Rural Development Institute

The Ayurveda Centre

Swami Rama Centre

Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust

Love, Serve, Remember

The Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust is located near Dehradun in the Garhwal region of the foothills of the Himalayas, and is designed to serve this region’s population of millions of people in great medical, economic, and social need. The mission of HIHT is to develop integrated and cost-effective approaches to health care and development for the country as a whole, and for underserved populations worldwide.

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Preparation of Medicines: Bhaishajya Kalpana

. . . continued from previous issue Kwaatha This is obtained by boiling 60 grams of cleaned, chopped and crushed raw drugs and cooked with 1200 ml of water and reduced to 1/4th. Usually when administration is done clinically this filtered Kwaatha is further reduced to...

Theory of the Chronic Miasms

Pathogenesis of RA continued. . . The relative immobility that pervades during sleep only adds to the already existing problem of the stasis of prana. As one begins to move about, the stiffness gradually decreases because the physical movement helps to reinstall a...

Meditation as Self-Therapy by Swami Rama

Part 3 Sushumna application means that the breath is flowing equally through both of the nostrils. When you have learned to understand the basic breathing exercises, then you should pay attention to the breath flowing through the nostrils. When you become sensitive to...

Preparation of Medicines, Bhaishajya Kalpana

In Ayurveda anything that exists on this earth can be a dravya (drug) as it is made up of panchamahabhootas. Caraka says even a poison can be an effective drug when administered in the proper way and in the same way an elixir can prove harmful if administered wrongly....

Meditation as Self-Therapy by Swami Rama (continued)

Breathing Then you may notice that your breath is creating a problem for you: your mind is being distracted by your breath. Breath plays a great role in life. It helps you to control your mind, and if you know how to breathe properly you can control your emotional...

Theory of the Chronic Miasms

. . . Pathogenesis of RA continued As the urogenital organs initially develop as one system, when the menses are suppressed, one of the first symptoms to appear is increased frequency and urgency of urination. When the functioning of one structure of mesodermal origin...

Meditation as Self-Therapy by Swami Rama

You must know with certainty what meditation means, and how meditation can help you. Is meditation a complete therapy or do you need a therapist on whom you can lean for many, many years and still not understand yourself? First of all you should understand that your...

Theory of the Chronic Miasms

Pathogenesis of RA continued Besides the possible underlying miasmatic etiology in rheumatoid arthritis, other possible causative agents may be genetic and environmental factors. RA has a strong possibility of being inherited, with the human leukocyte antigen (HLA)...