Ayurvedic Medicines

The healing power of the herbs was not considered to be effective enough by the medical personnel in treating various diseases even few decades back. But the advanced scientific researches duly supported by statistics have come out with amazing results regarding the healing power of the herbs.

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Natural Healing Herbs – 8 Useful Herbs with Amazing Therapeutic Properties

The link of an article below is about a man who had heavy metal poisoning and was able to heal completely after heavy metal chelation. http://www.sciencebasednutrition.com/case_studies/Parkinsons-KC04-05.pdf I believe that most if not all people with PD or most diseases are caused from toxicity of some kind, and if they can chelate or detox their body, it will allow the body to function as it was designed to do and heal.

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Heavy Metal Poisoning and Parkinson’s Disease

Gout is one of the warning signs of the body telling you that your body is under intense stress of acidosis. The input of acidic food is way beyond the body’s ability to eliminate them, the pH of your body internal environment is going down at an alarming rate. A number of researches had proved that most of the modern diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, etc

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Gout is Just the Beginning

IL-22 is a member of the IL-10 cytokine family and signals through a heterodimeric receptor composed of the common IL-10R2 subunit and the IL-22R subunit. IL-10 and IL-22 both activate the STAT3 signaling pathway (STAT is Signal Transducers and Activator of Transcription)

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IL-22 is a possible target for control of autoimmune diseases

The other day while travelling home on a long train journey, I was browsing the NY Times app on my iPhone and came across an interesting story about multiple myeloma in the Health section : “For many patients with cancers like chronic lymphoma, chronic myelocytic leukemia and now multiple myeloma, longevity lies in the ability of science to remain one step ahead of the malignancy by unraveling its genetic and molecular underpinnings and producing treatments tailored to counter them.” Now, I don’t think there is actually something called chronic lymphoma (non-Hodgkins lymphoma (NHL), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), yes), but you get the gist of what the reporter is saying – acute deadly hematologic cancers are gradually being turned into chronic diseases.

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Managing Multiple Myeloma: turning an acute cancer into a chronic disease

Dasmoolarishta is an ayurvedic composition which has number of uniqe herbs in it which helps and cure various diseases. DASAMOOLARISHTA gives strength and nourishment to the body, promotes energy, corrects seminal defects, and nourishes tissues. Various indications for which we can take the medicine are: 1) For the treatment of urinary disorders, kidney diseases and diseases of the genito-urinary system.

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Dasamoolarishta: Indications

This week offers a nice break in science topics on the blog and a chance to look at how technology can be used to monitor social media, physician and patient sentiments about drugs and various diseases in a practical way.  I’ve been interested in analysing trends in data since my undergraduate days when I created the first automated computerised football (soccer) notation system for looking at strategies and tactics employed by winning and losing teams.

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Using technology to derive Sentiments Analysis in Pharma

Ayurveda are those old principles on the basis of which many ayurvedic herbal products are made. Most of the people in modern era don’t opt out for conventional methods for curing out their diseases; instead they opt for alternatives …

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Ayurvedic Herbal Products– The Significance And Popularity In …

From the GA2LEN position paper : First-generation H1-antihistamines obtained without prescription are the most frequent form of self-medication for allergic diseases, coughs and colds and insomnia even though they have potentially dangerous unwanted effects which are not recognized by the general public. A GA2LEN (Global Allergy and Asthma European Network) task force assessed the unwanted side-effects and potential dangers of first-generation H1-antihistamines. First-generation H1-antihistamines, all of which are sedating, are generally regarded as safe by laypersons and healthcare professionals because of their long-standing use.

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First-generation H1-antihistamines should no longer be available over-the-counter for self-medication

(HealthDay News) — Since childhood, lots of people have heard the parental plea to eat their fruits and vegetables. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers this insight on why eating fruits and veggies is so important: • Eating lots of fruits and vegetables can help prevent chronic diseases, including cancer, research indicates

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Health Tip: Eat Your Fruits and Veggies

Detoxification using sodium bentonite clay The World Health Organisation (WHO) has acknowledged environmental pollution as the underlying cause in nearly 80% of all chronic degenerative diseases. Exposure to these toxins leads to a toxic buildup in our bodies and can cause many neurological and degenerative conditions, as well as unexplained fatigue, irritability, mood swings, muscle twitches, insomnia, painful joints, feeling down or bloated.

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Using Sodium Bentonite Clay Baths For Detoxification

A short while ago on this blog we began a series on Making a Difference about people in the cancer field who have a real passion and excitement for lasting and impactful change.  The first one was an interview with Alain Moussy of AB Science in Paris. Today, I had the pleasure of chatting with the admirable Dr.

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The future of Oncology

CD203c is a basophil cell surface marker used to diagnose and monitor various allergic diseases. Expression levels of CD203c were significantly higher on basophils from patients with asthma exacerbation than patients with stable asthma or healthy subjects. In contrast, no differences in spontaneous expression levels of CD63 or CD69 were observed.

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Basophil expression levels of CD203c might be used to monitor asthma

One of the new trends I’ve noticed recently has been the uptick in research on RNAi in basic oncology research.  While searching for some information, this news release popped up from this morning: “Tekmira and Pfizer will collaborate on evaluating Tekmira’s stable nucleic acid-lipid particle (SNALP) technology to deliver small interfering RNA (siRNA) molecules provided by Pfizer

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RNAi and cancer therapeutics

Interleukin-33 (IL-33) is a newly described member of the IL-1 family that is expressed by many cell types following pro-inflammatory stimulation and is thought to be released on cell lysis. The IL-33 receptor, consisting of ST2 and IL-1 receptor accessory protein, is also widely expressed, particularly by T helper 2 (TH2) cells and mast cells

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A variety of diseases may be associated with IL-33: the new kid in the IL-1 family

While reading my pile of mail on Friday, I realised that an interesting paper on Hodgkins Lymphoma (HL) appeared in the current edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (full reference below). The basics of the paper are that despite advances in HL, including curative radiation in the early stages if the disease, one third of patients with advanced disease and about 15% of those with early disease have a relapse after treatment.

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Tumour associated macrophages and survival in Hodgkins Lymphoma

While listening to last week’s presentation by BMS on their pipeline, one slide in particular caught my attention: Source: BMS Now, it wasn’t the fact that BMS were second in their table of Total Shareholder Return (TSR) that was interesting to me, but that Abbott were first, and by a long way, according to the chart above.  Of course, shareholder return is only one measure of performance and says nothing at all about putting customers and patients first, but that is another story/blog. Recently, Abbott has been in the news with the acquisition of Solvay , a generics company, which added $3B to their revenues and last night it was announced that the company are also acquiring Facet Biotech , which was being pursued by Biogen Idec

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Abbott makes some waves in Pharma

Supplements for gout have been a popular subject. The latest research of most diseases is focusing on the common deficiencies in people’s bodies who suffer from certain diseases.

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Supplements For Gout – Curing Gout by Supplementing Vitamins and Minerals

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?

In accretion medicine, the appellation ‘Natural Therapy’ refers to an all-embracing self-care acclimation that is primarily abashed with architectonics and abating bloom through blockage techniques and advantageous lifestyles. In acclimatized therapy, diagnosis, appraisal and blockage of disorders is undertaken by the ameliorative use of acclimatized methods and materials. The aesthetics basal acclimatized appraisal is that all animate things access an complete adeptness to heal

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Hate Drugs? Try Natural Therapy

Some people act like I am crazy when I talk about the evils of chemical fragrances in soaps, detergents, fabric softeners, and the ubiquitous artificial perfumes that men and women splash on as if it were rain. They seem to think that I am nuts when I explain that the synthetic odor that wafts off their clothing and bodies is a by product of the petroleum refining process, just like plastic and gasoline and nail polish. O! For the days of glass bottles and waxed cardboard yogurt containers

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Phthalates in Chemical Fragrances and Plastics

Ayurvedic home remedies explained in Telugu.

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Ayurvedic Home Remedies (Telugu) part 2 by Dr. Murali Manohar Chirumamilla, MD (Ayurveda)

Effective Home Remedies for all chronic and acute diseases. Ayurvedic Home Remedies. These are the home made first aid herbal remedies.

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Ayurvedic Home Remedies (Telugu) Part 1 by Dr. Chirumamilla Murali Manohar, MD

Making flu shots mandatory in 2008 dramatically increased the vaccination rate among St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare’s nearly 26,000 employees to more than 98 percent, according to a report now online in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases .

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Flu vaccination rate at large, Midwest health system rises dramatically due to mandatory policy

The East Himalayan silver fir is found at altitudes of 1600-4500 m in the East Himalayan region. The leaves (needles) of this fir contain a bioflavonoid called abiestin and two glycosides. The leaves and young twigs contain essential oil, with pinene and limonene as active constituents that is topically antiseptic and rubefacient.

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Medicinal Value of the East Himalayan Silver Fir Leaves