Ayurvedic Medicines

Puma has decided to lace up their eco-shoes and step with both feet into the smartphone market- and their first offering is an eco-friendly one. The German Puma company, known well for their football gear and ties to old-school hip hop, launched their phone last week in partnership with Sagem Wireless of France.

Our lives are filled with the shadows of stories unwritten. Our lives are filled with waiting and hoping and putting off and stuffing the cracks with papers from other people’s lives. If you KNEW without a doubt that your decisions were the measure of who you are – and make no doubt that they are – are you PROUD of your decisions

We all know that long term exposure to chemical insults and carcinogens from smoking and alcohol can act as irritants, leading to biochemical changes that can induce the development of hyperplasia, and potentially, carcinomas. Over the weekend I was shocked to learn that Alex “Hurricane” Higgins, former World Snooker Champion, had passed away aged 61 from throat cancer.

The common cold is supposed to be one of the most trivial of ailments, and yet is responsible for significant absences from work and school, both for adults as well as children. While it is common for adults to be affected about 2 – 4 times a year, and for children, about 5 – 10 times a year, there are many who have recurrent common cold, almost daily or every few weeks. Depending upon the severity of symptoms, this affliction may make life miserable for such people.

There are various treatments for tuberculosis in Ayurvedic medicines. Ayurvedic View of Tuberculosis. According to Ayurveda , the disease arises as a consequence of an imbalance of all the three doshas of body – vata, pitta and kapha.

Four protesters in their 20s who succeeded in briefly halting mountaintop removal on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia are now in jail on a collective bail amount of $12,000. They had chained themselves to a piece of mining equipment, and were briefly able to shut down operations of a Massey Energy subsidiary in Western Raleigh [ Young Coal Activists Shut Mountaintop Mining for Four Hours from Green Living Ideas ]

Burns cause a higher susceptibility to infection as compared to other forms of trauma, because of extensive skin barrier disruption, a higher proportion of moist and dead tissue, compromise of the immune system, prolonged hospitalization, and the need for invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.

The other day as I was clearing out my office of a hideous amount of paper as we continue our quest for a true minimalist and paperless office that is also scanned and searchable as well as being environment friendly, when I came across a tiny scrap of newspaper. Before throwing it out, curious, I wondered what it was about as a large starfish in the centre caught my attention.

Beyond being annoyed by the overpowering use of fragrances by department stores, magazine, and individual, there is real cause for concern about the safety of perfumes.  In fact, the Cancer Prevention Coalition (CPC) has issued a warning that public is at risk from the federal government’s lack of regulation and the fragrance industry’s “recklessly irresponsible” [ Cancer Prevention Coalition: Perfumes Contain Toxic Ingredients from Green Living Ideas ]

High doses of vitamin B6, also called pyridoxine, may reduce inflammatory markers associated with rheumatoid arthritis, researchers report in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition . Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disorder that occurs when the body's immune system, which normally fights against disease and infection, attacks itself.