Continuing with my article on various therapies in naturopathy, today I am writing about Massage Therapy. Massage Therapy Massage is also a modality of naturopathy and is quite essential for maintaining good health. Massage involves acting and manipulating the body pressure-structured, unstructured, stationary, or moving-tension, motion or vibration, done manually or with mechanical aids. Target…
Flop Star Kids
In today’s weekend blog, I am writing about Bollywood star kids who failed to make it big as compared to their fathers/mothers. Let us take a look at some of these star kids: 1 Zayed Khan– Son of actor Sanjay Khan, he debuted in 2003 in the film ‘Chura Liya Hai Tumne’ with another newcomer…
Acupressure Therapy
Continuing with my article on various therapies of naturopathy, today I am writing about Acupressure therapy. ACUPRESSURE It is a form of touch therapy that utilizes the principles of acupuncture and Chinese medicine, which run on the pressure principle-it literally translates as ‘finger pressure’. It is an alternative medicine technique based on the concept of…
Acupuncture
Continuing with my article/blog on various therapies available in Naturopathy, today I am going to write about Acupuncture. ACUPUNCTURE It is a form of therapy that involves inserting very thin needles into the body. Practitioners insert needles at different locations and depths to treat different health issues. This therapy can help relieve pain and treat…
Mud and Hydro Therapies
I am continuing with my article on various naturopathy therapies, and today I am writing about Mud therapy and Hydrotherapy. Mud Therapy It is used for giving coolness to the body. It dilutes and absorbs the toxic substances of the body and ultimately eliminates them from the body. These days naturopathy practitioners are increasingly making…
Diet and Fasting Therapies
Last week on 1st December, I wrote about Naturopathy. In this article, I mentioned various therapies like Diet therapy, Fasting therapy, Mud Therapy, Hydrotherapy, Massage therapy, Acupressure, Acupuncture, Chromo therapy, Air therapy, and Magnet therapy. In today’s blog, I am writing about Diet and Fasting therapies. DIET THERAPY Diet is considered the key element of…
Bollywood Breakaway Roles
In this weekend’s blog, I am back on Bollywood. It is very easy to get typecast in Bollywood. Since cinema lovers in India like to relate to actors in a certain role, and only envision them like that. So Nirupa Roy was always the mother, Iftekhar and Jagdish Raj were always police officers, AK Hangal…
Naturopathy
The only ancient Indian traditional therapy is Ayurveda, hence Naturopathy has to be foreign, and yes it is. However, it has an Indian connection that most of us are unaware of. Like Homeopathy, naturopathy finds its roots in Germany and a few other parts of Europe. It started mainly with hydrotherapy or water therapy and…
Court Cases, Crimes
While reading today’s morning newspaper, I started wondering what is happening in the country, as there were many news items that were covering what is happening in various courts and some news about crime. On the opening flap page of Times of India, Mumbai edition there are 7 news items regarding court cases and crime….
Tea Drinking Benefits
In India, the majority of our population across the country drinks tea regularly, in southern states coffee is the preferred drink. There are many benefits of drinking tea that we may not know about. The Chinese and Japanese have been consuming tea to improve health for centuries. It is being promoted now even in western…