Decoding dengue brew that’s raising a storm
Chennai: A bitter battle between age-old rivals is brewing on social media. The contestants: Sceptical allopaths and combative Siddha practitioners. The referee: A defensive state government. As the fight
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new mummies: Ancient Britons started mummifying their dead at the same time as the Egyptians. British archaeologist Mike Parker-Pearson has found four Bronze Age bodies showing signs of
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Herbal cures to fight kala azar
herbs prove to be cheap and effective remedies for kala azar (visceral leishmaniasis). This has been found out during studies conducted by researchers from Patna-based Balaji Utthan Sansthan. The
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Risky remedy
UK prohibits sale of herbal medicine with harmful side effects
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Textile therapy
A handloom trader experiments with traditional medicinal herbs for dyeing garments
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Planting doubt
A new research creates controversy about the efficacy of Ginkgo biloba supplements
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Ayurvedic drug manufacturers divided over new eu directives
the recent eu directives, which aim to monitor the quality of traditional herbal medicines entering the European market, have sparked off a lively debate in India. One school of thought fears the
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Barriers under pestle
There is an urgent need to rationalise traditional medicinal systems to stop unscrupulous use
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Lab s labour lost
Products designed by premier scientific institutions fail to find the pulse of the market
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Play safe on herbal
Clinical trials on a herb-based contraceptive cream developed recently by the Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow have been completed and the results have been submitted to the Drug
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Proving its metal
A plant derivative can kill cancer cells by targeting at their high iron concentration