Editorial and medical review policy

Who writes our pages

Health guides and condition pages are written by the Vaidora editorial team. Where a doctor has written a page themselves, the byline names them. We sometimes use AI tools to help draft or structure a page; when we do, a person edits it and checks every statement of fact against the sources listed on the page before it is published.

Medical review

Our reviewers are the doctors who consult for Vaidora — Dr. Sachin Mundada (BAMS, KARD) and Dr. Meghna Mundada (BAMS, D. Yoga) — both BAMS-qualified and registered practitioners of Ayurveda. They are not MBBS doctors, and they review content for its accuracy about Ayurveda and for patient safety.

A page says “Medically reviewed by” only after the named doctor has read it as published and approved it, and the date shown is the date they did. If a page has no reviewer line, it has not been reviewed yet. After any substantial change, the review date changes only once the doctor has read the page again.

What we base our pages on

• Public health bodies and regulators: the NHS, the US National Institutes of Health (including NCCIH and MedlinePlus), the World Health Organization, India's Ministry of Health and Ministry of AYUSH.
• Clinical guidelines and peer-reviewed research, preferring systematic reviews over single studies.
• Classical Ayurvedic texts, presented as the tradition's own perspective rather than as established scientific findings.

Every health page lists the sources it relied on. Research on Ayurveda in people is often limited, and we say so rather than overstating it.

What we will never publish

• A claim that Ayurveda, a herb or a product cures, reverses or permanently fixes a disease.
• A promised result or a timeline for one.
• Medicine names with doses for readers to take on their own.
• Advice to stop, reduce or replace a medicine another doctor prescribed.
• Statistics we cannot source, testimonials presented as evidence, or ratings we cannot back.
• Disparagement of other treatments, practitioners or brands.

Every health page also says when to see a doctor in person, because some symptoms need an examination, tests or urgent care that an online Ayurvedic consultation cannot give.

Dates and updates

The “updated” date on a page is the last time its content changed. We review every health page at least once a year, and sooner when guidance changes or a reader points out a problem.

How we make money

Vaidora earns from paid consultations and from treatment packages, some of which include medicines for patients in India. Our pages are not sponsored, we do not take payment to mention a product or brand, and we do not use affiliate links. When a page compares us with another provider, it says so and relies only on what that provider publishes.

Corrections

If you think something on our site is wrong, out of date or unsafe, email vaidora@vaidora.in with “Correction” in the subject. We reply within five working days, and if we change the page, its updated date changes too.