NITI Aayog released a compendium of Ayush-based practices from States and Union territories detailing information about various Ayush-based initiatives and practices adopted by the States and Union territories in India for containing and managing the COVID-19 outbreak. Since the year 2020, the world has been facing an unprecedented public health …
Beware before you pick up chyawanprash from a drug store. The most popular brands of this ayurvedic tonic has artificial sweeteners, which have unconscionable side-effects. On January 11, 2008, Ranbaxy Laboratories launched a sugar-free version of chyawanprash, which it calls
modern medicine has found clay can be of good use now. Though it has been used as cosmetic by beauticians for long, therapeutic values of clay has not been recognized by modern science. us researchers have found the green clay in the mountainous regions of central France possesses antibiotic properties. …
Order of the Allahabad High Court in the matter of The Commissioner, Trade Tax vs Emami Ltd. dated 13/11/2007 regarding classification of two products namely Himani Naturally Faircream and Himani Naturally Fair Lotion as medicines and therefore be chargeable to tax as "Ayurvedic" medicines and has held that the same …
Kunapajala, an Ayurvedic plant growth promoter, has been mentioned in Vrikshayurveda to promote flowering, fruiting and vegetative growth of plants. Kunapajala was prepared in laboratory according to the standard procedure as available in the literature. To demonstrate the effect of Kunapajala, Senna was grown in Dhanvantari Garden of Gujarat Ayurved …
thanks to ayurveda, Subhash Jacob is free from migraine now. The headache was with him for over 30 years. Repeated attempts at seeking cure from different schools of medicines were ineffective and left him with many side effects. "I am 90 per cent cured after I took the ayurvedic treatment,' …
the Indian origin of medical knowledge, used to develop modern treatments, will be given due recognition in Britain from now on. Presently, there is rampant misrepresentation of traditional treatment methods such as ayurveda and unani. Multinationals falsely market them as their innovations. But this bio-piracy will no longer be possible …
policy on environment: On May 18, the Union cabinet approved the controversial National Environment Policy. The sanction came after much dithering and after the daft made several rounds of the prime minister's office, union environment ministry and ministry of law for over two years. The first draft, which came out …
function table() { var popurl="image/20060115/48_table.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=250,height=400,scrollbars=yes") } Water chestnut (Trapa natans) is a popular fruit in many parts of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and southern China. Though native to South and Southeast Asia, water chestnuts are also found in Africa and North America. The plants grow well in ponds, …
the department of ayurveda, yoga, unani, s iddha and homeopathy (ayush) under the Union ministry of health and family welfare (mohfw) recently issued a notification making it mandatory for manufacturers of herbal products to mention on containers that the amount of heavy metals is
How were your 10 months at fda? It was a great learning experience! The subjects were new, but I took the initiative every regulator should take, to understand them. I met people in the field before questioning the companies. Of fda's many important decisions last year, the crucial one was …
What's the future of ayurveda in USA? Traditional medicine systems are now growing faster in the us than even modern medicine. Ayurveda is not licensed for practice, unlike Chinese and naturopathic medicines and chiropractics licensed in some states. Of the people who do accept traditional medicine, around 10 per cent …
researchers from Kolkata's Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute have found two plants frequently used in Ayurvedic medicines effectively battle out four types of cancer in lab. They discovered the root extract of Tiliacora racemosa (Tiliacoru) and the nut oil of Semecarpus anacardium (Dhobi nut) eliminated cultured human tumour cells from acute …
The idea that food has therapeutic value is not a new one. Ayurveda, for instance, recommends diet regimes based on seasons and on an individual's constitution (see box: Take cues from traditional wisdom). And it's not just this ancient system of medicine. Traditional communities in most countries had dietary practices …
HERBAL BEER Looks, smells, even tastes like it. But is it beer? WHAT GOES IN? Pub-crawlers beware, herbal beer is just raw mango mixed with herbs (Andrographis or kalmegh and Tinospora or guduchi), fermented for a week. Besides mango (Mangifera indica), other fruit such as amla (Phyllanthus emblica), guava (Psidium …
ayurvedic drugs are once again under a cloud of controversy, this time for containing high amounts of heavy metals. A recent scientific paper suggests that 20 per cent of Ayurvedic medicines available in the us contain heavy metals like arsenic, lead and mercury beyond the limits permitted in the country. …
as part of its initiative to promote traditional systems of medicine, the World Health Organization (who) has recently set forth a set of guidelines to help member states evolve regulations aimed at providing consumers with information on the appropriate use of the remedies. Currently, 80 per cent of the world …
a new study not only exposes a vital weakness of the malaria parasite, but also shows how ayurvedic medicines can work wonders when allopathy fails. In most parts of the world, the malaria parasite has become resistant to chloroquine
