By Bharat Upadhyay New Delhi: As alternative medicine gains popularity in the wake of COVID-19, the age-old Indian system of Ayurveda can don the role of quiet yet powerful armed forces in the fight against the coronavirus, according to Dr Bhaswati Bhattacharya. She is the Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine from New York’s Weill Cornell Medical...
New York: A new wellness and spirituality web magazine started by Parveen Chopra, founding editor of The South Asian Times, was launched on January 21 at the Consulate of India in New York. Parveen Chopra, a seasoned journalist, explained the unique mix of alotusinthemud.com at the launch, “We tap the world’s religious and spiritual traditions for wisdom as...
By Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya Ancient Bharatiya traditions places prime emphasis on development of manōbala (bala=strength, manas=the feeling/ emotional mind) for starting anything new. All successful Ayurvedic medical prescriptions quietly calculate all disease prognosis, personal power, and relationships based on the mental strength of each person. This is one reason why two people with the same...
Watching elders handle difficult situations and harness emotions is education of the heart that is not possible in classroom-based learning in westernized schools By Bhaswati Bhattacharya Many Bhartiya families are rooted in the mastery of uninterrupted ancient traditions directly handed over through thousands of years, with the unspeakable advantage of learning from one’s parents, who have...
By Bhaswati Bhattacharya Modern sciences such as nutrition, biochemistry, and dietetics emphasize calories and types of foods such as carbohydrates, fats and proteins. These sciences prescribe chemistry as the solution to all the needs, and either a drug that inhibits enzymes, that allows more of the enzyme to circulate, or a counteracting drug that destroys...
By Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya Ancient Bharatiya traditions place prime emphasis on development of manōbala (bala=strength, manas=the feeling/ emotional mind) for starting anything new. All successful Ayurvedic medical prescriptions quietly calculate all disease prognosis, personal power, and relationships based on the mental strength of each person. This is one reason why two people with the same...
by Bhaswati Bhattacharya The past quarter century has seen several campaigns successfully change the opinions of Indians toward India. They have shifted buying patterns of the common people who preferred foreign cars, foreign clothes, foreign cosmetics, and foreign watches and toward items that promote Indian values. Patanjali/Divya, the BJP, and fabIndia have made inroads to...
By Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya While India claims to be the ancestral grandfather of great disciplines in arts, sciences, philosophy, and engineering, its modern practices are in need of major reform. Indeed, most intellectual wisdom that represents the best of man's thinking can be found in ancient India's thinking, developed and captured in texts dating over...
By Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya Ancient Bharatiya traditions place prime emphasis on the development of manōbala (bala=strength, manas=the feeling/ emotional mind) for starting anything new. All successful Ayurvedic medical prescriptions quietly calculate all disease prognoses, personal power, and relationships based on the mental strength of each person. This is one reason why two people with the...
