Public Health

Bhutanese Medical System

Bhutanese Medical System: The Bhutanese medical system goes well beyond the notion of medicine in the narrow western sense. It forms a part of their culture and tradition, in which "Buddhism" is the prevailing influence. Health and spirituality a ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 22 2011 - 5:20am

No Gimmicks, No Cleanses- Your Brain Knows Weight Loss Better Than Your Beliefs Do

Other than wasting away due to illness, there is no shortcut to weight loss.   You can, of course, simply not eat at all and that will work but if you resume your old habits you would gain the weight back and the drastic changes to your body might do harm. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2011 - 3:23pm

Practical Science: Will Grilling Kill E. Coli In Your Sirloin Steak This Weekend?

Given the news recently about yet another E. coli outbreak, you may be concerned E. coli is not just a plague in 'organically' processed and prepared vegetables but perhaps in regular steak  - and you would be correct. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2011 - 3:56pm

Exercise In A Wine Bottle

Too lazy to exercise?  In a world full of concern about global warming and estrogen in rivers and anti-vaccine hippies trying to bring back polio, science has some good news for a change; even if you are sedentary, a glass of red wine may offset some of th ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2011 - 8:50am

Widely Obvious: Obesity Spreads Socially

Joanna Dolgoff  covers new research  on how obesity spreads through social contact over at Huffington Post. I'm sure this comes as a huge surprise to those of us who have watched our waistlines spread along with the waistlines of our friends. Well, a ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Jul 2 2011 - 7:44am

McDonald's Going Vegan? Not Just Yet

Progressive kooks in San Francisco want to ban Happy Meals but they can't have a beef with vegan burgers, right?    Just down the road from 'Frisco, at Stanford, biochem professor (and founding co-director of PLoS- yayy, open access!) Pat Brown i ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 14 2011 - 4:40pm

Climbers With Multiple Sclerosis And Parkinson's Disease Conquer Mt Kilimanjaro

Today, seven men and women with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and four with Parkinson's disease (PD), along with nine climbing companions, reached the highest peak in Africa- Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania stands at 19,340 feet,  not only making it the high ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 18 2011 - 1:10pm

Drinking Liquor Without Getting Drunk- A General Perspective

      Alcohol is a class of organic compounds with-OH (hydroxyl) group attached to the hydrocarbon chain.  The hydrocarbon chain got its hydroxyl group through replacement of its hydrogen.     Among the many alcohols in the class, ethyl alcohol or ethanol ...

Blog Post - Camilo Tabinas - Nov 12 2017 - 7:28am

Saxifraga moorcroftiana (Seringe) Wallich. ex. sternb. a medicinal plant of traditional medicine

Saxifraga moorcroftiana (Seringe) Wallich. ex. sternb. Family: Saxifragaceae Bhutanese medicinal name: Bri- ta- sa- zin Distribution area: Bhutan, Nepal to S.W. China. Alt. 3,600-4,500m. Alpine slopes; common, Aug.- Sept. Description: An erect perennial 10 ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 26 2011 - 10:29am

Rosa the genus for Rose has some medicinal plants also

1. Rosa macrophylla Lindley. Family: Rosaceae Bhutanese medicinal name: Se-rgod. Common name: Taste metog Distribution Area: Temperate Himalaya, Bhutan, Sikkim, alt. 1,200-3,500m. In Bhutan found in Ha, Paro, Thimphu, Bumthang,Gasa and Mongar districts. De ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 27 2011 - 4:34pm