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Marijuana addiction
Posted : Dr. Ankur, April 29, 2011
Addiction of any time is very harmful for health. In this world when people go to any extent for gaining pleasures, marijuana addiction is a very common one. Drugs have always been known to give a feeling of ‘high’ or ecstasy. The main organ of pleasure amygdale is induced through various types of drugs and the pleasure is derived. But ...
Posted : Dr. Ankur, April 29, 2011
Addiction of any time is very harmful for health. In this world when people go to any extent for gaining pleasures, marijuana addiction is a very common one. Drugs have always been known to give a feeling of ‘high’ or ecstasy. The main organ of pleasure amygdale is induced through various types of drugs and the pleasure is derived. But ...
What Are The Hazards Of Alcohol?
Posted : Dr. Ankur, Feb. 16, 2011
Alcoholism is a hazardous phenomenon demonstrated by the people who are obsessed or addicted to drink alcohol daily. Extreme alcohol consumption affects individual’s life in several ways such as destruction of mental, physical and emotional health. In common language, it adversely affects every aspects of human life whether it is personal or professional. Most of the people consider alcohol as ...
Posted : Dr. Ankur, Feb. 16, 2011
Alcoholism is a hazardous phenomenon demonstrated by the people who are obsessed or addicted to drink alcohol daily. Extreme alcohol consumption affects individual’s life in several ways such as destruction of mental, physical and emotional health. In common language, it adversely affects every aspects of human life whether it is personal or professional. Most of the people consider alcohol as ...
Methods and Ways to Give Up Smoking
Posted : Dr. Ankur, Feb. 1, 2011
You might have read about the bad consequences of smoking over the newspapers, Internet and advertisements. Despite of knowing that smoking is injurious to health, people prefer to smoke. Smoking is a kind of addiction which stimulates the human mind to smoke in order to fulfill the desires of inhaling nicotine. Have you ever thought about how to give up ...
Posted : Dr. Ankur, Feb. 1, 2011
You might have read about the bad consequences of smoking over the newspapers, Internet and advertisements. Despite of knowing that smoking is injurious to health, people prefer to smoke. Smoking is a kind of addiction which stimulates the human mind to smoke in order to fulfill the desires of inhaling nicotine. Have you ever thought about how to give up ...
Are you always looking for face book credits?
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, Dec. 14, 2010
Face book has recently turned up as one of the most used social networking site these days. Almost everyone is talking about face book whether to connect and reconnect with friends, to promote or enhance business or to just meet / know new people around and fill up their day with new and old updates. But within this entire have ...
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, Dec. 14, 2010
Face book has recently turned up as one of the most used social networking site these days. Almost everyone is talking about face book whether to connect and reconnect with friends, to promote or enhance business or to just meet / know new people around and fill up their day with new and old updates. But within this entire have ...
Harms with young tobacco smoking
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, Dec. 1, 2010
Smoking has been a universal addiction and it is no wonder that young kids and teenagers, even below 12 years are getting attracted towards this slow poisoning habit. Although, they are not aware about the negative effects smoking can make on their health, when they see their parents or near people smoking they get curious and the first step is ...
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, Dec. 1, 2010
Smoking has been a universal addiction and it is no wonder that young kids and teenagers, even below 12 years are getting attracted towards this slow poisoning habit. Although, they are not aware about the negative effects smoking can make on their health, when they see their parents or near people smoking they get curious and the first step is ...
Alcohol and liver diseases
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, Nov. 11, 2010
Consuming alcohol is considered quite happening and is a trend within the society. Often alcoholics in order to satisfy or let’s say justify their drinking promote consumption advocating its soothing effect on the nervous system and protection from heart attacks. But these all are not true. Mental issues leave no one aloof they come in one form or the other ...
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, Nov. 11, 2010
Consuming alcohol is considered quite happening and is a trend within the society. Often alcoholics in order to satisfy or let’s say justify their drinking promote consumption advocating its soothing effect on the nervous system and protection from heart attacks. But these all are not true. Mental issues leave no one aloof they come in one form or the other ...
Cirrhosis of liver
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, Oct. 26, 2010
The medical condition cirrhosis of liver is a slow acting disease of the liver where the healthy tissue gets replaced with the scar tissue causing debilitating after maths. The major causes leading to the trouble is alcohol, chronic liver infections, autoimmune disorders and inherited liver diseases. Though the patient often remains asymptomatic for long intervals but in the later phase ...
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, Oct. 26, 2010
The medical condition cirrhosis of liver is a slow acting disease of the liver where the healthy tissue gets replaced with the scar tissue causing debilitating after maths. The major causes leading to the trouble is alcohol, chronic liver infections, autoimmune disorders and inherited liver diseases. Though the patient often remains asymptomatic for long intervals but in the later phase ...
Healing with Music
Posted : Aditi Chopra, Sept. 24, 2010
Our lives are surrounded by music, with sounds booming from various sources like the television, stereos, radio, temple bhajans and also from our wedding bands. For most of us, it is simply a blend of tunes, beats, sounds and voices. But, it is interesting to know that music, if used properly, can prove to be an effective tool in treating ...
Posted : Aditi Chopra, Sept. 24, 2010
Our lives are surrounded by music, with sounds booming from various sources like the television, stereos, radio, temple bhajans and also from our wedding bands. For most of us, it is simply a blend of tunes, beats, sounds and voices. But, it is interesting to know that music, if used properly, can prove to be an effective tool in treating ...
ALCOHOL ABUSE
Posted : Dr. Shikha khandelwal, Sept. 21, 2010
Alcohol dependent consumption is not only a social evil, it depletes person physically, emotionally and psychologically too. Criteria of alcohol dependence – - Narrowing of the drinking repertoire - Priority of drinking over other activities - Tolerance of effects of alcohol - Repeated withdrawal symptoms - Relief of withdrawal symptoms by further drinking - Subjective compulsion to drink - Reinstatement ...
Posted : Dr. Shikha khandelwal, Sept. 21, 2010
Alcohol dependent consumption is not only a social evil, it depletes person physically, emotionally and psychologically too. Criteria of alcohol dependence – - Narrowing of the drinking repertoire - Priority of drinking over other activities - Tolerance of effects of alcohol - Repeated withdrawal symptoms - Relief of withdrawal symptoms by further drinking - Subjective compulsion to drink - Reinstatement ...
Easy steps to de addiction
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, Sept. 14, 2010
Being dependant is not liked by anyone. Every one resides as a free bird and any sort of inhibition is derogatory. Though one can remove the restrictions laid by others but the self made ones have to be combated on own. It’s easy to scold anyone near to just stay away and mind their own business to focus but what ...
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, Sept. 14, 2010
Being dependant is not liked by anyone. Every one resides as a free bird and any sort of inhibition is derogatory. Though one can remove the restrictions laid by others but the self made ones have to be combated on own. It’s easy to scold anyone near to just stay away and mind their own business to focus but what ...
How to deal with delirium tremens?
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, Aug. 15, 2010
Delirium tremens is a medical term used for the delirium that results from alcohol intoxication. Though the conventional mode of treatment can’t do much without any pathology beneath, homoeopath is one branch that caters the relief off the mental state. The following is a list of few remedies which when applied under guided hands in right dose and right time ...
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, Aug. 15, 2010
Delirium tremens is a medical term used for the delirium that results from alcohol intoxication. Though the conventional mode of treatment can’t do much without any pathology beneath, homoeopath is one branch that caters the relief off the mental state. The following is a list of few remedies which when applied under guided hands in right dose and right time ...
Marijuana: lethal or legal
Posted : Aditi Chopra, July 30, 2010
Unlike other substances, Marijuana is a more acceptable and considered as one of lesser harmful drugs. The weed has been struggling to get a legalized approval yet. The process of legalization has gone a long way, and very recently California is one of the few states to take this process the furthest. Some other states in USA have also entered ...
Posted : Aditi Chopra, July 30, 2010
Unlike other substances, Marijuana is a more acceptable and considered as one of lesser harmful drugs. The weed has been struggling to get a legalized approval yet. The process of legalization has gone a long way, and very recently California is one of the few states to take this process the furthest. Some other states in USA have also entered ...
Addicted to twitter
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, July 9, 2010
Twitter as we all know is a sensation these days; many have started using it in some way or the other. It might not be wrong to state that twitter’s fame has surmounted so high that people can almost spend hours working on it. The attraction is so high that it has added a new chapter to the psychology texts ...
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, July 9, 2010
Twitter as we all know is a sensation these days; many have started using it in some way or the other. It might not be wrong to state that twitter’s fame has surmounted so high that people can almost spend hours working on it. The attraction is so high that it has added a new chapter to the psychology texts ...
Being a shopaholic
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, June 28, 2010
Shopping is a common scenario for each one of us. Sometimes to meet daily needs sometimes apparels and sometimes gifting purposes, we all shop almost on daily basis. But have you ever imagined this to turn a havoc shaping into a fierce urge, a compulsive behaviour which may later on need to be treated. The answer is yes shopaholic is ...
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, June 28, 2010
Shopping is a common scenario for each one of us. Sometimes to meet daily needs sometimes apparels and sometimes gifting purposes, we all shop almost on daily basis. But have you ever imagined this to turn a havoc shaping into a fierce urge, a compulsive behaviour which may later on need to be treated. The answer is yes shopaholic is ...
What smoking can bring along?
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, June 25, 2010
Smoking as we all know take away our heath with every fume. It ruins excessively harming almost all systems particularly the respiratory one. The following piece of information is entirely directed towards the hazards that smoking can cause and also put forth a few tips to quit the deadly addiction to safeguard yourself and your family. Studies reveal that tobacco ...
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, June 25, 2010
Smoking as we all know take away our heath with every fume. It ruins excessively harming almost all systems particularly the respiratory one. The following piece of information is entirely directed towards the hazards that smoking can cause and also put forth a few tips to quit the deadly addiction to safeguard yourself and your family. Studies reveal that tobacco ...
How to handle relationships with alcohol?
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, June 15, 2010
Alcohol enacts as a slow poison striking deep and hard. It not only harms the body functions and mechanisms but also take on the entire entity of the individual. Its marked effects on the brain over power the thinking capabilities and incapacitate an individual to take a decision between right and wrong. An alcoholic in its euphoria often looses on ...
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, June 15, 2010
Alcohol enacts as a slow poison striking deep and hard. It not only harms the body functions and mechanisms but also take on the entire entity of the individual. Its marked effects on the brain over power the thinking capabilities and incapacitate an individual to take a decision between right and wrong. An alcoholic in its euphoria often looses on ...
Part ways from smoking
Posted : Dr. Ankur, May 12, 2010
Does every smoke you enjoy brings in guilt and regret and you truly realise it’s devastating effects on your body and your near ones then it is time to take a separate way to a smoke free region. The foremost application to quit smoking is a willing and determined mind frame without it everything would be a sheer waste. Take ...
Posted : Dr. Ankur, May 12, 2010
Does every smoke you enjoy brings in guilt and regret and you truly realise it’s devastating effects on your body and your near ones then it is time to take a separate way to a smoke free region. The foremost application to quit smoking is a willing and determined mind frame without it everything would be a sheer waste. Take ...
Jaundice in New born babies (Neonatal Jaundice)
Posted : Dr.Madhura More, May 10, 2010
Neonatal Jaundice A common condition in newborns, when a baby has jaundice, either too much bilirubin is being produced or the liver does not get rid of it quickly enough. A newborn baby's liver is not fully matured, so jaundice is common during a baby's first few days of life. There are following kinds of jaundice: 1. Physiological Jaundice: It ...
Posted : Dr.Madhura More, May 10, 2010
Neonatal Jaundice A common condition in newborns, when a baby has jaundice, either too much bilirubin is being produced or the liver does not get rid of it quickly enough. A newborn baby's liver is not fully matured, so jaundice is common during a baby's first few days of life. There are following kinds of jaundice: 1. Physiological Jaundice: It ...
Are you a tech addict?
Posted : Dr. Ankur, March 11, 2010
Everyone would believe the comfortable life technology has gifted us with; things which could have been troublesome can now be accomplished with a mere click or push. But have you ever realised that how these gadgets have taken over our lives completely. The new born disorder rarely mentioned in any of the medical books is the technology addiction. A simple, ...
Posted : Dr. Ankur, March 11, 2010
Everyone would believe the comfortable life technology has gifted us with; things which could have been troublesome can now be accomplished with a mere click or push. But have you ever realised that how these gadgets have taken over our lives completely. The new born disorder rarely mentioned in any of the medical books is the technology addiction. A simple, ...
Homeopathic therapeutics for alcohol abuse
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, Feb. 22, 2010
Alcohol if taken more than a limit can turn things havoc for him / her and also for the near ones. No one ever would like to appreciate someone close in the clutches of alcohol dependence. Inability to perform simple routine activities with constant craving is messy. A number of approaches are prevalent to get rid of the intoxication namely ...
Posted : Dr. Shalini Kapoor Kad, Feb. 22, 2010
Alcohol if taken more than a limit can turn things havoc for him / her and also for the near ones. No one ever would like to appreciate someone close in the clutches of alcohol dependence. Inability to perform simple routine activities with constant craving is messy. A number of approaches are prevalent to get rid of the intoxication namely ...
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