Psoriasis is a immune mediated skin disease, in the old Ayurvedic treatise Charak Samhita, it is described under “Maha Kustha” and is normally compared with Kitibh type of Maha Kushtha. Psoriasis is very stubborn diseases which may go into remmision for very many years and may relapse any time. In conventional treatment systems like allopathy, there is no sure cure for psoriasis but traditional health care system i.e. ayurveda offers very effective management of Psoriasis. Psoriasis is a skin disease characterized by scaling, swelling and is caused by a malfunction in the immune system. T cells in immune system typically protect the body against infection and disease, but in psoriasis T cells are put into action by mistake causing swelling and fast turnover of skin cells  

Kafal (Myrica esculenta) is a small tree or large shrub. It is a well known medicinal plant in Ayurveda. Myrica esculenta is in hilly regions of Nepal and northern part of India especially in the region of Himalayan India, Garhwal, Kumaun, Khasia Mountains and silhiti especially at the height of 3 to 6 thousand. It is also found in the altitude below 1500 meters in mid hills of Nepal. Its common names include Box myrtle, Bayberry, Kafal (local name) It has a tree of medium height i.e. 20 to 25 feet. Bark is soft and brittle. Leaves are conjoint, 1 to 2 feet long that has leaflets in pairs of 6 to 9 and has a width of ¼ inch. Flowers are of white color and are found in bunches. Fruits are 6 to 18 inch long and have 6 veins with having a brown color. Seeds are triangular in shape and  are astringent in taste. According to Ayurveda, it has two varieties based on the color of flower: Shwet (white) and Rakta (red). The oil that is extracted from the bark of the tree Myrica Nagi is used in various perfumes, tinctures and oils that are used in Aromatherapy. Although Myrica Nagi is a herb that is very safe to use, it should not be consumed before taking advice from a medical practitioner. It is wise to consult a doctor or a practicing medicine man before going ahead with the process of taking in any sort of herbs or herbal extracts. Planet Ayurveda provides customers with the option of obtaining medical advice from their medical practitioners online. Also, all products at Planet Ayurveda are 100 percent vegetarian; contain only herbs and have never been tested on animals.      

A tumor is a mass of abnormal tissue. There are two types of breast cancer tumors: those that are non-cancerous, or ‘benign’, and those that are cancerous, which are ‘malignant’. Breast cancer is one of the fiercest ailments faced by a lot of women: In many cases, it turns out to be fatal as it is not detected in its early stages. But if one pays a little heed towards protecting one’s own health, simple steps can wave off the risk of breast cancer. It is surely a difficult disease to fight but if taken care of well in advance, one can survive it. Benign Breast Tumors • fibroadenomas • granular cell tumors • intraductal papillomas • phyllodes tumors • fat necrosis Cancerous Breast Tumors • Lobular carcinoma in situ • Iductal carcinoma • lobular carcinoma • Less common types of breast cancer » Inflammatory breast cancer » Triple-negative breast cancer » Paget disease of the nipple » Phyllodes tumor » Angiosarcoma   All it takes is a little effort and a cautious lifestyle! So, let us have a look at few best ways to prevent the risks of breast cancer.   1. Try being fit, not overweight: In women, cancer becomes a bigger threat especially after menopause. Although, with today’s lifestyle changes the onset can be even earlier as well. Being obese or overweight increases the chances of getting breast cancer at that post-menopause age. Try to maintain a body mass index prescribed by a fitness expert according to age, height and weight.  

 Acne, medically known as Acne Vulgaris, is a skin disease that involves the oil glands at the base of hair follicles. It commonly occurs during puberty when the sebaceous (oil) glands come to life - the glands are stimulated by male hormones produced by the adrenal glands of both males and females. Acne is not dangerous, but can leave skin scars. Human skin has pores (tiny holes) which connect to oil glands located under the skin. The glands are connected to the pores via follicles - small canals. These glands produce Sebum, an oily liquid. The sebum carries dead skin cells through the follicles to the surface of the skin. A small hair grows through the follicle out of the skin. Pimples grow when these follicles get blocked, resulting in an accumulation of oil under the skin. The word acne comes from the word acme meaning "the highest point", which comes from the Greek akme meaning "point" or "spot" - it was originally mispelt, with an 'n' rather than an 'm' in 1835.   

Use of honey as food and medicine has been existing both in ancient and modern science. Raw honey is most ancient sweetener. Natural honey is a sweet flavored liquid food of high nutritional value of immense health and wealth benefits. Due to high attributes of honey, an alternative medicine branch called Apitherapy has developed in recent years offering treatment based on honey and other bee products. China and Argentina are major honey producing countries. The consumption of honey enhances the athletic performance and could be the better substitute of glucose to regain energy. The dietary significance of any carbohydrates diet is often indicated in the term of Glycemic Index(GI). Honey is the food carbohydrate with low glycemic index(GI) ,increases small amount of glucose in blood so, diabetic patients can harmlessly and safely eat this sweet substance .  

Falsa is a fruit of Southern Indian origin. But now grown in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal Srilanka, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. In the dryland areas where either growing of farm crops are not possible or their yields are below the economic threshold due to constraint of water in such areas growing of drought tolerant fruit trees like falsa, ber, custard apple, Jamun etc. is much possible. In subcontinents, falsa is highly sought in the hot summer months as its fruits can be made into a cool refreshing drink-falsa sharbat. As a matter of fact, it can be considered to be the third favourite fruit after mango and peach due to its medicinal values.   Falsa can be grown as small tree or found wild, may grow as a rather straggly looking bush and attains to a maximum height of 4.5m. Fruit is purple to almost black in colour.   It is a fruit of tropical to subtropical areas purple to almost black in colour. When gets ripen, is sweet to sour in taste, can withstand light frost.

  Priyangu or “perfumed cherry” is an ancient medicinal plant mentioned in Ayurvedic texts with detailed description. It is also known as "beauty berry". It has round fruits as big as mung beans that become purplish red when they ripen so it is also known as “purple bead”. It is also known as phool priyangu. Root contains oil having good smell. Leaves contain glycosides, phenols, tannins, saccharides.  

Infertility is failure to conceive within one or more years of regular married life i.e. no contraceptive is used by the couple. The term primary infertility is used for the couple who have never conceived and if after one pregnancy or child birth she is unable to be pregnant it is considered as secondary infertility. The problem may be in male, female or both but usually female partner is always considered responsible for infertility irrespective of male factor or female factor. Common causes of infertility in male are lower semen volume, low sperm count, defective seminal fluid, defective sperms failure to deposit in high in vagina –obstruction in the passage i.e. seminal vesicular system.  

“Cogito ergo sum”, a Latin phrase means ‘I think, therefore I am’. Thinking is one of the most significant mental activities of a man. Man is the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes. Our thoughts attract the incidents of our lives, determining our destiny. Thus, we should always think positive, whatever our situation may be, there is a key for every lock, for every issue there pre-exists a solution, need is to focus our ability on searching for it. There is a way out of every labyrinth; there is an answer to every enigma. A dedicated and determined person finds a way amongst all the odds undaunted by the challenges throughout.  

Specific line of approach for patients of diabetes has been described in Ayurvedic texts. Uniqueness of treatment in diabetes lies in the fact that its treatment is different for obese and lean people. Treatment for promoting body weight is given to lean patients while evacuation treatment is given to patients who are obese. Oleation in moderate degree is indicated in diabetes i.e neither excess nor deficient quantity of ghee or oil should be used. After oleation, vomiting as a part of treatment is induced in a specific way and there after it is cleared virechna i.e. therapeutic purgation where loose motions are induced in a specific way is performed.  

Coral is known as Praval or Moonga in ayurveda and is one of the most important medicine used as a rich source of natural calcium since ancient times in ayurveda. Calcium is essentially required in the human body for bone building and remodeling, plays an important role in signal transduction pathways, acting as a secondary messenger in neurotransmitter release from neurons, contraction of all muscle cell types and fertilization. Moonga or coral, are marine invertebrate. They secrete and form an exoskeleton which is composed of calcium carbonate, a source of natural calcium. Coral polyps are tiny, soft-bodied organisms related to sea anemones and jellyfish. The base is hard, protective limestone skeleton, that forms the structure of coral reefs. Reefs begin when a polyp attaches itself to a rock on the sea floor, then divides, or buds, into thousands of clones, creating a colony that acts as a single organism, grows over hundreds and thousands of years, join with other colonies and become reefs.  

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” - Buddha     Did you ever experience to try to focus on something and another thought to come over and over into your mind disturbing your concentration? Have you ever had a situation where you heard a melody (even for only a few seconds) and then for hours or even days that melody is singing in your head by itself? Did you ever try to remember something and you couldn’t and after you drop it the memory came to you vividly? Have you noticed that in some circumstances you are able to concentrate for hours in an exemplary way (like when you are reading something very interesting, you don’t even hear people calling you very loudly) and other times for other activities (that you are not much interested for) you need a huge effort for concentration.  

You don’t need to starve yourself on a wacky fad diet if you want to look better in your shorts or swimsuits this summer. The secret to weight loss is to choose healthy foods and take in fewer calories than you burn. And it is just easier to make better food choices in summertime, when heavy high-calorie dishes seem less appealing. Experts Say single easiest way to trim calories from summer diet is to load up on nature’s bounty. Production is at its peak in summer. Delicious fruits and vegetables abound at farmer's market and in local grocery shops. Besides being low in calories the products are loaded with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fibre.  

In his anthropomorphic images, Shiva is often shown as wearing the berries of ultrasum bead tree (Elaeocarpus ganitrus), popularly known as the Rudraksha . Atharvaveda, Puranas, Upanisads, tantrics and Ayurvedic texts, delineate the curative and healing properties of this tree. No single tree is as rich with legend as the Rudraksha. Some believe that it refers to the urethral passage through which Lord Shiva usually ejects the 'seed' amassed during the period of his long and severe austerities. According to the Shiva Purana, the berries of Rudraksha (Shiva’s eyes) represent the tears of Rudra which he shed in flutter, ‘from a desire of helping the world’, soon after he awoke from his meditative state. Amazed by the beauty of his own tears he crystallised them into the shape of seeds and distributed them among the four castes. Later, the trees of Rudraksha were raised by him in Gaud (Bengal), Mathura, Kashi and Ayodhy (all in Uttar Pradesh), Malaya and Sahya mountain ranges, Lanka and other places.  

1. “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” 2. “To understand everything is to forgive everything”. 3. “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” 4. “Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.” 5. “You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself” 6. “The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.” 7. “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” 8. “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” 9. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” 10. “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” 11. “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” 12. “Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”   Lane-2, Kabir Nagar, Near D.A.V. College, Jalandhar. Mob.: +91 94634 93515

The caterpillar fungus, with the botanical name Ophiocordyceps sinensis, is a fungus that parasitizes and lives in the larvae of ghost moths, kills the larvae and mummifies them and produces a fruiting body from the corpse of the larva which is valued as a herbal remedy. It parasitizes moth caterpillars. In the fall, the fungal mycelia infect the caterpillar, and then kills it by early summer of the following year, releasing spores from the fruiting body. In the west, it is known as medicinal mushroom. It is a black, blade-shaped fungus found primarily in the high altitudes of the Tibetan plateau. The wild form of caterpiller fungus is rare and expensive; therefore a strain isolated from the wild form is cultivated and is more commonly used. Until 2007 it was known as Cordyceps but in 2007 it was renamed to caterpiller fungus .  

Scientists have found a very unusual potential cancer-fighting technique: nanoparticles that carry curry into cancer cells. Specifically the particles were filled with curcumin, a compound found in curry. The research by scientists from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Austria was published in the Journal of Nanobiotechnology. Curcumin comes from the turmeric plant, which is commonly used in daals and other curries, and known for its distinctive bright yellow powder. We already knew that curcumin works as an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory. Research has shown that when curcumin is absorbed by tumor cells, it stops the cell's growth cycle eventually killing the cell.  

Hair is an important part of our body. Healthy hair enhances beauty of the body. People may not be aware that the visible hair called hair shaft or cuticle is non-living part and the living part lies under the skin. To ensure healthy hair production scalp skin must be kept healthy. There are glands in the human skin called sebaceous glands that produce an oily substance called sebum. This sebum protects hair and skin from micro organisms as it inhibits the growth of microorganisms on the skins. This oily substance give moisture and shine to the hairs and is distributed mechanically by brushing and combing. Brushing the scalp also stimulates the sebaceous glands which in turn produce more sebum. Washing of hairs removes excess of sweat and oil. There are various body conditions which influence the growth, color and texture of hairs. Hair may be affected by diseases of various systemic diseases as well as local conditions of the scalp. Diseases like hypothyroidism, hypopitutarism, diseases of supra renal glands, liver disorders and anemia have their influence on hairs. Few drugs and therapies like chemotherapy and radiotherapy which are used in cancer management are related to hair problems.