My talk at Guardian Health Seminar in Malaysia this May and subsequent interview which appeared in New Sunday Times was the hot post on the Cardioblog, titled - A holistic approach to your heart that ends with a question "What do you think -- sound advice, or a load of new-age babble?"West looks at the eastern knowledge always with skepticism and would like to raise the debate and to dominate with evidences to cast off these as imperfect, indistinct facts.
The view that US researchers have found as published in Vegetarian Times lends credit to the fact that emotions do affect heart.
When it comes to risks for heart disease, our emotional intelligence should be right up there with diet and exercise. Some of the latest research has found that avoiding emotional extremes and learning healthy ways to express feelings can make a dramatic difference to cardiac health.
Many researches in the recent past have shown that learning to cope with two of the most
potentially damaging emotions--depression and anger--reduces not only the physical damage stress wreaks on the heart, but can also extend the life span.
potentially damaging emotions--depression and anger--reduces not only the physical damage stress wreaks on the heart, but can also extend the life span. The clinical studies on Arjuna (Terminalia arjuna) that showed significant decrease in ischemic mitral regurgitation, improvement in E/A ratio and considerable reduction in anginal frequency published in the recent issue of International Journal of Cardiology and many such reports prove the ancient wisdom of this plant as cardioprotective agent.
Is this a babble? Kindly comment.
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Western science has started appreciating the psychosomatic connection in diseases only in the recent past after understanding that there are chemicals in the brain communicating with the body.
However, there are extraordinary modern physiological insights like the HPA axis(hypothalamic-pituitary axis. More such stunning pathophysiological discoveries include the role of homocysteine, tau and beta amyloid proteins in the pathogenesis of AD/dementia. I have seen some reports that brahmi (Himalaya) has positive impact on levels of these culprit proteins.
There that is the challenge - to integrate modern researches with ancient wisdom.
With due respect to Ayurvedic researchers, I think this integration will come about by Western medicine researchers collaborating with Ayurvedic and traditional medicine scientists, and mainly due to the internet (this is causing Western medicine researchers to appreciate traditional sciences; and commercial considerations of giant international Pharma companies. You see modern communication technologies are causing the collapse of the information float and the result is bad news - like the negative cardiac effects of rosiglitazone - get round fast. So Western commercial medical researchers will no doubt put across ancient remedies in a modern form.
I highly appreciate your blog - it is world class - and is setting new benchmarks in Ayurveda. Mark my words - your blog will go a very very long way. CONGRATULATIONS.
Thanks for your appreciation and comments which I am sure would open up the east-west dialog and help the humanities around the world in future. We shall all work for this goal.
Excellent! I’ve been promoting these ideas for two decades, but never knew about Ayurveda, per se. Thanks for the enlightenment.
Steve Beller, PhD
Dear Dr.Rangesh, Congrats on this initiative towards servicing humanity. Wish you a great success in this journey. As you rightly note, Ayurveda is one of the greatest gift to mankind. I only wish and pray that this blog of yours dedicated to the science of life will help bridge the divide between the western (often considered the most effective which is not true) and the traditional indian methodology of life science.
- Srivatsa Madhavan (a beneficiary from the use of Ayurveda)
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