Objectives. Body measurement plays a pivotal role not only in the diagnosis of disease but also in the classification of typology. Sasang constitutional medicine, which is one of the forms of Traditional Korean Medicine, is considered to be strongly associated with body shape. We attempted to determine whether a Sasang constitutional analytic tool based on body shape information (SCAT-B) could ...

The paper deals with the use of various medicinal plants during the Ayurvedic process of Panchakarma, a cleansing process that eliminates toxins from the body thereby curing diseases and revitalizing the human body. The five stages (Karmas) of Panchakarma along with the pre-treatment and post-treatment processes have been systematically designed to achieve this purpose. Several medicinal plants...

Prakriti is one’s own constitution, which is individual specific means it is controlled by its own physiology. It is enumeration of body features, internal as well as external. Present study was designed to study the Asthi-majjakshaya according to different Dehaprakriti w.s.r to Bone Mineral density test. Total 90 patients visiting to Shalya O.P.D. of B.M.A.M. Nagpur were selected according to ...

Malignant astrocytomas often display histopathological heterogeneity. In the present study, we have molecularly characterized different areas within 4 such tumors to determine whether the tissue heterogeneity can be explained by differences in DNA constitution. Two tumors contained low grade areas, and the other 2 had areas with satellites». The tumors were examined for loss of heterozygosity ...

BACKGROUND The theory of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) constitution involves genetic characteristics, psychological factors, organ functions, and many other aspects. Studies have shown that TCM constitution is associated with HLA polymorphisms and has a genetic basis. A large number of Chinese studies have suggested that the clinical evolution of breast cancer may differ among patients wit...

Of the various chlorophyll abnormalities that occur in polyploid wheats, genetic bases of only two types, chlorina and virescence, are known. Here, for the first time, the chromosomal bases of three other chlorophyll abnormalities, striato-virescence, delayed virescence, and albino, which occur in Emmer wheat (2n = 4x = 28, genome constitution AABB) are reported. A set of disomic substitution l...

A preleptotene stage of chromosome condensation analogous to that already described in various plants and in the oocytes of several animal species has been observed in the human foetal testis. Contrary to what has been previously described, this stage in the testis is not followed by decondensation leading to leptotene filaments. This observation underlines the problem of the precise significan...

The present study aimed to examine theposition of "Jurist Islam" discourses and "Liberal Islam"in the "Final Review of the Islamic Republic of Iran Constitution" in1979. And consider the conflict between the above-mentioned constitutionaldiscourses to gain a better understanding of these discourses and the constitution.To this aim, should find the point of the deba...

Objectives. Differences among healthy subjects and associated disease risks are of substantial interest in clinical medicine. According to the theory of "constitution-disease correlation" in traditional Chinese medicine, we try to find out if there is any connection between intolerance of cold in Yang deficiency constitution and molecular evidence and if there is any gene expression basis in sp...