Patna -The Indian Medical Association (IMA) president-designate has cast his doubt popular yoga guru Baba Ramdev's ayurveda medicines on his claim as "magic concoctions" and demanded that they be tested.

Mr. Kumar, who was felicitated by the Bihar Chambers of commerce offered these remarks on Sunday, voiced displeasure about Ramdev's remarks against him during the yoga camp.

The yoga guru had called Kumar "sirfira" (mentally disturbed) for challenging him to prove scientifically his claims of healing  chronic diseases by his concoctions of herbs and heavy metals.

IMA president-elect Ajay Kumar commented that the claim of Baba Ramdev is not correct since his medicines have not undergone the three phases of test trials which are mandatory to clear any medicine before marketing.

In an article published in the latest IMA journal, Kumar also voiced his displeasure on Baba Ramdev's criticism of medical practitioners and allopathic medicines. Kumar appealed to doctors not to encourage people like Ramdev who has lowered the image of medical profession.

Ramdev had during a yoga camp in Patna last month alleged that medical practitioners were exploiting people for money and conducting unnecessary tests to make money. ( Baba Ramdev meant only a section of medical practitioners who are earning more from unnecessary tests advised to the patients).

"Is it not shameful that when the national president-elect of the IMA is ridiculed, association members remain silent and offered no defence?" Kumar said.

Challenging Ramdev to prove that his ayurveda medicines had any scientific basis, Kumar described him as a successful swami-turned-businessman-cum-drug manufacturer, as per Newkerala.com:
 
"Ramdev Baba seems to be a very good businessman who has marketed yoga, pranayam (a form of yoga) and his magic concoctions very successfully," Kumar said.

Kumar maintained there was no dispute over the benefits of yoga for health, but "Ramdev has turned this classical art into pop music". "Unfortunately he has taken the science of rejuvenation a little too far," he said.

"Ramdev's claim of treating serious disease like cancer through yoga is wrong because it is not scientifically proven yet."

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