Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Our brain has a fundamental influence on our ‘mindful’ experience, not to speak of conscious responsiveness. It has a demonstrable pattern, or synergetic symmetry, no less. Yet, when consciousness is ‘measured’ in conventional parlance, the emergence of conscious experience seems mystifying. The argument is simple; also profound. While it is agreed

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Critics, or sceptics, argue that glucosamine adherents have an ostentatious pitch: that the nutritional supplement has ‘the unique ability’ to provide pain relief and help regenerate damaged tissue in joints. They ask: is this a well-orchestrated, or subtle marketing gimmick, or pitch — one you should run after and take? Some

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Think of the most improbable miniature helicopter of all, or those unbearable ‘drum beats’ in your ear. You gotcha the whole idea right — a hazard you’d not even ‘touch’ from afar, as it were. Now, to the basics. With her brittle body, and spiky arsenal of wings, legs and antennae

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR “Any disease,” as Dr Farzad Farahmand, DC, the American chiropractic, homeopath, and wellness physician, puts it, “is a result of some kind of energy imbalance in the body. The imbalance may be due to either an excess, or a deficiency, of energy in the diseased area. Healing occurs when the energy of the

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR If staying physically active holds the key to good health during our younger, or later years, it is amusing that only about 1 in 4 older adults exercise regularly.  This is also compounded by a major misconception — older people often think they are too old, or too weak, to exercise.

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Homeopathic remedies are widely available in different forms: dilutions, mother tincture, tablets, or as speciality products. They are safe for home use. The question is how to choose and use the right remedy, in the right potency, for a given problem. Yet another issue is whether or not to use the

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Homeopathy treats the individual; it does not limit its treatment to the diagnosis of the illness alone. When you are ill, your illness has its own unique pattern of symptoms. You tend to develop or ‘catch’ certain illnesses, because of a particular pattern of imbalance within your system — one that

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Reflexology is as old as the hills. Yet, if ever there’s a paradox by way of the usage of a word, or definition, here it is. Reflexology has got nothing to do with reflexes. Rather, the foundational principle of the complementary healing method is based on an ancient theory that the

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR When one embraces a tolerant position, they would sure discern that immunology and the whole of contemporary biology, in general, may provide a substantial influence, also insight, to the understanding of homeopathy in a context that is not diverse from the conventional perspective. In other words, this is tantamount to saying

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR First, to state the obvious. The healing power of herbs is as old as the hills. Oregano, a therapeutic herb, for instance, is a popular ‘add-on’ in food. Would you know that, it is, in point of fact, a perennial shrub of the Labiatae family. It grows all over Europe, and