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Ranjaka Pitta and the work of the Liver


By Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya Medicines found in other medical systems than the mainstream are steadily being banned from being called medicines. Even if they help a person feel better, they have not considered medicines today. They do not conform to the new trend in the past century of Henry Wellcome’s patent for white pills pressed...

Sidestepping the Nonsense of Non-living Texts


By Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya Subjects that encompass knowledge that helps society and its members are considered disciplines in the best universities. However, those subjects that help people take care of their minds, and themselves and empower their inner abilities are considered unscholarly. Self-development is considered unteachable and unprofessional. These tools are relegated to self-help groups,...

Ayurveda Day celebrated at Indian Consulate in New York


On the occasion of the 7th Ayurveda Day, the Consulate General of India, New York, organized an ‘Ayurveda Summit’ on October 29, 2022. This year’s Ayurveda Day was celebrated with the theme “Har Din Har Ghar Ayurveda” so as to propagate the benefits of Ayurveda to a larger audience by underlining the centrality of...

Better Living, Beyond Chemistry


By Dr. 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...

Burning Noise into Wisdom


By Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya While Americans blow out the candles on their birthday, Indians pay reverence to the symbolism of the flame. Over 10,000 years, when dark nights seemed to bring the darkness of energy, spirit, and action, the flame was the symbol of hope, faith, and of perseverance. It is funny that westerners casually...

The Power of Bad Medical Education


By Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya It is not the science of Ayurveda that is the problem. It is today's ayurvedic medical schools, in which students are not taught in depth about the four pillars of treatment known as the pāda-chatuṣ-ṭayā -  knowledge of the practitioner, the availability of the needed medicine, the ability of the assistant...

The Four Pillars of Medical Treatment


By Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya People disconnected from Indian traditions, especially those educated to observe the excellence in convenience and efficiency as the supremacy of the west, approach Ayurveda only when they face the brick wall of medical treatment. Then they ask, does Ayurveda have a cure for my incurable condition? After years of polluting their own...

Connectivity with Health as Wealth


By Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya People enamored with the usual way of living in the modern world do not choose Ayurveda as a healing option in the first stages of the disease. They use the conventional options which are surgery, drugs, expensive tests, and bloodwork. They follow the doctor's recommendations blindly because they have been educated...

The Unique Strengths of Ayurveda


By Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya Ayurveda is a legally recognized system of medicine in India, one of 8 approaches based on practice-based evidence of indigenous, tested knowledge over thousands of years. The fact that it is recognized in several countries but not all is not really about evidence, as thousands of years of evidence exist; in...