Kalki KOECHLIN on beauty, fitness, health and wellness. Your view on beauty? There is always a certain pressure to look in a fixed, definite way in the movie industry — this affects young girls to the extent that they end up making changes to their looks. The weight of looking good is difficult for us
Dr RASHMI N R responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? I did not, at first, plan to becoming a doctor; I reckon that it was all destiny’s call. When I enrolled at the medical college and started learning more about Ayurveda, I realised its profound depth as
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH Monomania [Greek, monos, meaning ‘one,’ and mania, meaning ‘madness,’ or ‘frenzy’] is a form of partial insanity conceived as a single psychological obsession in an otherwise sound individual. There are several homeopathic remedies, which, in their ‘provings,’ exhibit a form of ‘insanity,’ such as monomania — a state in which the
Words: Joette CALABRESE “It’s a Christmas miracle.” Many folks use that expression to describe events that defy belief. You’ve heard it before. Statements such as, “Little Johnny cleaned up his room without being asked. It’s a Christmas miracle.” To my taste, the word ‘miracle’ is bandied around a bit too freely. I believe there was
Words: Drs Deepti L KAWALE & Sharad D TRIPATHI The balance of dosha, dhathu, agni and mala, which are all important factors in a person’s health, is described in great detail in Ayurveda. When atma, indriya, and manas are in synchrony, it improves our physical and mental well-being. To achieve a healthy bodily and mental
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Ethics is not as simple as it sounds. Just a small percentage of organisations and people take interest in promoting ethics. Also, whatever little has been done has not put to shame the offenders and led them to their doom, or out of business, or transformed the ill-mannered. This is, indeed,
Dr Noémi RADVÁNYI in conversation with Dr Von Jens BEHNKE Dr Jens Behnke answers questions from Dr Noémi Radványi, from Hungary, for www.homeopatika.blog.hu/ about the evidence for homeopathy, research methodology and interpretation of data from clinical trials. Dr N Radványi: There are many trials that measured the effectiveness of homeopathy. Some of them observe no
Words: Team THINKWELLNESS360 Q: I’ve been taking homeopathic medicines for a long time; it’s our family medicine. Everyone has their way of taking them — what would be the ‘best’ mode of taking them, along with the right dosage? — GK, Kollam A: Homeopathic remedies, or medicines, are, most often, given in pills form, to
Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN Adrienne Austin, a thirty-one-year-old fashion designer, had spent the last decade of her life battling her skin ailments, eczema and seborrhoea. In addition to her chronic itching and rashes, she experienced frequent headaches and sinusitis. Over the years, she’d been on a number of antibiotics to treat a variety of skin
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Homeopathy is not just a system of medical treatment; it is an advance in the area of mind-body, holistic medicine. It involves treating the individual having an illness, or disease, with highly diluted substances, prescribed primarily in pill, or liquid, form with the aim of triggering the body’s natural capacity for
