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
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
