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 …
ALL those who swear by traditional medicine are in for a shock. A recent study conducted by a pharmacologist from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, reveals that several commonly used herbal medicines contain toxic metals like lead and arsenic. These herbal preparations are commonly prescribed in …
one of the problems facing the world today is effective and affordable healthcare for its five billion-odd inhabitants. The prohibitive costs that Western or allopathic school of medicine (which often involves serious side effects) engenders is increasingly turning people towards the haven offered by alternative medical systems. The term "alternative" …
The US National Cancer Institute has found that Maharishi Amrit Kalash (MAK) 4 and 5, ayurvedic formulations developed by the Maharishi International University, significantly inhibit cancer cell growth in both human tumour and rat epithelial cell systems. Prepared from a wide variety of herbs and spices in a base of …
Environmental medicine studies the interfaces among chemicals, food and inhalants in the environment and the biological function of the individual. It was founded in the 1940s by Theron Randolph, who, along with others, developed a new model and associated clinical principles that would help a physician to diagnose an illness …
in june 1986, doctors at the New Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences diagnosed that 14-year old Atul Kumar was suffering from bilateral wilms tumour (stage iv ), which later spread to his lungs. A prolonged allopathic treatment
AV: Critics have asserted that more than 90 per cent of those passing out of ISM institutes in India end up practising allopathy. SS : The veracity of this contention is difficult to judge. Reportedly, a large number of ism practitioners frequently resort to allopathic drugs. There are many reasons …
Mind-body intervention psychotherapy: includes combining medication with discussion, listening to the patient or using more active behavioural and emotive psychological methods; can hasten recovery in somatic illnesses. support groups: group therapy and counselling combined with diet and exercise can reverse diseases like angina pectoris. meditation: increases longevity and quality of …
THE Indian Proctology Society in Orissa has succeeded in finding an ayurvedic cure for filaria and elephantiasis. Lakhs of people are afflicted by these two deformities in the coastal regions of Balasore, Puri and Ganjam. The society is curing both the diseases with the help of 'leech', a water insect. …
The first ever weekly telemagazine on the subject of Ayurveda will be beamed on Doordarshan very shortly. The magazine has been named Amrit Pravah. Its production is being managed by Virendra Mishra, a journalist. The script is by Rajendra Gupta. The magazine will be devoted to natural treatment and ayurvedic …
Hitahitam sukhant dukhmayustsya hitahitam Manum ch tachh yatroktmayurved sa uchhyate (Ayurveda is the knowledge that indicates the appropriate and inappropriate, happy or sorrowful conditions of living, what is auspicious or inauspicious for longevity, as well as the measure of life itself) - Charaka Samhita 1.41 AYURVEDA, literally, means 'the science …
The Central Council of Research in Ayurveda and Siddha (CCRAS), Delhi, has developed several drugs from herbal extracts and found them effective in the treatment of many diseases. One of them is the Ayush-64, an ayurvedic anti-malarial drug, which was used by the government to control the malaria outbreak in …
MY FATHER-IN-LAW's khal-batta (mortar and pestle) should have gone to my husband, but today I am using it to revive the fading tradition of my forefathers," says a beaming Kamalbai Pendam, a trained female vaidu (ayurveda practitioner) in the faraway Maushi village of Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra. Using the family …
Quarry quarrel In response to the Amey Roadstone Corporation's (ARC) appeal to the Somerset County Council for doubling the size of its Whatley quarry in Mendip Hills, Somerset, British environmental NGOs recently organised one of the year's biggest direct action campaigns. Hundreds of activists camped on December 4, blocking the …
PESTICIDES: universally derided for being the bane of today"s environment. Used worldwide without adequate checks and safeguards, they infiltrate soil, air and water, ravage food chains and play havoc with human as well ecological health. India accounts for one-third of the total pesticide poisoning cases in the world. The us …
WHAT is the role of metals in human health? Ten-year-old Salman had blood cancer. Physicians at the New Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences, gave him not more than three days. In desperation, his parents took to him to an ayurvedic physician, who administered a concoction containing mercury, arsenic …
In July this year, a physician called Gary Pearce of the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society of New South Wales, wrote to Vaidya Baiendu Prakash asking him to immediately stop his metal therapy as it contained proven toxic substances like arsenic and mercury. He said it was folly to confuse the …
Tantric practitioners experimented with achieving physicl immortality. The by-products of these experiments were adopted into ayurvecia as medicines. Kaflali, the black sulphide of mercury which is the basis of a wide variety of Ayurvedic medicines! mentioned in the 7th century treatise Ashfanga Hrdaya by Vagabhata. By the time Sharngadhara wrote …
Metals to medicines is an elaborate affair- For the medicines to be effective. it is important to get the right material. First one has to ascertain the typo and geographical source of the Pro, scribed minerals and herbs. For Instance, an iron are found'in Rajasthan may be more 'potent' than …
Multiple sclerosis has no cure in allopathy. How did you develop an interest and begin your ayurvedic research in this? My father was a vaidya -- the late Chandra Prakash -- who dealt with Rasayan Shastra in the field of ayurveda. In 1960 he successfully treated a patient suffering from …
