'Evil' Hindu Practices

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What PK was meant for: to lay the mental groundwork for making this sort of libel acceptable and sound straight-forward/self-evident:



firstpost.com/india/secret-to-ramdevs-rs-2000-crore-empire-its-all-about-the-faith-stupid-2044119.html

Secret to Ramdev's Rs 2,000 crore empire: It's all about the faith, stupid!



by Sandipan Sharma Jan 14, 2015 22:41 IST



#Arthashastra #Baba Ramdev #drug #gau mutra #InMyOpinion #Pratanjali #Ramdev's empire #Ramdev's medicine

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A casual reading of his website can make you believe Ramdev is a rare mix of Patanjali, Freud, Sushruta, Vatsyayana, Kautilya and an embodiment of all the marketing wisdom of the world.



From physical to psychological, sexual to emotional, Ramdev can diagnose almost any problem and prescribe a nostrum. Try asking him, for instance, “Baba ji, what’s the root cause of premature ejaculation?”

(Freudian slip by Sandypants, seems he looked up the question foremost on his mind? But no one wants to hear of Sandypants' problems copulating...)



First, he is likely to reprimand you for starting too early. According to Babaspeak, if you rid yourself of your, err, brahmcharya too early in life, the impatient karma may lead to ‘premature ejaculation’ later in life. Babasutra argues that the problem is not with your age but the milage under your belt.



(By the way: Taoist (i.e. traditional Chinese medicine) - and even Shinto - stores sell lots of ancient, traditional heathen herbal remedies for sexual health, for harmony in mating-related matters between couples, for better chances at procreation, for easy delivery, for recovering faster after delivery, for optimising the quality of mother's milk for newborns, etc. Sounds like Ramdev's product line is no different in that it doesn't neglect these aspects either. The purpose of viagra etc crap copies that of herbal remedies for sexual health/functioning that existed in heathen societies from GrecoRomans to Taoists.



As for viagra etc, wasn't there a big hysteria about it causing blindness or something?

dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2776190/Viagra-cause-blindness-Ingredient-drug-permanently-affect-sight-doctors-warn.html

Viagra 'may cause blindness': Ingredient in the drug can permanently affect sight, doctors warn



Viagra may cause loss of vision in men with retinitis pigmentosa

Retinitis pigmentosa is a rare inherited eye condition causing sight loss

Some people have normal vision but carry one gene for the condition

Ingredient in Viagra linked to degenration and death of cells in the retina

People with retinitis pigmentosa and those who carry the gene at risk



By Madlen Davies for MailOnline



Published: 10:36 GMT, 1 October 2014 | Updated: 14:11 GMT, 1 October 2014

(And loss of hearing and 84% more chance of skin cancer)



Sandypants not complaining about such far creepier products? And it was so well-tested and all - for about a decade or two, was it? At least traditional Hindu herbal remedies - just like Taoist ones etc - have a much longer period of usage like millennia. And have had a larger user base over this period.)



But don’t worry, bachcha, Baba has a $82 solution for your delicate problem. It is shipped free, bulk orders carry further discounts and you just have to pop it with lukewarm water.



[Img caption:] Baba Ramdev. AP



Obviously, it is working. Harried men and women are running to Baba’s Patanjali Stores for ridding themselves of almost every conceivable malady. No further proof of the Baba’s appeal is required than the report that his empire built initially on anwlah, aloe-vera, gau-mutra and some yogic postures is now worth almost Rs 2000-crore.



From its humble beginning in some ashram near Haridwar, Ramdev’s empire has become a behemoth that rivals several FMCG majors.

(That's nothing. Nothing compared to the humble beginnings of christianism - starting off as a cult in some backwater of Roman-occupied territory and which cult was initially admitted by such as gnostic christians to be centred around a non-historic entity, jeebus creepus - that has grown to consume continents via genocide and rakes in trillions of dollars by parasiting on enslaved/converted populations. And not only did christianism sell a false anti-dote - the non-existent jeebus - but even the disease is a con: "sin". Where are the lawsuits?)

Like some of his remedies that promise rapid and impressive growth of hair and various other parts of human anatomy, the Baba’s brand Patanjali is growing at a mindboggling 67 per cent rate. Even Kautilya’s Arthashastra couldn’t have imagined this eye-popping, gravity-defying growth.



The credit goes entirely to Ramdev. He is an excellent example of how the collective wisdom of our ancestors, the knowledge of our rich flora (and fauna, but more about that later) and our age-old household practices can be turned into a successful global empire.



For, most of what Ramdev sells or promotes, like the benefit of yoga, was already there. But, like a shrewd curator of heritage, Ramdev just packaged it and turned all the daadi-naani nuskhas into profitable products.

(Well, who better than Ramdevs - Hindoos - to do it? Certainly more acceptable and legitimate than non-Hindu anti-Hindu cryptos like Sandypants Shwarma, or aliens who like to patent Hindoo stuffs, claim credit for it and then make money off it like parasites do.

Note that Sandypants Shwarma's references to "our ancestors" and "our stuff" is exactly the vocabulary of christians like Kerala Syrian christists when they mention the wealth of Padmanabha temple: it suddenly becomes all-Indian/all-Kerala wealth instead of exclusively Hindoos' temple wealth.)



But none of this would have worked if Ramdev had not assiduously turned himself into a brand that most of his followers trust. Some of his prescriptions, in fact, suggest that Baba has a large following of bhakts who take his advice as medical gospel. Main hoon na, he seems to say, and the followers get ready to gulp down any concoction.



That’s the power of faith for you.



One of his disciples, for instance, brushes his teeth daily with petrol to get rid of paan masala stains. “They shine like pearls,” the gentleman, who is a senior journalist, says triumphantly. Now, petrol has been used for years by dry-cleaners to pretty much clean anything. If you are willing to treat your dentures like a dirty carpet, petrol may just be the right brand of tooth-paste for you. But, only somebody like Ramdev can make you start your day with a gargle of inflammable hydrocarbons.



He has inspired many bhakts to give up eggs with his knowledge of local fauna. Eggs, he says, come out of the wrong orifice and are thus hen poop. Ergo, don’t eat them. And then there is the unshakable faith of the balding bhakts who keep rubbing their thumb nails against each other in the hope that a fresh harvest of jet, black hair is about to erupt.

(Seems unlikely that Ramdev said that eggs are fecal waste. Must be the Hindu-baiting author's projection onto Ramdev, since he assumes Ramdev is dumb and so declares that mention of "wrong orifice" must mean an assumption on Ramdev's part of eggs themselves being fecal waste. In any case, it is highly probable that Ramdev knows that what is called an "egg" is literally an egg. Maybe Ramdev was simply cautioning against observed food poisoning such as by salmonella bacteria and how the risk may not always be worth it and can be avoided by eating replacement foods with the same benefits but fewer side-effects, whereas Sandypants with his missionary schooling probably can't understand Hindi/Ramdev except through a dictionary and therefore interpreted wrongly?



fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm077342.htm

Even eggs with clean, uncracked shells may occasionally contain bacteria called Salmonella that can cause an intestinal infection.

eggsafety.org/consumers/pathogens

eggs have been found to be 90% sterile when laid. However, eggs have the potential to become contaminated with bacteria from the hen’s intestinal tract, feces, and from the surrounding environment.

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Ramdev’s products wouldn’t have been such bestsellers if they were to come under the purview of drug controllers or their trials had been mandatory. Trials, tests and approvals cost millions. Many companies go bankrupt if a medicine they have invested in fails to clear regulatory hurdles. Also, popping his prescriptions is safe. Unlike medicines, they do not come with written warnings of reactions and side effects.



So, eat as much of his swarn bhasm as possible, drink as much as gau-mutra as possible. And be happy that our blind faith, bhakti, collective wisdom and assorted premature problems are worth nearly Rs 2000 crore.



(Typical crypto tactic: speaks of "our blind ... bhakti" etc, while Sandypants has none and hence is aiming at Hindoos only. Cryptos always pretend they're a Hindu while attacking Hindus.



And don't know why Sandypants pretends to care. Either Ramdev's products are genuine or placebo or a dangerous scam that will cut life-quality and/or expectancy of his bhaktas short. If the latter, and since Ramdev's bhaktas are Hindus onlee, then surely Sandypants must be thrilled at such a fallout, being an anti-Hindu. The real reason for his whining is that it bothers him that any Hindu should make lots of money, especially since Ramdev is not politically ignorant and could one day use his funds to protect Hindoos and their organisations, if he's not doing so already.)

AAPism is a christianism.

Sandypants Shwarma must be one of those 15% = 150 million christians infesting India (<- figure as claimed by overseas missions), 13% of whom are cryptochristians. They can be recognised by how they spew bile against Hindoos doing Hindooisms, but not christians' inculturation on the same Hindooisms. (Christians in India have started inculturating on Yoga too - like other missionary religions before them - and hope to market it for money while gaining more sheep. Then Sandypants Shwarma will declare it is all a "miracle of jeebus himself" and endorse christian faithfulness in buying the inculturation: for paying for inculturated yoga and ayurveda.)



One of the comments is long (haven't read yet) but seems to at least refer to papers, and used to disprove Sandypants' cryptochristian psecularism:

The Real Deal • 18 hours ago



Dear Sandipan, if you would have somehow managed to remove the hate clouding your judgement, you would have noticed that many journals have published studies about the nutritional value of cow milk, the health benefits of gau-mutra and the importance of Indian breed of cattle(Bos Indicus). Since your types consider all research into anything remotely hindu as unreliable cultural propaganda, I will try provide some foreign research. I have listed only salient points. Please feel free to read up the entire content.



Published in International Dairy Journal



Composition of bovine milk fat globules by confocal Raman microscopy - Sophie Gallier a, b, Keith C. Gordon c, Rafael Jiménez-Flores b, David W. Everett a

a Department of Food Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

b Dairy Products Technology Center, California Polytechnic State University, USA

c MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Department of Chemistry, University of Otago, New Zealand



Article history:

Received 9 September 2010

Received in revised form 14 January 2011

Accepted 18 January 2011



Milk globules consist of a triglyceride core and a phospholipid trilayer membrane(MFGM - Milk Fat Globule Membrane). The ratio of MFGM to triglycerides is higher in the small MFGs, therefore the relative contribution by the MFGM to the total lipid spectra will be higher for the smaller globules, as will the contribution from the phospholipids. Thus, the small MFGs, analyzed after milking without any further processing treatment, and lacking a detectable triglyceride component, could consist mainly of phospholipid or residual MFGM vesicles and be analogous to phospholipid liposomes. They may arise from a different mechanism of formation and have a different biological role such as a higher rate of digestibility. The same observation has been made for human milk fat globules studied using laser trapping confocal Raman spectroscopy.



Small bovine milk fat globules may not be true fat globules as no detectable triglyceride peak was found by the Raman spectroscopic method. They may offer specific physiological and nutritional functions, as well as different technological properties than the larger milk fat globules.



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Research by KAU(Kerala Agriculture University) on the Vechur breed.



Detailed characterisation studies of the Vechur cattle has been taken up by the KAU. The acrocentric nature of the Y-chromosome establishes that the Vechur cattle belong to the species of the Zebu cattle (Bos indicus) as different from the European cattle (Bos taurus) which has metacentric Y-chromosome.



Infant mortality has been found to be almost nil in Vechur cattle under farm conditions. It has also been observed by the scientists of the KAU that these dwarf animals are quite resistant to foot and mouth disease and mastitis, two diseases which play havoc with hybrid cows in Kerala. Compared to crossbred cows, significantly lower incidences of respiratory infections have been reported from Vechur cattle. The gene(s) responsible for these qualities is our insurance for the future. The animal breeders of tomorrow may require this gene to save our cattle wealth from a total liquidation by pests and germs.



Milk analyses done in the KAU now support the empirical findings of the unknown ayurvedic physicians. The percentage of fat and total solids in the milk of Vechur cows is higher compared to crossbred cows. But a more significant aspect is the size of the fat globules. The mean size of fat globule in the milk of the Vechur cow (3.21 microns) is higher than that of the goat (2.60 microns), but considerably smaller than that of the crossbred cows (4.87 microns) and of Murrah buffalo (5.85 microns). The small size of fat globules means high phospholipid content because of greater surface area. Phospholipids are important in the development of brain and nerve tissues and also play a vital role in the absorption and digestion of fat.



Since the Vechur cow milk has got higher proportion of smaller fat globules and saturated fatty acids, it would be therapeutically useful in malabsorption syndrome. Thus the Vechur cow milk and its products are suitable for infants and the sick.



The World Watch List of Domestic Animal Diversity, also published by the FAO(The Food and Agriculture Organisation), has listed the Vechur cattle under the category of Critical Breeds, meaning nearly extinct.



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Beta casein A1 and A2 in milk and human health

Report to New Zealand Food Safety Authority

Prepared by:

Professor Boyd Swinburn

Professor of Public Health Nutrition

Revised final: 13 July 2004



There are several genetically-determined variants of β-casein, the protein which constitutes about 25-30% of cows’ milk proteins. One variant, A1 β-casein, has been implicated as a potential etiological factor in type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM-1), ischaemic heart disease (IHD), schizophrenia, and autism. Another variant (A2 β-casein) has not been implicated in these diseases.



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Status of milk protein, β-casein variants among Indian milch animals.

Mishra, B. P.; Manishi Mukesh; Prakash, B.; Monika Sodhi; Kapila, R.; Kishore, A.; Kataria, R. R.; Joshi, B. K.; Bhasin, V.; Rasool, T. J.; Bujarbaruah, K. M.

Indian Journal of Animal Sciences 2009 Vol. 79 No. 7 pp. 722-725

ISSN 0367-8318

Record Number 20093214846



The role of A1 and A2 β-casein milk variants and human health is a matter of concern for scientific investigations. The status of A1/A2 β-casein variants in Bos taurus cattle breeds from different countries have shown the presence of A1 variant in European cattle, which has been linked to range of illness. In this study we report the frequency of β-casein variants among 618 animals of 15 zebu cattle breeds and 231 buffaloes of 8 river buffalo breeds. The β-casein A1/A2 frequency data indicated the predominance of A2 variant (0.987) in zebu cattle breeds, while the river buffalo indicated only A2 milk type. The results point towards the origin of A2 variant in Bos indicus cattle.



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Archived at PMC(PubMed Central), of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).



Lipid-lowering activity of CUA(Cow Urine Ark) in guinea pigs fed with a high cholesterol diet - Chawda Hiren Manubhai, Mandavia Divyesh Rasiklal, Baxi Seema Natvarlal, Vadgama Vishalkumar Kishorbhai, and Tripathi ‎Chandrabhanu Rajkishor



Metabolic syndrome is a group of interrelated metabolic abnormalities that includes ‎insulin resistance, diabetes, elevated blood pressure, obesity and dyslipidaemia (Li et al., ‎‎2013 [triangle]). CUA has lipid lowering, antidiabetic and antioxidant activities. Cow urine contains copper; while previous studies revealed an inverse ‎association between diastolic blood pressure and dietary copper intake. ‎Cow urine has a diuretic action which might be due to nitrogen, uric acid, phosphates and hippuric‎acid. Therefore cow urine may be effective as an antihypertensive that has the potential to‎ decrease all the metabolic abnormalities and also a possible ‎implication in metabolic syndrome.‎



From the current study, we concluded that CUA reduces triglycerides, ‎improves HDL-C and hepatoprotective in animals with high fat diet; therefore it may be useful in ‎diabetic dyslipidemic patients.







Shubhangi Raykar The Real Deal • 14 hours ago



Thanks for such valuable information.Our doctor-a physician had asked us to switch over to cow milk after my husband suffered a heart attack. it has worked well.



Balaji B The Real Deal • 17 hours ago



kudos... a tight slap for the biased writer and newspaper. seems its PK effect is paralyzed now.

Wonder if (and then to what extent) the PK movie was an idea hatched in response to the rejection of Shirdi Sai Babaism by the Hindu Dharma Sansad or earlier objections.