Words: Dr Chaithra S RAO Indian pennywort is a famed memory enhancer, a delectable culinary herb and a doctor’s ‘good bet’ in treating neurological disorders. It is colloquially as popular as Brahmi, which is technically and authentically a different herb with similar qualities. Its botanical name is Centella asiatica. It is known as Gotu kola
Words: Dr Ambika P NAYAK This is a verse from Maharshi Charaka — you may think of it as our best prescription for today and tomorrow. Yogaadapi visham teekshnam uttamam bheshajam bhaveth | Bheshajam chaapi duryuktam teekshnam sampadyate visham || There is a timeless wisdom in these lines. It throws light on the importance of
Words: Dr Gauri ROKKAM We are all witness to a new, bludgeoning ‘epidemic’ — the epidemic of chronic degenerative inflammatory diseases. Heart disease, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [COPD], osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, cancer, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, among others, are all on the upswing. While our existing medical system[s] may not have all the answers when
Words: Andre ZIZI In life, I have travelled a long, hard path. Britain and her people have been a blessing to my growth; my past was like living in a psychic war zone. My present is where I want to spend my eternity. My journey has been one of seeking my identity, my place in
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Question: Heart disease seems to run in my family. Please let me know the basics and also what I can do to ‘prevent’ the disease, if possible. — S K, Bengaluru Answer: A host of risk factors plays a major role in the development of heart disease. For example: cigarette smoking,
Words: Kerry DULIN First and foremost, you have to make up your mind to begin working on a lift routine. Take the weights in your hand. As you hit the weight room, here are the six things to keep in mind. Where to turn for advice. You’ve decided to go to the gym to lift,
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Allergies can often be psychosomatic. There is an interesting story. A nineteenth-century US physician, Dr John Noland MacKenzie, MD, wrote how one of his patients, a 32-year old woman, experienced allergy symptoms when exposed to the odour of roses. Her symptoms included a violent cold with watery eyes and runny nose,
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Every workplace has a whole host of policies and procedures. They are in place not because they ought to be there, but because they are formulated in a manner that the company deems fit — for its functioning and also for achieving its business objectives. First, and foremost, you should try
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Millions are overweight and unhealthy today. It is, therefore, not uncommon for most of them to embark on new dietetic experiments and diet plans at any given point of time, and at the drop of a new ‘formula.’ The problem, in reality, is not so much with dieting, but falling for
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH Homeopathy is based on the Law of Similars, the idea that a substance which can produce a certain set of symptoms in a healthy person can, likewise, cure these same symptoms in illness. This process of matching symptom-pictures is the cornerstone of homeopathy and it is described through the phrase ‘Like
