Archive for January, 2009

Philosophy and Principles of food intake for holistic health

Food intake is one of the expressions of seeking fulfillment to the deep felt incompleteness in being. Creating awareness, clarity and sensitivity to body, emotional and spiritual needs, can go a long way in improving our choice of food at all the five kosas, thus paving way for healthful, fulfilled living and being.
Food intake is [...]

Nature Cure for Dysentery

Dysentery is a serious condition affecting the-large intestine, characterized by inflammation and ulceration of the bowel. Among specific food remedies, bael fruit is, perhaps, the most efficacious. The use of pomegranate (anar) rind is another effective remedy
Dysentery is a serious condition affecting the large intestine, characterized by inflammation and ulceration of the bowel, a colic [...]

Wheat Grass Juice Therapy – Health Benefits and healing properties

Wheat-Grass Juice Therapy, though coming in global notice not many decades ago, its efficacy was known to mankind millennia ago when man lived like beasts. Whenever hurt, they would apply a sort of grass juice to their wounds. This practice is still prevalent among the aboriginals. What is that especial element in that grass that [...]

The Healing Power of Mudras

Book Review
The Healing Power of Mudras
Author – Rajendar Menen
104 pp., Soft cover book, 2005
Price Rs. 80/-
ISBN 81-223-0873-2
Published by Pustak Mahal, New Delhi
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It is believed that human body is controlled by five elements, viz. air fire, air, water, earth and sky. These elements are present in fixed proportions and even the slightest imbalance of any of [...]

Cryotherapy – Ice Therapy

Ice therapy (Cryotherapy) is a treatment involving the application of ice. This is one of the commonest and very old method of treatments.
Ice isn’t just to make drinks cold any longer; in this advantage age ice has relocated its position as a therapeutic modality. Ice therapy is a treatment involving the application of ice. This [...]

Relevance of yoga in health

Yoga is the science of right living and as such is intended to be incoporated in daily life. It works on all aspects of the person; the physical, vital, mental, emotional, psychological and spritual.
INTRODUCTION:
Present day life is becoming more mechanical with stressful lifestyle, though there is improvement in the standard of living in social, economical [...]

Diet ingredients – beware of overdoing

“There are no special diets – only special people.” – MADGEL L. MGNS
Normal diets must consist of combination of all body building and maintaining ingredients in proportions.
Many persons suffer from a confused state of mind as to what to eat for better health? Half statements and a partial view misguide and generate many health complaints [...]

Basic Practice of Some Pranayamas

The art and science of pranayama has immense therapeutic potential in a wide range of psychosomatic disorders such as diabetes, hypertension and asthama. It can be used either as a monotherapy or in combination with Asanas and other aspects of Yoga.
Pranayama, the science of controlled, conscious expansion of Prana (the life force) is the fourth [...]

Posture and spine care

Pain may be due to lifting a heavy object incorrectly, over-exercising, sitting for long periods of time, or carrying a heavy backpack on one shoulder. By using proper lifting techniques, maintaining the appropriate body weight and tone, keeping the back and body muscles strong, and keeping good posture, many back injuries and episodes of low [...]

Naturopathy and yogic management of allergic disorders

Allergy points towards a state of disturbed harmony which could be due to a wrong style of living, wrong ei habhi etc. and sont s a wrong understanding and thinking too.
The word, “allergy “is emanated from H two Greek words – allos which means “other” and ergon means “reaction” – resulting in immune malfunction. It [...]


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