Massage is derived from the Greek work ‘massier’ which means to knead. In Ayurveda as far as five thousands of years has utilised massage not only as a therapeutic agent but also a preventive aspect to protect and preserve the health. At 400 BC Hippocrates, has used massage for healing the diseases of patients. The Magic Touch When you hold the hand of a troubled friend, or wipe the feverish [...]

Anger is a strong feeling or condition of displeasure and antagonism that can depress the immune system and induce abnormal electrical activity in the heart (Wenneberg et al., 1997). Common sources of anger are illness and the health care experience (Whyte & Smith, 1997). Some other sources of anger include: attacks from others (including other health care workers), lack of assistance and support, [...]

ANEMIA In anemia, body tissues are deprived of oxygen due to a reduction in the number of circulating red blood cells. There are more than 400 forms of anemia. Symptoms include weakness, fatigue, and a general feeling of malaise (mild anemia); burning tongue (vitamin B12 anemia); weakness, tiredness, shortness of breath, and faintness or dizziness (severe anemia); pasty or yellowish skin and bluish [...]

No one likes to be sick. But, why does one fall sick? There are so many reasons for ailments like wrong life style, unbalanced diet, consumption of harmful products, lack of exercises, etc. So, it is certain that a human body is engulfed by some ailments (or) the other. This process has started since the beginning of the human civilisation. Since ancient times, various methods have been used to treat [...]

Now a days, man is affected by various physical and mental ailments. Whenever we fall sick, we rush to a doctor and gulp down different medicines in trying to get relief and continue to have food. We are taught to eat at regular times whether we are hungry or not so we stuff ourselves. This leads to auto intoxication and polluted blood stream which are the root causes of all our major physical troubles. [...]

Music is the finest of the fine art and so is the poetry. Both are interwoven and form significant segment of India’s cultural opulence. The poem that is sung can soothe, change and redirect energy at the same time almost imperceptibly. Music is regarded as a bridge between the world of matter and the world of spirit. Recognising this mystic connection saints in all religions attuned themselves [...]

Hot water is, in reality, a “natural scavenger,” but its virtues are only imperfectly known. As a therapeutic agent it is almost without a peer, and yet it is so little used that it is practically a dead letter. Chemists are burning the midnight oil in their laboratories searching for new weapons with which to fight sepsis, while hot, boiled water, which is one of the best antiseptics in [...]

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FRUIT AND VEGETABLES The basic difference, for a layman, between fruit and vegetable is that which could be consumed raw is fruit while that could be consumed raw as well as cooked is vegetable. Botanically speaking fruit is the ripened ovary of a flower, either by itself or in combination with other structures that have matured with it as a single organic unit. Although this [...]

For growing wheat-grass very big, deep pots are not required. Take seven pots measuring one square feet and having a depth of about three inches. Take only seven pots because after sowing wheat grows to the desired height after 7 days. As a substitute of pots we can also use wooden boxes, lower half of earthen pots, baskets or big tins. If there is a compound or a backyard in the house, wheat can be [...]

Raw vegetable juices and fruit juices are now scientifically proven that have no equal as far as human diet is concerned. Proper or balanced diet is the greatest single factor in the maintenance of health. It is not the food in your life that counts but the life in your food that is of primary importance and it really counts. A safe rule to have vital and nutritive food is the juice of fruits and vegetables [...]