Red Onion can Help Prevent Heart Disease, Scientists Claim

The humble red onion could help prevent heart disease according to scientists. 
They have discovered that the vegetable - commonly used in Mediterranean and Indian cuisine - helps remove bad cholesterol from the body, which can cause heart attacks and strokes
 At the same time red onions retain the body's good cholesterol, which help protect against heart disease 
Scientists in Hong Kong fed crushed-up red onions to hamsters who had all been put on a high-cholesterol diet. 
They found that after eight weeks levels of bad cholesterol, or low density lipoprotein (LDL), had dropped by an average of 20 per cent. 
"This result supports the claim that the regular consumption of onion reduces the risk of coronary heart disease," the Daily Mail quoted Zhen Yu Chen, who was in charge of the research carried out at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as saying.
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TIPS For Heart Vein opening

NOW NO NEED NOW FOR ANY ANGIOGRAPHY / BYPASS

NATURAL THERAPY FOR OPENING THE VEINS OF THE HEART
PLEASE PASS IT TO YOUR COLLEAGUES OR FRIENDS
For Heart Vein opening:

Lemon juice: 1 cup
Ginger juice: 1 cup
Garlic  juice: 1 cup
Apple vinegar: 1 cup
Mix all above and boil on low heat, approximately half  hour, when it
becomes 3 cups, take off stove and let cool. After cooling, mix 3 cups of
natural honey and keep it in bottle.

Every morning before breakfast use one Table spoon regularly. Your
blockage of Vein's will open.




Courtesy:*Prof. Dr. S. Vikineswary
Biotech Division
Institute of Biological Sciences
University of Malaya
50603 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

MEDICAL PRACTICE STYLE GLOSSARY

 Allopathic medicine, also known as Western medicine, is an approach that seeks to cure by producing a condition in the body different than, or opposite to, the condition that exists within the diseased state. It relies heavily on the use of pharmaceuticals. 

Alternative medicine is healing practices--such as herbalism, chiropractic medicine and acupuncture--that are not part of allopathic medicine. Complementary medicine is the use of alternative medicine together with allopathic medicine. 

Eastern medicine is a broad term for Oriental, Indian, Tibetan, Japanese and Chinese medicine, which share the philosophy of an energy system in the human body and the necessity of balance and harmony. 

Functional medicine focuses on prevention and understanding a person's core clinical imbalances that underlie various disease conditions.

Homeopathy, developed by a German doctor at the end of the 18th century, seeks to stimulate the body's ability to heal itself by giving very small doses of highly diluted substances. 

Holistic medicine looks at the patient as a whole person, including analysis of physical, nutritional, environmental, emotional, social, spiritual and lifestyle values. It focuses on education and responsibility for personal efforts to achieve balance and well being. 

Integrative medicine combines conventional, complementary and alternative treatments for which there is evidence of safety and effectiveness. 

Mind-body medicine uses a variety of techniques, including meditation, to enhance the mind's capacity to affect bodily function and symptoms. 

Naturopathic medicine emphasizes diet, exercise, lifestyle changes and natural therapies to enhance the body's ability to ward off and combat disease. 

Osteopathic medicine is based on a philosophy that the body should be treated as a unit, that it can heal itself, and that the body's structure and function work together. 

Western medicine is the art and science of healing, typically practiced in North America and Western Europe by medical doctors (MDs) and doctors of osteopathy (DOs) and allied health professionals including physical therapists, psychologists and registered nurses. It's also called allopathic or conventional medicine. 

Sources: The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine; The Institute for Functional Medicine; About.com and WebMD. 

Hindus say yoga is a world heritage to be utilized by all:Rajan Jed

Do not be afraid of yoga, Hindu statesman Rajan Zed tells practitioners of different faiths.

 Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism and lives in Nevada (USA), in a statement today, said that although introduced and nourished by Hinduism, yoga was a world heritage to be utilized by all. One could still practice one’s respective faith and do yoga. Yoga would rather help one in achieving one’s spiritual goals in whatever religion one believed in. It was not at odds with any faith and rather made one spiritually healthier. Question of spiritual confusion was irrelevant as yoga brought more clarity in thought.

 Rajan Zed further said that yoga, referred as “a living fossil” whose traces went back to around 2,000 BCE to Indus Valley civilization, was a mental and physical discipline handed down from one guru to next, for everybody to share and benefit from. According to Patanjali who codified it inYoga Sutra, yoga was a methodical effort to attain perfection, through the control of the different elements of human nature, physical and psychical. Yoga was based on an eightfold path to direct the practitioner from awareness of the external world to a focus on the inner.

 According to National Institutes of Health, Yoga may help one to feel more relaxed, be more flexible, improve posture, breathe deeply, and get rid of stress.

 Swami Vivekananda reportedly brought yoga to USA in 1893. According to an estimate, about 16 million Americans now do yoga.

Nouf Mohammed Al-Marwaai: Saudi yoga instructor

The quest for knowledge has not ended for yoga instructor Nouf Mohammed Al-Marwaai, even though her bachelor’s degree in clinical psychology from King Saud University took her to Australia and later to India to learn about yoga and Ayurveda.

Thirty-year-old Al-Marwaai is the first certified Saudi woman yoga and Ayurveda expert and the co-founder of the Riyadh-Chinese Medical Center in Jeddah — the first center providing alternative medicines and treatments in the Kingdom. She is also the regional director of the Gulf Yoga Alliance.

Yoga was not a new concept to her, unlike the rest of the Saudi society, as her father Mohammed was founder of the Arab Martial Arts Federation in the Kingdom, Tunisia and Egypt before the 1980s.

She started practicing yoga at the age of 19, but remained dissatisfied with the meager resources and experts in the Kingdom, which persuaded her to travel abroad.

I started to practice yoga just because I was interested in some slow and therapeutically exercises. I desperately searched for yoga classes or teachers but couldn’t find any,” she said.

“So, I started self-practicing with the limited resources I could access. I found an Indian teacher and started practicing with her for a year. Very soon, I realized its benefits for the mind and body.

“Continuing the practice regularly for years, I found that the practice and the knowledge are linked with many facts in psychology and science. Practicing it is not just an exercise, but its effects are far reaching, more than our brain can imagine.

“This made me serious and I wanted to study the science behind it, for which I started traveling and educating myself in different colleges, medical centers for yoga and Ayurveda clinics in different countries at the age of 24.”

So, why India?

“I traveled to many places like Australia first to obtain a graduation diploma in physiology and anatomy. I also studied Hatha yoga practically and theoretically with two other types of yoga, weight management and stress release therapy,” she said.

“Also, I studied some of the Ayurvedic medicine theories and its nutrition. This gave a deep insight about yoga and its functions in a body. After that I felt the need to go to India — the original land of this knowledge and learn more about the philosophy and therapy of yoga, where there are many colleges and universities of yoga and access to Ayurveda medical training and teachings.

“While studying yoga, I found it interesting to study Ayurveda because they are sister sciences and they use the same theory of mental and body energies, physiology and psychology. I heard and read about Ayurveda a long time ago before I start practicing yoga. I went to India to study more about both.”

In India, she also studied the management and diagnosis of disease through yoga and Ayurveda. After that she did higher studies in yoga therapy and medical approach, yoga psychotherapy research and higher academic studies in the field. Also, she wanted to understand the conflict between yoga and Islam.

For a 

long time, Muslims had shunned yoga because of the perception that it is linked to the Hindu and Buddhist religions. She argues that yoga was the practice of people living in the pre-Buddhist era, over 5,000 years ago.

“It is more a lifestyle and a science than a religion. Especially Hatha yoga, which involves physiotherapy, lengthening and stretching exercises with breathing techniques which affects and stabilizes the nervous and endocrine systems deeply and creates harmony in the brain,” she said. “Treatments should be taken without considering the religious background. There are many books which Muslim scholars translated from other cultures and made use of and vice versa. There is nothing that involves worshipping anyone other than Allah in yoga.”

However, Al-Marwaai claims she was lucky in getting good media exposure, which helped her get established. She received a breakthrough opportunity when she was invited by the King Abdulaziz University to hold a three-day stress buster yoga workshop, which was a big hit among female students.

She also conducted mental enhancement programs for gifted girls under the supervision of Ministry of Education from time to time. This brought her into media spotlight and many television channels including Saudi Channel 1, Rotana, Iqraa channel, Oyoon Jeddah and others interviewed her.

She then started receiving frequent invitations to address seminars and lectures about yoga and Ayurveda. She also received offers to spearhead awareness programs from multinational companies like Unilever and Proctor and Gamble in the Kingdom.

“After I was made the regional director of Yoga Alliance International (YAI) in 2009 in the Gulf region by Swami Vidyananda, the founder of YAI in India, people started to know more about yoga and enquired more about it and its health benefits,” she added.

In Dec. 2009, she started her center for yoga and other alternative medicines. She also conducts a certified professional yoga-teaching program. So far, 40 women have completed this diploma in and outside Jeddah.

“Around 20 of them are very active in teaching others yoga,” she said. “I also have more than 400 women students in Jeddah alone. I have a kids’ yoga program too and my five-year-old boy is one who has learnt many poses!”

When asked what made her explore yoga despite achieving a bachelor’s degree in clinical psychology, she explained that the link between yoga and psychology is very strong and known by every practitioner.

Yoga is a body and mind exercise involving control of the central nervous system, somatic system and autonomic nervous system and harmonizes all three together.

The central nervous system controls the mind, the somatic system governs the body and the autonomic nervous system controls the emotions.

Practicing yoga improves stability and endurance for the three systems, resulting in strong physical health, a focused and balanced mentality and balanced emotions. Physical, mental and emotional endurance improves, so practitioners experience less diseases and pain, less mental disturbances and disorders, plus enhanced and insightful emotions.

Talking about her family and background, she said that her father has been her biggest source of inspiration.

“Being an achiever himself, my father believes in achievements. He received the King Fahd Prize in 1990 for his self-defense program, which was implemented in almost every military force in the Kingdom,” she said.

“He is now an adviser to the Interior Ministry and the government has been very supportive to him for his services to the Kingdom by introducing martial arts here. My parents are my biggest supporters who are always there for me. My husband was with me for a year in my three-year trip and traveled with me twice. My sisters and mom take care of my child when I am at work or traveling.”

Al-Marwaai asserts that her stay in Southern Indian state of Kerala was a comfortable one. “I love the people there for their kindness, hospitality, sincerity and friendliness. Their food, culture, music and dress are lovely. I miss the family I lived with in India, who were so caring and treated me like their daughter so that I never felt homesick. I would love to thank them so much for all they had done for me,” she said.

Source:Arab News.com

   

Measures to establish Ayurveda Centre in Moneragala in SRILANKA

Measures are underway to establish an Ayurveda Medical Centre, a Drug Collection Centre and an Ayurveda Pharmaceutical Sales Outlet at the cost of Rs one million in the Moneragala District to coincide with the Deyata Kirula Exhibition, said Ayurveda Pharmaceutical Corporation Chairman Somaweera Chandrasiri.

Enhancing the economy of farmers cultivating local medicinal plants, restriction of raw material imported for producing Ayurveda medicine and collecting them from particular areas are the main objectives of such collecting centres.

A communique issued said the Indigenous Medicine Ministry has planned to stop importing raw materials including ginger used in Ayurveda Medicine and hopes to obtain active participation of ancestral people in Dambana to get such materials provided, apart from the raw materials now being received from the North and the East with the ending of the war.

 Source:Daily News Sri Lanka

New DNA Repair Mechanism Discovered

Researchers have found a novel mechanism that spots and repairs a common form of DNA damage called alkylation. 
Researchers at Vanderbilt University, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Pittsburgh have discovered a fundamentally new way that DNA-repair enzymes detect and fix damage to the chemical bases that form the letters in the genetic code.
"There is a general belief that DNA is 'rock solid' - extremely stable," said Brandt Eichman, associate professor of biological sciences at Vanderbilt, who directed the project. "Actually DNA is highly reactive," Nature quoted him as saying. A number of environmental toxins and chemotherapy drugs are alkylation agents that can attack DNA. When a DNA base becomes alkylated, it forms a lesion that distorts the shape of the molecule enough to prevent successful replication. Human cells contain a single glycosylase, named AAG, that repairs alkylated bases. It is specialized to detect and delete "ethenoadenine" bases, which have been deformed by combining with highly reactive, oxidized lipids in the body. However, AAG also handles many other forms of akylation damage. Many bacteria, however, have several types of glycosylases that handle different types of damage.