Words: Dr Narayan C DESHPANDE One of my good, old teachers of clinical medicine would often articulate, in his impeccable Queen’s English, that the abdomen is a ‘temple of surprises.’ The abdomen is unquestionably a difficult-to-fathom ‘customer’ — it is not just the abdominal pain, or colic, which starts and ends that matters. The whole
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Success, as Herman Cain, the American businessman and activist, once said, is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Intelligence, likewise, is not just a question of destiny. Raising the coffee cup to one’s lips is
Words: Drs Theresa LARKIN & Susan J THOMAS Love dominates our popular culture and is the subject of countless songs, movies, and works of literature and art. But what’s happening in our body when we feel love? Love is difficult to define, but it can be described as an intense feeling of deep affection. At
Words: Dr Deborah OLENEV You need a Powerline box. This is a fantastic discovery. People learned that the Ethernet signal can travel along the house electrical wires. Ethernet cables are not necessary to bring Ethernet to a room. If you have your house already wired for Ethernet, you don’t need this; but, if you do
Words: Dr Trine STUB et al Highlights Almost all healthcare interventions have a potential to be associated with risk, or adverse effects Observational studies are a suitable design for evaluating adverse effects Adverse effects were more frequently reported in patients using conventional medicine, other complementary therapies, compared to homeopathy Homeopathy, including everything a homeopath does
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Mindfulness is about guiding our attention inwards, in the present moment, and relating to the sensations we are feeling, and what thoughts and emotions we’re going through. When diversions occur — a child crying, or TV jabbering, a bird singing, a new recollection surfacing — we just let them go. The
Words: Dr Ryan N HARRISON Many people think of vitamin D as the ‘sunshine vitamin,’ and aptly so: one of the best sources of vitamin D is the natural reaction that occurs when the sun’s ultraviolet rays act on the oils of the skin to produce the vitamin, which is then absorbed into the body.
Dr T VIDYAVATI responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? It was a poignant, heart-breaking moment. I lost my father when I was in 10th Standard, possibly due to doctors’ negligence. This was the latent ‘spark’ in grief that propelled me to helping patients, just like my father
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR When a woman stops having menstrual periods, permanently, she is said to have reached a stage of life called menopause. Menopause is also called as ‘change of life;’ it signals the end of a woman’s ability to have children. The use of the term menopause, as a norm, refers to the
Words: Drs Prasanna BHALERAO, Amolsingh CHAUHAN & Yogendra M KASAT Ayurveda considers srotas as body channels essential for our normal physiology. In pathological conditions, the obstruction of the srotas plays an important role. Nidana [causative factors] leads to vitiation of doshas that get accumulated in the srotas, followed by dosha dushti. This results in the
