Vasa (Adhatoda vasica): Ayurveda’s Premier Herb for Respiratory Infections
Bromhexine, a widely used mucolytic medicine, has a genuine botanical connection to Vasa, but that connection is often overstated. Published...
June 16, 2026
Nootropics vs Medhya Rasayanas: A Head-to-Head Evidence Comparison
When a researcher at a major neuroscience institute asked me whether Ayurvedic brain herbs could “actually compete with modafinil,” my...
June 15, 2026
Telomerase Activation by Rasayanas: What Anti-Aging Genomics Reveals
In 2009, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, and Jack W. Szostak shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
June 14, 2026
Circadian Biology and Tridosha Clock: What Modern Chronobiology Missed
When Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael Young won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning...
June 13, 2026
Kakamachi (Solanum nigrum): The Overlooked Hepatoprotective Herb
Kakamachi is an established Ayurvedic drug with a defined pharmacopoeial profile, while modern hepatoprotective evidence remains predominantly preclinical. The Ayurvedic...
June 12, 2026
The Exposome and Desha: How Your Environmental Exposure History Shapes Your Ayurvedic Health
When Christopher Wild introduced the term “exposome” in 2005, he proposed a way to complement genomic research by studying environmental...
June 11, 2026
Mitochondrial Health and Rasayana: How Rejuvenative Herbs Protect Cellular Power Plants
Mitochondria are membrane-bound organelles that generate much of the ATP used by human cells through oxidative phosphorylation. They also participate...
June 10, 2026
Interoception and Prana: How Ayurvedic Body Awareness Practices Map to Neuroscience
The first time I read A.D. Craig’s 2009 paper, “How do you feel—now? The anterior insula and human awareness,” I...
June 8, 2026
Nanotechnology Carriers for Ayurvedic Bhasma: How Ancient Mineral Medicines Achieve Nano-Scale
Modern microscopy has confirmed an important but easily overstated point about Ayurvedic bhasma: some preparations contain nanometre-scale crystallites, while the...
June 7, 2026
Phage Therapy and Ayurvedic Antimicrobials: Converging Solutions to Anti
In 2019, a patient at UC San Diego received phage therapy - the deliberate use of viruses to kill bacteria...
June 6, 2026