feedback of adapting to the scene and the excessive filtering of it by the outside world.

I have been involved in Ayurveda for almost 7 years now. I have conducted about 200 treatment cases offline and have seen too many polarizing reviews. Last month, a young girl who works in e-commerce came to see her. She had no organic problems during her three consecutive physical examinations. However, she had a dry mouth all the time in the morning, her aunt was so painful that she could not straighten her waist, and she slept so lightly that she would wake up when she turned over. Even after taking a small amount of Chinese and Western medicine and health products, she did not feel any better. According to her pitta constitution, she was given a one-month adjustment plan: she would not sleep every day. She replaced the iced American cheese with warm turmeric milk, avoided cold salad and sashimi in three meals a day, rubbed her feet with warm sesame oil for 10 minutes before going to bed every day, and combined it with a full-body herbal oil massage once a week. After a month, she reported that the pain in her aunt had basically disappeared, and she could fall asleep after just 20 minutes of touching the pillow. She pulled me and said, "This is amazing."

But if you say it is omnipotent, I will be the first to disagree. Last year, I met an uncle who had type 2 diabetes. I didn’t know where he read the popular science that said Ayurveda can eliminate the root cause. He secretly stopped his anti-diabetic medicine and drank three-fruit powder at home every day to "detoxify". As a result, his blood sugar spiked to almost 20 in less than a month. He was rushed to the hospital. Later, when he met everyone, he said that Ayurveda is a scam. Do you think this is unfair?

Many people think it is mysterious because they always associate it with "supernatural healing" and "cure all diseases". In fact, this is not the case at all. To put it bluntly, the core logic of Ayurveda is "balance". It regards people as a part of nature, and uses gentle methods such as food, work and rest, massage, and herbs to bring the imbalanced body state back on track. For those sub-health and chronic minor problems that cannot be diagnosed as organic problems, it can often poke into the blind spots not covered by modern medicine, which will naturally make people feel "magical". As for the three types of constitutions of "Vata, Pitta, and Kapha" that everyone sounds mysterious about, they are not feudal dregs. They are actually the population characteristics classification model summarized by the ancients. They are similar in logic to the nine types of constitutions in traditional Chinese medicine. Now there are many academic studies to verify the correspondence between these types and metabolic levels, intestinal flora, and neurological traits. It is not some metaphysics fabricated out of thin air.

The longer I do this, the more I feel that there is no "magic" therapy. It's just about finding the right problem and using the right standardized method. If a businessman really tells you that Ayurveda can cure cancer and eradicate diabetes and high blood pressure, don’t think too much and just block him. That’s not the magic of Ayurveda, it’s the magic of his trying to defraud you of your money.