Hedychium spicatum or Gulbakawali is a scented herb found in the Himalayas, but now increasingly cultivated in other hilly regions of the country.

Ferula foetida or hing has been a part of Indian cuisine since time immemorial. It is used in a variety of curries and achaars to enhance the taste and nutritive value of food stuff.

Pongamia pinnata or the Indian beech is a tree that grows wild and can be found on canal bunds, road margins, wastelands and in tuberculosis sanatoria.

Gymnema sylvestre, or Gurmar, is acclaimed as a natural ‘sugar buster’. As its Hindi name Gurmar suggests, the plant has properties that kill sugar (gur: jaggery or sugar; mar: kill) in the blood stream. Its wonderful hypoglycaemic (sugar lowering) properties have made this herb a natural choice for Ayurvedic and Unani doctors as an

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday called upon scientists of developing countries to make a renewed and determined effort to augment knowledge to face common challenges.

Calotropis procera, commonly called milkweed, is recognised as a wonder herb in the Unani and Ayurvedic systems of medicine. This medicinal herb grows in waste lands and is often neglected as a useless weed. But Indian systems of medicine regard Calotropis procera, also known as swallow-wort, as the herb that heals a

Mirabilis jalapa or clavillia is a broad spectrum herbal plant, whose medicinal properties range from fighting fungi to bacteria.

Surendra Kumar, a resident of posh Banjara Hills, decided not to compromise on his family’s health, eschewing the unreliable, possibly unhygienic water supplied through municipal taps for packaged dri

The ideal Indian man is now five kg heavier and the ideal woman weighs 10 kg more than their ancestors in the pre-Independence era.
The Centre has fixed the weight of the Indian “reference man” at 60 kg and the Indian “reference woman” at 55 kg. These figures will now be taken as the standard weight for Indian adults. The earlier values, fixed before Independence, were 55 kg (men) and 45 kg (women).

A high intake of salt has long been blamed for high blood pressure and hypertension among Indians.