Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR It goes without saying that our day-to-day interactions depend on our relationships. When our relationships are strong and healthy, it is likely that many of us — even in the wake of conflict — underplay tricky situations. In other words, investing in healthy relationships is like investing money in a reputed
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR It’s Valentine Day. Yet again. The philosopher Socrates articulated that love is not lacking in anything — it is much more than approximation, also proximal to yearning and, therefore, not fixated with itself. He expressed, no less, that love does not possess, notwithstanding its plethora of beautiful things, including wisdom, and
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR It is sometimes all right to play ‘god’ with oneself. It not only lifts one’s fortitude and confidence, it also makes inspirational perception of truth possible. It needs ‘practice’ to do so on a regular basis — without showing your ‘trick’ on the surface. Once this happens, you can become what
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR The puffy enlargement of your thyroid gland is called goitre. It may have a tendency to hamper your swallowing, or breathing, activities. The causes of goitre are sundry. Hormones produced by your thyroid gland regulate your metabolism, including the rate at which you burn calories. The presence. or emergence, of goitre
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Ginger, the knotted, thick, beige-coloured underground stem, or rhizome, is a versatile medicinal plant. In botanical terms, the herb is called Zingiber officinale, a trusted, age-old remedy. The ancient Indian system of medicine, Ayurveda, to highlight a prime exemplar, extols ginger in the treatment of arthritis, colic, and diarrhoea. It also
Words: Dr Rajgopal Nidamboor Inflammation is your body’s reaction, or irritation, to injury. It is more than what meets the eye. It is actually a sign that your body is healing. There are two types of inflammation — acute [recent] and chronic [long-standing] inflammation. When heat and swelling from a recent injury are uncomfortable, all
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Our ancients were wise folks. They had a ken for detail. They also knew the value of nature’s bounty much better, perhaps, than us — the so-called advanced species with no potent remedial answer, at one point, to the COVID-19 storm that rattled and is rattling our civilisation. We owe it
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR It is possible that whosoever coined the oft-used locution, ‘pain in the neck,’ would have surely experienced how annoying and troublesome the agony can be — this could, perforce, be just one reason why all of us assign it to people, or tasks, that cause ‘distress,’ more so in a literal
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR The idea of a virtual world, or the so-called preserve of modern thought, is not really new. It was the philosopher Plato, who first suggested the idea of a virtual world — a long, long time ago. He equated the ‘physical realm of being’ to a cavern in which imprisoned folks
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR The alternative, complementary, or holistic, approach to health uses the best of natural therapies, such as Ayurveda and homeopathy, in particular, and acupuncture, herbal remedies, meditation, yoga etc., among others. Most of these therapies are now scientifically documented; this will make them not only relevant and effective, but also cost-effective, which
