Our study aimed to analyze and compare monthly costs along with cost variation between Ayurveda Allopathy medicines used treat 2 chronic disease conditions, viz. Rheumatoid Arthritis Hypertension. The prices of Allopathic & Ayurvedic drugs mentioned in the treatment guidelines for these conditions were obtained from different sources. minimum maximum a particular drug same strength manufact...

Background: Reproductive tract morbidities are common among married women and cause serious threats to their health wellbeing. It accounts for 36.6% of other diseases globally. Objectives: To determine the reproductive health-seeking practices in a selected urban area from Bangalore. Methods: A quantitative research approach with descriptive design was used an Tavarekere, convenient sampling te...

An outbreak of “Pneumonia Unknown Etiology” occurred in Wuhan, China, late December 2019. Later, the agent factor was identified and coined as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), disease named 2019 (COVID-19). In a shorter period, this newly emergent infection brought world to standstill. On 11 March 2020, WHO declared COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers across globe have j...

In highland Nepal, just as in many other regions of South Asia, multiple indigenous healing traditions and a variety of traditional curing specialists co-exist in a pluralistic cultural environment. It is argued that the interaction of diverse medical traditions is a particular aspect of the more general tendency toward the accretion and super-imposition of cultural traits which has been a comm...

The 19th century saw the development of an eclectic medical marketplace in both United Kingdom and States, with mesmerists, herbalists hydrotherapists amongst plethora ‘sectarians’ offering mainstream (or ‘allopathic’) medicine stiff competition. Foremost these competitors were homoeopaths, a group practitioners who followed Samuel Hahnemann (1982[1810]) prescribing highly dilute doses single-d...

Aloe vera belongs to the family of Asphodelaceae, oldest medicinal herb ever found and world's most common plant. It is known as Ghritkumari, used in medicine sources homeopathy, ayurvedic, allopathy. The species a good source repository chemical ingredients that shows precise range biological activities such wound healing, burn treatment, mitigating frost bite damage, defense against, lung can...