scholarly journals Health Tourism And Ayurveda: A Review Article

The Healer ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
pp. 49-53
Author(s):  
Dr. Renu Khayamali ◽  
Rameswori Khayamali
Keyword(s):  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Medical System ◽  
Spiritual Health ◽  
The Body ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Health Tourism ◽  
The Past ◽  
Broad Concept

Health tourism is a broad concept which covers all aspects related to health oriented tourism in all level of prevention. Health tourism refers to people travelling to a country other than their own to obtain medical treatment. In the past this usually refers to those who travelled from less-developed countries to major medical centered highly developed countries. Because of the globalization of the medical system the trend is changing now. The world is recognizing the merit of Ayurveda which offers prevention of various diseases as well as cure for several diseases. Advancement in health knowledge make people realize the need of maintaining the physical as well as mental and spiritual health. So people are seeking many alternative methods which are free from side effects as well as chemical free. Ayurveda is the best alternative for the same with panchakarma, yoga, dhyana and pathyaapathya as its unique concept. Ayurveda is holistic system of medicine that deals with the body, mind and spirit of a person. Because of these peculiar features in Ayurveda, Ayurveda has bigger scope to become the best alternative for health tourism. This article will focus on the scope and significance of Ayurveda in health tourism.

scholarly journals High D(+)-Fructose Diet Adversely Affects Testicular Weight Gain in Weaning Rats—Protection by Moderate D(+)-Glucose Diet

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. NMI.S12584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsumi Shibata ◽  
Tsutomu Fukuwatari
Keyword(s):  
Weight Gain ◽  
Food Intake ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Minimum Requirement ◽  
The Past ◽  
Exogenous Glucose ◽  
Testicular Weight ◽  
The Developed Countries

The use of high D(+)-fructose corn syrup has increased over the past several decades in the developed countries, while overweight and obesity rates and the related diseases have risen dramatically. However, we found that feeding a high D(+)-fructose diet (80% D(+)-fructose as part of the diet) to weaning rats for 21 days led to reduced food intake (50% less, P < 0.0001) and thus delayed the weight gains in the body (40% less, P < 0.0001) and testes (40% less, P < 0.0001) compared to the no D(+)-fructose diet. We also challenged a minimum requirement of dietary D(+)-glucose for preventing the adverse effects of D(+)-fructose, such as lower food intake and reduction of body weight and testicular weight; the minimum requirement of D(+)-glucose was ã23% of the diet. This glucose amount may be the minimum requirement of exogenous glucose for reducing weight gain.

scholarly journals Review Article of Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Centella Asiatica in related of SARS-CoV-2

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasna Siti Munifah Isman ◽  
Muhammad Iqbal ◽  
Carla Florencia
Keyword(s):  
Pharmacological Activity ◽  
Centella Asiatica ◽  
Review Article ◽  
The Body ◽  
Inflammatory Activity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Anti Inflammatory

Centella asiatica, also known as Pegagan, has been used traditionally to cure diseases. Pegagan has been studied and a lot of pharmacological activity has been known such as antioxidant, antifungal, anti-inflammatory and many more. COVID-19 has caused a pandemic for the past year. This virus causes several symptoms in the body including inflammation. Due to its anti-inflammatory activity, Pegagan can be used to cure inflammation in COVID-19.

scholarly journals Pathogens in recycled water: are they measurable?

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Helen Stratton ◽  
Ben Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Dna Microarrays ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Indicator Organisms ◽  
Recycled Water ◽  
Microbial Risk ◽  
Real Time Quantitative Pcr ◽  
The Past ◽  
Managing Risk

In developed countries water managers are constantly under pressure to provide the clean and safe water. Traditionally, and for at least the past 100 years, the management of biological water quality has relied on the use of microbial indicator organisms to assess the potential risk of water-borne disease. However, over the past few years, there have been a number of critical reviews of guidelines and standards for managing risk in water storage, treatment and supply. International, national and state agencies have initiated these reviews and have all generally agreed that technology for alternative methods, in place of the use of indicator organisms for risk assessment of microbial water quality, has not advanced to point where there is an obvious replacement. However, even in the last 3 years, improvements in genetic techniques, such as real-time quantitative PCR and DNA microarrays are making advances that may allow us to consider alternatives to using indicator organisms in the foreseeable future. Here we present the issues and pros and cons associated with the use of indicator organisms compared to the use of molecular biology approaches for microbial risk management in recycled water. The current state of the legislation and guidelines is also discussed.

scholarly journals The advances in human oral biology and biotechnology

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-94
Author(s):  
Blanka Borowiec ◽  
Greg Hutchings ◽  
Rut Bryl ◽  
Marcelo A. Melo ◽  
Jamil A. Shibli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oral Cavity ◽  
Active Form ◽  
Review Article ◽  
The Body ◽  
Biological Molecules ◽  
Processing Plant ◽  
Complicated Structure ◽  
The Past ◽  
Stages Of Growth

AbstractThe oral cavity is a very specific and complicated structure. It plays the role of a speech apparatus but is also a gate and a preliminary processing plant for fuel nourishing the body. Analyzing the embryological development of the oral cavity, we can distinguish here the stages of growth, migration and fusion. This processes mainly involves the formation of branched arches that appear between the fourth and fifth weeks of fetal development. In recent years, interest in researching its various features has been still growing. After a thorough description and anatomical examination, researchers began to think about its other possibilities than just crushing, throwing, swallowing, bringing out the sounds and articulating words. It turns out that the whole range of its potential is not limited to just a few functions mentioned above. The following review article covers specific studies that have emerged most frequently over the past year. You will find here information about the microbiome of the oral cavity which plays an significant role in maintaining a proper physiological environment of the oral cavity, oral tumors and how the SCC or squamous cell carcinoma is histologically the most common and its treatment, even in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the least discovered and still fascinating for scientists wound healing processes and unknown exosomes that can transport biological molecules in their original, intact and active form, including nucleic acids and proteins with their signaling pathways.Running title: The advances in human oral biology and biotechnology

Derrida on Pornography: Putting (It) Up for Sale

Derrida Today ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Morris
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
English Translation ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Past ◽  
French Original ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Critical Discourses ◽  
Academic Debate

Over the past thirty years, academic debate over pornography in the discourses of feminism and cultural studies has foundered on questions of the performative and of the word's definition. In the polylogue of Droit de regards, pornography is defined as la mise en vente that is taking place in the act of exegesis in progress. (Wills's idiomatic English translation includes an ‘it’ that is absent in the French original). The definition in Droit de regards alludes to the word's etymology (writing by or about prostitutes) but leaves the referent of the ‘sale’ suspended. Pornography as la mise en vente boldly restates the necessary iterability of the sign and anticipates two of Derrida's late arguments: that there is no ‘the’ body and that performatives may be powerless. Deriving a definition of pornography from a truncated etymology exemplifies the prosthesis of origin and challenges other critical discourses to explain how pornography can be understood as anything more than ‘putting (it) up for sale’.

Receptions of the Past: Commemoration, Racism, Desire

Somatechnics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-303
Author(s):  
Michael Connors Jackman
Keyword(s):  
Critical Point ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

This article investigates the ways in which the work of The Body Politic (TBP), the first major lesbian and gay newspaper in Canada, comes to be commemorated in queer publics and how it figures in the memories of those who were involved in producing the paper. In revisiting a critical point in the history of TBP from 1985 when controversy erupted over race and racism within the editorial collective, this discussion considers the role of memory in the reproduction of whiteness and in the rupture of standard narratives about the past. As the controversy continues to haunt contemporary queer activism in Canada, the productive work of memory must be considered an essential aspect of how, when and for what reasons the work of TBP comes to be commemorated. By revisiting the events of 1985 and by sifting through interviews with individuals who contributed to the work of TBP, this article complicates the narrative of TBP as a bluntly racist endeavour whilst questioning the white privilege and racially-charged demands that undergird its commemoration. The work of producing and preserving queer history is a vital means of challenging the intentional and strategic erasure of queer existence, but those who engage in such efforts must remain attentive to the unequal terrain of social relations within which remembering forms its objects.

Vitamin A: dietologist’s position

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
S. V. Orlova ◽  
E. A. Nikitina ◽  
L. I. Karushina ◽  
Yu. A. Pigaryova ◽  
O. E. Pronina
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Urinary Tract ◽  
Gastrointestinal Tract ◽  
Vitamin A ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Therapeutic Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Mucous Membranes

Vitamin A (retinol) is one of the key elements for regulating the immune response and controls the division and differentiation of epithelial cells of the mucous membranes of the bronchopulmonary system, gastrointestinal tract, urinary tract, eyes, etc. Its significance in the context of the COVID‑19 pandemic is difficult to overestimate. However, a number of studies conducted in the past have associated the additional intake of vitamin A with an increased risk of developing cancer, as a result of which vitamin A was practically excluded from therapeutic practice in developed countries. Our review highlights the role of vitamin A in maintaining human health and the latest data on its effect on the development mechanisms of somatic pathology.

Body and Desire

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphael A. Cadenhead
Keyword(s):  
Full Range ◽  
The Body ◽  
Gregory Of Nyssa ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ethical Discourse ◽  
Sex And Sexuality ◽  
Diachronic Analysis

Although the reception of the Eastern father Gregory of Nyssa has varied over the centuries, the past few decades have witnessed a profound awakening of interest in his thought, particularly in relation to the contentious issues of gender, sex, and sexuality. The Body and Desire sets out to retrieve the full range of Gregory’s thinking on the challenges of the ascetic life through a diachronic analysis of his oeuvre. Exploring his understanding of the importance of bodily and spiritual maturation in the practices of contemplation and virtue, Raphael Cadenhead recovers the vital relevance of this vision of transformation for contemporary ethical discourse.

Stress management: Corpus-based insights into vernacular interpretations of stress

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-93
Author(s):  
Laurel Smith Stvan
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
American English ◽  
Physical Symptom ◽  
The Body ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
The Past ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Semantic Shift

Examination of the term stress in naturally occurring vernacular prose provides evidence of three separate senses being conflated. A corpus analysis of 818 instances of stress from non-academic texts in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and the Corpus of American Discourses on Health (CADOH) shows a negative prosody for stress, which is portrayed variously as a source outside the body, a physical symptom within the body and an emotional state. The data show that contemporary speakers intermingle the three senses, making more difficult a discussion between doctors and patients of ways to ‘reduce stress’, when stress might be interpreted as a stressor, a symptom, or state of anxiety. This conflation of senses reinforces the impression that stress is pervasive and increasing. In addition, a semantic shift is also refining a new sense for stress, as post-traumatic stress develops as a specific subtype of emotional stress whose use has increased in circulation in the past 20 years.

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