Insomnia: sad nights. tired eyes

By Dr. M P E Sarma

One should have proper sleep, food and sex to lead a healthy life, says ayurveda. Sleep is defined as a function in which the sensory and motor organs when exhausted disassociate themselves from their objects. However, organs like kidney, heart, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, brain etc are active even during sleep. The benefit of sleep are described by the ancient ayurveda scholar Charaka...........      More .......

The yoga therapy 

By K.R. Manoj

Sleep in natures boon and it needs the convergence of mind and body. Yoga can completely cure insomnia. Through yoga therapy one can treat oneself without side-effects and that too at minimum expense. Insomnia can be caused by various factors which include a lifestyle with little exercise, excessive drinking, eating, smoking and irregular sleeping habits.........        More .......

Unique dressing for burn wound

By N.V. Davies

Boiled potato peel (BPP) discarded as waste is a wonderful material for healing burn wounds. Doctors at the Burns Department of Jubilee Mission Medical College, Thrissur, have been using boiled potato peel successfully for dressing burn wounds for more than 5 years. So far over 1000 cases have been treated by using BPP there............    More .......

Watch your diet: Bad habits lead to constipation  

By Dr. T. Neelakandan Mooss

The ancient sages had laid down in detail life style routines, some of which have to be systematically followed daily and some seasonally with subtle variations from season to season. If these are meticulously adhered to, most of the diseases can be avoided. They have also stipulated proper dietary regimen by following which.............    More .......

Herbal massage to lose weight 

By Gita Ramesh

Being slim and beautiful is in vogue. Nevertheless, being slim is also for vigor and vitality: That is the crux of a healthy body and mind. The ayurveda systems administers many remedies for a complete health regimen. This has all the more relevance in the hectic lifestyle, filled with tension and tight............      More .......

Sparkling Smile - Healthy Hints -

From a beauty perspective, your lips, teeth, gums and breath will dramatically impact your appearance and appeal. Outside of the relatively recent advertised push on the importance of dental and oral hygiene by the dental associations and dental products industry, one of the most high impact additions to the consumers oral care marketplace, is the availability of ........      More .......

Tackling psoriasis 

By Dr. V Franklin

Psoriasis is one of the most distressing problems of mankind. As per statistics aas many as two in every hundred of population suffer from this disease. The chronicity makes the patient adjust with the disease. However, many patients approach for medical assistance because of despair as it is treated as a social stigma...............   More .......

An apple a day......... 

By C.P. Unnikrishnan

It was said long ago, 'to eat an apple before going to bed will make the doctor beg his bread'. The modern version of this ancient saying, 'An apple a day keeps the doctor away', sums up the healthful, nourishing and protective qualities of apples. It is a fleshy fruit, with.............    More .......

Stone to conquer snake venom  

By S Rajasekharan & P.G. Latha

More than 35 different tribal communities inhabit the forest areas of Kerala, located in the southern most part of India. One among them is the Kanis who are considered to be the custodians of the richest knowledge system of tribal healing techniques / medicines. Kanis are of  mixed racial origin and have the features of the ...................... More .......

Fruit for thought 

By Prof. Jacob Varghese

From ancient times fruits constituted one of the main components of man's foods. Perhaps, the nomadic life depended, at least partly, on wild fruits collected from the natural flora of the time. The mention of Adam,  Eve and the forbidden apple in the Bible is enough of an indication if the antiquity of fruits. The earliest cultivated fruit appears to be the  date palm..................  More .......

Grandmas Medicine: Cold Cure

Cold has no cure. It has been aptly said that a cold can be cured in a week by taking medicines, otherwise it will subside in seven days. Treating cold by means of customary suppressive drugs will only pave way for further complications...........More .......

Folklore - Worms in the neck - 

By T. Gopinath

This is a true story and often quoted as a legendary incident in the annals of ayurvedic treatment. For Appu, son of an advocate in Thrissur everything was normal until the age of two. Then suddenly he found it difficult to hold his head up. It would droop sideways, unless supported by ones palm if it is to be held straight. ..........More .......

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