Ayurveda promotes fundamentalism, fascism!
“Ayurveda invokes and provokes nationalism through a politics of cultural heritage and in terms of both neo-orientalism and fundamentalism’ ‘Nature cure’s visceral cosmopolitanism provides a significant More...
Cultural History of Medicinal Plants in India
The usage of medicinal plants is interwoven in the spiritual, religious, social and other spheres of life as far as the Indian tradition is concerned. The Indian tradition is a unique tradition that envisages the More...
Time is Ripe for Deeper Look at Indian Knowledge Systems
Last year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his work on Autophagy caused quite some excitement among Indians as it directly correlated with what we knew about Ekadasi Vrata and cellular More...
What the Nobel Prize for Medicine Means for Ayurvedic Research
My earlier essay titled “Ayurveda’s Perception Issues” had emphasised upon a singularly important fact – While the classics of ayurveda contain trustworthy and employable clinical observations, More...
Ayurveda : a distinctive approach to health and disease
Abstract The enormous complexity of human body offers scope to conceptualize its dynamic organisation in a number of ways such as structural, biochemical, functional, etc. The conventional western medicine views More...
Sports and Menstruation: Exploring Indigenous Knowledge- II
[contextly_sidebar id=”RhceYd3PL9XKGKVwZaHPK5yfHzJHhFMe”] “Female martial artists, as with all serious female athletes, have a distinct advantage over their male counterparts in one very crucial area: More...
Sports and Menstruation: Exploring Indigenous Knowledge- I
It is hard enough to talk about menstruation as it is. Add sports to this, and we have more questions than answers. Have you ever wondered why an ace sportswoman suddenly loses to a newcomer on a big match? Or how More...
Ayurveda’s Perception Issues : Reasons And Solutions
Although Ayurveda continues to be an oft-sought system of primary medical care in India, its perception in the minds of the average citizenry is somewhat vague and unfair. This perception, characterised by a certain More...
Hindu View of Menstruation- VI: Menstruation Restrictions and Attitudes
[contextly_sidebar id=”8b0F9v71irDQ4RDQyeTZbvv5kZIGwu5t”] In the previous articles, we successively saw how Hinduism associates menstruation with Ashaucha, austerity, self-purification, rest, and sacred More...
Hindu View of Menstruation- V: Menstruation in Ayurveda
[contextly_sidebar id=”LJxtirgPTnAsKfaPocqbIypSsozofB0L”] In the previous articles, we successively saw how Hinduism associates menstruation with Ashaucha, austerity, self-purification, rest, and sacred More...