Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR There are dozens of viruses that cause colds — the most common being rhinoviruses. Over 200 types of rhinoviruses are implicated in the causative mechanism of a cold. The worst part is — the nasal distress, caused by rhinoviruses, are more frequent in spring and fall, although they can instigate the
Kavita TATE-NADKARNI responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Your view on beauty? It’s a famed cliché, also platitude ― that beauty resides in the eyes of the beholder. There should be a reason behind it, right? Beauty is a subjective thing; it’s also an individual’s perspective, one that differs from person to person. Something, or someone who I feel
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Kundalini, in its essence and practice, is called the ‘mother’ yoga. It incorporates the physical aspects of yoga, along with the mind and spirit, into an integrated system, or one whole, through which one can gain a better understanding of the mind-body connect. The word ‘Kundalini’ refers to awareness and manifestation
Words: Dr Naveen Kumar BOGGARAPU AB [39], presented with depression of over five years; she was on anti-depressants ever since. She was indifferent, not keen on any activity, and would sit in the balcony staring at the neighbouring skyscraper for hours. She was often ‘distant’ from her husband and their two kids. When I analysed
Words: Dr Christine LASCHKOLNIG Anger has many faces — homeopathy offers a variety of ‘angry’ remedies to manage it. In my first consultation I find out how my patients deal with anger. Most of them feel it, but do not have enough energy to express it; others tell me about the violent tantrums that surface
Words: Paribha VASHIST We live in a conflict-ridden world where the feeling of bonhomie is nothing short of utopia. The bloody combat in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the inter-ethnic violence in the Sahel, and the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Venezuela, are just some of the major social and ethnic rows characterising today’s society. When
Words: Dr Narayan C DESHPANDE Sigmund Freud, the plumber of the mind, ‘distilled’ the direct and unconscious foundations of psychological illnesses, including the mode in which they are ‘voiced.’ Carl Gustav Jung, the explorer of the psyche, amplified Freud’s standpoint by presenting how direct and indirect emotional and other outlines encompass emblematic exemplifications of our
Ritu BATRA responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Your view on beauty? I believe beauty is in everything that is around us and everything we do. It is not ‘thin’ or ‘fat,’ not black or white, not any particular shape, size or hue. In fact, it is inclusive too. The beauty that really matters resides in our
Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN Asthma is the epidemic in our time. Over fifteen million Americans, for example, now suffer from this devastating condition, and it is the primary cause of hospitalisation in children. We spend more than US$6 billion a year on asthma treatment and our solution so far has been the use of potent
Words: Dr Ambika P NAYAK Ayurveda, when translated, in a literal context, corresponds to the ‘science of life.’ It may also be defined as “the way of living with awareness and promoting healthy longevity.” Ayurveda includes medicines, philosophy, tradition, diet, as well as physical, emotional, mental and spiritual fine-tuning. Life, from birth to death, is
