Dr Vignesh Navinbalaji

Chicken causes body heat? 🤔
📌 Digestion
📌 Energy expenditure
📌 Heat production
📌 One overlooked concept

Harsh reality:

People respect the dosage of allopathic medicines because they fear side effects.

People often ignore the dosage of Siddha medicines because they believe there are no side effects.

The biggest side effect of any medicine is the belief that it cannot cause harm.

In Ashwagandha, the root is the traditionally preferred medicinal part in most classical systems. But some manufacturers use leaves to cut cost or increase extract potency — often without proper standardization.

Ashwagandha leaves contain higher concentrations of certain withanolides and compounds like withaferin A, which can act as a potential cellular toxin in excess.
Improperly processed or overdosed leaf extracts may increase the risk of:

• Liver stress / hepatotoxicity
• Gastric irritation
• Excess immune stimulation
• Hormonal imbalance
• Unpredictable adverse effects

The problem is not Siddha or herbal medicine.
The problem is unethical formulation, poor standardization, and blind marketing.

“Natural” doesn’t mean “side-effect free.”
Even herbs demand knowledge, purification, dosage, and responsibility.

Siddha medicine itself is not the problem.
Unethical practice, wrong dosage, poor quality medicines, and self-medication are what damage organs.

Any powerful medicine, traditional or modern becomes harmful in the wrong hands.
Use Siddha responsibly. Use it scientifically.

PCOS being renamed as PMOS is more than just a name change.
It reflects a bigger understanding: that this condition is not only about ovaries, but about the body’s entire metabolic health.

For people who believe in Siddha principles, this feels deeply meaningful. 🌿
Because Siddha has always viewed the human body as one connected system, where imbalance in food, sleep, stress, digestion, hormones and lifestyle are all linked together.

Seeing modern medicine slowly move towards a more whole-body understanding feels hopeful.
Not a competition between systems… but a step towards better understanding of health itself. 🤍

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