Ayurvedic Medicines

Two of India’s most learned and scientifically astute experts in medicinal plants agreed that ashwagandha is superior to virtually all other plants in the Ayurvedic pharmacopoeia. HGH Patch (Anti Aging) …

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DUNIA HERBA & KECANTIKAN..SENTIASA SEHAT & ANGGUN: NANO PATCH …

Alternative medicines such as the use of herbs and other medicinal plants has a wide range of uses and effectiveness depending on the condition and the person’s age. It’s use became popular because of the healing effects and nowadays, mothers use these herbs for their children.

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Safe Herbal Medicine For Children

This morning the newswires (HT Mike Huckman ) are full of the BioSante (formerly Cell Genesys) news on their leukemia vaccine, GVAX, which is being tested to see whether it is a viable approach for eradication of minimal residual disease. Accordingly, BioSante announced: “Positive results of a human clinical study that show that its GVAX Leukemia vaccine may be able to reduce or eliminate the last remaining cancer cells in some chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients taking the drug Gleevec (imatinib mesylate).

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BioSante announce positive data from GVAX leukemia vaccine in CML

The University of California strawberry breeding program (the southern branch, based in Irvine) has released two new strawberry varieties , Benicia (formerly C225) and Mojave (formerly C227). The southern California strawberry industry is kind of hurting these days, with increasing yields and increasing acreages (as well as competition from Mexico and elsewhere) pushing down prices and cutting into profit, so I’m sure these will be welcomed, though the last release from this program, ‘Palomar’, has not really caught on.

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What this strawberry needs is a name that says "dry and sandy"…

I’ve heard that spinach, as well as some other vegetables contain significant amounts of oxalic acid, which can interfere with absorption of some minerals. What you think about the oxalic acid issue? Oxalic acid is a natural product found in spinach and some other plant foods including rhubarb

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Avoid Vegetables with Oxalic Acid?

A chance email yesterday from Matthew Herper of Forbes Health got me thinking.  He was interested in whether a company, who have been successful in other therapeutic areas, could do well in cancer

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Why do some Pharma companies do well in oncology and other’s don’t?

This summer, Sewa International USA is offering volunteer internships in India and USA through the Yuva for Sewa (Youth for Service) fellowship program. YFS aims to connect young adults with service projects in the fields of education, self-employment, healthcare, women’s empowerment, environmental awareness, micro-finance and others.

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Make a Difference with Yuva for Sewa: A Chance to Volunteer in India and USA

Part 2/2 of a first person account of the Epic 62-day struggle to get a land grant for the Lord Amar Nath (Shiva) Shrine located near Jammu city, India. Read Part 1 in the December 2009 edition

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(Part 2 of 2) Devotees of Amar Nath: Revolutionary Pioneers of a People’s Movement, by Bhagyashree Chanda Sathye

Krishnadeva Raya was generous to his people and patronized arts and letters. He was very much concerned about the welfare of the people and undertook regular tours of the empire to get first hand information. Krishnadeva Raya, the benevolent Hindu king, ascended the throne of the Vijayanagar Empire on July 26, 1509, and during the two decades of his rule (1509-1529), he proved himself to be a perfect ruler by providing good governance to his subjects. This period was considered as the golden age of the Vijayanagar Empire.

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Krishnadeva Raya and the Glorious Vijayanagar Empire, by V.N. Gopalakrishnan

Case Western Hindu YUVA chapter was created in April 2009 with one common goal: Seva. With the help of Professor Sree N.

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Making a Difference in the Self and the Selfless: Hindu YUVA at Case Western, by Sai Santosh Kolluru

In spite of a continuous onslaught of Islam and Christianity that have swallowed Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, the population in the small island of Bali is still around 90% Hindu – the magic of adaptive changes. “It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.” – John C Ransom Hindus of South-East Asia Tides of Hinduism from Bharat have washed distant shores around the planet through ages. Southeast Asian nations were apparently the first to get the celestial essence of dharma, outside the greater Bharat territories

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Acintya, the Unconceivable: Brahman, the Infinite, by Ajoy Chatterjee

This is an exceptional workshop with one of India’s greatest teachers who will share traditional secrets of Ayurveda that are not written down in any book ! In Kerala, India the tradition of Ayurveda has resisted a number of invasions from foreign powers for more than 1500 years. Without the cultural, religious and political domination of alien people Kerala has been able to keep the ancient Vedic culture as a living tradition. They have secrets of Ayurveda that have been lost in other (…) – Blog

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Secrets of Healing, Culture and Spirituality

Photos and info on Ayurvedic medicinal plant ‘s flower named as Shankupushpam in Malayalam, the language of Kerala. The flowers of this perennial plant is also known in names, Clitoria ternatia, butterfly pea or blue pea, mussel-shell …

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Herbal Flowers of Kerala, Shankupushpam or bluepeas, Flowers of an …

Ayurvedic Medicine is also called Ayurveda. It is a system of medicine that originated in India several thousand years ago. The term Ayurveda combines two Sanskrit words: ayur, which means life, and veda, which means science or knowledge

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Ayurveda versus Western Medicine Approaches to Health Care

Alternative medicine has caught the imagination of more and more Americans who are turning to herbal remedies to help ma

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Herbal Remedies Not a Good Idea For Heart Patients; Dangerous Drug Interactions Possible

Australians are furious. Understandably so. All those charges of racism and Ku Klux Klan masks could be a bit exaggerate

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Racism Charges Collapsing: One Indian Faked Attack to Claim Insurance, Another Killed In Personal Dispute

An observational study has found that functional impairments like stooping, crouching, or kneeling (SCK) in older adu

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Prediction of Functional Impairments in Elderly Due to Reduced Muscle Strength

Terence shares his recipe for Ayahuasca and gives guidelines for personal use, including cautions to approach this powerful plant complex with humility. He also recounts hair-raising and fantastic personal encounters with the brew and compares and contrasts it with other entheogens.

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Terence McKenna — Ayahuasca and it’s Recipes Part 2/6

A few years back when I started gardening, I decided to start some tomatoes inside from seed thinking that it would be neat to start the process from the very beginning. I was told by some more experienced gardeners that in order for my tomato plants to reach their fullest potential, I would need to make sure I didn’t make the growing conditions too easy for the plants.

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The Art of Hardening

Many of the world’s current religions, mostly one thousand to two thousand years old, practice the code of One Prophet, One Book, and One Philosophy. Even though the world and society have changed since the origin of these religions, people still tend to adhere to this code of One Prophet, One Book, and One Philosophy, and reject all other views

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Hinduism, There is No -ism, by Sai Santosh Kolluru

Since its inception, Tattva Magazine has released one printed edition each year. While this has been observed in the anniversary month of September in the past,  the last printed edition fell a little later on the calendar – January. The January 2010 edition of Tattva Magazine was inaugurated on January 17 in Orlando, Florida

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Hindu YUVA Releases Feb 2010 Edition of Tattva Magazine

As young Hindu Americans, we have a responsibility to contend with. A responsibility of being the inheritors of the oldest and the most inclusive culture in existence.The young and energetic karyakartas (volunteers) of Hindu YUVA (Youth for Unity, Virtues, and Action) have been working hard on university campuses across the United States to do justice to do this great responsibility. Welcome 2010! An entire decade of the 21st century is over

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Hindu YUVA: Youth for Unity, Virtues, and Action

Vishwa Mangal Gou Gram Yatra was conceived by many sadhus, sants, and Hindu-minded organizations, including Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Some of the aims of the yatra include banning cow slaughter, declaring the cow as a national animal, and educating people about the usefulness of the cow. India is on the economic march.

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Vishwa Mangal Gou Gram Yatra and its Relevance in Today’s Times, by Balakrishna Sastry

Electricity does not touch the small/marginal and medium-sized landholder, as the cultivation is deprived of an assured irrigation source. Thus, those who are cultivating cash crops that require irrigated water have to perforce rely on the rainfall that is fickle at the best of times. A technology named ‘Anaerobic Digestion’ has immense potential for improving the quality of life in rural India

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Science in Service of Small Farmers in India, by Abhishek Dhoble

Tobacco, once the glory crop of the South Atlantic region of the United States, has fallen in stature as health problems associated with smoking the plant have come to light.  Now tobacco may be able to redeem itself by producing solar cells, according to researchers at the University of California at Berkeley.  By infecting tobacco [ Engineered Virus Causes Tobacco Plants to Grow Solar Cells from Green Living Ideas ]

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Engineered Virus Causes Tobacco Plants to Grow Solar Cells