The market is flooded with varied kinds of herbal supplements. Many supplements come with big promises like: boosting memory, reducing the risk of stroke and cancer, increasing energy levels etc. How many of these promises are indeed true? There is no doubt that some herbs are highly beneficial. As a matter of fact; herbs have been used to improve health, healing and overall well being since the medieval times. The problem that the modern consumer faces is not with the herb itself but with the big promises made by manufacturers of herbal supplements. Another fact is that unlike pharmaceutical products,  [...]

Scientists may soon be able to answer the question, how Ayurvedic herbs boost the memory and how Brahmi and Amlaki work. In an attempt to authenticate Ayurvedic medicine, a team of medical practitioners and scientists have begun to work towards the gathering of evidences on the functioning of the 40 herbal drugs of traditional importance that are prescribed by Vaghbhata, the 6th century physician, and how the whole process occurs at a cellular level in tissues and organs of animals, by using radionuclides, which are also referred to as radioisotopes and are substances that display the chemical propery of radioactivity. The present  [...]

Antibiotics have had their time in the limelight for the past few years. The commonly used antibiotics are losing their effectiveness as many types of virus have developed resistance against them. The onus is on the medical science to come up with stronger antibiotics to deal with types of virus which have adapted to antibiotics. Viruses are out evolving antibiotics! Scientists believe there is a threat that the viruses will out evolve the antibiotics which can lead to a disease which is incurable. And hence this has made the doctors more discriminating in prescribing antibiotic usage so that the overuse doesn’t encourage viruses to over power the antibiotics. Side effects of antibiotic usage: Also emerging are the side effects of the use of antibiotics. Especially long  [...]