Where Ayurveda meets modern science — research, mechanisms, and the evidence behind traditional practices.
Ayurvedic herbs are not automatically safe merely because they are traditional or natural. A medicinal plant, concentrated extract, proprietary blend,...
A commonly repeated account says that researchers at Banaras Hindu University recruited 53 people, assigned their prakriti through three independent...
Ayurvedic genomics investigates whether measurable biological variation is associated with prakriti, the constitutional classification described in Ayurveda. A 2015 genome-wide...
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael W. Young...
Ayurvedic supplements are complex materials whose quality can change with botanical species, plant part, cultivation, harvest, drying, extraction, storage, and...
Glucosamine and Boswellia serrata are promoted for knee osteoarthritis, but neither has been proved to regenerate lost cartilage, reverse advanced...
The digestive tract and the mind influence one another: anxiety can alter appetite and bowel habit, while persistent abdominal symptoms...
A fasting plasma glucose of 118 mg/dL and an HbA1c of 5.9% both fall within the laboratory ranges used to...
Ayurvedic treatment can look very different in Kerala, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, or another region. That variation does not create...
A colleague who practices Western herbal medicine once asked a reasonable question: if one herb is regarded as the main...
