Uttarakhand has a very well defined structure of frontline health workers – Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA), ASHA facilitators and Auxiliary Nurse and Mid-wife (ANM) – who constantly work towards ensuring improved health indicators at village...
(Part 4, continued from previous issue) In the previous issue we stated that prana is the universal force that gives life to all living things. In homeopathy disease exists on the dynamic or energy level and is defined as a disturbance of the vital force, which is...
Himalayan College of Nursing, Swami Rama Himalayan University, organized a 4-day International Nursing Conference on “Current Advances in Nursing Science: Innovative Approaches in Nursing Education, Nursing Practice” from March 29 to April 1, 2017. Dr. Krishan Kant...
Continued from the March/April 2017 newsletter It has been acknowledged by medical science that genetic factors play a role in disorders that are environmentally induced and that likewise the environment strongly influences genetic expression. Yet the causative agents...
Palaash ( Butea monosperma) This plant is commonly known as dhaak and tesu in Hindi and flame of the forest and bastard teak in English. It belongs to the family Leguminosae, subfamily papilionatae and nyagrodhadi gana in Ayurveda. In Kerala, this is called as plasu...
