Kasini: Cichorium Intybus Botanical Name :Cichorium Intybus Family Name :Asteraceae Common Name :Chicory, Endive, Succory, Kasini Part Used :Chicory Flowers Habitat :Cultivated through out india Description: When flowering, chicory has a tough, grooved, and more or less hairy stem, from 30 to 100 centimetres (10...

Botanical Name :Solanum Nigrum Common Name :Black Night Shade, Makoy, Deadly Nightshade Part Used :Fruits, Whole Plant Habitat :Grows as a weed all over dry parts of india Product offered :Seeds, Wholeplant, Fruits Description: Black nightshade is a fairly common herb or short-lived perennial shrub,...

Common Name :Giant Swallow Wort, Milkweed, madar, arka Part Used :Mainly Bark, Roots And Whole Plant. Habitat :Throughout india, in dry waste places. Product offered :Leaves, Seeds, Fruits, Flower The fruit is described by the Roman Jewish historian josephus, who saw it growing near Sodom: "...as...

Assessment of Nutritional Status Learning Objectives: To undersatand the basic anthropometric techniques and applications. Introduction The nutritional status of an individual is often the result of many interrelated factors. Nutritional Assessment Why? The purpose of nutritional assessment is to Identify individual or population groups who...

Mizaj is the quality or power produced in the compound after intermixing of Ustaqissate Arba' (four elements) with their equal or unequal quantities, which is equally distributed in the whole compound. This is the quality which provides a power to the compound, because of which...

In classical literature of Unani medicine, iron deficiency anaemia is called su ul qinya. It is due to zoafe jigar. It is antecedent to istasqa (ascites). Iron is of great importance in human nutrition. The adult human body contains between 3-4 gm of iron. Iron...

World AIDS Day, observed December 1 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. It is common to hold memorials to honor persons who have died from HIV/AIDS on this day. Government and health officials...

The physiology and functioning of the human organism cannot remain constant, but must adapt to seasonal changes and variations in the weather.  An important part of being healthy is having the necessary flexibility and adaptability to adjust to seasonal changes in the weather.       The response...

The Greek physician always considers or makes concessions for the patient's country and its prevailing climactic conditions in assessing the patient's health.  If possible, adjustments should be made to compensate for extremes in climate.       The ancient Greeks and Romans considered themselves to be blessed...

DETERMINE THE BACTERIAL POPULATIONS SENSITIVITY TO A RANGE OF ANTIBIOTICS. This can be done by placing small disks of filter paper or agar impregnated with various types of antibiotics onto the bacterial lawn. The bacteria are allowed to incubate for a day or two, and...

Chronic bronchitis and emphysema develop over manyyears and patients are rarely symptomatic before middleage. Symptoms are initially minor, perhaps a morningcough productive of a little sputum. In some patientschronic bronchitis can remain a trivial problem, but inmany smoking-related airways obstruction coexists and thepatient then develops...

Emphysema is denned by its pathology and is characterizedby the destruction of respiratory tissue and permanentenlargement of the unit of the lung distal to the terminalbronchiole (the acinus). The injury to alveolar septa iscaused by proteolysis. Lung tissue is normally protectedby a shield of proteinase...

Management Restoration of normal function is not possible in chronicbronchitis and emphysema. The aim of therapy must therefore be to reduce disability by tackling the interrelatedproblems of airways obstruction, recurrent infections,breathlessness, hypoxia and poor exercise tolerance.Factors aggravating chronic bronchitis, particularly cigarettesmoking, must be withdrawn. Airways...

The number of repetitions recommended for each exercise is intended as a guide, rather than a strict limit, because most people following the advanced schedule will judge from the way they feel during the exercise whether they should do more or less than the recommendations....

Proteinuria—also called albuminuria or urine albumin—is a condition in which urine contains an abnormal amount of protein. Albumin is the main protein in the blood. Proteins are the building blocks for all body parts, including muscles, bones, hair, and nails. Proteins in the blood also...

Oral inflammation and ulcers, known as stomatitis, may be mild and localized or severe and widespread. They are invariably painful. Stomatitis may involve swelling and redness of the oral mucosa or discrete, painful ulcers (single or multiple). Less commonly, whitish lesions form, and, rarely, the...

Malaria is a parasitic infection transmitted by the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito. Malaria is caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium. The disease causes fever, chills, headache and muscle aches.it is caused by a tiny parasite called Plasmodium. The parasite grows...

Alternate Names : Rock fever, Cyprus fever, Undulant fever, Gibraltar fever, Malta fever, Mediterranean fever Brucellosis is transmitted to humans from infected animals. Its clinical features are not disease specific. Brucellosis has many synonyms derived from the geographical regions in which the disease occurs (e.g., Mediterranean...

In thoracic medicine the history, physical examination,chest X-ray and pulmonary function tests all contribute todiagnosis and assessment in a complementary manner.The chest X-ray gives accurate information on thoracicanatomy, whereas the clinical examination is much moreuseful in assessing pathophysiology. Before the clinical examination, many relevant observations...

About one-third of patients found to have an abnormal blood pressure at their first visit to the doctor will have lower blood pressure on subsequent visits. This borderline group may subsequently develop established hypertension.Some individuals appear to have wide swings in blood pressure, and have...