Every season brings some physiological changes in us and accordingly we have to modify our lifestyle, mainly diet & activity. Many changes take place during winters also.

If waking up is a struggle, midday finds crashing and one is restless and alert at bedtime, it may be the time to reset the clock. According to Ayurveda, one of the keys to good health & feeling great all day long is living in tune with nature's cycles.

In the previous issue of DAV Ayurveda Magazine, we studied about few important standing poses for kids. In this issue we shall study sitting, supine and prone poses. When yoga is practised regularly by kids,

Sugar is made by extraction of sugar juice from sugar beet or sugarcane plant and then different types of sugar can be produced. According to the adjustments in the process of cleaning, crystallizing and drying the sugar & varying the level of molasses, different varieties of sugar are available in the market. Sugar colour is determined by the amount of molasses remaining or added to the crystals. Heating the sugar also changes the colour or flavor.

Majority of patients affected by Pilonidal Sinus disease come with the complaints of pain, swelling, pus discharge and difficulty in sitting around the tail bone area. Few patients complain that  after discharge of pus they feel better for few days to months and again same problem happens to them. Most of the patients are in the age group of twenty to thirty years. It is common in males and mostly affects hairy males.

This weed grows in plains of India in late winters and blooms in spring with purple or creamish white flowers. It is quite common to find this plant growing in the fields of wheat, barley, oats, alfa alfa, mustard, chick pea etc. In India it is harvested/collected at the end of spring season and marketed.

It’s no surprise that when you eat well, you feel well. Eating a healthy and well balanced diet is essential & your diet can also  be modified to help physical and emotional stress. Here is a look at food that can help you fight stress.

The eyes are magnificent piece of natural engineering incomparable even to the most advanced mechanical lens in the market.

Vitiligo is a pigmentation disorder in which melanocytes, the cells that make melanin pigment in the skin, are destroyed. As a result there appear white patches on the skin in different parts of the body, mostly extremities.

Yogurt and Indian curd are two different types of dairy products. These are two different forms of milk that are created by fermenting milk in some way. Yogurt and curd play an important part in our diet. These are completely different from each other in almost every aspect.

Endometrium is the innermost lining of the uterus which is shed every month during menstruation.

Ayurveda, an age old science of life, has always emphasized on maintaining the health of a healthy person rather than the treatment and cure of the diseased.

Dharamsala ,is a well known tourist destination of north india situated  in the picturesque scenery of  Dhauladhar range in Himachal pradesh.It is a city in the upper reaches of the Kangra Valley and is surrounded by dense forest consisting mainly of deodar trees.

Measuring the depth without diving