‘She Sleeps Well and Eats an Egg’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Newton
Keyword(s):  
Life Style ◽  
The Body ◽  
Serious Illness ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Full Strength ◽  
Central Argument

Serious illness often left the body weak and lean, full of the ‘footsteps of disease’; it wasn’t until full strength and flesh had returned that the patient was pronounced back to health. This chapter explores the second stage of recovery in contemporary perceptions, the restoration of strength, or ‘convalescence’. It asks how the patient’s growing strength was measured and promoted, and unveils a concept of convalescent care, ‘analeptics’. The central argument is that both the mechanisms and the measures for the restoration of strength were intimately connected to the ‘non-natural things’, six dietary and life-style factors. The opening sections explain why the body was weak after illness, and categorize the convalescent within contemporary schemes of health. The rest of the chapter is structured around the signs of increasing strength, each of which was associated with a particular non-natural: ‘the final purge’, ‘sleeping through the night’, ‘feeling hungry’, ‘growing cheerful’, and ‘sitting up to going abroad’.

Role of Panchakarma in the management of Hypothyroidism

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr.Suraj Kumbar ◽  
Dr.Lohith BA ◽  
Dr.Ashvinikumar M ◽  
Dr. Amritha R ◽  
Dr. Shameem Banu
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Rate ◽  
Pituitary Gland ◽  
Life Style ◽  
The Body ◽  
Management Guidelines ◽  
Quality Of Food ◽  
Sedentary Life ◽  
Sedentary Life Style

We are in technical era where there is more of sedentary life style and stress along with this urbanization is affecting our quality of food and health. This is leading to many lifestyle disorders and hormonal imbalances in our body. Hypothyroidism one among the endocrinal disorder. Thyroid is an endocrinal gland secrets T3 and T4 hormones regulated by TSH which is secreted by Pituitary gland. These hormones have two major effects on the body, 1) To increase the overall metabolic rate in the body 2) To stimulate growth in children. Hypothyroidism is common health issue in India. The highest prevalence of hypothyroidism (13.1%) is noted in people aged 46-54yrs old. With people aged 18-35 yrs being less affected (7.5%). To prevent these hazards Panchakarma is beneficiary to maintain metabolic rate. Here an attempt is made to diagnose hypothyroidism in the light of Ayurveda and management guidelines through Panchakarma.

Obesity in Children - An alarming problem in Kaumarbhritya

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharma Shilpi ◽  
Sharma Rakesh ◽  
Bhima Devi ◽  
Asharafi Bakhtyar
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
The Body ◽  
Continuous Change ◽  
Body Activity ◽  
Obesity In Children ◽  
At Home

A roly-poly child obviously attracts many attentions but if the trend remains unchanged it could be a reason of worry as this is the primitive sign of childhood obesity which is the leading problem in today’s era. With continuous change in life style and dietary habits, child has become the victim of many diseases and obesity (Sthaulya) is one of them. There are and were some human activists talking about reducing the weight of study bags; but none is thinking about the weight our babies are carrying. In present era both parents are working, to earn the luxuries and amusements, so the kids are left with the food packets at home with idiot boxes to see some “de-shaped” cartoons resulting in the reduction of healthy nutritious diet and also reducing their body activity. The body weight of our babies is putting pressure on their “cuteness”, their “happiness”, their “emotions” and on their “being”. In Ayurveda it needs step by step examination and treatment to break the ‘Dushtasamprapti Chakra’ of Sthaulya by both non pharmacological such as Yoga and pharmacological remedies such as Panchakarma therapy, Shamana therapy etc. to achieve the goal.

THE PHYSILOGICAL CONCEPT OF AGNI AND TRIDOSH WITH REFERENCE TO GRAHANI, A LITERARY REVIEW

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vrushali P. Kale Vrushali Purushottam Kale
Keyword(s):  
Gastrointestinal Tract ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Food Habits ◽  
Digestive System ◽  
The Body ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Digestion Process ◽  
Physiological Analysis

According to Ayurveda, Jatharagni plays main role in the digestion process. Jatharagni carries its functions through Pachaka pitta. Grahani is an organ of gastrointestinal tract located between Amashaya and Pakwashaya, where digestion takes place. According to classical literature Pitta is same as Agni. Tridosha also plays very important role in the digestion process. In the recent days, irregular life style affects the digestive system and Jatharagni very badly. Whenever Agni gets (Vikrut) unbalanced due to wrong food habits and lifestyle, it should be understood that along with Agni, Pachaka Pitta will also get disturbed. Agnimandya is the root cause of most of the disorders like Grahani. Grahani organ is the main location of Jatharagni. Grahani is the organ where Pachak Pitta and Samanvayu carry out digestion. The most important function of Grahani is digestion of food with the help of Jatharagni, Pachakpitta, Pittadhara Kala and Samnvayu. Agni inside the body, digest the food give strength and maintain health. Samanvayu regulates the movements of the Grahani and helps in digestion. Hence, in this article we attempt to analyze and correlate patho-physiology of Grahani with respect to Physiological analysis of Agni and disturbed doshas. Etiological factors induces imbalance in Jatharagni, Pachak Pitta and Samanvayu and prolonged imbalance state weakens the Pittadhara Kala, which results in disease Grahani. Health of Grahani entirely depends on balanced state of Jatharagni, Pachaka Pitta, Pittadhara Kala and Samanvayu. The irregular life style, incompatible food habits creates Ama causes Grahani, affecting the digestive system and Jatharagni very badly.

Benchmarking the efficiencies of Indonesia’s municipal water utilities using Stackelberg data envelopment analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 588-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Wibowo ◽  
Hans Wilhelm Alfen
Keyword(s):  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
The Body ◽  
Water Utilities ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Restrictive Assumption ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Municipal Water ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a yardstick efficiency comparison of 269 Indonesian municipal water utilities (MWUs) and measures the impact of exogenous environmental variables on efficiency scores. Design/methodology/approach – Two-stage Stackelberg leader-follower data envelopment analysis (DEA) and artificial neural networks (ANN) were employed. Findings – Given that serviceability was treated as the leader and profitability as the follower, the first and second stage DEA scores were 55 and 32 percent (0 percent = totally inefficient, 100 percent = perfectly efficient), respectively. This indicates sizeable opportunities for improvement, with 39 percent of the total sample facing serious problems in both first- and second-stage efficiencies. When profitability instead leads serviceability, this results in more decreased efficiency. The size of the population served was the most important exogenous environmental variable affecting DEA efficiency scores in both the first and second stages. Research limitations/implications – The present study was limited by the overly restrictive assumption that all MWUs operate at a constant-return-to-scale. Practical implications – These research findings will enable better management of the MWUs in question, allowing their current level of performance to be objectively compared with that of their peers, both in terms of scale and area of operation. These findings will also help the government prioritize assistance measures for MWUs that are suffering from acute performance gaps, and to devise a strategic national plan to revitalize Indonesia’s water sector. Originality/value – This paper enriches the body of knowledge by filling in knowledge gaps relating to benchmarking in Indonesia’s water industry, as well as in the application of ensemble two-stage DEA and ANN, which are still rare in the literature.

scholarly journals AYURVEDIC DIETARY CONCEPTS IN DIFFERENT AGE GROUP OF CHILDREN

2020 ◽  
pp. 84-86
Author(s):  
Shamama Firdaus ◽  
Sunil Topre ◽  
Nitin Mane
Keyword(s):  
Life Style ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Healthy Person ◽  
The Body ◽  
Developmental Phase ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Healthy Nutrition ◽  
Major Factors

Ayurveda is a science of life, which mainly aims to promote and preserve the health of the individuals. In this techno and competitive era, life style and diet are major factors influencing the health of the individuals. Diet and dietary habits play important role in maintenance of health. Ayurveda, its main aim is to promote and preserve the health, strength and longevity of healthy person and to cure the disease. Ayurveda places special emphasis on Ahara and believes that healthy nutrition nourishes the Sharir, Mana, Atma. As Acharyas has described Ahara. Nidra, Brahmcharya are Tryoupsthambha (sub pillars) which support the body itself. Here Ahara has been placed first which shows that it is most important to maintain and sustain of life. Children are delicate and most sensitive and prone to the infectious diseases. They are miniature of adult. They are in Ajatvyajanawastha (developing stage). Psychologically they are innocent. Being in developmental phase, Ahara plays very important role in the life of children. So parents should be aware of dietetic components required by child in different age groups.

Terapi Mandi Terhadap Pecandu Narkotika Di Pondok Pesantren Al-Qodir Cangkringan Sleman Yogyakarta

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Muslimah Muslimah
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
The Body ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Stage ◽  
Preparation Stage ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Bath Therapy

This study aims to determine how the process and benefits of bath therapy for narcotic addicts at Al-Qodir Islamic Boarding School, Cangkringan, Sleman Yogyakarta. This research is a qualitative research with two clients who undergo healing due to narcotics addiction. Methods of data collection by interview, observation, documentation. The method of checking the validity of the data used the "triangulation" technique. Data analysis using qualitative descriptive analysis. The results of this study describe that the process of bathing therapy carried out by narcotic addicts at the Al-Qodir Islamic boarding school goes through several stages. The first is the preparation stage, namely the therapist preparing the facilities, waking the narcotic addicts santri, and reading prayers into the bathroom. The second stage of implementation is the intention to bathe, perform ablution, and pour water all over the body. The third stage of closing is reading the prayer out of the bathroom, and giving suggestions from the therapist. Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana proses dan manfaat terapi mandi terhadap pecandu narkotika di Pondok Pesantren Al-Qodir Cangkringan Sleman Yogyakarta. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan subjek penelitian dua orang klien yang menjalani penyembuhan akibat pecandu narkotika. Metode  pengumpulan data dengan wawancara, observasi, dokumentasi. Metode pemeriksaan keabsahan data dengan tehnik “triangulasi”. Analisis data menggunakan analisis deskriptif kualitatif. Hasil penelitian ini mendeskripsikan bahwa proses terapi mandi yang dilakukan oleh para santri pecandu narkotika di pondok pesantren Al-Qodir ini melalui beberapa tahapan. Pertama tahap persiapan yaitu terapis menyiapkan sarana, membangunkan para santri pecandu narkotika, dan membaca do’a masuk kamar mandi. Tahap kedua pelaksanaan yaitu niat mandi, berwudhu, menyiramkan air ke seluruh tubuh. Tahap ketiga penutupan yaitu membaca do’a keluar kamar mandi, dan memberikan sugesti dari terapis.

scholarly journals Body Status and Occupational Health Hazards of Female Workers : A Comparative Analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-30
Author(s):  
Dimpal Arora ◽  
Pooja Sitholay ◽  
Soudeep Kr Sau
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Physiological Stress ◽  
Work Group ◽  
The Body ◽  
Health Hazards ◽  
Anthropometric Measurement ◽  
Physical Work ◽  
Fat Percentage ◽  
Objective Health

Objective: Health is nothing but a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing not merely the absence of disease. Health depends on life style and requires the promotion of healthy life style. Health is both a consequence of an individual’s life style and factors in determining it. Working pattern or type of work has long been known to influence human health specially. The present study was under taken to evaluate the body status and physiological stress and occupational health hazards of the female workers.Methods: According to the work load the working group was classified in to low physical work group (LPWG) and the moderate type of physical work group (MPWG). Eighty women (forty in each group), excluding pregnant women, were selected from the municipal area of Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India, aged between 20 to 40 years. The anthropometric measurement and skin fold thickness were taken, from which the body mass index (BMI) and fat percentage were determined. The blood pressure of all the   subjects was taken by mercury sphygmomanometer at resting condition. The occupational health hazards were determined by questionnaire technique.Result: The result indicates that the MPWG workers suffer in significantly (p<0.001) low weight, BMI and Fat% than that of the LPWG workers. The MPWG workers also suffer from significantly (p<0.001) higher percentage of musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) at neck, shoulder, elbow, wrist, finger, cuff and feet-ankle joint. MPWG workers, hemoglobin concentration also significantly (p<0.01) lower than that of the LPWG workers.Conclusion: It may be concluded that, this study is helpful to identify the risk factor for the occurrence of different cardiovascular as well as musculoskeletal abnormalities and accordingly prevention program, regarding proper food habit be undertaken. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijosh.v4i1.12166

scholarly journals Oblique impact of a smooth body on a thin layer of inviscid liquid

2013 ◽  
Vol 469 (2151) ◽  
pp. 20120615 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. I. Khabakhpasheva ◽  
A. A. Korobkin
Keyword(s):  
Body Surface ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Hydrodynamic Pressure ◽  
Oblique Impact ◽  
The Body ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Smooth Body ◽  
Vertical Displacements ◽  
The Impact

The two-dimensional motion of a rigid body with a smooth surface is studied during its oblique impact on a liquid layer. The problem is coupled: the three degrees of freedom of the moving body are determined together with the liquid flow and the hydrodynamic pressure along the wetted part of the body surface. The impact process is divided into two temporal stages. During the first stage, the wetted region expands at a high speed with jetting flows at both ends of the wetted region. In the second stage, the free surface of the liquid is allowed to separate from the body surface. The position of the separation point is determined with the help of the Brillouin–Villat condition. Calculations are performed for elliptic cylinders of different masses and with different orientations and speeds before the impact. The horizontal and vertical displacements of the body, as well as its angle of rotation and corresponding speeds are investigated. The model developed remains valid until the body either touches the bottom of the liquid or rebounds from the liquid.

scholarly journals First report of the cactus cyst nematode, Cactodera cacti, infecting Cereus jamacaru (Cactaceae) in Brazil

Plant Disease ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Bruno da Silva Café ◽  
Rhannaldy Benício Rebouças ◽  
Juvenil H. Cares ◽  
Cristiano Souza Lima ◽  
Francisco de Assis Câmara Rabelo Filho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Length ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Its Region ◽  
The Body ◽  
Control Treatment ◽  
Molecular Characteristics ◽  
Width Ratio ◽  
Morphometric Characteristics ◽  
First Report ◽  
Second Stage

During a survey in 2018 for plant nematodes associated with roots and soil in cactus cultivation areas in Ceará State (3°44'48"S, 38°34'29"W), cysts were found on roots of mandacaru, Cereus jamacaru DC. This cactus is native to Brazil, can grow to 6-10 meters in height, and is widely distributed in the Northeast region (Romeiro-Brito et al. 2016) where it is used in construction, in disease remedies, as forage, and as an ornamental (Sales et al. 2014). Several cysts, second-stage juveniles (J2) and eggs extracted from the soil and roots, using sucrose centrifugation, were examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and light microscopy (LM) to determine morphological and morphometric characteristics. Molecular characteristics were determined by DNA extraction from J2 and embryonated eggs using a protocol specific for Heteroderidae (Subbotin et al., 2018). The internal transcribed spacer sequence (ITS) region of the rDNA and D2-D3 regions of the 28S rDNA were amplified using the universal primers TW81 (5′-GTTTCCGTAGGTGAACCTGC-3′) and AB28 (5′-ATATGCTTAAGTTCAGCGGGT-3′), D2A(5′-ACAAGTACCGTGAGGGAAAGTTG-3′) and D3B(5′-TCGGAAGGAACCAGCTACTA-3′), respectively. To confirm that mandacaru is a host for C. cacti, six plantlets of mandacaru were inoculated with 1,800 eggs of the nematode, and kept in a greenhouse at 31 ± 3 ºC and irrigated daily. Six non inoculated mandacaru plantlets served as control treatment. Morphometric characteristics of cysts (n=35) were body length, excluding neck, 555.8 ± 87.8 (354,9 - 727,6) μm, body width 392.1 ± 63.4 (297.9 - 553.7) μm, neck length 63.5 ± 25.8 (49.8-105.0) μm, length to width ratio 1.4 ± 0.2 (1.0-1.8) μm and vulval cone length 48.4 ± 15.2 (40.7 –53.6) μm. Cysts had a rough surface, were lemon-shaped to rounded and had a zigzag cuticular pattern with a protruding vulval cone. They were circumfenestrate without underbridge and bullae, but with the presence of vulval denticles. Measurements of second-stage juveniles (n = 13) included the body length 511.2 ± 33.7 (452.7 - 551.5) μm, stylet length 28.0 ± 2.8 (25.4 - 34.0) μm, tail length 50.7 ± 5.1 (40.6 - 57.4) μm, tail hyaline region 22.7 ± 2.2 (18.9 – 27.1), with a = 20.9 ± 2.2 (17.7-24.3) μm, b = 5.4 ± 0.4 (5.1-5.8) μm, b'= 3.4 ± 0.4 (3.1-3.9) μm, c = 10.2 ± 1.3 (8.9-13.3) μm and c' = 3.8 ± 0.4 (3.0-4.5) μm. The observations of essential morphological characteristics for identification indicated that the species found on C. jamacaru was Cactodera cacti (Filipjev & Schuurmans-Stekhoven, 1941) Krall & Krall, 1978. The sequences of the studied rDNA regions were submitted to GenBank (ITS: MW562829 and D2–D3 regions of 28S: MW562830). The samples used for molecular analysis showed a high degree of sequence identity (99.59%) with C. cacti, from China, Iran and USA for the ITS region. The identity of the D2-D3 regions of 28S sequence was 99.54% with C. cacti isolates from Germany and 99.41% with isolates from USA. Phylogenetic analyses were performed using Maximum likelihood (ML) method for both individual loci, confirming the species as Cactodera cacti. All inoculated mandacaru plantlets showed C. cacti cysts on the roots after 60 days, confirming that mandacaru is a host for C. cacti. This species was reported in São Paulo State, in 2001, associated with ornamental cactus cultivated in pots, but plant species were not identified (Santos et al., 2001). The second report in Brazil was to Schlumbergera sp., an ornamental plant (Oliveira et al. 2007). In both studies, the nematode was not morphologically nor molecularly characterized. Cactodera cacti has been commonly associated with cactus worldwide (Esser, 1992). It has been reported in association with C. jamacaru was first reported in 2011 in China (Duan et al. 2012). This is the first report of the occurrence of C. cacti on C. jamacaru in field conditions in Brazil, and its presence in cactus cultivation areas with agricultural importance represents a threat to cactus production in the country.

scholarly journals Existence of Pranatal Education in Islam

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-223
Author(s):  
Muktar ◽  
Mujiburrahman ◽  
Tarmidi ◽  
Masrur ◽  
Fajrurrahman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
The Body ◽  
Prenatal Education ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Reading Material ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Education Community ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Data Collection Technique

Prenatal education is often ignored in daily life. Though this education is highly recommended by religion for adherents of his religion. But to socialize prenatal education in social life today, it is necessary to re-actualize knowledge about the existence of prenatal education. Community life will gradually improve by paying attention to prenatal education as one of the needs in educating children from the womb in an Islamic perspective. There are two problems that must be answered in this paper are the stages of human creation and the concept of prenatal education in Islam. This research is in the form of library research, in which the research aims to describe the meaning on the basis of understanding the reading material sourced from the literature which has a close relationship with the problems presented in this paper using descriptive qualitative methods aimed at describing and analyzing phenomena and concepts using words not numbers. This study aims to determine: the development of prenatal age children, the concept of Pranatal education in Islam. The data collection technique used is to examine a number of primary and secondary data sources. Data analysis techniques by means of text analysis (content analyst). The results showed that: 1. The development of a prenatal child during her mother's womb includes three stages, including the Nuthfah stage in the form of male sperm and female egg cells that meet in the womb and fertilization occurs. The second stage ‘Alaqah (a clot of blood) even though the body tissue has begun to form, the next stage is the Mudghah (a lump of flesh), at this time in the form of a fetus that has been perfect and lives with spirits blown by angels. 2. The concept of prenatal education includes 3 stages: first, the preconception period (partner selection), second, the postconception period (marriage / copulation), third, the pre-natal period (pregnancy). Based on the results of this study is expected to be an information or input to parents to pay more attention to education to children, especially educating children since in the womb, based on certain concepts and methods with the hope that children born will become human figures who have noble personality, as expected.

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