Words: Dr Laura BROWN Everybody knows that consuming too much salt is bad for your health. But nobody ever mentions the potential impact of the other condiment in the cruet set: black pepper. Does it have an effect on your health? Certainly, people through the ages have thought so. Black pepper, the dried berries of
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 Sharayu S GAJAPURE & Dr Omprakash GULHANE Lifestyle diseases occur primarily due to our skewed daily habits and inappropriate relationship with our environment. The key factors contributing to lifestyle diseases include bad food habits, physical inactivity and disturbed biological clock. This is why a healthy lifestyle ought to be adopted with a balanced
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 Mohit SANDHU Ayurveda is one of the oldest of medical sciences with eight-plus canonical components and eighteen-plus specialities. Apart from the specialities, pain management is, by far, the most significant Ayurveda practice — for over 5,000 years. As an Ayurveda specialist, I practice Ayurvedic pain management with agnikarma and vidhikarma. Besides focused, also
Words: Dr Rahul BANSAL Unlike the allopathic — modern, or conventional — system of medicine, where the human body is considered a machine, which is nothing short of a reductionist approach, Ayurveda considers the human body as a continuum of nature with consciousness at its core. This all-inclusive percept, also precept, of Ayurveda and its
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 Deep Narayan PANDEY Ayurveda places a profound emphasis on daily intake of fruits — such as amalaki, dadim and draksha — by making them nityasevaneeya [part of regular diet]. Risk reductions for total mortality in the order of 35 per cent — and, specifically of 27 per cent to 39 per cent for
