Public Health

Principles of Ayurveda

There are two principle objectives of Ayurveda. One of them is the protection, preservation and promotion of health in a healthy person and the other is the prevention and treatment of disease in the patient (Shivsharma, 1929). Thus Ayurveda provides the k ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 12 2012 - 4:38pm

Mimosaceae family is rich in medicinal plants

Family Mimosaceae has 56 genera and 2800 species which are found in tropical and subtropical region. The mimosaceae plants are climber (Acacia caesia), tree (Acacia catechu), Shrub (Acacia farnesiana), deciduous tree (A. leucophalia), tree (babul), climbe ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 12 2012 - 5:25pm

Traditional medicines have deep roots in culture: Cultural heritage helps in conservation of plants also.

There are over 400 different tribal and other ethnic groups in India. The tribals constitute about 7.5 per cent of Indian population (Gupta, 1970). Apart from the tribal groups, many other forest dwellers and rural people also possess unique knowledge abou ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 19 2012 - 12:07pm

Sunscreen's War On Women?

Do you use sunscreen?  If not, you aren't as crazy as those anti-science hippies who are trying to give their kids smallpox or starve poor nations, but you are not exactly up on the literature of the last 30 years either. However, you may be no worse ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 26 2012 - 9:22pm

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