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Ghee is considered "Brain food" in Indian culture. It is included in many food items and also in Ayurvedic Meds.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/amp39Gheeamp39-and-its-m...

There is no one "Indian" culture. In the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, goat bone marrow is relished a lot, and fatty fish brain is relished and considered brain food.

Does this mean Ghee is generally not used in WB? Sure there will be local variations due to a variety of factors - invasion of other cultures (islamic, christian, chinese etc) The Ghee thing does have its general influence in Indian culture.

Ghee is used in WB but bone marrow is loved a lot by young and old alike and I thought it pertained to the report.

Poisons in very low quantity are used to treat diseases. Could it be that Ayurveda uses milk to treat the imbalance of the "doshas"?

As a food, Ghee was used so very sparingly that it was almost not used at all. We cannot compare the quantities we consume today with those before the Dairy Revolution.

Speaking from experience here. I live in India and have experienced it first hand.

The writers of the Rgveda certainly were members of a pastoralist society, so they would have had a decent amount of dairy, if not quite the same quantities as today.

> It is included in...Ayurvedic Meds

“Ayurveda medicine is considered pseudoscientific” [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda

I know it will be considered pseudoscientific. I've used it and had positive results. What I am posting here is based on my own experience and observation from living here in India. I didn't come here advocating it. Just stating what I experienced. It may not always have a scientific basis in the modern sense.

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