WHAT’S HOLI WITHOUT COLOURS? The same applies to life. There is more to colour than meets the eye. Would you believe colours can help heal ailments and even dissolve past karma? Well, continue reading to get answers…. Seema Midha, a well known tarot card reader has also dabbled in colour therapy. She says, “There are seven chakras in our body and each colour in the colour spectrum of VIBGYOR corresponds to a chakra. This is how colours influence us. ” Reiki master Asha Goyal agrees to it.   VIOLET: Crown Chakra, which is at the top of the head. Related to this chakra are brain and pineal gland, which secretes melatonin Use of violet colour can help calm stressed people and

Dr Sushila Kataria had an outing in mind, so she took along her son to hospital from where she had planned to go out with him. But the long queue outside her room took her more than an hour followed by an emergency, which trashed her plan completely. This is not unusual rather an anticipated turn of events for a senior doctor. Sometimes, movie tickets go waste while on other occasions; a critical case robs them off pleasure and entertainment. Undoubtedly, their hectic schedule rarely gives them breathing space. Those who save others’ lives find it hard to take time out for their own lives. For those who work in government hospitals, life has never been easy. These working hours

Overcoming pain and addictions are one of the challenges faced by modern medicine. Beyond the realm of painkillers Archana Darshan investigates about newer methods to seek pain relief.  Dr Usha Sapra, consultant with Delhi based Soham, society for holistic medicine  practices relatively less known cold laser therapy which helps people seek freedom from crippling pains and addictions. If you have been looking for a unique treatment that can help your body heal from chronic injuries and relieve pain, continue reading to find more about the therapy….. Cold laser therapy is a form of medical treatment which involves the use of a low intensity laser to address pain and inflammation. A

Dendritic therapy uses the body’s own defense mechanism to heal cancer. It is non- invasive, with negligible adverse effects, and targets immune system. In the year 2007 Ghaziabad resident Aruna Tyagi, 44 was told that she has numbered days before her. She had developed malignant lesion in her chest wall and had been operated for that. She was advised chemotherapy but her cancer was spreading very fast. In the past 18 months, she had been operated thrice for removing malignant tumors had received sessions of chemotherapy and radiation and had again suffered from relapse of cancer. After her third operation in the year 2007, instead of chemotherapy, she went for Dendritic Cell (DC)

Many a time when modern medicine fails, alternate therapies provide the ray to hope. Lucknow based Ayurveda doctor Hina Fatima is providing a ray of hope to many cancer patients who have found relief and cure from cancer within their means. But this doctor is averse to any kind of media talk and believes in her work speaking for herself 35-year-old Mohammed Jameel was suffering from Multiple Myeloma when he was presented to King George Medical College Lucknow for investigation and treatment in the year 1993. The patient was given one cycle of chemotherapy but his condition declined after that because of the adverse side effects of chemotherapy and he underwent HUMA therapy for cancer, an

Yogini Murudeshwar is no ordinary painter. This Mumbai based attractive lady in her thirties, helps us heal through life’s rough patches through her paintings. Her paintings work on the body’s chakras. She believes that each chakra (or area representing various body parts) has its own colour and frequency and ailments of all nature and form, represent misalignment of chakra. Her paintings help you correct that misalignment, if you meditate on it, and your outlook to life changes. In an exclusive email interview with My Health Guardian Yogini talks about her transition from a banker to a painter who heals through her paintings. MY HEALTH GUARDIAN : What motivated you so much that you

Hypnotherapy. You have heard of it, watched it in movies and believe that it can make you confess facts about yourself that you never wanted to. This is far from truth. Archana Darshan speaks to Anita Anand, south Delhi based clinical hypnotherapist. Hypnosis is no mumbo-jumbo science, neither is it a black magic kind of thing. Rather it is a state of deep relaxation. “In this state, the client’s subconscious mind (which is 88% of the mind) is brought to the fore by the therapist and the conscious mind (12%) recedes”, explains she. The subconscious mind is the repository of all memories – past and present – that are often painful and traumatic such as fears, anxieties etc, and

Ozone therapy is a new treatment for treating back and leg pain resulting from disc prolapse. Our spinal column comprises of multiple blocks of bones. Between these vertebral bodies lie spinal discs which are similar to rubber washers and allow movement of the spinal column. The discs contain jelly-like fluid and are surrounded by a fibrous ring.  When there is a tear or rupture of a disc it causes the jelly-like fluid or proteglycam to flow out and exert pressure on the nerves leading to a pain that may affect the back or run along the legs. This condition is called disc prolapse. Dr Vijay Sheel Kumar, chairman and neurosurgeon with Gurgaon based Dr Kares Hospital has been practicing

Ever thought why all love stories end with—they lived happily ever after. What’s so good about mush that makes you feel warm from within and you love to curl up with a romantic tale on a winter night by the fireside? Being in love is a wonderful feeling. You got to be in it to believe it. While there are telltale signs of love—the flustered cheek, raised heartbeat, butterflies in stomach, anticipation and the general feeling of euphoria, many of us do not know love is good for your ticker and adds years to your life. How? Love is about companionship, respecting the wishes of ‘the significant other’ and it does not take a genius to guess that staying in a committed relationship

Pain is nature’s way of signaling that something is not right with the body. However, the requests and signals sent by the body are often numbed by analgesics so that we can get on with life. But, hands-on approach like cranio-sacral balancing can bring relief even in ailments to which modern medicine is clueless about. Surprisingly, exponents of modern Allopathic medicine have become converts to cranio-sacral balancing, relatively new system of pain relief in India. This speaks volumes about the treatment itself. Archana Darshan talks to two such doctors——- Dr Sandeep Bhasin, is a General and Cosmetic surgeon who has worked with some of the leading hospitals of the country.