Fish vs Fish Oil: Which Is Better? Benefits, Omega-3, Best Indian Fish & Expert Guide
A patient walked into my clinic carrying a bottle of imported fish oil capsules that cost more than the fish sold outside my neighbourhood market....
Author : Dr. Brahmanand Nayak
Burnout Syndrome: Early Signs, Causes, Recovery and How Families Can Help
The email arrived late one evening. It was short, polite and quietly desperate. “Doctor, my younger brother lives in America. A new team at work,...
After Medical College, Who Becomes a Doctor’s Guru?
On one Guru Purnima morning, an elderly patient touched my feet before taking her chair. Ten minutes later, she peered over her spectacles and said,...
Castor Oil: Where It Helps, Where It Fails and Where It Can Harm
A patient once placed a bottle of castor oil on my table with the seriousness usually reserved for an MRI report. He had bought it...
Rose Water: Benefits, Uses and Myths
A lady walked into my clinic one sweltering April afternoon, opened her handbag with the seriousness of a surgeon preparing for an operation and placed...
Curd: What Science and Ayurveda Really Say
The funniest argument I hear in my clinic is not about medicines. It is about curd. One patient insists it causes cough. Another swears it cured...
Behavioural Science in Ayurveda!
A fifty-year-old businessman sat across from me, looking unusually pleased. “Doctor, my HbA1c has finally come down,” he announced before I had even opened his...
Why Do Humans Love Gossip? What Evolution and Ayurveda Reveal
The most dangerous place in an Indian wedding is not the kitchen where giant vessels of sambar are boiling. It is not the stage where...
You Walk 10,000 Steps. Your Neighbour Walks 5,000. Why Is He Thinner?
There are sentences that instantly change the atmosphere inside a consulting room. Doctor, I found blood in my urine. Doctor, I can’t breathe properly. Those sentences make a...
Why Oiling Your Hair Can Sometimes Worsen Dandruff?
A young man once entered my clinic wearing enough coconut oil on his head to solve a minor fuel crisis. “Doctor, dandruff is not going,”...