Introduction to Ayurveda and its principles
The ancient principles of Ayurveda meet the cutting edge of health and wellness in the modern world. Finding inner peace and stability is more crucial than ever in today’s fast-paced, always-evolving culture. This is when wellhealth Ayurvedic health tips comes into play. This age-old Indian healing practise centres on harmonising the mind and body for complete wellness.
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Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 1 2009 (IPS) – Handed down from generation to generation, traditional knowledge about medicinal plants has reached state laboratories in Brazil through a programme that has already identified 71 native and exotic species for producing herbal medicines.
The National Programme of Medicinal Plants and Phytotherapeutics was created around the time when the World Health Organisation (WHO), in 1978, recognised the use of medicinal plants for prophylactic, curative, palliative and diagnostic purposes, and recommended that public health policies include them.
According to the Health Ministry, Brazil is the country with the greatest plant genetic diversity in the world, with close to 55,000 classified species out of an estimated total of …
Natalia Ruiz Díaz
ASUNCIÓN, Aug 4 2009 (IPS) – Nicolás, a 14-year-old disabled boy, was finally able to open up and begin expressing himself thanks to Open Wings, a project in Paraguay that uses modern dance as a tool to help youngsters with disabilities develop on both the physical and psychological level.
He was a very introverted boy, withdrawn, who expressed practically no emotions, Estela Maris Rolón, Nicolás s mother, told IPS. But now thanks to dance he is more open, more expressive, and has incorporated that in his life.
The Open Wings (Alas Abiertas) project emerged in 2007 from workshops carried out with institutions that work with people with disabilities.
The kids came, and we started to work, said Mercedes Pacheco, head of Open Wings. And …
WASHINGTON, Apr 13 2011 (IPS) – While the curtain was being raised Tuesday on a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) initiative to pour one billion dollars of federal funding into the Partnerships for Patients Act – a new project designed to save thousands of lives and millions of dollars – the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) held a media briefing here simultaneously presenting studies from their theme issue on Infectious Diseases and Immunology .
A day prior to the release of JAMA s Apr. 13 issue, which addresses an expansive array of diseases and medical and biological immunity, top-dogs from the medical community gathered here to share endeavours at combating the global proliferation of various diseases.
Christian Liendhart, a senior …
Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY, May 13 2011 (IPS) – In spite of the potential risks posed by unwanted or uncontrolled radioactive materials, Mexico lacks comprehensive mechanisms to keep track of these orphan sources, originally used in medicine or industry, and to prevent them going astray.
One example of the problem is a sealed unit of Cobalt-60, a substance dangerous to the environment and to human health, inside a Picker 3000 radiotherapy machine, that is no longer in use and was found in the northern town of Ciudad Juárez, on the U.S. border, IPS learned.
The material was located and removed as part of a programme for recovering lost or obsolete orphan sources, implemented by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The IAEA contracted a U.S…
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, Jan 27 2020 (IPS) – Steven Seremwe, who is 57 years old, was retrenched from his job as an administrator at Lake Shore Missions in 2012. He decided to focus on farming, and he started growing various crops—white maize, sugar beans, and sweet potatoes, among others—for consumption and sale.
“I have always loved agriculture but because of work pressures, I was not practicing. But when I got retrenched from work, I decided to follow my heart and started farming,” he said.
The problem was that every farming season, even with a bumper harvest, Seremwe`s income was falling short. Profits were never enough to feed and care fo…