Book Review: Healing Mantras: Using Sound Affirmations or Personal Power, Creativity & Healing
November 19, 2020
Mantras, or simple chants, are short phrases packed with energy and intention–specifically designed to generate powerful sound waves that promote healing, insight, creativity, and spiritual growth.
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Book Review: Healing Spices
September 01, 2020
The culinary spices that so copiously populate our pantries – turmeric, garlic, ginger, cloves and sesame seeds among many others – not only add savor to the foods we prepare, but are also often possessed of potent and even miraculous healing properties when used in therapeutic quantities on proper subjects for the right reasons.
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Book Review: Messages from the Dream Body
January 28th, 2018
Nancy Dakota Adlman, the author of "Messages from the Dream Body" is a social work educator, clinical social worker and a psychotherapist in private practice as well as a Shamanic practitioner who has studied extensively with Shamans and healers from the Peruvian, Ecuadorian, and New Mexican traditions.
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Book Review: Rasayana: Ayurvedic Herbs for Longevity and Rejuvenation
August 24, 2019
Rasayana (rejuvenation or revitalization therapy) one of the historic eight specializations within traditional Ayurvedic practice, although this least understood branch of this science, is becoming of ever growing interest.
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Book Review: Scientific Basis for Ayurvedic Therapies
May 30th, 2018
Arguably the oldest form of health care, Ayurveda is often referred to as the "Mother of All Healing." Although there has been considerable scientific research done in this area during the last 50 years, the results of that research have not – generally - been adequately organized or sufficiently disseminated.
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Book Review: The Natural Health Matrix: Eastern Wisdom for Western Minds
July 05, 2018
The book is part memoir and part straightforward instructional text which adds to its readability and overall charm, which makes a potentially labored reading in fact a real delight. The book describes its author’s personal pilgrimage into Ayurveda and his explorations into its guiding principles and philosophies that came to change his own life in a revolutionary fashion.
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Cancer: A Comparative Study Of Modern And Ancient Ayurvedic Thoughts About Pathology Of This Disease
August 13, 2019
Among the systems of cellular taxonomy, one divides cell types into the somatic and the reproductive. The commonality of all somatic cells is one marked by self-sacrifice and having a specific life span whose end witnesses the somatic cell leaving no progeny but having dedicated its existence to the support of germ cells
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Dealing with Respiratory Infections Ayurvedically
October 30, 2019
It’s now nearly half-way into the school year. The holidays are behind us, homework is keeping everyone up too late, the weather is getting cooler and the season for upper respiratory infections, bronchitis, coughs, colds and even influenza is indisputably here. It’s been an unseasonably warm fall overall, but still pediatricians are warning parents to be especially vigilant.
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Diabetes – An Ayurvedic perspective
September 19th, 2019
According to Ayurveda, Diabetes can be correlated to “Madhumeh”. Madhumeh is categorized under the disease “Prameh” which is extensively described in all major Ayurvedic texts. The word ‘madhu’ means honey (sweet) and ‘meh’ means urination. Hence ‘madhumeh’ means a disease in which person urinates honey like urine.
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FDA urges caution with potentially lethal Licorice; Overlooks Prilosec, Accutane, Meridia, Crestor, Bextra, and Serevent.
August 07, 2020
Black licorice treats can cause heart tricks" and warning of the potentially lethal effects on heart function of ingesting black licorice - an herbal remedy used for thousands of years, in a globe-spanning variety of cultures and traditions, and, used knowledgeably, without ill effect on the general population.
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Herb of the Season: Chandraprabha
July 28th, 2019
Chandraprabha (also called Chandraprabha Gulika and Chandraprabha Vati) is an Ayurvedic classical medicine used for the treatment of a very wide variety of diseases of kidneys, bladder, urinary tract, pancreas, bones, joints, and thyroid gland. It is also recommended in the management of diabetes, male and female reproductive issues and mental disorders.
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Herb of the Season: Jatamansi (Nardostachys jatamansi, Musk)
March 08, 2019
Famous in Ayurveda as an herb to combat the effects of day-to-day stress, Jatamansi has the property of enhancing the body's innate ability to sleep well. It is considered a divine plant in Ayurveda and has traditionally been used as an air purifier.
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