Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR All of us have our dreams, ambitions and goals. While some of us are expressively explicit about them, others are not as eloquent — for a host of reasons. Put simply, the whole context, on the one hand, may be a result of humility and, on the other, a consequence of
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR The homeopathic physician aims to understand every individual patient’s unique features in health and illness. They also focus on their subject’s compass and radar to understanding contrasting, or different, levels of reactions, or responses, in the individual. This is in sharp contrast to a conventional, or allopathic, medicine physician, who invariably
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR All of us have ‘good’ and ‘bad’ bacteria in our gut. This is nature’s balancing act. Besides, it’s not just eating, but also what goes on in your mind — for example, emotional stress — that may trigger irritable bowel syndrome [IBS]. That IBS has no known, or established, cause is
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Consciousness is something that exists in its own identity. It may, therefore, be construed that it is quite distinct from all other objects, processes, energies, and even realities, the physics of science would reveal. More so, because, physicists do not mean anything that constitutes the substance — and, what is meant
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR YK, a 29-year-old accounts manager, was troubled by allergies since age nine. This used get worse in summer. His key symptom was frequent, violent, erratic sneezing, with watery discharge. He could never think of doing away with his tissue paper and handkerchief. The skin under his nose was sore, also red.
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Ayurveda is a holistic, also natural, system of medicine. It originated in India over 3,500 years ago. The word, Ayurveda, is derived from the Sanskrit, ayur [life] and veda [science, or knowledge]. It also corresponds to ‘knowledge of life.’ Its précis is keyed to the fact that ‘dis-ease’ is caused by a certain imbalance, or
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR The most-oft asked question, for ages, is why troubles come to good people who don’t break the rules, or even if they do, they make sure that they don’t upset someone’s emotional applecart. Troubles cause as much distress to good people as it does to others, including those that are witness
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR It is a fact that we are riddled by the overriding premise that microbes, or microorganisms, are our ecological foes and that they are meant only to be destroyed. This is how the origin of the word, ‘bug,’ first came into vogue for bacteria — illustrating a creepy sense of apprehension
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Osteoarthritis is a bone-joint disorder. In a purely literal sense, it simply means inflammation of one, or more, joints. Here is everything you wanted to know about the disorder, but did not ask. There are several forms, or types, of arthritis. It is estimated that there are over one hundred, or
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Constipation defies precise definition. It usually implies a reduced stool frequency and the passage of hard small stools. It may also be considered, on empirical terms, as occurring when defaecation is inadequate and infrequent to cause the sufferer both discomfort and alarm, or induce recourse to self-medication, not to speak of
