Insomnia

October 3rd, 2006

Insomnia is too little or poor-quality sleep caused by one or more of the following:

Trouble falling asleep
Waking up a lot during the night with trouble returning to sleep
Waking up too early in the morning
Having un-refreshing sleep (not feeling well rested), even after sleeping 7 to 8 hours at night.

Insomnia can cause problems during the [...]

Black Pepper

October 2nd, 2006

Black Pepper is one of the earliest known spices ever discovered, pepper is used worldwide in almost every household.

Black pepper : Popularly known as “kali mirch” and a native of the western ghats in India , it is endowed with anti-coagulant properties. It is one of the few herbs which ayurveda describes as helping to [...]

Medicine in Food we eat

October 1st, 2006

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‘Let our foods be medicines and our medicines be food’ - the old aphorism first coined by Hippocrates is coming back into vogue. In an age where medicine has become a multi-billion dollar industry and the market is flooded with thousands of ever new permutations of various synthetic compounds that make it [...]