Public Health

Acacia catechu Willd. or kattha used in Pan in India has anti-HIV properties?

Acacia catechu Willd. Vernacular Names:- Assam: Kat, Khair, Khoira, Koir; Bengal: Khayer, Kuth; Bombay: Khaderi, Khaira, Khera; Central Provinces: Khair; Ceylon: Karangall, Kashukutta, Kodalimurungai, Voadalam, Deccan: Katha, Khair, Khairbabul; English: Bl ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 27 2012 - 12:04pm

Herbal medicines.

Herbal medicine is still the mainstay of about 75-80 per cent of the world population, mainly in the developing countries, for primary health care because of better cultural acceptability, better compatibility with human body and lesser side effects. Howev ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 30 2012 - 11:53am

Giving Birth Takes Longer Today Than 50 Years Ago- Researchers Analyze Why

Women take longer to give birth today than did women 50 years ago, according to a n analysis of nearly 140,000 deliveries conducted by researchers at the National Institutes of Health which finds that women take longer to give birth today than did women 50 ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 30 2012 - 3:20pm

Coke And Chocolate Poisoning You And Your Kids?

Trimethyl-Xanthine (spoken: Zanthine) is a bitter, white crystalline alkaloid. It is found in varying quantities in the seeds, leaves, and fruit of some plants, where it is naturally synthesized as a pesticide that paralyzes and kills certain insects feed ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Apr 1 2012 - 9:46pm

A-T Disease: HDAC4 Clue To Preventing And Possibly Reversing It

Scientists think they have found a way to prevent and possibly reverse the most debilitating symptoms of the rare, progressive childhood degenerative disease called ataxia-telangiectasia, or A-T disease, that leaves children with slurred speech, unable to ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2012 - 12:24am

Indigofera tinctoria Linn. ‘Neel’ and other important plants of Fabaceae.

50. Indigofera tinctoria Linn. ‘Neel’ (Indigo):- Leaf yields a valuable vegetable blue dye indigo; it is fast both to light and water; it is used for dyeing textiles and for painting. 51. Kingiodendron pinnatun Harms. ‘ Enne, Kolavu’ (Piney):- The wood is ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Apr 4 2012 - 10:36am

Remeber National Flag and remain healthy?

In a meeting at Varanasi one emienent scientist pointed out that remember the nantional flag of India and remain healthy.I have due respect and regards to whatever meaning was ascribed to our founders of the nation but this write up is for associating the ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Apr 5 2012 - 10:51pm

Guar gum from Cyamopsis tetragonoloba: a success story of Professor Randhawa at IIT, Roorkie.

"This gum prevents ice crystal formation and also creates the smooth, silky sheen in shampoos. ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Apr 6 2012 - 10:46am

Euphorbia tirucalli L.: has medicinal properties also.

Euphorbia tirucalli L.: Family: Euphorbiaceae Genus: Euphorbia Species: tirucalli, insulana Common names: English: Indian tree spurge, Milk hedge, Petroleum-plant, aveloz, milk bush, pencil tree, Sehund, Thohra, and Konpal-sehnd. E. tirucalli is a succulen ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Apr 9 2012 - 7:54am

Free Hangover Cure Now IV For 500 Dollars In Las Vegas

Why take something for free and feel cheap if you can pay half a grand and support quackery? Precisely! Hangovers from alcohol are almost entirely due to dehydration, read: too little water in your body. Although you drank a lot of water along with the sp ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Apr 15 2012 - 1:36am