Sangha guidelines

A place to compare notes, not to prescribe.

The Sangha is where people carrying the same thing compare notes. It is not a clinic and not a marketplace. What you get here is other people’s lived experience — which is worth a great deal, and is not the same as advice from your Vaidya.

The rule with no second chance

Never tell someone to stop their medicine

If a member is on thyroid medication, insulin, blood-pressure tablets, chemotherapy or psychiatric medicine, they stay on it. Ayurveda here sits alongside that treatment, never instead of it. Only the doctor who prescribed something can change it.

“Stop your thyroid tablets, this churna is enough.”That is not an opinion. Someone will follow it.

Share what happened to you, not what will happen to them

You lived it — say so. The line to watch is narrow but real: describe your experience, don’t promise a result.

Triphala cured my constipationTriphala helped my constipation

This treats PMOSI used this alongside my treatment

Ashwagandha heals your anxietyMy anxiety felt lighter after weeks

This reverses diabetesMy readings changed — ask your Vaidya

100% works, guaranteedIt worked for me. Bodies differ.

Your prakriti is not theirs. What settled your pitta may aggravate someone else’s vata. “This worked for me” is honest; “this works” is a claim about a body you have never met.

Bodies are welcome here. Contempt is not.

Periods, discharge, bowels, fertility, weight, skin. That is what half this community came for, and none of it is shameful. Use the real words — a symptom described vaguely is a symptom nobody can help you with.

What is not welcome is a different thing entirely: sexual talk aimed at a person, explicit content, slurs, casteist or communal abuse, or following someone around to pick at them. Mocking a member’s body, weight, skin or infertility is the fastest way out of the Sangha.

A symptom is a symptom, a person is a person. Talk freely about the first. Be gentle with the second.

Nothing here is for sale

No WhatsApp numbers, no “DM me for the product”, no affiliate links, no clinic promotion. If you are a practitioner, your listing is where you practise. Naming a product that helped you is fine — recruiting customers from a health thread is not.

When someone is struggling

Sometimes a post is not really about digestion. If a member writes about wanting to die, hurting themselves, or not eating for days — don’t diagnose them, and don’t scroll past. Say something kind, and give them a number.

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If someone is in immediate danger, emergency services come first. You are not their therapist — you can still be the person who noticed.

If you see something, report it

Use the report button rather than arguing in the replies. A pile-on makes the thread harder to moderate and almost never changes the person’s mind. Reports go to a human, not a filter.

What happens when a line is crossed

We would rather coach than punish, and most of this is settled before anything is posted.

Some things never postSlurs, explicit content and obvious spam are stopped before the post is saved. Nothing is sent, nothing is on your record.
Some things get a nudgeWrite “cured” and we suggest gentler wording. You can still post — it is a prompt, not a wall.
Content is removedWhen a post breaks a rule but reads as a mistake. The post goes; the account is untouched.
Seven-day muteWhen it does not read as a mistake, or it keeps happening. You can read the Sangha, not post to it.
Permanent banTelling someone to stop prescribed medicine, sexual content aimed at a member, hate — or returning after a mute to do it again.

Think we got it wrong?

Every removal and mute is recorded with a reason. Reply to the notification you received — a person reads it.