scholarly journals CONCEPT OF RASAYANA AND ITS UTILITY (REJUVENATION THERAPY): A REVIEW

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 2808-2814
Author(s):  
Yatendra Kumar Sethi ◽  
Gurpreet Kaur Gill ◽  
Bhanu Pratap singh ◽  
Yadav C.R.
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Geriatric Care ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Contemporary Science ◽  
The World ◽  
Important Branch

Ayurveda is preponderant and antique health science of prime importance. Being a health science, it adheres to an exclusive approach that is entirely different from contemporary science. It fulfils the goal of health by focusing on maintenance of health and treatment of disease as holistic. Rasayana is an important branch of Ayurveda. It is one of the eight branches of Ayurveda (Ashtanga Ayurveda). Rasayana is useful for persons of all age groups. It is equally important in the treatment of diseases as well as in maintaining health. Given this plethora of information, it can be rightly stated that Rasayana is a boon given to the world by Ayurveda. The description of Rasayana comes in detail in all the Ayurvedic texts. This branch of Ayurveda appears to have been practised in ancient lines as an important speciality aiming at rejuvenation and geriatric care. Rasayana is one of the eight branches of Ayurveda. Rasayana Chikitsa plays a critical role in the prevention as well as cure of the disease. In Ayurveda, too much importance is given to this branch that the chapters of Rasayana find a foremost place in the Charaka Samhita Chikitsa sthana whereas in Sushruta Samhita it is pushed back to chapters 27-30 of Chikitsa sthana. In Ashtanga Hridaya Rasayana does not find a special place in Chikitsa sthana and is described only briefly in the 39th chapter of Uttar Tantra. This reflects on the declining importance of Rasayana therapy in the Samhita period itself. In Sushruta Samhita, which is otherwise considered more precise and practical has given a competitively moderatedescription of the Rasayana in four chapters out of which two chapters deal with Divya Rasayana i.e., the divine drugs, which are not available today. Keywords: Ayurveda, Ashtanga Ayurveda, Rasayana, Rejuvenation, Geriatric Care

Are Current Models for Preventive Programs Sufficient for the Needs of Tomorrow?

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.H. Bowen
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Dental Caries ◽  
Protective Effect ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Small Measure ◽  
Ambient Levels

We can be proud of our accomplishment in the prevention of dental caries. Many children in developed countries are now caries-free; however, by age 50, fewer than 5% of the population is caries-free. The drop in the prevalence of caries among specific age groups is undoubtedly due to widespread exposure to fluorides. However, caries protection by fluorides is not absolute; if caries attack continues throughout life, the prevalence of caries will increase. All available evidence strongly suggests that ambient levels of fluoride in the mouth play a critical role in protection against caries. It is clear that novel methods of delivery, such as sustained-release technology, will be developed to enhance the protective effect of fluoride, utilizing amounts of fluoride significantly less than those currently in use. The problems of preventing dental caries in developing countries are much more severe than those facing Western countries. The prevalence of caries appears to be increasing in no small measure due to the introduction of Western diets. Administration of fluoride through conventional routes is either impractical or inordinately expensive. It appears sensible, therefore, to direct preventive measures through dietary constituents associated with caries. Fluoridation of sugars appears to be a highly practical and safe way to reduce the prevalence of caries in such communities. Fluoride and iodide are currently added to salt in many parts of the world. If we are to reduce the prevalence of caries effectively in all countries and in all age groups, current methods of prevention will have to be greatly enhanced, and/or effective additional approaches will need to be developed.

scholarly journals Pierre Duhem and the Continuous Development of Science

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-29
Author(s):  
A. Loreti
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Contemporary Science ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pierre Duhem

When attempting to assess what history of science, doubtless an important element of our culture, owes to the French philosopher and scientist Pierre Duhem, one has to emphasise the critical role he played in rethinking the world outlook inherited from the preceding times and in developing a new one more apt to contemporary science. This analysis draws on such key Duhem’s writings as «The World System» («Le système du monde») and «Studies on Leonardo da Vinci» («Études sur Léonard de Vinci»). Two Duhem’s theses deserve particular attention. One is his assertion that Christianity (and the Catholic Church for that) did not impede, but rather contributed to the development of science having dispensed with cosmological assumptions of Greek Paganism incompatible with contemporary science. Secondly, Duhem argues that intuitions to pave way to the scientific revolution were first advocated by such Sorbonne Scholastics as Jean Buridan and Nicholas Oresme. It is noteworthy that the French scientist clearly underestimates the contribution of non-French thinkers to the emerging set of cultural axioms. Duhem’s new ontology of cognition is closely related to the ideas of new epistemology. Viewing evolution of science as a gradual continuous process, he endorsed the holist idea that isolated scientific propositions could neither be verified nor falsified. The truth of any proposition is inseparable from the truth of the system of hypotheses as a whole. Hence science progresses not by rejecting old theories, but by modifying them: in due course old concepts give way to new ones. This topical assumption that progress of science is to be viewed and understood in its specific socio-cultural context delineates the principle on which the answer to the no less topical question of the philosophy of culture, viz. why modern science has emerged in Europe rather than elsewhere, is to be based on.

The Comparison of Susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 Infection between Pediatric and Adults

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milad Zandi ◽  
Saber Soltani ◽  
Mona Fani ◽  
Haniye Shafipour ◽  
Samaneh Abbasi
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Severe Illness ◽  
Converting Enzyme ◽  
Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2 ◽  
The World ◽  
Smoking Susceptibility ◽  
The Relationship

SARS-CoV-2 causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and is responsible for the recent pandemic in the world. It has been recently recognized as a challenge for public health and a significant cause of severe illness in all age groups. Young children and older people are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection. However, children usually present mild symptoms compared to adult patients. The relationship between age, severity, and COVID-19 transmission is compared to determine whether there is any reasonable relationship between age and COVID-19. It should be mentioned that some risk factors may increase the probability of developing severe COVID-19 by advancing age, such as pathophysiological changes in the respiratory system, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 expression in the nasopharynx, and smoking. Susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection is independent of age, but the mortality rate of COVID-19 depends on age.

Jules Verne’s ‘Around the World in 80 Days’: Multilingualism, Multiculturalism and Symbols

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ii (15) ◽  
pp. 146-182
Author(s):  
Haroula Hatzimihail ◽  
Ioannis Pantelidis
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Jules Verne ◽  
The World ◽  
Semiotic Systems ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Different Cultures

In this announcement, the various –linguistic and non-linguistic- symbols used in the literary work 'Around the world in 80 days', written by Jules Verne, are examined from an intertemporal and contemporary point of view. The references through these points of view, in matters of multiculturalism and multilingualism, are becoming classical in nature: they concern the necessity of the applied ability to communicate between individuals who belong to different social classes and age groups, speak the same or different languages, come from different cultures, with rights and obligations in their various areas of life, etc. Key-words: linguistics, multilingualism, multiculturalism, semiotics, semiotic systems, symbols

scholarly journals Geriatric Care Outreach Models for the World

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajesh Chauhan Chauhan
Keyword(s):  
Geriatric Care ◽  
The World

scholarly journals OVERCROWDED PRISONS IN PAKISTAN: UNDERSTANDING THE CRITICAL ROLE OF PROBATION, PAROLE OFFICERS AND COURTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
Mukhtyar Nabi ◽  
◽  
Saddam Hussain ◽  
Muhammad Kamran ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Prison System ◽  
Probation Officers ◽  
Parole Officers ◽  
The World

Prison is a place for rehabilitation of offenders in every country of the world. The present study has tried to explore the present-day situation of the prison system of Pakistan and discuss its overcrowding condition in all four provinces. There are total 120 prisons in the country which hold authorized space for not more than 57,712 prisoners, but the number of inmates is 77,275, which is far away from the authorized space. This congested prison system not only creates hurdles in rehabilitation of prisoners but makes them more criminal by mixing of low and high frequency offenders. It also leads to various health and behavioral problems. Rehabilitation is only possible if there is balance in authorized and available prisoners in the prisons. The present article has come up with some viable suggestion for concerned authorities that can better perform their duty in eradication of this problem. The authors discussed the role of parole and probation officers in the elimination of these numbers in prison. The majority of the prisoners in our prisons are under-trail, thus the role of the judiciary has also been explored in balancing the incarceration ratio in prisons. Keywords: Prison System, Overcrowded Prisons, Parole and Probation, Judiciary, Courts, Pakistan

scholarly journals The process of demographic ageing in Vojvodina and central Serbia during the last two decades of the 20th century

2006 ◽  
pp. 249-258
Author(s):  
Vladimir Nikitovic
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Demographic Change ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
Human History ◽  
Demographic Ageing ◽  
Functional Relations ◽  
The World

After five decades of insufficient reproduction of Vojvodina?s and Central Serbia?s population, the process of demographic ageing, came into the focus of the broadest public at last. Current Serbia?s population (without Kosovo and Metohija?s population) belongs to the group of the oldest populations in the world according to a number of indicators of demographic change. Considering population ageing as a planetary process without precedent in the human history, we tried to point out the main features of its evolution regarding spatial implications on population living in this part of Europe. The evolution of the process of population ageing during the 1981-2002 period was considered through functional relations between specific age groups. It was ascertained that the process started its spreading over Vojvodina at first, but continued to spread over Central Serbia afterwards moving the pole of demographic ageing to that part of the country. Some specific centres of demographic ageing as well as the regions which are still demographically more vital than the others were located by the analysis at the municipality level.

scholarly journals Starvation in childhood and obesity in senior age

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 56-61
Author(s):  
Lidya P. Khoroshinina ◽  
Alexander V. Shabrov ◽  
Leonid G. Buynov
Keyword(s):  
Comparison Group ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Older Age ◽  
Obesity Prevalence ◽  
Obese People ◽  
The World ◽  
Comparison Groups ◽  
Subcutaneous Layer ◽  
The Common ◽  
Severe Degree

The problem of children's starvation remains relevant and actual at the present time, as in the 21st century experts from the leading countries of the world coordinate their efforts to create programs aimed at eliminating extreme poverty and hunger of. At the same time, the analysis of obesity prevalence typical for the population of some countries of the world, indicates an increase in the number of obese people in both economically developed and developing countries. In this article we are talking about the common severe degree of abdominal obesity in people of older age groups, survivors in childhood, long periods of fasting. Studied 594 history and Protocol of autopsy of people in older age groups, born from 1927 to 1941 and the dead on the hospital for war veterans in St. Petersburg from 1989 to 2000. The whole array of documents was structured by sex, age, the fact of living in the blockaded Leningrad. Severe degree of obesity was considered to be exceeded more than 7 cm of thickness of deep abdominal subcutaneous layer of adipose tissue. It is well established that former young residents of the besieged Leningrad, regardless of gender, age, die sooner than men and women in the comparison groups; men who survived long periods of starvation in children, were dying earlier than men in the comparison group and earlier than women of the main group; women who have experienced a long period of starvation before the age of 11 years, often dying because of cardiovascular diseases than women in the corresponding subgroup comparisons; the emergence of pronounced obesity in older age-governmental groups from the former young residents of the blockaded Leningrad, determined by elk not only the fact of prolonged fasting, but child sex and age, which accounted for starvation.

scholarly journals Neurospinal Surgery Innovations

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 121-122
Author(s):  
James Wang
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Minimally Invasive ◽  
Treatment Plan ◽  
Invasive Technique ◽  
Surgical Trauma ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Spine Diseases ◽  
Invasive Techniques ◽  
Important Branch

Over the past few decades, majority of neurosurgeons only specialize in spinal cord diseases. However, with the advances in spine surgery, more and more neurosurgeons focus on spine diseases. Precision minimally invasive technique in surgery of spine and spinal cord is an important branch of neurosurgery. As traditional surgery has been gradually replaced by precision surgery, open surgery has been gradually replaced by minimally invasive surgery (MIS), the diagnosis and treatment of spine diseases has been benefiting from minimally invasive techniques. With minimal surgical trauma, precise localization, MIS has become the inevitable trend of new neurosurgery. The model of multidisciplinary team is gradually becoming universal in the world in order to make the best treatment plan for the patient with spine diseases on the basis of the comprehensive disciplinary opinion.

scholarly journals A força da mulher argentina: resistência e luta política nas Madres de Plaza de Mayo e no grupo #NiUnaMenos

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Caroline Rios Costa
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The World ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Political Agents

As trajetórias femininas na vida pública vêm ganhando cada vez mais espaço, com mulheres do mundo tomando as ruas como forma de luta e resistência. Na Argentina, dois exemplos emblemáticos servem como espelho para outros movimentos: as Madres de Plaza de Mayo e as feministas do Ni Una Menos. Criados em diferentes contextos sociais, faixas etárias e motivações políticas, estes grupos se tornaram estandartes da luta política e reivindicação a nível federal, e até mesmo global. Similaridades e diferenças entre os dois grupos devem ser observadas para entender de forma adequada suas constituições enquanto agentes sociais e políticos. Além disso, pretendemos perceber como essas mulheres, jovens e senhoras, transformaram a questão do feminino e do gênero em sinônimo de uma luta frente a uma sociedade patriarcal em todo o mundo.Palavras-chave: Gênero, Resistência, Ni Una Menos, Madres de Plaza de Mayo AbstractWomen's trajectories in public life have been gaining more and more space, with women of the world taking over the streets as a form of struggle and resistance. In Argentina, two emblematic examples serve as a mirror to other movements: the Madres de Plaza de Mayo and the feminists of Ni Una Menos. Built on different social contexts, age groups, and political grounds, have become banners of political struggle and claim at federal, and even global, level. Similarities and differences must be observed to properly understand their constitutions as social and political agents. In addition, we intend to understand how these women, young and old, have transformed the issue of the feminine and gender into a struggle that clashes with a worldwide patriarchal society.Keywords: Gender, Resistance, Ni Una Menos, Madres de Plaza de Mayo

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