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Do We Need Yoga?

Do We Need Yoga?

If you are a yoga enthusiast, it may be worthwhile asking the following questions

  • With so many varieties of yoga being promoted today, each one claiming to be superior and pure, do they have any semblance to the yoga that was practiced in ancient India?
  • Has the therapeutic or preventive efficacy of yoga in any of the states of human health and disease been conclusively proven?
  • Is the practice of yoga totally safe?

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Moving Forward after the Mumbai Terror Attacks

Moving Forward after the Mumbai Terror Attacks

This was written on the 4th of this month. New facts have emerged since then that have confirmed the ideas presented here.

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Cow’s Excreta as Medicine: Insult to Humanity

Cow’s Excreta as Medicine: Insult to Humanity

The cow is, at the least, an animal domesticated by man for help in agricultural activities.[1]  Although the mighty machines now used in farming have made these animals irrelevant in agriculture, valiant attempts are being made, at least in India, to preserve the exalted position of the so called ’second mother’ [2] or even ‘mother of the world’ [3,4].

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Chikungunya: Is there an alternative? - Part 2

Chikungunya: Is there an alternative? - Part 2

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What are the alternative treatments for chikungunya?

Many types of ‘drugs’ have been suggested for the treatment of chikungunya in homeopathy, ayurveda, unani and Siddha systems. Read the full story

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Chikungunya: Is there an alternative?

Chikungunya: Is there an alternative?

Aedes aegypti

Aedes aegypti

copyright: Marco Gaiani

Introduction:                                                                                        (Read Part 2 here)

It is rarely that we find ourselves prepared to tackle emergencies and so it is only natural that things get badly messed up in such situations of crisis. Read the full story

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