Food is the vital breath of living beings that’s why people rush to the food. Complexion,cheerfulness, good voice, life, imagination, happiness, contentment, corpulence, strength, intellect – all these are dependent on food. As it is well known that “prevention is
In ayurveda, every human being is a unique combination of five elements provided to us by the Mother Nature: Water, Earth, Fire, Air and Ether. In Ayurveda, there are three primary life forces I the body pr three biological humors.
Over the couple of decades, people have become more aware about dietary habits and ready to change their lifestyle in order to combat the lifestyle disorders. Now a days, consumption of food is determined upon carbohydrate, fat, protein contents and
The food which is wrong in combination, has undergone wrong processing, consumed in incorrect dose, and/or consumed in incorrect time of the day and in wrong season can lead to Viruddha Ahara. Food–food interaction is a serious issue but not much
( India Science Wire ). A team of Indian scientists has identified black pepper, the everyday kitchen spice, as a possible candidate for developing a drug against the Coronavirus. A computational study conducted by the researchers from the Department of Physics
In Ayurveda, Rasa can mean feeling or emotion as well as taste. And each of the tastes can have a subtle emotional or mental effect on our awareness, as well as on our physical state. The knowledge of Rasa or
Food which comes from the external world to the body is to be broken up, absorbed and assimilated. A heterogeneous substance has to be made homogeneous. The factors responsible for these activities in the body are known as agnis. Ayurveda
Ayurveda recommends Varsha Ritucharya to counter the detrimental imbalances brought about by climatic changes during monsoons. During monsoons the digestive fire (agni) is weak. Throughout summer, Vata dosha accumulates in the body and vitiates agni even further affecting the digestive
Curcumin can enhance cancer cell death caused by a protein called ‘TRAIL.’ The IIT Madras team chose curcumin, the yellow part of the common turmeric that is used in daily cooking, as a sensitizer of TRAIL-resistant cancer cells to apoptosis.
Ashwagandha and Guduchi are the two most sought after Ayurvedic herbs these days. Let’s have some details again. In Ayurveda, Asvagandha, which means “smelling like a horse or mare” in Sanskrit, was used as an aphrodisiac and geriatric tonic and
