Home Remedies from south India: Feet

 Posted on March 25, 2012  |  1 minutes  |  70 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

This is the fourth in a series which started with Hair Care. The other two posts cover Colds and Coughs. The information in this series is the knowledge of my grandmother, which I documented as part of a project on medicinal plants and home remedies. [Read More]
castor oil  coconut leaves  coconut oil  cotton  feet  foot ache  heated brick  home remedies  injury  joints  lime juice  lumps  medicinal plants  mustard  mustart paste  otharam  rice batter  rock salt  salt water  sesame oil  shoe bites  swelling  thorns  vellakkennai  water 

Home Remedies from south India: Coughs

 Posted on March 23, 2012  |  1 minutes  |  25 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

Disclaimer:

The pictures used in this series are inserted from other websites. I have used them only to illustrate the ingredients used in the remedies.

adathoda  athimadhuram  chithirathai  cold  coriander  coughs  fever  ginger  home remedies  honey  kadukka  kashayam  manjapodi  medicinal plants  milk  palm sugar  panakalkandu  panakarkandu  pepper  sukku  sukkumalli  sukkumalli kashayam  turmeric  vaalmelagu  wheezing 

Home Remedies from south India: Colds

 Posted on March 18, 2012  |  1 minutes  |  25 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

Disclaimer:

The pictures used in this series are inserted from other websites. I have used them only to illustrate the ingredients used in the remedies.

burning turmeric  calcium oxide  camphor  cane  chest congestion  child birth  chilli  coconut oil  cold  cough  cow dung  dal  garlic  ginger  honey  inji  jaggery  karpooram  karpuram  lentils  malaga  melagu  milagu  nallennai  omavalli  pepper  salt water  salt water gargling  sambrani  sesame oil  sinus  sour throat  steam inhalation  sunnambu  tulasi  vaalmilagu  vellam  vibhuthi  vibhuti 

Home Remedies from flora in south India: Hair Care

 Posted on March 17, 2012  |  1 minutes  |  25 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

Disclaimer:

The pictures used in this series are inserted from other websites. I have used them only to illustrate the ingredients used in the remedies.

alum  amla  castor oil  coconut oilt  cow dung  curry leaves  fenugreek  ginger  green gram  hair shaft  henna  hibiscus  home remedies  karusilankanni  karuvepellai  karuveppelai  long hair growth  manjal  marudani  medicinal plants  mehendi  nallennai  neem  nellikai  pasipayiru  ponnanganni  poo  roja mottu  rose buds  sambrani  seka podi  sembarathi  sesame oil  shikakai  sukku  thenga ennai  tulasi  turmeric  velakkennai  vendayam 

Sparkling water

 Posted on February 18, 2012  |  4 minutes  |  767 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

Water used to be free. In some parts of the world it still is but with all the pollution and diseases, it is becoming increasingly difficult to safely drink straight from a river, and in many parts of the world, from the tap. [Read More]
Aquafina  carbonated water  coca cola  Desani  energy intensive  environment  fizzy drinks  health  hiking  Kerala  Kerala's boiled herbal water  leaking taps  littering  long showers  Pepsi  picnics  plastic  plastic bottles  pollution  privatised water  sanctity of nature  save water  soda  sparkling water  still water  water 

Jalanethi

 Posted on December 28, 2011  |  4 minutes  |  655 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

Jala= water (Sanskrit) Nethi= clean (Sanskrit) For the past few months I have been practicing Jalanethi. It is part of Yoga but to my surprise, I find people of other countries also practice it under different names: Nasa dusche or Nasal Irrigation. [Read More]
advantages of jalanethi  breathing  clear nasal regions  getting started with jalanethi  health  inner nose  jalanethi  nasa dusche  nasal irrigation  yoga 

LfE 15: A visit to Oxford and Thoughts in Slough

 Posted on October 22, 2011  |  5 minutes  |  857 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

29/12/2009 Hello 🙂 I have been in Slough, a town near London, for around two weeks now. It has been restful to spend time with family, watch movies, go shopping etc. [Read More]
architecture  atheism  Attention  bill clinton  biomagnification  boxing day  brainy  character  children's movies  Christian  christmas  climate change  colin dexter  copenhagem  CS Lewis  decorations  dogma  dressing up  Eagle and Child  Edinburgh  effort  environmental  extinction  failure in crops  family  famous people  Harry Potter  ideas  inspector morse  islam  J.R.R. Tolkien  letters from edinburgh  letters home  london  looking good  magic  margeret thatcher  money  natural disasters  oscar wilde  oxford  ozone  PB Shelly  planet  poet  poisoning  pollution  recontextualise  richard burton  rowan atkinson  save  shop  skill  slough  spirit  spiritual  starvation  thirst  trying on  tumours  uk  underground library  war 

Android body vs Human body

 Posted on August 6, 2011  |  4 minutes  |  678 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

A lot of futuristic science fiction puts forward several ideas of what an android would be like. Data from Star Trek (TNG) is an intriguing character who tries very hard to understand what it is to be human. [Read More]
actors  aging  android bodies  artists  automated  battlin age  breathe  breathing  consciousness  contemplation  dangerous  data  Data Lore  death  deceit  dreaming  eat  eating  emotion  emotion chip  exobiologist  feel  feeling alive  feeling connection  food  history  human  humour  I Mudd  idioms  immortality  individuality  infinite memory  logical  love  making jokes  malfunction  memory  Mudd  not part of nature  nurse chapel  paradoxes  personal choices  planet of androids  poisonous gas  programming  rapid learning  resources  sickness  skills  sleep  sleeping  smelling  social contact  star trek  strong  supercomputer  tasting  The Enterprise  the next generation  The Original Series  The Ultimate Computer  TNG  toilet  TOS  violinist  What Are Little Girls Made of? 

Boosting Mental Health services in India

 Posted on February 14, 2010  |  3 minutes  |  483 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

I attended a lecture on CBT- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and how it is being made accessible in Scotland. Check the website below. http://www.livinglifetothefull.com/index.php?section=page&page_seq=13Can we bring this to India? [Read More]
bilingual  CDs  chat  clinical psychology  counsellors  depression  DVDs  email  face to face  group meetings  mental health  methods of access  phone  public  reaching people  scotland  therapy  video conference