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First human trial backs GS diabetes benefits

Dimanche 26 Juillet 2010
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The first human trial on a patented extract of the Gymnema sylvestre (GS) plant has confirmed results from lab tests that the ingredient can help reduce blood glucose, adding weight to its diabetes benefits.

The small-scale trial found that supplementation with the GS extract OSA for 60 days resulted in increased levels of insulin and C-peptide, together with lower levels of blood glucose.

According to Winconsin-based ingredient supplier Ayurvedic-Life International, which sponsored the study, the latest findings support the potential of its patented ingredient for addressing type 2 diabetes.

Gymnema sylvestre, grown primarily in the Indian sub-continent, has been used India for centuries as a traditional folk remedy to help maintain optimal health.

Ayurvedic-Life said its study ...

Ayurveda physicians claim ‘promising’ dengue antidotes: are we game?

Dimanche 26 Juillet 2010
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Amidst increasing threat levels of the dengue epidemic in the country, two ‘herbal’ antidotes for the deadly mosquito bite are now claimed in Sri Lanka.

The dengue problem is reported across the country, but is mostly concentrated in the Districts of Colombo, Gampaha & Kandy. Latest statistics show that in the period of January 1 to July 14 this year, 20647 cases of dengue have been reported. The number of deaths : 149 !

There are no licenced vaccines at present against dengue and currently, there is also an ongoing effort to develop a dengue vaccine by Australian & Thai researchers (of Queensland University of Technology) but not before 2014. And for a dengue vaccine to be effective, it needs to be tetravalent, meaning the vaccine should be strong enough to interact and manage four bacteria/viruses at once.

It is in this background that two indigenous ‘Herbal Ayurveda’ ...

Guduchi kills cancer cells

Dimanche 26 Juillet 2010
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Tinospora cordifolia, popularly known as guduchi or amrit, has been in use in traditional systems of medicine for almost 4,000 years. Ayurveda regards guduchi as a wonder herb, and thus the name amrit or nectar. A number of research studies have been conducted on the medicinal properties of tinospora and all of them confirm that it is useful in controlling diabetes, inflammation, arthritis, various allergies, stress and malarial fevers.

It has also been hailed as a general tonic thanks to its anti-oxidant and anti-stress properties. Guduchi protects the liver from malfunctions and infections and keeps it functioning well. Ayurveda practitioners often prescribe guduchi for stomach pain, and as a blood purifier.

Ayurveda and Unani formulations for fever and urinary problems include guduchi as one of the important ingredients. The stem of guduchi as also its roots, find their way in these formulations. The leaves are also often used.

Some practitioners claim that guduchi has special properties that control the growth of a number of cancers. ...

The most severe of all India’s ascetics

Dimanche 26 Juillet 2010
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Two hills of blackly gleaming granite, smooth as glass, rise from a thickly wooded landscape of banana plantations and jagged palmyra palms. It is dawn. Below lies the ancient pilgrimage town of Sravanabelagola, where the crumbling walls of monasteries, temples and dharamsalas cluster around a grid of dusty, red earth roads. The roads converge on a great rectangular tank. The tank is dotted with the spreading leaves and still-closed buds of floating lotus flowers. Already, despite the early hour, the first pilgrims are gathering.

For more than 2,000 years, this Karnatakan town has been sacred to the Jains. It was here, in the third century bc, that the first Emperor of India, Chandragupta Maurya, embraced the Jain religion and died through ...

"Like a forest fire" Sting

Dimanche 26 Juillet 2010
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A few years ago, the pop singer Sting confided to an interviewer that a specific yoga asana, or posture, had enabled him to have sexual intercourse with his wife, the star of a line of yoga videos, for as long as eight hours at a time. “Your stomach,” he said, “goes as near to the spine as you can make it, . . . and you never lose control, you just keep going.” The news of this priapic tour de force “went around the world,” in Sting’s own words, “like a forest fire.” Then he admitted he had been joking. His epic bouts of lovemaking, he said, included “four hours of begging, then a movie and then dinner.” ...

The largest registered yoga class ever

Dimanche 26 Juillet 2010
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That one resounding, gargantuan “om” in Central Park was apparently not enough to persuade the roiling dark clouds and persistent rain to back off. A few umbrellas snapped open as the chant grew louder and more pleading, and some people lifted a plaintive gaze to the sky. Come on, work with us.

Here we were, some 9,000 people, sitting on our blue mats ready to begin the largest public yoga class on the record books on Tuesday evening, and nature was showing us who was boss. In this case, it was the Department of Parks and Recreation, which shut down the class after a sun salutation sequence (but before any lightning). Liability, it’s a buzz kill.

The crowd apparently set a record for the largest registered yoga class ever, and that does ...

Stretch | When Yoga Hurts

Dimanche 26 Juillet 2010
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As Cathy Lilly folded into downward dog at a workshop in January, a novice instructor, eager to help, lifted Ms. Lilly’s thumbs and angled them forward. Her thumbs are still recovering from the strain.

Ms. Lilly, 53, a yoga teacher with more than two decades on the mat, also once injured her rotator cuff jumping distractedly into plank pose. And after another instructor suggested she kiss her knee while in heron pose, her hamstring suffered the consequences.

Isn’t yoga supposed to be good for you ? After all, doctors prescribe it to injured athletes and cancer patients. And while tennis players can expect ripped-up elbows and runners know they may blow out their knees, yogis don’t usually anticipate having ...

The Yoga Mogul

Dimanche 26 Juillet 2010
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There is so much going on in John Friend’s life right now that an assistant once teased him about waking just before dawn and calling to ask for coffee, only to be reminded that he, Friend, was in Quito, Munich or Seoul, while the assistant was back at home base in the Woodlands, a cushy suburb north of Houston. That Friend, the founder of Anusara, one of the world’s fastest-growing styles of yoga, has an assistant is itself significant ; many people still picture yogis as serene guys who live in respectable deprivation in places like Mysore or Pune, India, and wait for disciples to find them ....

Attention : Une naturopathe québécoise qui tue

Mardi 23 Juin 2010
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Pourtant la Cour avait condamnée à deux reprises Mitra Javan mardi pour pratique illégale de la médecine, celle-ci ayant appliquée des protocoles de traitement qui sont strictement réservés aux médecins. Malgré tout elle a continué à défier la justice. Mal lui en prend, car à la suite d’une enquête du Collège des Médecins du Québec, elle se retrouve cette fois accusée d’outrage au tribunal et est passible de 50 000 $ d’amende, voire même d’emprisonnement.

Un de ses patients en est mort

Sur sa carte de visite, Mitra Javanmardi se présente comme docteur en médecine naturopathique. Or, seuls les médecins et dentistes peuvent porter ce titre professionnel. La « docteure » a causé la mort d’un de ses patients en 2008. Un homme âgé de 84 ans à qui elle a administré une solution minérale en intraveineuse. Le vieillard a immédiatement été pris de violents malaises et est décédé quelques heures plus tard d’un arrêt cardiaque.

C’était en juin 2008. Mais elle n’a pas été davantage inquiétée (son procès pour homicide involontaire est fixé à l’an prochain), puisqu’elle récidivait en empiétant dans le champ de la médecine. Elle connaîtra finalement sa sentence à la fin de l’été. Pour sa part, Gilles Parent, porte-parole des naturopathes agréés, estime que les agissements de Mitra Javanmardi sont de nature à discriminer la profession de naturopathe. Il presse le gouvernement du Québec de mieux encadrer leur travail....

TV, a bad teacher of yoga

Dimanche 21 Juin 2010
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Do you sit and perform complicated yoga postures day after day at home with only TV as your instructor ? It may be time to turn the idiot box off, as experts warn that practising yoga through mass media without proper guidance can do more harm than good.

"Yoga needs very close concentration and two-way communication is essential ; so the best way to perform yoga is with an instructor. The asanas (postures) and prakriyas (processes) somebody is imitating from TV may not be suitable for them and can create trouble," said Yogi Shri Ashish Chatterjee, president of Satya Foundation.

Yoga is India’s traditional physical and mental discipline which is associated with meditative practices.

Yoga is a Sanskrit word which is derived from the Sanskrit ...

First human trial backs GS diabetes benefits
lundi 26 juillet 2010
The first human trial on a patented extract of the Gymnema sylvestre (GS) plant has confirmed results from lab tests that the ingredient can help (...)
[ lire la suite ]

Ayurveda physicians claim ‘promising’ dengue antidotes : are we game ?
lundi 26 juillet 2010
Amidst increasing threat levels of the dengue epidemic in the country, two ‘herbal’ antidotes for the deadly mosquito bite are now claimed in Sri (...)
[ lire la suite ]

Guduchi kills cancer cells
lundi 26 juillet 2010
Tinospora cordifolia, popularly known as guduchi or amrit, has been in use in traditional systems of medicine for almost 4,000 years. Ayurveda (...)
[ lire la suite ]

The most severe of all India’s ascetics
lundi 26 juillet 2010
Two hills of blackly gleaming granite, smooth as glass, rise from a thickly wooded landscape of banana plantations and jagged palmyra palms. It (...)
[ lire la suite ]

"Like a forest fire" Sting
lundi 26 juillet 2010
A few years ago, the pop singer Sting confided to an interviewer that a specific yoga asana, or posture, had enabled him to have sexual (...)
[ lire la suite ]

The largest registered yoga class ever
lundi 26 juillet 2010
That one resounding, gargantuan “om” in Central Park was apparently not enough to persuade the roiling dark clouds and persistent rain to back off. (...)
[ lire la suite ]

Stretch | When Yoga Hurts
lundi 26 juillet 2010
As Cathy Lilly folded into downward dog at a workshop in January, a novice instructor, eager to help, lifted Ms. Lilly’s thumbs and angled them (...)
[ lire la suite ]

The Yoga Mogul
lundi 26 juillet 2010
There is so much going on in John Friend’s life right now that an assistant once teased him about waking just before dawn and calling to ask for (...)
[ lire la suite ]

Attention : Une naturopathe québécoise qui tue
mercredi 23 juin 2010
Pourtant la Cour avait condamnée à deux reprises Mitra Javan mardi pour pratique illégale de la médecine, celle-ci ayant appliquée des protocoles de (...)
[ lire la suite ]