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THE CAUSE OF LOSS OF POPULARITY OF YOGA AND MEDITATION IN THE PAST

Yoga-meditation was and is the most scientific, complete, practical and effective way to maintain one's health in the best possible state and to keep away from disease. But why Yoga did not have so much popularity in the present era as was expected. The allopathy or modern medical science is still more popular today even in India, the land where Yoga was invented. Let's find out the cause of the setback that the Science of Yoga - Medication had in the last 2000 years. The cause of this fall was repeated invasion of India from outside, imposition of foreign culture and lack of support from then existing Rolers. Starting from the Greek emperor Alexander's invasion (327BC) India had been over and again invaded by outsiders. It was Taimurlong, Lodis, Tughlaks, Babar and so on. By the time of about 500 AD Yoga got a major blow as the scriptures were burnt, gurukuls (where the students learnt Yoga from their teachers-called Gurus) were abolished and the support base was withdr...

ANGIOPLASTIES

 Promises that have failed over the years! "Without taking care of the root cause of the illness, how can the problem be solved." In the last 25 years or so every time a new angioplasty procedure came, the heart patients were given promises of a lifetime cure. Press conferences would be arranged to tell the press that the ultimate cure had come and there would be no heart patients left in the country! General population, an optimist, expecting that the new scientific inventions would probably wash away all their sorrows, believed the doctors. History has witnessed that every time these promises have failed! First came the ballooning or PTCA (Percutaneous  Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty ) in the middle of eighties. The promises failed within a few years. The cardiologists in the heart hospitals reluctantly agreed that this procedure was not so good as promised. When the stent came, it was promised that only one percent of the cases would have problems. People soon forgo...

BLOCKED ARTERIES: CLEAN THEM OUT NATURALLY

  Fortunately, there are alternatives to bypass surgery , angioplasty, and medications. However, many patients and even physicians are not aware of these options. Preventive medicine experts have now proven that changing one's lifestyle can reverse blockages in heart blood vessels . Perhaps what is more important, when used properly, lifestyle agents such as stress control, smoking cessation, diet, and exercises have no harmful side effects. The only side effects are desirable ones contributing to better quality of life and decreased risk of diseases of many types in addition to heart disease. Those individuals with heart disease who become aware of the importance of lifestyle changes are confronted with a vital question: "Am I willing to make the common sense lifestyle changes are confronted with a vital question: "Am I willing to make the common sense lifestyle changes necessary to reverse my disease?" If the answer is "no" it is likely that either angio...

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY (NOT AN ORDINARY TEST)

 Coronary Angiography (or Angiogram) is an X-ray examination of the blood vessels of the heart. A tube is inserted in your groin. The tube is now blindly passed into the body from outside. When positioned either in the heart or at the beginning of the arteries supplying the heart, a special fluid (called a contrast medium or dye) is injected. This fluid is visible by X-ray and the pictures that are obtained are called angiograms. Coronary Angiography is not an ordinary test. It is an invasive procedure where a foreign body in the form of catheter is inserted inside the body through a cut. This carries a lot of amount of risk. Followings can occur during or after the procedure. Death: Certain patient groups are at risk of death during the angiography . They can be elderly above 60 years, patients with angina class IV, those with blockages in the left main coronary artery. Also patients with previous heart attacks and low cardiac function, with valvular heart diseases or with n...

HOW TO IDENTIFY HEART ATTACK?

  PAIN IN THE CHEST.... IS IT A HEART ATTACK?             Chest pain can have many causes. Some causes are related to the heart and blood vessels. Other have nothing to do with the cardiovascular system . The doctor considers the list of different possible causes. A careful description of the pain can often eliminate other possibilities. Sometimes a person has alarming chest pain and yet has no identifiable problem with the heart. Conditions that often turn out be present, although heart attack was suspected include stomach disorders such as heart burn, stomach ulcer, gall stones with gall bladder irritation, costochondritis (chest wall pain caused by soreness of the muscles between the ribs and the breast bone), cervical spondylitis and other skin infections.                            ...

Physical Activity and Exercise

  Most of us today are physically inactive. Throughout the day we do a lot of mental work but very little physical work. We get up from the bed, and sit and sit and sit. Starting from office work, travelling in a car or vehicle, eating breakfast-lunch-dinner, watching television, gossiping, having snacks, reading newspapers and magazines, writing - every other work is almost done in sitting posture. Only few of muscles work during sitting. Most of the work which need real physical activity - have either been mechanized or transferred to servant/employee. Examples of such work are - lifting weight, climbing stairs, walking to the market, washing our clothes, cleaning the floor, gardening, cleaning our house, dusting. All the physical activities in the kitchen have also been reduced by mixers, grinders and lately, dish washers. Today, the only physical activity left is probably voluntary walk, (morning or evening), few kinds of sports as hobbies (like golf, swimming, tennis, badmin...

Silent Heart Attack - Are You a Diabetic?

  Srikant, 55 yrs, Executive, Diabetic experiences breathlessness on way to office. He consults his physician. ECG reveals Heart attack . He is rushed to the ICU. Yes a Heart Attack, and no pain. Ambulatory (Mobile) ECG reveals that a lot many no. of persons suffer from a silent attack, which is not associated with pain. Patients with Diabetes are more likely to have a silent attack and this increases with age. About 90% of attacks in Diabetics are silent. This is due to the damage caused to the nerves carrying pain sensation due to uncontrolled Diabetes . Diabetes is an independent risk factor for Coronary artery disease, and incidence is related to the duration of Diabetes. In Diabetes, not only are the attacks frequent but also tend to be more severe and associated with complications. Coronary Artery Disease is the most significant KILLER in Diabetes, because of accelerated deposition of fat in blood vessels, thus the threshold of Diagnosis should always be kept low. I...