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The BABY with EVENING COLIC. 2007-05-10 10:54:00 Recently I was called upon to examine a baby about a month old, whoused to cry ( scream, actually ) towards late evening.He was otherwise a very healthy and placid baby, born of a normal delivery and a normal pregnancy. He was being adequately nursed by his mother, and had a normal sleeppattern.As a rule, he was an uncomplaining child, happy to be in the world he had just come into.But something seemed to overtake him at sunset, for every evening, he would refuse to sleep, and instead would begin screaming, intermittently and angrily at first, progressing over an hour to a constant barrage of piteous screams, which it seemed would never stop!But stop they did, when night fell, out of exhaustion or relief, his mother did not know.I observed this behviour one evening and it was apparent to me that all this hullabaloo was on account of 'evening colic', a euphemistic medical term that hides behind it the fact that medical science is not fully agreed upon what causes it and what it actual
A Herbal and non-invasive treatment for Arthritris 2007-05-03 06:09:00 I am an India-based Pediatrician, running a rural health clinic for the past 30 years.Although qualified in Pediatrics, I have also read Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Vedic Astrology, Yoga & Herbal
Medicine.I now use Alternative Therapy to suplement my Allopathic treatment, often with the most interesting results!In this column, I shall be describing real-life cases which I have seen and treated in the course of my practice.I shall be updating this column regularly, so stay tuned! ---------------------------------------------------------------'THE OLD MAN AND HIS KNEES'A few years ago, an old man brought his grandson to me for treatment. Getting up to leave after I had finished treating the boy, he casually asked me if I could give him something for his painful knees.I was loathe to give him a prescription medicine in view of his advanced age ( he must have been around eighty ). Instead, I thought of a remedy I had only read about but never used until then and I told him
Obesity and Fucus Vesiculosis 2007-05-03 05:58:00 Swati is an Indian Mother-of-two, living now in the US, a stay-at-home Mom and wife of an Engineer working in one of USA's top Software companies.She is well-settled and very happy today, but she wasn't always happy, nor did she have hopes of being 'well-settled' ( as the Indian saying goes ) in life.... in fact, during her college years, her middle class parents in India used to worry whether they would ever find a groom for their overweight, yet pretty, daughter! For you see, right since her early childhood, Swati was what we euphemistically call 'a bonny baby'. This look suited her in primary school, where she was looked upon as a 'healthy' girl.Since she was good at games, nobody, least of all her parents, thought her 'slight overweight' abnormal.Swati always had a voracious appetite. The more she played on her school ground, the hungrier she got, and the more she ate.So she ate her way to 52 kg ( 114 pounds ) by the time she was ten.And her weight continued to increase a
Thorns in the foot and Ledum Palustre 2007-05-03 05:47:00 Last Tuesday, as I was about to close for the day, I suddenly heard a loud wailing coming from the corner of the road where my Clinic is located.Going out to investigate, I saw the spectacle of a girl of about ten years, being ( very reluctantly ) dragged in the direction of my clinic.She was limping, or rather, hopping along on one foot, being supported on either side by two people who I assumed were her parents.They hauled her in, screaming and protesting and I saw an abscess on the undersurface of her affected foot.She had stepped barefoot, into a thorny She wouldn't let me touch it, or even get anywhere near her foot, nor even talk to me. All she would tell me, between sobs, was that her name was Kamala. I felt sorry for her.I managed to give her an injection of tetanus toxoid, but that is all she would let me do.The thorns were so tiny that it wouldn't have been possible to draw them out one by one, anyway.So I gave her an antibiotic ( to help treat the infection ), some analges Read more:Thorns
Spasmodic nocturnal cough. 2007-05-03 05:39:00 Ramchandra, a boy of eight years, is usually quite healthy. He has a good appetite and has hardly ever fallen ill.Last month however, he began to cough, mostly at night, while he was asleep.Clinically, he was found to be quite normal.He was given all the routine medicines one would give in such a case, for symptomatic relief, but they gave him no relief. In fact, his nocturnal spasms increased in frequency and duration, and he began to sleep very poorly because of them.Investigations turned in negative reports.Finally, more out of having run out of medicines to give him, I gave him a potentised herbal extract of ARTEMISIA VULGARIS, called Cina in Homeopathy, as a routine de-worming exercise.From the next day, he began to pass bunches of small wriggling worms from his anus. By the end of the week he must have passed more than two hundred of them! ( And mind you, he had been given a course of Mebendazole, a worm medicine, barely a month before ).Simultaneously, the nocturnal spasms reduc
Chronic Conjunctivits and Lachrymal sac infection 2007-05-03 05:27:00 SMOKE FROM THE 'CHULHA', or the wooden stove used for cooking all overrural India causes distressing eye problems for many women working inpoorly-ventilated mud homes.As a result, I get to see young and old women with red eyes and puffy eyelids, quite often. Smoke from burning firewood causes conjunctival inflammation, which sometimes progresses to chronic lachrymal sac infection
, a persistent condition often needing surgery, because medicines are said to give only a temporary and partial relief. However, about ten years ago, I came across a bottle of eyedropscontaining a herb called EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS and thought of trying itout in a particularly resistent case of lachrymal sac infection.To my delight, it worked very well.The old lady's eyes cleared within a week and remained free of infection for as long as she used the eye drops.Since then, I have used Euphrasia eye drops in many cases, always with good result.Many an operation has been prevented by these eye drops, certainly.
MY UNFORGETTABLE CASES 2007-05-01 09:45:00 I am an India-based Pediatrician, running a rural health clinic for the past 30 years.Although qualified in Pediatrics, I have also read Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Vedic Astrology, Yoga & Herbal Medicine.I now use Alternative Therapy to suplement my Allopathic treatment, often with the most interesting results!In this column, I shall be describing real-life cases which I have seen and treated in the course of my practice.I shall be updating this column regularly, so stay tuned!---------------------THE OLD MAN AND HIS KNEESA few years ago, an old man brought his grandson to me for treatment. Getting up to leave after I had finished treating the boy, he casually asked me if I could give him something for his painful knees.I was loathe to give him a prescription medicine in view of his advanced age ( he must have been around eighty ). Instead, I thought of a remedy I had only read about but never used until then and I told him to cover his swollen knees with the fresh leaves of Calotropis giga
Genito-urinary Infection in women. 2007-06-11 10:22:00 GENITO-URINARY INFECTIONS IN WOMEN.A surprising number of girls and women suffer from mild to moderate infection of the genital organs and / or bladder and urethra.Many of the cases I come across have a rather chronic infection or a repeated one.Surprising also, is the fact that most cases are usually treated with a rather powerfulantibiotic, which controls the current infection, but doesn't really treat the problem.I am a Pediatrician, so I get to see these cases rather 'laterally', never directly, as it were.During a consultation for her child, a mother often asks about her own problem. Some mothers ask if I would help out a girl or lady in her family, and so on.If it's about a genito-urinary thing, I can hardly refuse, seeing that there are very few lady doctors in my vicinity!So by default, as it were, I've learned that in such cases:* It is necessary to look for and treat a concurrent vaginal infection, which is often the CAUSE of a urinary infection. This means that vaginal
Lactation Failure 2007-06-24 23:32:00 I had to see a newborn baby once, who was crying excessively.It transpired that he was born after a rather prolonged delivery and his mother was currently undergoing additional stress as well currently, they had moved house only a week ago.The baby was sucking voraciously at its mother's breast, and after a minute or so, would let go of the breast and cry loudly.This is characteristic behaviour of babies who aren't getting enough milk from the breast.I squeezed the breast and found that not a drop of milk came out.We put the baby on formula milk for a couple of days, while I started the following herbs for this mother:Galega officianlisAsparagus racemosaWithania somniferain a potentised form, so that they would act quickly.I also told the mother to massage her breasts thrice a day with a little warm Sesame oil.Her milk flow started the same evening and by the end of 3 days, she was able to breast feed her baby exclusively and satisfactorily.
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, which is the key to a person's general health and wellbeing.A proper diet prevents the build-up of toxic substances in your body, besides balancing the three doshas described in Ayurveda. I suggest dietary modifications for you.I will show you how to exercise with minimum effort on your part, so that your body does not get unduly stressed or your muscles, strained.Daily exercise, however minimal, is vital to health. Exercise is an essential need of the body, it is not merely a tool to get rid of
Herbal Baths for Health 2008-06-04 02:10:00 I have been treating a child with Hyperactivity and Attention deficit with herbal baths based on his Horoscope, for the past one year. He is five and in preschool in India. He was born of a preterm delivery and needed special care for two weeks after birth.His parents had tried many herbal formulae but weren't satisfied with the result.Having heard that I treat ADHD with a variety of herbs, they a Read more:Herbal
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