a positive way to build this Ayurveda-on-line

[Guest guest]

Dear Shirish,

 

I am looking at a positive way to build this Ayurveda-on-line.

This is only a personal opinion.

 

Since you like to research your articles extensively, which is a good habit,

it would be very constructive, if you review a plant every week or two---like

Tulsi for example, or Neem or Ashwagandha or Amla.

You may also list the various parts of the plant that have differing or varied

uses, and you may list its' various preparations.

 

Every so often, you may want to research and write a comprehensive article on

Gyn problems, for example ( with Vata, Pitta and Kapha problems, and the

differing

treatment modalities for each kind of disorder ). Since the Vata, Pitta and

Kapha Gyn disorders will be an extensive subject, for one e-mail, you may want

to divide it into one post for a general discussion and one post for each of the

Vata Pitta and Kapha disorders. You may list the Pitta type headache, or Mental

disorders or skin problems, for example and their various treatments.

 

This kind of a positive approach will help in the education process of the lay

person,

it will be a good "Ayurvedic" review, it will be very constructive, and there

will be no reason

to deride any other branch of medicine.

 

For that matter, any one else with an Ayurvedic education in this list serve,

like Aashish or Nilesh can follow this format. I think this will be a positive

approach. Any other suggestions are welcome.

 

Durgesh Mankikar,MD

[Guest guest]

This would seem to be a very reasonable approach. I would love to learn more

about the herb Arjuna and its uses and contraindications. I am also very

interested in possible herb/drug/food interactions, since if these herbs

work as many say they do, there would seem to be the possibility of negative

interactions. If a person knows how that herb is metabolized, that would

also be very useful--for example I am currently taking medications that

mostly go through the liver through the cytochrome P450 pathways with not

much trouble as long as I don't drink a whole bunch of grapefruit juice, but

drugs that affect the kidneys give me grief. From that I am inferring that

years of NSAID use for arthritis may have damaged my kidneys enough so that

I will have adverse reactions to certain other drugs like the ACE

inhibitors, ARBs, metformin, the dye for the angiograms and so on. This also

tells me not to take any more NSAIDs or other drugs if I can help it (and to

be careful with diuretics and such) until I know which pathways they follow

in the body. One of the claims people are always making for herbs and

ayurvedic compounds is that they don't have bad reactions and don't interact

with drugs. That is worth testing and learning more about. I know that since

they put me on plavix, there was a list of herbs not to take with

that--mostly stuff that will increase bleeding, which is merely common

sense. A lot of doctors are hazy on some of these interactions, in my recent

experience, and the only way I figured out what the common problem was that

I was having was to do hours of research in medical journals and websites. I

have had to learn to do this because of several severe reactions to drugs

"that nobody is allergic to" (according to the doctors). Later when I am

double checking medical writings, I often find that some doctor, somewhere,

has written up anomalous reactions like mine. Anyway, this sounds like a

very interesting topic.

Darla Wells

 

On 9/4/05, durgesh mankikar <d_mankikar wrote:

 

> I am looking at a positive way to build this Ayurveda-on-line.

>

> Since you like to research your articles extensively, which is a good

> habit, it would be very constructive, if you review a plant every week or

two---like Tulsi for example, or Neem or Ashwagandha or Amla.

Good Suggestions by Durgesh can be read fully at:

 

http://health.ayurveda/message/4605