Synonyms and Keywords:Corns and Calluses, Tyloma,Heloma, Clavus, Sore Toe, Knot
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Definition:
A callus (tyloma) is an area of skin that thickens after exposure to repetitive forces in order to protect the skin. A callus may not be painful. When it becomes painful, treatment is required.
When a callus develops a mass of dead cells in its center, [...]
Botanical Name: Prinos verticillatus (LINN.)
Family: Aquiloliaceae
Synonyms: Ilex Verticillata. Black Alder Winterberry. Deciduous Winterberry. Virginian Winterberry. P. Gronovii. P.Confertus. Fever Bush. Apalachine a feuilles de Prunier.
Other Name:American Winterberry (Ilex verticillata), also known as Black Alder, Black Alder Winterberry, Brook Alder, Coralberry, Deciduous Holly, Deciduous Winterberry, False alder, Fever bush, Inkberry, Michigan Holly, Possumhaw, Striped Alder, Swamp [...]
Lessons Of Reflection
When we care about people, we want to save them from pain by offering them the benefit of our experience. Sometimes we feel like we know what is best for them. Sometimes, like when their safety is involved, we need to step in, but those times are rare. More often we find [...]
Value Your Own Wisdom
Throughout our lives, we will encounter individuals who presume to know what is best for us. The insights they offer cannot compare, however, with the powers of awareness and discernment that already exist within us. From birth we are blessed with wisdom that cannot be learned or unlearned. It exists whether [...]
The colon, or large intestine, is part of the digestive system, which is a series of organs from the mouth to the anus. When the shape of the colon or the way it connects to other organs is abnormal, digestive problems result. Some of these anatomic problems can occur during embryonic development [...]
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Botanical Name: Cyperus articulatus (LINN.)
Family: N.O. Cyperaceae
Latin name: Cyperus articulatus
Other name: Guinea Rush
Part Used: The drug Adrue is the tuberous rhizome of the Guinea Rush (Cyperus articulatus Linn.), a tall sedge, common in Jamaica, and on the banks of the Nile.
Description-–The blackish-red, somewhat top-shaped tubers are 3/4 to 1 inch long, [...]
ATLANTA: Lipsticks tested by a US consumer rights group found that more than half contained lead and some popular brands including Cover Girl, L’Oreal and Christian Dior had more lead than others, the group said on Thursday.
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics said tests on 33 brand-name red lipsticks by the Bodycote Testing Group in [...]
Consciously Reconnecting
There may be times when we feel like our connection to the universe is closed. Maybe things don’t seem to be going well in our day, or our lives, or we may feel out of our element. The truth is, the universe is always there for us. We know that we create our experience [...]
Botanical Name: Erythronium Americanum (KER-GAWL)
Family: Ophioglossaceae
Genus: Ophioglossum
Synonyms: Serpent’s Tongue. Dog’s Tooth Violet. Yellow Snowdrop.
Parts Used: Leaves, bulbs.
Habitat : Eastern United States of America, from New Brunswick to Florida, and westwards to Ontario and Arkansas.
The American Dog’s Tooth Violet or Adder’s Tongue, Erythronium Americanum (Ker Gawl), is a very beautiful early [...]
A cardiac arrest, also known as cardiorespiratory arrest, cardiopulmonary arrest or circulatory arrest, is the abrupt cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively during systole.
“Arrested” blood circulation prevents delivery of oxygen to all parts of the body. Cerebral hypoxia, or lack of oxygen supply to the [...]
NEW YORK: Think you are being good by opting for a “healthy” restaurant over a fast food joint? Maybe not, say US researchers, who found that eating in restaurants that bill themselves as healthy can make you fatter.
A series of new studies from New York’s Cornell University found that people who spurned fast food in [...]
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a digestive disorder that causes abdominal pain, bloating, gas, diarrhea, and constipation—or some combination of these problems. IBS affects people of all ages, including children.
IBS is classified as a functional disorder because it is caused by a problem in how the intestines, or bowels, work. People with [...]
Botanical: Eupatorium cannabinum (LINN.)
Family: N.O. Compositæ,Asteraceae
Synonyms: Holy Rope. St. John’s Herb,Eupatorium cannabinum
Habitat:Many areas of Europe.Most of the United States and Southern Canada has tremendous growth of Agrimony.
Part Used: Herb.
The Hemp Agrimony, Eupatorium Cannabinum, belongs to the great Composite order of plants. It is a very handsome, tall-growing perennial, common on the banks of rivers, sides [...]
NEW YORK: Recent studies have suggested that months to years of intensive meditation can improve attention and lower stress.
Researchers now believe that in less than one week of meditation practice with the integrative body-mind meditation training method can produce noteworthy improvement in attention and ones’ state of mind.
The study of 40 Chinese undergraduates found [...]
Chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven. Fresh cut grass. Your spouse’s natural body odour. Smells can invoke memories, sexually arouse people, or even drive you mad.
Psychology professor Rachel Herz from Brown University in Rhode Island has spent 17 years studying the human sense of smell, finding it is the most emotionally evocative sense [...]
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Vertigo, a specific type of dizziness, is a major symptom of a balance disorder. It is the sensation of spinning or swaying while the body is stationary with respect to the earth or surroundings. There are two types of vertigo: subjective and objective. A person experiencing subjective vertigo feels a false sensation [...]
An orange a day may actually keep your wrinkles away. An interesting study has revealed that regular intake of foods rich in Vitamin C helps prevent ageing of skin.
Vitamin C, also know as ascorbic acid, is found in a wide variety of fruit and vegetables. Good sources include peppers, broccoli, brussels sprouts, oranges, kiwi fruit, [...]
Botanical Name: Hydnocarpus laurifolia
Synonym: Hydnocarpus laurifolia
Indian Name: Garudphal
Description and Composition
Chalmogra is a tall evergreen tree with whitish wood. It has sharply-toothed, smooth and shining leaves, spherical fruits, about the size of an apple, with a rough thick brown rind. Within the fruit there are 10 to 20 angular seeds, embedded in a scanty white [...]
Mending A Broken Heart
Heartbreak happens to all of us and can wash over us like a heavy rain. When experiencing a broken heart, our ethereal selves are saturated with grief, and the overflow is channeled into the physical body. Loss becomes a physical emptiness, and longing is transmuted into a feeling that often cannot be [...]
The Importance Of Seeing The Good In All
Our perception shapes the lives we lead because the universe adjusts itself almost instantly to our expectations. When we look for negativity, we are bound to come across it in abundance. Conversely, we create positive energy when we endeavor to see the goodness around us. As easy as [...]
