Helen Thomas

You Think It's Healthy Ayurveda, Says it One of the Worse Food Combinations? A Simple Solution: See how to enjoy the same foods, without the gastrointestinal warzone... Last week, in my article on food allergies, I gave everybody a quiz: What is the worst food combination that Westerners consume these days? We received...

Last week, I wrote to you about the dangers of using Statin drugs to lower cholesterol in high-risk children ("The Answer to Childhood Obesity? Ayurveda! NOT Statin Drugs"), and because I'm devoted to helping our children achieve balance and health in their lives, this week, I'm continuing my three-part series...

In order to fully appreciate the powerful role of Ayurveda in restoring health, you need to understand how it helps you handle stress, which is at the root of many ailments big and small. Dr. Hans Selye, the pioneering researcher who practically invented the concept of stress, defined it rather...

When we were bedridden and weak, thinking we were going to perish from fever, Grandma's recipe for chicken soup (or Campbell's soup in a pinch) is what nursed us back to health. In India, however, the idea of food as medicine is as old as Methuselah. Tradition holds that there is...

Fenugreek is the common name for the latin botanical name. Trigonella foenum-graecum. Plasma Insulin levels are found to increase when given fenugreek in vivo. This results in Increased conversion of hepatic cholesterol to bile salts. Which facilitates reducing the LDL and increasing the HDL. Research in Indian Medicine Annals are...

I was busy, I had both of the ayurveda physicians Narendra and Aruna Pendse visiting my home and clinic for two weeks. I have been preparing my clinic and teaching my patients the value of seeing us together for a month before that. My great visitors are finally here and...

Feet are so precious until you have a problem, you take them for granted. What do feet and the normal fat of the body got in common? What do feet and the adrenal glands have in common? These are mysterious questions to the average western mind. In the science of...

The benefits of relaxing your nerves and letting your hair down, sort of speak have been recognized since human kind started. After two drinks it takes a 120 minutes or so depending on the body type of the person for the body to convert alcohol and get rid of it....

Daily oil massage plays a major role in preventing complications from stress like hypertension, depression, headaches, and more. In India massage is a natural part of daily life. Infants are massaged every day from the day they are born to age three, and weekly after that. By age six, children...

Headaches, insomnia, anxiety and constipation have the same root cause which is a vata imbalance according to ayurveda. Until recently modern Western medicine believed that health was simply the absence of disease. Illness was caused purely by something outside the body, the way a hammer hitting your toe causes pain-viruses...