Individualized Holistic Health Care

    AAAAAAAAACHOooooooooooo! It is raining, damp and moldy...the flu season has set-in.  The virus travels with ease looking for victims with compromised immunity.  People dread to sit next to a sniffling colleagues, co-passengers...they dread the sneeze fearing that they might contract SARS, H1N1(Swine Flu) etc. In India it is not uncommon to see many sneeze freely, some of them seem to derive orgasmic pleasure in the act unmindful and unapologetic to the people around them.   I came across one such passenger during my recent journey from Goa to Pune…and this prompted me to write this piece.    Cupping your hand over your nose and mouth is the most common method followed by us and   it is not the right way to sneeze or cough since the next moment you are most likely to touch the telephone, the door knob, your computer keyboard or even greet a friend with a handshake causing the virus to go viral. To help stop the spread of ger...

Without illness nobody will be healthy!     How many of us have experienced this truth?  The statement appears rather dialectic and requires some reflection.  The above proposition excludes the chronic exacerbation (aggravation) and is more concerned with the acute type of illnesses – the viral or flu variety that induces a brief period of malaise. This is possibly nature’s way of gifting you some time take a break, to reflect and commune with self within – and then soar back rejuvenated. ‘Common Cold’ is the simplest of the ailment to afflict us, yet it causes us the most discomfort, it makes us feel miserable to the point that we take medicines disproportionate to the malady.  I recollect reading a naturopathy text that suggested that it is healthy to suffer from the common cold at least twice a year.  Someone once told me that his homoeopath in South Africa told him that he is unlikely to suffer a heart attack since he suffers from ‘cold’ no...