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Health, Happiness, and Spirituality in Numbers by Peeyush Bhargava M.D

HTML clipboard I have been practicing Yoga for as long as I remember, and in the last decade I have focused on Ayurveda. In this brief article I have tried to summarize classical indian teachings on various aspects of life using a template of numbers from 0 to 9. These observations are based mostly on ancient wisdom and intuition rather than reasoning or evidence. In my free time I provide ayurvedic lifestyle and herbal consultations, and am interested in studying related phenomemon using imaging techniques. 0. Zero represents a cycle / circle. Everything in nature goes in cycles. Day and nights go in cycles; seasons come and go in cycles. Change is the only constant. All that comes into existence has to go into oblivion at some point in time. All that is born has to die. That’s an absolute truth. This also mea

Skin care in winters by Dr. Sijay Dev

Skin is the largest organ in the body and is the outer covering of the body that bears the external environment, and feels the sensation of the body. In summers the body gets subjected to heat as result get sunburns, and sweats as a result gets dehydrated. As a result the skin requires nourishment and rejuvenation in the winter. Though felt good in beginning, winter when it takes its true impact it again dries our skin and makes it scaly. Humidity also gets reduced too the least in some areas that it cracks our heels and chaps our lips. Most of us buys a heater and switch it on in room to keep ourselves warm but unfortunately that again worsens the condition. When the heater is switched on it takes in the remaining traces of moisture left in our skin and further dries up our skin. This skin which is cracked, chapped, and dry skin then becomes a portal of skin infections. So the skin has to be rejuvenated and care should be taken to nourish the skin to make it soft, smooth