Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN Fred Reynolds [32] was new to New York from the sunny state of South Carolina, US. Although he had moved up north for a glitzy job as the photo-editor of a famous men’s magazine, the exciting career move did nothing to incite in him a love for the Big Apple. He
Atmantan, a truly transformative, internationally acclaimed wellness centre and clinic, resides atop a natural, also unique, crystal hill that lends subtly therapeutic, or healing, frequencies. Atmantan spans 42 acres of lush Sahyadri, overlooking the pristine Mulshi Lake, proximate to Pune. You’d resonate with Atmantan as the holistic amalgamation of the atma [soul], mana [mind] and
Words: Dr Joette CALABRESE Caulophyllum thalictroides. Two big Latin words that are all about labour. Years ago, when I was a classical homeopath, I was trained to find the similimum — the one homeopathic medicine covering almost everything important in the case — and, use it once, or twice within a 24-hour period. And, that’s it.
Words: Team THINKWELLNESS360 The banana is an elongated, curved, tropical fruit with a smooth outer skin that peels off easily when the fruit is ripe. Bananas are harvested while still green, but they may be ripened under controlled conditions before being delivered to the grocery store. Yellow bananas are fully ripe when the skin has
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Depression is no pleasant feeling, much less an agreeable expression. It affects millions of people to varying degrees. It has a tendency, in a manner born, to ‘attack’ without a clear reason, albeit contemporary research supports the view that complex psychological, environmental and biochemical factors may trigger, or ‘engender,’ our initial
Dr Shalini KATOCH responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? Well, I never thought of becoming doctor; it just came to me ever since I understood my being. I knew only one thing, from then on — that I just want to be a doctor, no matter how
Words: Dr Vasant PATIL Ayurveda, the ancient science of life and healing, has stood the test of time with its holistic approach to health and well-being. Ayurveda is based on the balance of body, mind and spirit. It provides individualised, or bespoke, treatments, tailored to everyone’s unique prakriti. At a time when technology is rapidly
Words: Dr Robert VERKERK When we heard yet another account of a patient being given a conventional medical diagnosis, only to be sent away from the consultant’s office because there was nothing to be done except wait till the organ in question failed completely, it got us pretty heated. Especially, because, in this case the
Words: Paribha VASHIST India is home to a variety of crops, thanks to its vast diversity in agro-climatic conditions. With myriad opportunities to gain profit from selling agricultural produce, farmers are aiming to increase the annual crop production by growing all kinds of seasonal crops and indulging in food processing activities. This means they have a
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR When the Austrian paediatrician, Clemens von Pirquet, MD, first used the term, allergy, in the early 1900s — from the Greek allos, for altered state, and ergon, for reaction — to illustrate excess physiological responses to substances in the environment, the fascinating expression caught the fancy of the world. Today, allergy
