The field of alternative medicine can gain greater credibility if it publishes procedures to verify claims that are advertised for some products, and widely follows them. Let us ask what an immunity booster needs to do? Is it that testing a product makes it ineffective because you are looking for proof of its effectiveness, thereby "betraying your faith in it"? And can anyone claim something is an immunity booster because its ingredients contain a goose berry?
Srinivasan Ramani
In the Ayurveda a separate class of medicine is available calles Rasayan and the treatment with Rasayana drug is called Rasayan Chikitsa (rejuvenation treatment). It gives benefits like longevity, memory, intelligence, freedom from illness, youthfulness, excellence of luster, complexion, and voice, optimum strength of physique and sense organs, perfection in deliberation, respectability and brilliance etc.
Acharya Charak has explained Vishadau Rogavardh-ananam. it means grief (mentally fear) is prone for Aggravation of diseases thereby suppress the immunity level.
All measures explained under Achara Rasayana helps in the improvement of the mental
health and good mental health improves immunity.
The product is an immunity booster if it rehabilitates physical strength or weakness. As per Ayurveda, there are many conditions where there is a loss of physical strength like Majja dhatu kshya, Sukra kshaya, Oja kshya, Raja yakshma, Pandu, Kamala, Ati sthaulya, apasmara, etc. Anything which increases ↑ SOD, ↑ CAT, ↑ GPX, ↑ Malondialdehyde, ↑ MAPK, ↑ STAT3 may have immune booster activity.
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