Use of Panchgavya (term used to describe five major substances obtained from cow that include: cow's urine, milk, ghee, curd and dung) and its products is gaining popularity day-by-day. Panchgavya Therapy/Chikitsa (Cowpathy) has been proposed as an alternate prophylactic and therapeutic approach for sound livestock and poultry health along with safeguarding human health. Its antimicrobial properties have gained the attention of the medical and veterinary professionals. Copper is capable of destroying diseases and comprehensively act as an antidote; plays role in immune enhancement; capable of removing all the ill effects and imbalances in the body and requires special mention in the treatment of diabetes and cancer; in case of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and as an antifungal agent. Cow urine concoction (CUC) is having anticonvulsant and hypoglycemic effects; and useful against liver disorders and fever; inflammations and anemia. Cow milk is considered as a healthy food and is found to be effective in curing fever and pain; tumors; diabetes; kidney disorders and weaknesses and importantly act as a medium to administer medicine. Milk has also got fungicidal properties; when used with leaves of medicinal herbs possess aphrodisiac property and milk fat has anticancer activities. Milk products viz. toned and skimmed milk; lassi, yoghurt, cottage cheese and khoa possess essential medicinal properties. Curd (dahi) is a blood purifier, and found useful in blood related problems; piles and gastro-intestinal disorders. Cow ghee has immunostimulatory properties. The application of cow dung to kill the germs of malaria and tuberculosis along with its antifungal properties require special mention. This review deals with all these...
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...ects and mechanism of bioactive compounds in Panchagavya along with promotional clinical trials both in preventing and treating diseases of humans as well as their livestocks. A combined effort of scientist, researchers and clinicians will definitely strengthen this alternate low cost therapy having no side effects, and thus inspire confidence in the public about its good virtues. The panchgavya theory of ayurveda should gain popularity not only in traditional families but also in highly educated and scientific society. Necessary support of scientists as well as researchers and clinicians is desired in order to strengthen the miraculous effects of cow urine therapy and other panchagavya elements. It will inspire both physicians and public to adapt and propagate this wonderful therapy for the beneficial health benefits and help fighting various diseases and disorders
Dietary supplements are very beneficial to one’s body if they are taken correctly. There are many pros and cons to taking dietary supplements. In this paper I will discuss the pros and cons and how supplements affect the human body. We will also consider the government’s guidelines regarding dietary supplements.
As we grow up, we begin to forget what it is like to be a child and how sweet and innocent we were. We forget these things because of the daily stressors that are thrown at us as mature. In my future, I want to be able to help children hold on to their innocence; because for some, it is taken from them far too early. By providing counseling for children in need there is hope that therapists can guide their adolescent patients onto a path that will allow them to live a great life no matter what their goals are. I believe that solution-focused therapy will be useful in my future work with children and families. With this intention, my paper will be describing the work done with children and families using solution-focused techniques.
Ayurveda is God’s gift to mankind to get rid of sufferings through nature. Nature is a treasure of herbs to cure us from diseases and to remain healthy provided one is aware about those herbs. We, Swadeshi Ayurved, based at Haridwar, are blessed with the spiritual powers of Swami Munishwaranand Ji and have been in the service of society since 1972 to make available those exotic herbal formulations. Swadeshi Ayurved, synonym for purity and quality Ayurvedic products, is one of the prominent manufacturing companies which provide various Ayurvedic products in India.
But with a growing evidence that wild edible plants are often superior in comparison to processed foods (Somnasang and Moreno-Black, 2000), provide substantial nutritional and dietary benefits in remote rural areas to tribal populations (Sundriyal and Sundriyal, 2001) and can be used to prevent chronic and under nutrition diseases (Green, 1993) ethno botanical studies are becoming increasingly important (Sundriyal and Sundriyal 2000, 2004; Bhattarai and Chaudhary, 2009). The role of ethno-medicinal plants as the prerequisite of culturally pertinent and economically affordable health care in creating both sustainable livelihoods and the critical conservation of biodiversity is gaining an unprecedented importance and consequently a strong emphasis has now been laid on the need to broaden the biological diversity in human nutrition as well as to document and conserve the indigenous knowledge associated with these plants (Javaid M Dad,
Breaking down panpsychism, and the patterns it holds can be a tricky task. Despite it being a newly developed theory, there is still a lot of information out there; however, panpsychism is the answer. The patterns developed in the world, and throughout the universe have a striking resemblance to each other. Panpsychism is the bridge between them. This may sound crazy, causing one to simply dismiss panpsychism, or the connections between patterns as mere coincidences. Whenever someone is dealing with metaphysics, it can be difficult to obtain a definitive answer; however, there is quite a bit of evidence to say that this theory heads in the right direction.
Agnihotra, a practice in the Srauta tradition, referrs to heating the milk twice daily. It is also known as simple healing fire, cleanses the atmosphere as the agnihotra fumes helps in the plant growth faster compared to the normal growth, decreases the microbial in air, increases the NO2 level and reduces the SO2 level in the atmosphere, Agnihotra ash when mixed with ghee acts as an ointment for skin rashes proving that it can be used to treat skin diseases. The seed germination with better nutrient is possible with Agnihotra ash. Hence it can be used as fertilizer. It also has an activating effect on cell division , Colchicine and Methyl Parathion toxic effect is reduced. Exposure of Agnihotra ash reduces the Haemolytic ability of K. pneumoniae
Every year, approximately 230, 000 to 400. 00 deaths are caused by iatrogenic deaths ( in other words, these are deaths caused by wrong medical treatments). Two of the prominent yet some what contrasting types of medicine are, Ayurveda, the Indian traditional medicine, and Modern (aka western) medicine. Both of these have their own processes and methods of healing, which over the years have created their own followers. While Ayurveda addresses the root causes of the disease through identifying the imbalances in the elements, called “Doshas”, it also emphasizes on a spiritual lifestyle which for most people in today's world is a sea change. On the other hand, western medicine addresses the symptoms and provides instant albeit temporary relief for suffering. Needless to say there are more followers of the western medicine due to its immediate impact on subsiding the pain. Out of lack of awareness to the significance of traditional medicine, especially Ayurveda, many doctors and researchers are against the use of Ayurvedic and traditional medicines, which limits the potential of curing certain ailments of patients without additional side effects.
According to Hindu thought Pavithra Jal is Holy water which purifies the mind and body. Panchagavya or the five products from the cow- urine, dung, milk, curd and ghee, used in ayurveda, and Hindu rituals- are believed to have cleansing properties, much like the waters of the Holy Ganges, Lake Pushkar or the Mahamgam Pond.However skeptics may have reservations about the purity and efficacy of the Panchagavya.. Further modern distillation methods to extract the active principle in a bioactive form may help alleviate the queasiness associated with consuming cow urine.
Living in a healthy condition is very essential for everyone’s life. There are many diseases that can affect people’s health. Most of diseases are serious, and they can potentially kill us if we do not treat them as soon as possible. Medicine is very important to prevent diseases before infecting people or treat them after they get sick. In the last fifteen years, medicine has been incredibly improving from what it was previously, but it still shares several traits with traditional methods. Traditional and modern medicine are methods of treatment that have similarities and differences between them.
Traditional herbal medicine comes from many different areas of the world (Indian, Chinese, African, Western, Native American herbs, Ayurvedic and other indigenous medicines) and in most all of them they are still b...
Ayurveda is considered the traditional medicine system of India. The concept of Ayurvedic medicine refers to “science of life", that is known as a complete medicine system which tries to place the body, mind and spirit at the same level. The second objective is also to restore the inner harmony of the person. The Ayurvedic methods include diet, massage, herbs, meditation, exercise, exposure to sunlight and breathe control ...
Pain in one half of the head may also appear as a symptom in various conditions viz. anyatovata (netraroga), vata-paryayam (netraroga) and ardditavata (vataroga). According to Ayurveda, action of a drug is based on its guna, veerya, vipaaka and prabhaava. These as themselves or as combinations determine the status of drug action in the body .Fate of the drug always depends on rasapancaka and it goes in line with modern pharmacodynamics.[7] Besides that the drug action also depends the action of agni on that particular drug.Most of the Ayurvedic drugs act only after absorption and are said to have systemic or general action. Many a time, the term ‘action’ and ‘effect’ of a drug are used as
Over the centuries, several treatment methods have been utilized by humans for remedy diseases when they caught. Two of them are modern medicine and traditional medicine. Traditional medicine, which is also called alternative treatment, is older than modern medicine. This effective treatment had been used for many centuries before modern medicine was found. On the contrary, modern medicine has been used since the 1900’s (Lyons). In this system, drugs’ tests are carefully done in the safe laboratories, and their side effects are identified before they are given to the patient. Moreover, the effects of the pills are written on the leaflets which are found in the drug packages to warn the patients for these effects. However, sometimes the side effects are not blocked, so people have to take another pill to get better. It makes people take more chemicals into their bodies. Even traditional medicine, give its place to the modern medicine when its beginning times, it is used efficaciously like modern medicine at the present time. In course of time, people will gain reliance on traditional medicine again, since alternative medicine is more efficient and powerful in order to get better and soothe the diseases than modern medicine. In fact, in traditional medicine, there are fewer drugs, side effects, holistic therapy that people can be availed.
Herbal products are medicinal agents obtained from the plants. It’s all started 100 years ago by ancient people. Since synthetic medicine are not yet invented by that time, ancient people had invented medicine out of the plants. Through generations the original herbal medicine had been modified due to the new knowledge discovered and technologies invented.
Herbal remedies’ qualities are widespread availability, lower cost, effective for chronic conditions. Herbal remedies are the use of plants or plant extract to treat a person’ overall health. Herbal treatments are prominent for developing countries for instance, “in Africa up to 90% and in India 70% of the population depend on traditional medicine to help meet their health care needs” (Wachtel-Galor & Benzie, 2011), due to their low cost and availability. Herbal remedies have gained attention in the past decades, and expanding their uses due to the increased interest of natural therapies (Wachtel-Galor & Benzie, 2011). Herbs used on the remedies grow in the wild throughout the world, therefore making it easy to