Following are artices on Ayurveda and cover various aspects of life and the ayurveda industry. we are constantly updating this collecion of ayurveda articles.
In ayurveda most of the conditions characterized by headache are referred to as “shiroroga”. Barring few symptoms like vomiting, double vision (diplopia), tremors in the region above shoulders, earache etc. other systemic symptoms like fever, convulsions etc. are absent. According to Sushrutucharya and Bhavaprakashkar there are 11 types of shiroroga viz.
9 Aug 2006
Repetitive Stress Injuries With the advent of computers, the world has further shrunk in size. It is easy to email and chat and get in touch with your dear ones who are not near you. Net banking, online booking of tickets, maintaining statistics, providing of software for safety and security, uses of computers are manifold. Even in developing country like ours, it is very common to have a household PC in most urban houses and even houses in larger towns. Whether it is typing school reports, surfing the net, or playing games, even children are found to be hooked to their monitors. Behind all this, is an industry that is experiencing a boom which is the Information Technology or the IT industry in short.
Safed musli is the latest herb to catch the fancy of farmers in India. A miraculous herb with immense therapeutic values, safed musli is an alternative to chemical viagra and popularly known as Indian viagra or herbal viagra. Scientifically the plant is known as Chlorophytum borivilianum, belongs to family Liliaceae. Medicinal plant board has recognized safed musli as the 6th plant to be protected in India.
24 Jul 2006
The Tribal Physicians of Kerala
Along with the resurgence of Ayurveda in India tribal medicine, which was kept as a secret treatment method by the tribal people of India, has also attained a newly thrust importance. The tribal people living in the forest areas of Kerala’s southern part have their own treatment methods and herbals which can heal several diseases, which does not have a remedy in Allopathic medicine. The Kani tribals of Thiruvananthapuram District are famous for their tribal medicine.
India has a medical heritage that has the longestcontinous history in human civilization.About 7500 species of plants are in use by 4635 ethnic communities for human and veterinary healthcare across the various echo systems ofthis sub continent.Indian traditionalhealth care programmes function throughtwo social streams.One is the local or folk system whichis purely decentralised and empirical leasedon local
resources .Thesystem is highly region specific andcommunity rooted.
One of the most wonderful gift of Nature is the abundance of Fruits. The traditional system of Ayurvedic medicine in India used fruit therapy to cure diseases. Fruit and fruit juice have long been utilized in healing treatments.
