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September 2009

  • Homeopathy works miracles for poultry birds

    Although the producers and farm owners waste a lot of time and money to keep their birds healthy, appropriate methods of healing are difficult to get every time. Poultry managers are taking up alternative therapies as methods of treatment for poultry that suffer from infestation of mites and low egg weight problems. Alternative therapies work wonders where usual veterinary treatment procedures fail to attain success.

     
  • Golden Triangle scheme clears Ayurvedic formulations for 8 diseases

    Out of 38 Ayurvedic preparations for eight disease conditions, 20 formulations have been provided for the pre-clinical research to the CSIR under a Partnership Scheme called the Golden Triangle. the project has been launched with an avowed aim to develop new medicines validate the Ayurvedic medicines.

  • Sri Lanka to revive and develop health tourism

    The 30-year war between the Sri Lanka government and the Tamil Tigers ended in May this year which has made the Sri Lankan government to look into the revival of tourism in the country.  One of the prominent hotel firms in Sri Lanka, Aitken Space Hotels will partner with Six Senses Spa to develop a market resort in the in Beruwalla near Ahungalla. Malin Hapugoda, the Managing Director of the Aitken Spence Hotels confirms that. The project had had talks before was shelved due to the war. 

     
  • Dr. Shardali Kulkarni gets international reward for Ayurvedic research in Africa
    It’s really inspiring how Dr Shardali Kulkarni went for a seven years research into traditional medicine of Africa. She has recently received the prestigious international award for her research in Ayurveda. It is truly commendable how she devoted seven years for this research. It speaks for the years of passion and perseverance that she gave into this insightful research work. 
     
  • Tibetan medicine system Sowa Rigpa to get legal recognition soon

    Sowa Rigpa ‘Amchi’ is an ancient Tibetan Medication that has earned the approval of the Centre. The Sowa Rigma treatment form has similarity with the Ayurvedic treatment as well as the Chinese medicinal therapy. It is said to have come down to us from the days of The Buddha. The background story behind Sowa Rigpa is interesting. The treatment is practiced in Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, Sikkim and in the Himalayan regions.

     
  • BST meet at Hyderabad to make Baba Ram Dev's dreams come true

    Rajiv Dixit, the secretary of the Bharat Swabhiman Trust that was set up by Swami Ram Dev spoke to the media on Saturday in Hyderabad. The objective of the conference was to convey that Indian tradition in the form of Ayurveda would be propagated among more Indians. In that the glory of the Indian tradition would be reinstated.

  • National Ayurveda Convention 2009 to be held at Pennsylvania

    The National Ayurveda Convention for the year 2009 is to be held between 30th October and November 1, 2009. It will be held in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania at Twin Ponds Integrative Health Center. APNA, The Association of Ayurvedic Professionals of North America will hold the convention in collaboration with AWC, Ayurveda Wellness Center at Coopersburg, Pennsylvania.

  • China investigating 'fatal' herbal injection

    China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) are scrutinizing a drug, named Shuanghuanglian, which is the product of Duoduo Pharmaceutcal Company, Ltd. in Heilongjiang. The drug regulators are suspicious that this herbal injection might be the reason behind three deaths that occurred in three different provinces of country. 

    SFDA, in association with China's Ministry of health, has deputed an investigation team to probe this case.

  • Indian, Israeli institutes sign MoU to promote Ayurveda

    Two noted institutions, namely Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Education Society, Ujire and Reidman Institute of Complimentary Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel, have entered a MoU for exchange of academic and research knowledge of Ayurveda. This got accomplished in Dharmasthala on Thursday. 

  • Madras University invents herbal swine flu drug
    With the pandemic swine flu creating havoc globally, can the Siddha and Ayurveda curatives stay behind in tying up the H1N1 virus? Here is 'Ayusrem,' the herbal solution to the pandemic. The new drug has been invented as a result of the joint venture taken up by the Centre for Herbal Sciences (CHS) at the Madras University and the Ramoni Research Foundation (RRF).