When Everyone Meditates Now!
Today is World Meditation Day. Which means if you ask ten people whether they meditate, eleven will say yes. One will add, “I do it...
Category : Mental Health
Not Every Feeling Requires Treatment
Some days, I feel we are living in a world where every passing emotion wants a prescription, and every ordinary worry wants a clinical label....
Does Reading Prevent Dementia?
The strangest proof that reading might save a brain arrived in my clinic wearing a faded lungi and an attitude that refused to age. An...
How Your Gut Can Affect Your Mood?
Every night, across many Bengaluru homes, a small ceremony takes place. Coffee powder is measured with priestly precision, hot water is poured over it, and...
Satvavajaya Chikitsa — Mastery of the Mind
Every cure, at some point, asks the same question: Can you govern your mind before it governs you?That’s the essence of Satvavajaya Chikitsa — the...
Why Does the Mind Awaken After a Bite of Amla?
In my clinic, sour faces arrive before sour fruits. They come carrying sleepless nights in designer handbags, hope folded like a prescription slip. One afternoon, a young...
The Scary Evolution of Stress: An Ayurvedic Doctor’s Reflection
My grandmother never knew the word stress. She had seven children, ten cows, an unpredictable monsoon, and a mother-in-law with a PhD in nagging. Yet...
How Much Does ‘Log Kya Kahenge’ Cost Your Health?
The anxiety of “what will others think?” is perhaps India’s most popular national pastime. Forget cricket and cinema, this whisper controls our choices more than...
One Hand, Many Myths: An Ayurvedic Doctor Reflects on Masturbation
There are questions patients ask me openly, like “Doctor, what should I eat for diabetes?” and “Which oil is best for my hair?” Then some...
Forgiveness: The Forgotten Rasayana in Ayurvedic Healing
“Doctor, is there an Ayurvedic medicine for heartbreak?” That’s how the consultation started. Not with acid reflux, back pain, or PCOD. But heartbreak. A 33-year-old...