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The Political Economy of Wellness: Commercial Determinants of a Burgeoning Industry

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Wellness has grown into a multi‐trillion‐dollar industry encompassing a multitude of products and practices that affect health and well‐being. Applying a lens of commercial determinants of health to wellness is useful to examine its intersection with systems of capital production, corporate interests, and neoliberal norms of personal ...
NANCY KARREMAN, MARCO ZENONE, NASON MAANI, BENJAMIN HAWKINS   +3 more
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A Systematic Review on Safety and Efficacy of Ayurvedic Interventions in Hemiplegia ()

Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine
The study's objective is to conduct a comprehensive systematic review for assessing the safety and efficacy of Ayurvedic interventions in managing hemiplegia/Pakshaghata.
Akashlal M. MD (Ay), Pratibha P Nair MD (Ay), Devi R Nair MD (Ay), Azeem Ahmad MD (Ay), B Chandrasekhararao MD (Ay), D Sudhakar MD (Ay), Srikanth Narayanam PhD (Ay), Rabinarayan Acharya PhD (Ay)   +7 more
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RCTs and other clinical trial designs in Ayurveda: A review of challenges and opportunities

Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine, 2021
Currently, there is a paucity of clinical trial designs that comprehensively evaluate the efficacy of most complementary and alternative systems of medicine (CAMs) like Ayurveda. Several factors such as complex interventions, individualized therapy, etc.,
Pushya A. Gautama
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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
wiley   +1 more source

Honey: an important nutrient and adjuvant for maintenance of health and management of diseases

Journal of Ethnic Foods
Honey got its significance, both as medical and non-medical purposes. Honey is a complex matrix of several carbohydrates, amino acids, minerals and many more.
Deepak Kumar, Kalyan Hazra, Peyyala Venkata Vara Prasad, Rajesh Bulleddu   +3 more
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AYUSH- 64: A potential therapeutic agent in COVID-19

Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine, 2022
Corona Virus disease (COVID-19) has become a global pandemic resulting in large scale morbidity and mortality worldwide. The management of COVID-19 has been a big challenge because of multifactorial pathophysiology and no specific treatment.
Ashok Kumar Panda, Sarbeswar Kar, Amit Kumar Rai, B.C.S. Rao, N. Srikanth   +4 more
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Add-on Ayurveda Treatment for Early Stage COVID-19: A Single Center Retrospective Cohort Study From Gujarat, India

Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine, 2021
The retrospective cohort study aimed to evaluate the clinical outcomes of Ayurveda treatment exposure as an add-on to conventional care in early stage COVID-19 patients admitted at Samaras COVID care center, Ahmedabad, India.
A. Thakar, Kalpesh Panara, F. Patel, S. Bhagiya, M. Goyal, S. Bhinde, S. Chaudhari, S. Chaturvedi   +7 more
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Whose knowledge, whose cure? traditional medicine and the boundaries of WIPO's 2024 genetic resources treaty

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract Traditional medicine—including complementary, integrative, Indigenous, and ancestral practices—remains a vital source of healthcare for billions worldwide, particularly in the Global South. Despite its widespread use and biomedical relevance, traditional medicinal knowledge has long been excluded from dominant intellectual property systems ...
Tolulope Anthony Adekola
wiley   +1 more source

Complete healing of a Dooshivishajanya non-healing wound with Jalaukavacharana - A case report

Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine
A 35-year-old male patient, who is non-diabetic, non-dyslipidemic, normotensive, and euthyroid, and works as a hotel manager, visited our outpatient department with complaints of two ulcers on the inner side of his right lower leg, which developed ...
Praveen Balakrishnan, Emy S. Surendran, G.N. Sree Deepthi, A. Abhayadev, Lisha S. Raj   +4 more
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Review on Utharavasthi (Urogenital route of medicine administration)

Journal of Research in Traditional Medicine, 2018
Background: Vasthi (Rectal/urogenital route of medicine administration) is one among the most important therapies among the Panchakarma ( five purification therapy). Susrutha Acharya describes Vasthi as effective in disorders due to derangement of Vatha,
Meghana Pooleriveetil Padikkal
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