Health and Ayurveda

Health issues, cautionary notes, announcements, suggestions, and remedies.

Understanding Vata dosha in Ayurveda

In the ancient Ayurvedic text, the Charak Samhita, Charak describes all the etiological factors which contribute to disturbances in the body’s channels (srotas). ...

Ayurvedic Science of Doshic Imbalance

The goal in Ayurveda is to maintain our prakruti, or our inborn physiological constitution.  This is the amount of Vata, Pitta, and Kapha doshas...

List of must carry Ayurvedic medicines for a smart traveller

People do travel, and when they do so, there is every possibility that they fall sick, get injured, catch cold, get headache and so...

Understanding a dosha in Ayurveda

One of the most commonly used terms in Ayurveda is “dosha”.  There are varying contexts in which it is currently used, as it can...

Researchers say Antibiotic resistance is linked to corruption

While antibiotic resistance is not a new thing nor was it something that wasn't expected, researchers have now established an apparently unlikely link between...

Too much sitting linked to heart disease

When computers were invented, they were considered a boon because they were going to reduce our physical work. When computers were made available in...

Swine Flu – Ayurvedic viewpoint and cure

As the news updates on swine flu continue to make headlines in India, it is important that people also know how swine flu is...

Swine Flu – Symptoms and Tips to follow

With the total number of deaths due to swine flu heading towards 1000 and over 15,000 people affected with the H1N1 virus across India,...

Astringent Taste in Ayurveda

Image credit Pinterest We conclude our journey of the six tastes, or shad rasa, with the astringent taste in Ayurveda.  Astringent is comprised of the...

The Pungent Taste in Ayurveda

Image credit Pinterest As we continue our journey through the shad rasa (six tastes) in Ayurveda, we will explore the taste that garners either a...

READERS' PICK

overpopulation is a myth

Confirmed! Overpopulation propaganda are misleading

The ongoing propaganda about overpopulation is a reminder of the miserly son who, not knowing his father's opulence, panics when guests stay at his house. He...

Science confirms Life on the Sun

Who on the Earth ever thought that life can exist on the Sun? As soon as the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) received...

Knowing Sri Mayapur As It Is -1

"Do you know Mayapur? Yes! Have you been to Mayapur? So many times! Wait a minute-which Mayapur are you talking about? The one that...
permanent happiness

Happiness does not last? You may be missing the point

Let's get straight to the point. Do you realize that almost all of us spend practically every moment of our life to become happy?...

Is Darwinian Theory obsolete?

The Darwinian theory was central in the separation of church doctrine and the State/Politics/Leadership as it offered an alternative to creation by God and...