scholarly journals VAMANAKARMA: AN ANCIENT AYURVEDIC CLEANSING THERAPY

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 2985-2988
Author(s):  
D Giri
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Habits ◽  
The Body ◽  
Upper Body ◽  
Stress And Strain ◽  
Hormonal Changes ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Physiological Factors ◽  
Fast Foods ◽  
Exercise Regimen ◽  
Nasal Application

‘Charaka Samhita’ an ancient text of Ayurveda emphasizes the cleansing of the body through Panchakarma. Today’s generation is out of touch with nature. Poor dietary habits, fast foods, no proper exercise regimen, stress and strain of daily life to compete and survive- these patterns have led to a lot of hormonal changes, and the agents that regulate the body’s mechanism have become poor leading to the spread of toxins throughout the body causing various diseases. As per Ayurveda, these toxins are called “ama”. This foul-smelling, sticky, harmful fluid needs to be completely removed from the body. This is done through Panchkarma, which is advised quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly to get rid of the toxins from the body and also to provide protection from different diseases. This process has twofold benefits – cleansing of the body and also rejuvenation, thus giving a youthful appearance to the body. Panchakarma includes five methods through which the body is detoxified –Procedure of Vamana (induced vomiting), Procedure of Virechana (induced purgation), Basti (enema), Nasya (nasal application), Rakthamokshanana (bloodletting). The three Doshas (vital physiological factors according to Ayurveda) in the human body that is - Vata, Pita, and Kapha are balanced, leading to good physical health and mental balance. Vamanaprocedure means induction of emesis. Through this procedure, the toxins are removed from the body especially through the upper body parts. Vamanaisthe best remedy for Kapha-related diseases. Most of the diseases today are due to improper digestion and metabolism (Agni). The cause is the changing lifestyle full of stress and anxiety. Irregular dietary habits add further to these issues. Diseases need to be uprooted from the base. Therapies like Panchkarma or particular therapy as VamanaKarma for particular Doshas like Kapha can be thought of on a regular basis as a remedy.

Comparing Violinists’ Body Movements While Standing, Sitting, and in Sitting Orientations to the Right or Left of a Music Stand

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Spahn ◽  
Céline Wasmer ◽  
Franziska Eickhoff ◽  
Manfred Nusseck
Keyword(s):  
Physiological Stress ◽  
Movement Patterns ◽  
The Body ◽  
Upper Body ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Body Movements ◽  
Weight Distributions ◽  
The Right ◽  
Stress And Health ◽  
3D Motion Capture

OBJECTIVES: For violinists, it is common practice to play while standing or sitting. When playing in an orchestra, generally two persons share one music stand, with one sitting to the right and the other to the left of the stand. The present study investigated specific movement patterns while playing in these different positions. METHODS: Using a posturographic device and 3D motion capture, the body weight distributions and specific body movements of 19 violinists were analyzed. RESULTS: Results showed unbalanced weight distributions while sitting in front of or oriented to the right of the music stand compared to the almost even distributions while standing or oriented to the left of the stand. Analyses of movement patterns showed significant differences between standing and sitting, mainly in the upper body parts with less movability while sitting. While sitting in front of or oriented to the right of the music stand, the right bowing arm showed more restricted movements compared to other positions. CONCLUSION: The playing positions are discussed with regard to possible physiological stress and health risks. The study emphasizes the importance of different playing positions and offers starting points for discussion of postural influences and sensible handling of the instrument in performance and practice for violinists.

scholarly journals CLINICAL EVALUATION OF BHRINGRAJ CAPSULE AND OIL ALONG WITH NASYA IN THE MANAGEMENT OF KHALITYA W.S.R TO HAIR-FALL

2021 ◽  
Vol p5 (6) ◽  
pp. 3076-3081
Author(s):  
Nishu Raina
Keyword(s):  
Hair Loss ◽  
Life Stress ◽  
Adverse Reactions ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
The Body ◽  
Hormonal Changes ◽  
Entire Study ◽  
Entire Area ◽  
Ways Of Life

Hair shedding is part of a natural balance, where some hairs fall out while others grow in. When the balance between hair production and shedding is interrupted that is what we called, hair loss. It can be the result of heredity, hormonal changes, medical conditions or a normal part of ageing. Anyone can lose hair on their head, but it's more common in men. when we talk about Baldness, it typically refers to excessive hair loss from your scalp. Hereditary hair loss with age is the most common cause of baldness. As far as Ayurveda is considered, it is described there by the name of Khalitya Roga under the heading of Kshudra Roga or Shiro Roga. whensoever we talk about it, it is a completely progressing disorder which is found mostly in all those persons who are indulged in sedentary ways of life, stress- induced hectic schedules along with indiscriminate dietary habits which in turn can result in any disturbance in the body which in turn can directly reflect in the form of hair loss. In this article, we will see how We can reduce & manage this rising problem of hair fall through Bhringraj capsule and oil along with Nasya. For this study, 31 patients with diffuse hair loss were instructed to gently massage the Bhringraj Taila daily onto the entire area of the scalp. Response to the therapy was evaluated at the end of four weeks. Evaluation of efficacy was done on the basis of improvement in clinical symptoms like hair fall, dandruff, itching, dryness etc. The present study thus showed a significant reduction in hair fall, dandruff, itching etc. (p < 0.001). There were no adverse reactions, either reported or observed during the entire study period and overall compliance to the treatment was excellent. Finally at last, it was concluded that Bhringraj Taila was found to be effective in alleviating Khalitya along with a significant effect on associated Keywords: Khalitya, indralopa, hair oil, Nasya, Bhringraj

Experiments on the ectoparasitic deer ked that often attacks humans; preferences for body parts, colour and temperature

2009 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kortet ◽  
L. Härkönen ◽  
P. Hokkanen ◽  
S. Härkönen ◽  
A. Kaitala ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Host Choice ◽  
The Body ◽  
Upper Body ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Back Side ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Body Colour ◽  
Main Host ◽  
Recreational Use ◽  
Deer Ked

AbstractThe deer ked (Lipoptena cervi) can fail in its host search. Host search fails when an individual deer ked irreversibly accepts a host unsuitable for its reproduction (e.g. a human) and drops its wings. In northern Europe, the main host of the deer ked is the moose (Alces alces). The deer ked is increasingly causing serious problems for humans (for example, causing deer ked dermatitis) and is considered a threat for the recreational use of forests. The adult deer ked flies in early and mid-autumn to search for a host. Our aims were: (i) to study whether there are ways to avoid deer ked attacks by wearing particular clothing, and (ii) to evaluate deer ked host choice. Using human targets, we explored the cues the deer ked uses for host selection. We studied which part of the host body deer keds target and if body colour and temperature affect their choice. In our experiments, deer keds landed more on dark and red clothing than on white clothing. Moreover, deer keds mostly attacked the upper body parts and preferred the back side of the body over the front side. Finally, deer keds preferred the warmest areas of the host.

Parathyroid gland before and after cisplatin treatment

1987 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 860-861
Author(s):  
S.K. Aggarwal ◽  
J.M. Fadool
Keyword(s):  
Parathyroid Gland ◽  
Wistar Rats ◽  
Antitumor Agent ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cross Linking ◽  
Limiting Factor ◽  
Hormonal Changes ◽  
Primary Mechanism ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Dna Strands

Cisplatin (CDDP) a potent antitumor agent suffers from severe toxic side effects with nephrotoxicity being the major dose-limiting factor, The primary mechanism of its action has been proposed to be through its cross-linking DNA strands. It has also been shown to inactivate various transport enzymes and induce hypocalcemia and hypomagnesemia that may be the underlying cause for some of its toxicities. The present is an effort to study its influence on the parathyroid gland for any hormonal changes that control calcium levels in the body.Male Swiss Wistar rats (Crl: (WI) BR) weighing 200-300 g and of 60 days in age were injected (ip) with cisplatin (7mg/kg in normal saline). The controls received saline injections only. The animals were injected (iv) with calcium (0.5 ml of 10% calcium gluconate/day) and were killed by decapitation on day 1 through 5. Trunk blood was collected in heparinized tubes.

Pengembangan perangkat pembelajaran dengan menggunakan pendekatan keterampilan proses untuk meningkatkan hasil belajar mata pelajaran التربية الجسمية bagi siswa kelas XI IPA MAN I Kota Mojokerto

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Sudar Kajin
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Bone Structure ◽  
The Body ◽  
Process Skills ◽  
Hormonal Changes ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Body Structure ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
The Look

Growth and development of the child have the nature of a thorough and intertwined relationships between components (health, nutrition, and environment). In general, child development can be grouped into three areas, namely cognitive, affective, and psychomotor, whereas biological growth which includes a change in the body structure. Body structure regarding the changes in bone structure, especially the long bones that have an impact on changes in body size, whereas changes in bodily functions is a result of hormonal changes that affect the physiological function .. The purpose of this development are: 1) Describe the product feasibility study التربية الجسمية for grade XI IPA at MAN I Mojokerto 2) Describe the development of learning tools using process skills can improve learning outcomes subjects التربية الجسمية class XI IPA at MAN I Mojokerto From the results of this development can be concluded: 1) results of expert validation and testing, the model approach process skills is fit for use for subjects of Physical Education, Sport and Health, because the products developed are not revised by experts but from the results of questionnaire of students stated that require revision are: (a) Improve the look model or change the learning strategy, and (b) improve the use of resources in implementing the model. 2) Product development learning tools using process skills can improve learning outcomes subjects التربية الجسمية class XI IPA at MAN I Mojokerto. From the class of the test increased learning completeness of Pre and Post Tests Tests are respectively 77.78% increase to 91.67%.

Formulation, Design and Development of Niosome Based Topical Gel for Skin Cancer

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Skin Cancer ◽  
Drug Release ◽  
Hemorrhagic Cystitis ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cancer Drug ◽  
Inversion Method ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Basal Cells ◽  
Formulation Design ◽  
Topical Gel

Melanoma is the most dangerous type of skin cancer in which mostly damaged unpaired DNA starts mutating abnormally and staged an unprecedented proliferation of epithelial skin to form a malignant tumor. In epidemics of skin, pigment-forming melanocytes of basal cells start depleting and form uneven black or brown moles. Melanoma can further spread all over the body parts and could become hard to detect. In USA Melanoma kills an estimated 10,130 people annually. This challenge can be succumbed by using the certain anti-cancer drug. In this study design, cyclophosphamide were used as a model drug. But it has own limitation like mild to moderate use may cause severe cytopenia, hemorrhagic cystitis, neutropenia, alopecia and GI disturbance. This is a promising challenge, which is caused due to the increasing in plasma drug concentration above therapeutic level and due to no rate limiting steps involved in formulation design. In this study, we tried to modify drug release up to threefold and extended the release of drug by preparing and designing niosome based topical gel. In the presence of Dichloromethane, Span60 and cholesterol, the initial niosomes were prepared using vacuum evaporator. The optimum percentage drug entrapment efficacy, zeta potential, particle size was found to be 72.16%, 6.19mV, 1.67µm.Prepared niosomes were further characterized using TEM analyzer. The optimum batch of niosomes was selected and incorporated into topical gel preparation. Cold inversion method and Poloxamer -188 and HPMC as core polymers, were used to prepare cyclophosphamide niosome based topical gel. The formula was designed using Design expert 7.0.0 software and Box-Behnken Design model was selected. Almost all the evaluation parameters were studied and reported. The MTT shows good % cell growth inhibition by prepared niosome based gel against of A375 cell line. The drug release was extended up to 20th hours. Further as per ICH Q1A (R2), guideline 6 month stability studies were performed. The results were satisfactory and indicating a good formulation approach design was achieved for Melanoma treatment.

Re-imagining Reproduction: Unsettling Metaphors in the History of Imperial Science and Commercial Surrogacy in India

Somatechnics ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalindi Vora
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Commercial Surrogacy ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
History Of ◽  
Travel Industry

This paper provides an analysis of how cultural notions of the body and kinship conveyed through Western medical technologies and practices in Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) bring together India's colonial history and its economic development through outsourcing, globalisation and instrumentalised notions of the reproductive body in transnational commercial surrogacy. Essential to this industry is the concept of the disembodied uterus that has arisen in scientific and medical practice, which allows for the logic of the ‘gestational carrier’ as a functional role in ART practices, and therefore in transnational medical fertility travel to India. Highlighting the instrumentalisation of the uterus as an alienable component of a body and subject – and therefore of women's bodies in surrogacy – helps elucidate some of the material and political stakes that accompany the growth of the fertility travel industry in India, where histories of privilege and difference converge. I conclude that the metaphors we use to structure our understanding of bodies and body parts impact how we imagine appropriate roles for people and their bodies in ways that are still deeply entangled with imperial histories of science, and these histories shape the contemporary disparities found in access to medical and legal protections among participants in transnational surrogacy arrangements.

Deadlift Recognition and Application based on Multiple Modalities using Recurrent Neural Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (17) ◽  
pp. 2-1-2-6
Author(s):  
Shih-Wei Sun ◽  
Ting-Chen Mou ◽  
Pao-Chi Chang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Recurrent Neural Network ◽  
Network Structure ◽  
Inertial Sensors ◽  
Body Movement ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Multimodal Sensing ◽  
Multiple Devices ◽  
Neural Network Structure

To improve the workout efficiency and to provide the body movement suggestions to users in a “smart gym” environment, we propose to use a depth camera for capturing a user’s body parts and mount multiple inertial sensors on the body parts of a user to generate deadlift behavior models generated by a recurrent neural network structure. The contribution of this paper is trifold: 1) The multimodal sensing signals obtained from multiple devices are fused for generating the deadlift behavior classifiers, 2) the recurrent neural network structure can analyze the information from the synchronized skeletal and inertial sensing data, and 3) a Vaplab dataset is generated for evaluating the deadlift behaviors recognizing capability in the proposed method.

Our Bodies, Whose Property?

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Human Organs ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Right

No one wants to be treated like an object, regarded as an item of property, or put up for sale. Yet many people frame personal autonomy in terms of self-ownership, representing themselves as property owners with the right to do as they wish with their bodies. Others do not use the language of property, but are similarly insistent on the rights of free individuals to decide for themselves whether to engage in commercial transactions for sex, reproduction, or organ sales. Drawing on analyses of rape, surrogacy, and markets in human organs, this book challenges notions of freedom based on ownership of our bodies and argues against the normalization of markets in bodily services and parts. The book explores the risks associated with metaphors of property and the reasons why the commodification of the body remains problematic. The book asks what is wrong with thinking of oneself as the owner of one's body? What is wrong with making our bodies available for rent or sale? What, if anything, is the difference between markets in sex, reproduction, or human body parts, and the other markets we commonly applaud? The book contends that body markets occupy the outer edges of a continuum that is, in some way, a feature of all labor markets. But it also emphasizes that we all have bodies, and considers the implications of this otherwise banal fact for equality. Bodies remind us of shared vulnerability, alerting us to the common experience of living as embodied beings in the same world. Examining the complex issue of body exceptionalism, the book demonstrates that treating the body as property makes human equality harder to comprehend.

Ayurveda dietary guidelines during Covid-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 1477-1481
Author(s):  
Ishwari Gaikwad ◽  
Priyanka Shelotkar
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Dietary Guidelines ◽  
The Body ◽  
Daily Regimen ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Healthy State ◽  
Health Disorders ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

The current world situation is both frightening and alarming due to the massive disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The next few days are censorious as we need to be very precautious in our daily regimen as well as dietary habits. Ayurveda offers knowledge about food based on certain reasoning. Indecent food custom is the chief cause for the rising development of health disorders in the current era. In classical texts of Ayurveda, the concept of diet explained well, ranging from their natural sources, properties and specific utility in pathological as well as physiological manner. In this work, the review of the relevant literature of Ahara (Diet) was carried out from Charak Samhita and other texts, newspapers, articles, web page related to the same.  Every human being is unique with respect to his Prakriti (Physical and mental temperament), Agni (Digestive capacity), Koshtha  (Nature of bowel) etc. For that reason, the specificity of the individual should be kept in mind. Ahara, when consumed in the appropriate amount at the right moment following all Niyamas (Guidelines) given in Ayurveda texts, gives immunity and keeps the body in a healthy state during pandemics such as Covid-19. Ultimately, this will help the human body to maintain its strength for life. This article reviews the concept of diet viz. combination of foods, their quantity and quality, methods of preparation and processing, which are to be followed during pandemics and are essential in maintenance and endorsement of health and preclusion of diseases.

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