Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN Andrew Jenkins was an irrepressibly buoyant six-year-old boy when he first came to see me. He had been to the emergency room [ER] four times in the past year because of his asthma. Like most kids, his favourite foods were pizza, hamburgers, and ice-cream. He was a very finicky eater who
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Spiritual consciousness, or mindfulness, is the most compelling therapeutic force that exists within each of us. It complements and drives every function and process of our body. It ‘ups’ our normal healing processes with a spurt of curative energy that directly impacts every bit of illness. It works synergistically with medical
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR It would be apt to say that technology is more than a process, a body of knowledge, also something beyond it — a collection of artefacts — just like biology’s ever-expanding context, where scientists are deciphering challenges inherent to taking biology to the next level as a form of human technology.
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR History is witness to one, primal fact of life: that no social endeavour is more difficult, more complex, and equally more awesome than leadership. More so, effective leadership — be it statecraft, or organisational stewardship. If effective leadership is an essential attribute, the key to every responsibility of a leader, learning
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Most clinicians, physicians, researchers, and others are up against a huge challenge — the overwhelming wealth of information, even in taut, small areas of speciality interest. Reviews designed to summarise the outsized volumes of information are, as a result, frequently published. When a review is done systematically, following certain criteria and
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Eczema, or atopic dermatitis, is an inflammatory skin disease that affects millions of people worldwide. Psoriasis, or scaly patches syndrome, is a chronic progressive inflammatory disorder of the skin. Its cause is unclear. Research implicates our genetic root, or predisposition for it. This piece presents a holistic overview — as to
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Noise is essentially disturbing. Even annoying. It isn’t like the chirping of birds, or the zephyr caressing us softly — to soothe our thoughts and souls. Yes, mechanical noise hits us most with its ‘rip-tide’ of agitation. It’s stress-causing, not relieving. This explains why a lack of quietness has made us quite unused to
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Homeopathy is not just a system of medical treatment; it is an advance in the area of mind-body, holistic medicine. It involves treating the individual having an illness, or disease, with highly diluted substances, prescribed primarily in pill, or liquid, form with the aim of triggering the body’s natural capacity for
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR There is symmetry and a fine sense of equilibrium in the universe, or the cosmos. When we think of symmetry, our mind automatically goes into a state of stillness. It connects us to attuned contexts. For example, the time we spend with our five senses in appreciating, or analysing, things around
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Belief is essentially the feeling that helps you go through your actions and on to successful completion of goals. But, for belief to entrench, you must first have faith in yourself and be able to direct any outcome. To begin with, you need to have a clear understanding of trust, nay
