Words: Dr Ambika P NAYAK Rheumatoid arthritis [RA] is a common inflammatory [also, auto-immune] disorder. It primarily affects the joints and presents with symptoms of swelling, redness, and pain. It progresses to affecting the surrounding soft tissues, while leading to deformities of the joints and limiting movement. It can, in the course of time, affect
Words: Dr Ambika P NAYAK Water is the most indispensable, life-sustaining element for everything in nature — including us. It is the most basic need for survival. It is rightly said that water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. About 60 per cent, or more, of our body is made of water. Every physiological
Words: Dr Ambika P NAYAK Nearly 99 per cent of normal, healthy children attain day-time bladder control by age five. However, about 20 per cent of boys and about 10 per cent of girls may as yet have nocturnal [night-time] incontinence, or bedwetting, at age 7. Statistics suggests that 1 per cent of boys and
Words: Dr Ambika P NAYAK Your face is the index of your mind and smile the language that everyone understands. Achieving and maintaining good dental hygiene gives us a confident and healthy smile. Well, the causes of bad breath [halitosis], which only the other person would know, and not you, are manifold. It could be
Words: Dr Ambika P NAYAK This is an important physiological function for a healthy body, every day, more so after getting up in the morning, and emptying the bowels. The bowel habit of an individual is one of the prime indicators of their health. The nature of stools, like frequency, colour, and consistency, tells one
Words: Dr Ambika P NAYAK There are three support systems of life as elucidated in Ayurveda literature — aahaara [food], nidra [sleep] and brahmacharya [self-discipline]. The objective of food is to maintain a healthy body and mind through nourishment. This sets the precedence to treatment — as is the relevant concern, according to Ayurveda, so
Words: Dr Ambika P NAYAK The COVID-19 pandemic brought home the point as to how important it was for each of us to have optimal levels of immunity. This, in more than ways than one, also engineered the ‘prompt,’ or clarion call, for most people to seeking all sorts of fancy ideas — a word
Words: Dr Ambika P NAYAK Ayurveda emerged during Vedic times — for the well-being of our human race. The origin of Ayurveda, as literature testifies, started when illnesses emerged on earth. When this happened and triggered a cascading effect, our ancient great sages submitted themselves to Lord Brahma for help — to alleviate ill-health. Lord
Words: Dr Ambika P NAYAK The middle years are the most productive time of one’s life, also career — so, no one would like to be troubled, especially with nagging health complaints, like a recurrent runny nose, or itch. When this happens, one reaches out pronto to anything with the label ‘medicine’ for quick relief
Words: Dr Ambika P NAYAK Monsoon is just round the corner. Ah, that rain song, again — which most of us enjoy, although not all of us would love to get drenched during a downpour. The rains bring nature’s melodies to the fore, water the parched earth, light up our essence of romanticism, with old
