An article appeared in the October 12, 2011 internet edition of Medpage Today, a widely read online medical professional website entitled “Did Alternative Medicine Kill Steve Jobs?” by a Colorado-based gynecologist named Michelle Berman, MD. Every once in a while, …
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Ayurveda in General
Diabetes – An Ayurvedic perspective
Diabetes is the fifth deadliest disease in the USA. According to ADA (American Diabetic Association) 23.8 million people in USA suffer from diabetes i.e. almost 8 % of the total population of USA. Not only in USA, but all over …
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Book Review: Ayurveda: A Comprehensive Guide to Traditional Indian Medicine for the West
Ayurveda is a lineage of healing that has evolved from the primordial past in a far-off land with an unimaginably different cultural context from the West and has endured through oral legacies of countless generations of healers as well as …
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Ayurveda & Myasthenia Gravis
Myasthenia Gravis (MG) is a neuromuscular disease characterized by increasingly severe fluctuating muscle weakness and fatiguability. This weakness is brought about by an over-active immune response by the body against its own tissues; hence, it is termed an autoimmune diseases. …
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All About Kapha Dosha
The physical universe is derived from three powers: energy, light and matter. Energy works through the air element, light works through fire, and matter is dominated by water. When these factors are imbued with prana, or life force, the three …
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Cancer: A Comparative Study Of Modern And Ancient Ayurvedic Thoughts About Pathology Of This Disease
The human body is a multicellular organization or ecosystem whose individual units - cells - grow and reproduce by cell division and organize themselves in collaborative groups of tissues. Tissues further assemble to form organs, pathways and systems. In this …
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All About Vata Dosha
According to Ayurveda, there is a direct relationship between the elements that make up the natural universe–earth, water, fire, air and space–and the human body. Therefore, it is important to know about the basic constituents and principles of a well-functioning …
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Book Review: Light, Medicine of the Future
Light, Medicine of the Future: How We Can Use It to Heal Ourselves Now by Jacob Liberman, O.D., Ph.D. Bear & Company/Inner Traditions Press, Rochester, Vermont 1990 Jacob Liberman, is a doctor of optometry as well as the holder of …
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Ayurvedic Management of Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic Fibrosis is an inherited disease of the mucous and sweat glands, which affects mostly the lungs, pancreas, liver, intestines, sinuses and genitalia. This condition is also known as CF, Fibrocystic Disease or Mucoviscidosis, affects mostly Europeans, particularly those tracing …
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Ayurvedic Management of Allergies
About 75 million Americans – roughly one quarter of the population – suffer from airborne allergies, which reach the height of their troublesomeness over the spring, summer and autumn, depending upon where one lives. Usually accompanied by running and itching …
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