Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is characterized by profound tiredness, even after you get a good night’s sleep. Modern medicine states that the cause is unknown and as a result there are not that many medications on the market to treat it. Instead, some medicines are given...
Sooner or later everyone of us will have our lives saved by modern medicine, perhaps even more than once. And over the past several decades more and more diagnostic tests have become available to us which are invaluable for letting us know if our pathologies have gone...
I was extremely fortunate that in the early years of my Ayurvedic practice I had the great privilege of doing an extended 20-year internship with Vaidya Rama Kant Mishra. He was one of India’s brightest Ayurvedic physicians, a Raj Vaidya, which means that his...
Many people I see tell me they have a food addiction, or they may crave sweets. They try to discipline themselves to eat less food or to avoid sweets, but sooner or later they end up breaking their diet and binging on the sweets or overeating the food, even healthy...
Acids are solutions and liquids that are below a pH of 7.0 and anything above a pH of 7.0 is considered alkaline. It’s important to keep the body’s fluids, such as saliva, urine and blood, on the alkaline side. The normal pH range for saliva is 6.2 to 7.6. The pH of...
Lauki squash comes under many different names, such as doodhi, bottle gourd, long squash and many others. It is a light green squash — you need to peel it and chop the squash into one-inch cubes before cooking it. My teacher and mentor Vaidya Rama Kant Mishra used to...
