No obeisance to Obesity
- Eat to live, not live to eat -
By Sudha Nambuthiri

Obesity - a sign of prosperity or a problem? Consensus seems to be drifting towards the latter. Obesity has become a much talked about disease in India too. Once we starved for want of food. Now we are starved for strong and healthy bodies. From being underweight or just right, adults and children are battling ever-widening waistlines. Far is the talk of the town. Exercising ........ More .......

FLAB: Price of gluttony
- Adjust your eating to keep your body trim. 

By Dr. C R Soman

It may seem ludicrous that soon India will have to fight a major war not against its neighbors but within its soil. The people of India are in the grip of an invasion that attacks their body and take a heavy toll of their lives. The silent enemy is leaving its telltale mark among Indians in the form of a bulging belly. Once considered an index of ..........     More .......

Obesity: The Yoga Therapy  

By K R Manoj

Obesity is now becoming a common disease. But the sad fact is that millions of people suffering from it do not fully realise the dangerous impact of this silent killer. It shortens the life span, causes heart troubles, hypertension, various psychomatic disorders and makes the life of the person miserable........      More .......

Withering medicinal plants  

By N.V. Davies

Once one of the leading ayurveda medicine manufacturers in Kerala had to suspend the production of the ayurvedic formulations 'Asokarishtam', essentially prescribes practitioners for the treatment of uterine disorders, intestinal worms, bleeding piles and skin diseases. The reason for this was...........        More .......

Meet monsoon with special diet 

- Taste the rejuvenating 'Karkitaka Kanji'

The monsoon season brings with it a host of diseases because there is a general fall in the immunity of living beings. The digestive system is the first victim. In this season, Keralites over centuries have been taking specially prepared food items in which Karkitaka Kanji (specially prepared medicinal, herbal boiled rice water) is the most..............    More .......

Vetiver: The soother

- A rare plant important both eceonomically and ecologocally -  

By Jacob Varghese

Roots of many plants are used in ayurveda for preparing herbal medicines. These plants contain phytochemicals like alkaloids, essential oils, saponins and steroids, mainly concentrated in their roots. Consequently these roots are often used in the pharmaceutical industry. The whole plant has to be uprooted for this purpose and hence it is a destructive method of collection that results in the scarcity of such plants..........     More .......

How to avoid back pain? 

Healthy Hints:

Your best defense against back injury is to get in shape and learn how to use your body properly. There are many recommended exercises that will benefit your back by improving the body tone generally, but pay special attention to strengthening your abdominal and...........         More .......

Spondylosis: Watch your back 

- And remember it's time to change your lifestyle-  

By Dr. U Indulal B.A.M.S.

About 50% of the middle aged people experience pain in the neck and lower back. This perentage increase to 70 when the age reaches 60. The commonst cause for this is spondylosis. It is the degenerative disease affecting the spine. The characteristic curves of the spinal .............     More .......

Invaluable lemon 

By C.P. Unnikrishnan

Man does not live off the food he eats but off the energy that is produced from the food he eats. The energy you get from your food comes from the atoms and molecules in your food. A reaction takes place............               More .......

Obesity and Artritis - Guggul: The drug of choice

- It enhances mobility and improves the functioning of the heart- 

By S. Rajasekharan and P.G. Latha

Guggul ( Commiphora mukul ) is a small thorny tree or shrub, commonly known as the 'Indian bedellium' The gum resin obtained from its stem bark is popularly known as 'guggul'. The resin is ............        More .......

Divine Ash

By T. Gopinath 

Cinder or 'ash' as it is commonly known (bhasmam in most parts of India) has its pride of place in the annals of ayurveda because of its water-absorbent property. But this material is not to be confused with the ordinary wood ash and its preparation is a bit complicated. Fresh cow dung is rolled into small balls and dried. Paddy husk..........

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