Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It has been harvested for centuries throughout india and Southeast Asia. But a few years ago, a U.S. company filed for a patent on basmati rice and the U.S. Patent Office said, "Sure enough, you own it." That company then proceeded to try to shut down the harvesting and farming of basmati rice in india. They said, in effect, "All you farmers out there? You owe us a royalty now. We own the patent on this seed." Luckily, the Indian government intervened and thwarted the patent by having the rice listed under the European Commission's regulations that protect regional foods. |
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Those of you familiar with the subject know I'm talking about basmati rice, a type of rice native to india. It has been harvested for centuries throughout india and Southeast Asia. But a few years ago, a U.S. company filed for a patent on basmati rice and the U.S. Patent Office said, "Sure enough, you own it." That company then proceeded to try to shut down the harvesting and farming of basmati rice in india. They said, in effect, "All you farmers out there? You owe us a royalty now. We own the patent on this seed. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Ng and his colleagues suggested that these alleged protective effects can be seen on a societal level, as epidemiological research16 has shown that the prevalence of AD among India's elderly is nearly four times less than levels in the United States. Although this discrepancy could be ascribed to different diagnostic screening methods in india or other environmental, social, or genetic factors, the findings are nevertheless intriguing. Readers should not, however, view curcumin as a panacea. |
Pam Montgomery
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 Tulsi is the name for Sacred or Holy Basil in india and translates to "incomparable one." Native to india, Tulsi has been revered for over 5,000 years, and as Yash Rai in his book Tulsi says, "The Hindu scriptures enjoin us to look upon Tulsi not as a mere plant, but as the divine representative of the God Vishnu or of Lord Krishna." In other texts Tulsi is described as a consort of Krishna, leading to the name "Mother of the Universe." Because of the divine nature of Sacred Basil, the plant itself is worshipped both in the morning and at night by leaving a lamp burning at its base. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| That company then proceeded to try to shut down the harvesting and farming of basmati rice in india. They said, in effect, "All you farmers out there? You owe us a royalty now. We own the patent on this seed." Luckily, the Indian government intervened and thwarted the patent by having the rice listed under the European Commission's regulations that protect regional foods.
But the fact that the patent was issued at all illustrates how intellectual property has spiraled out of control in the United States and other countries. |
Charles Barber
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 Vast numbers of potential research subjects, cheaper costs, and the fact that the patient population is "treatment naive"—they are largely unexposed to drugs, which makes the evaluation of the effect of a given drag easier. India's other advantages include English-speaking medical personnel, lots of hospitals (700,000 specialty beds), and medical colleges (221). But of all these, cost savings is the big one. Forty percent of the costs of developing a drug come from clinical trials, and india can conduct them for about a third less. |
Luca Turin
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 In the meantime Chandler and I went to a scientific meeting in india together. This was the only time I have been invited to a conference on smell, and part of the reason must have been that from the vantage point of india a published paper is a published paper, and the gossip as to who's in and who's out does not reach that far. Be that as it may, the meeting was great fun. I was hugely impressed with the quality of the young Indian scientists and I got a chance to show my stuff to specialists from all over the world. |
Michael Pollan
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 Burkitt in Africa, Robert McCarrison in india, Samuel Hutton among the Eskimos in Labrador, the anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka among Native Americans, and the dentist Weston A. Price among a dozen different groups all over the world (including Peruvian Indians, Australian Aborigines, and Swiss mountaineers) sent back much the same news. |
Dawson Church
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 Position of some of Otzi's tattoos
It is thus evident that the locations of the meridians predates the Yellow Emperor's classic texts by thousands of years, and was known in prehistoric Europe, China, and probably india. Ancient sages and shamans developed knowledge of the flow of qi without any of the sophisticated technological measuring tools we use today The Indian sage Susruta, writing around 1,000 B.C.E., described prosthetic surgery to replace limbs, caesarian sections, and rhinoplasty, cosmetic surgery of the nose. He was apparently an expert meditator. |
Michele Simon
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 India Resource Center
Supports movements against globalization in India; particularly active in opposing the environmental destruction caused by Coca-Cola. Avww.indiaresource.org
International Food Policy Research Institute
Working to achieve sustainable food security and reduce poverty in developing countries; publishes numerous reports and resources. www.ifpri.org
Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming
A UK-based coalition that advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, www. sustainweb. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 CHAPTER 6
In the Mood
Mitch KrucofF was returning home from india in 1994 with almost every idea he'd held about the practice of medicine turned on its head. KrucofF, a cardiologist at Duke University Medical Center, and his nurse practitioner, Suzanne Crater, had been invited to inspect the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medicine, a hospital in Puttaparthi, at the end of its first year of operation. The hospital was the pet project of the Indian guru Sri Sathya Sai Baba, who wanted to make available the services of a modern Western hospital to the poor and needy, entirely free of charge. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 At this time, a novel import from China (often traded via india) began to appear in the West.46 The new import was an exotic metal called tutenag by European traders, who also began to refer to it as spelter. Because of this trade, spelter became a common term for zinc, although it is now fairly obscure. One of the earliest published notations on tutenag (after the trade was already well established) is attributable to Carl Ekeberg, a merchant ship officer of the Royal Swedish East-India Company, then a great rival of the Dutch and English. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the disruption of seasonal crop-producing rains in india, the recent cold-freeze decimation of the California citrus industry, the floods and droughts happening now on virtually every continent, earthquakes, sinkholes and volcanoes... the more you look at natural events, the more it becomes increasingly obvious that Earth changes are accelerating at an alarming pace. Nature is giving humanity a dose of its own medicine, so to speak, and humans are poised to pay a dear price for the destruction they have unleashed upon the planet. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Similar results were seen in Australia, Britain, Canada, Sri Lanka, Greece, Malta, Spain, Hungary, and india.
India is an interesting anomaly in this story, in that it has been leading the fight against fluoridation for a long time. Why? Because naturally high fluoride water levels in that country have created ongoing health problems in many Indian communities. In a thirty-year study of over 400,000 children, Dr. Teito and his team found that as fluoride levels in the water increased, tooth decay also increased.
So what can account for the steep drop in tooth decay in this country? |
Jack Challem
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 Tandoori Chicken on a Skewer (Serves 4)
In india, tandoori chicken is traditionally prepared in a clay tandoori oven; however, you can approximate the flavor in a conventional broiler at home. The spices are rich and exotic, and the simplest approach is to use one of the many commercial tandoori spice mixes, which are usually found next to thyme on the spice rack. Alternatively, use a packet of Asian Home Gourmet Indian Tandoor Tikka mix, available at Asian grocery stores. |
Stacy Malkan
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 In india, the broom is a woman's symbol of power. Being struck by a jhadoo (broom) is the ultimate insult," explained Champi Devi Shukla. "By delivering jhadoos to Dow, we're telling the company to clean up its mess in Bhopal."
Two decades after a chemical plant meltdown sent 27 tons of toxic gas into their sleeping city, the women of Bhopal, india, are leading the fight to bring justice to their people and to remind the world about the worst face of the chemical revolution. |
C. P. Khare
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 Figure 2 Gmelina arborea [CCRAS]
Habitat
Throughout india up to 1700 m on the hills and in Andman Islands.
Classical & common names
Ayurvedic: Kaashmari, Kaashmarya, Bhadra, Mahaabhadra (Charaka, Sushruta); Gambhaari, Sadaabhadraa, Madhuparnikaa, Sriparni, Pitaro-hini, Hiraa, Bhadraparni. Kaashmiraka has been equated with Crocus sativus. Siddha: Kattanam.
English: Candahar Tree, White Teak.
Parts used
Root.
Dose
Decoction 50-100 ml. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 And because oral cancer often doesn't manifest any symptoms for a long time, it's often fatal—70 percent of the people diagnosed with oral cancer in india eventually die of it. A lifetime of betel nut chewing can lead to hypermethylation of three cancer-fighting genes—one that suppresses tumors, one that repairs DNA, and one that hunts out lone cancer cells and gets them to self-destruct. Reliance Life Sciences, the Indian company that established this link, has developed a test to measure the degree of methylation in these genes. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Botanicals
An Indian study of Azadirachta indica (neem seed oil), Sapindus mukerossi (reetha saponin extract), and quinine included 58 women who presented to a gynecology clinic in india with an
Sample Treatment Plan for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea
This plan should be used as a complement to antibiotics.
• Vitamin A: 50,000 IU per day for up to 1 week and 25,000 IU for 1 additional week (Do not exceed 6,000 IU if pregnant. |
C. P. Khare
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| Habitat
Throughout india, up to 2350 m on the hills. Classical & common names
Ayurvedic: Laangaliki (Charaka), Laangalaki, Indrapushpi, Laanglaahva (Sushruta);
Agnishikhaa, Anantaa, Kalihaari, Laangali; Vish-alyaa, Halini, Sirikramaa, Shukrapushpikaa, Vahni-mukhi, Garbhapaatani, Garbhanut. Siddha: Akkinichalam. English: Tiger's Claw, Superb Lily.
Parts used
Tuberous root.
Dose
Powder 3-6 g.
Classical use
Charaka gave the fresh or dried powdered petals for inhalation during labour pain; internally in pruritus, dermatosis, and as a laxative. |
Charles Barber
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| The Asia Times reports that india has emerged as "a preferred destination for outsourcing clinical trials."50 An Indian medical journal complains that the country is becoming "the greatest source of human guinea pigs for the global drug industry."51 GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, and Novartis all run trials there. Why? Vast numbers of potential research subjects, cheaper costs, and the fact that the patient population is "treatment naive"—they are largely unexposed to drugs, which makes the evaluation of the effect of a given drag easier. |
C. P. Khare
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| Cultivated thoughout india, except Assam and West Bengal.
Classical & common names
Ayurvedic: Caraway—Krishna Jiraka, Krishna jiraa, Sugandh, Udgaar, Shodhan.
Figure 1 Carum carvi [Woi]
Cumin—Jiraka, Karam, Ajaaji, Vilaayati jiraa, Jaaji, Dirghjiraka, Kanaa, Jarana. Safed Jiraa. Unani: Caraway—Kamoon, Kamoon-roomi. Cumin—Kamoon-abyaj.
Siddha: Semai Seeargam and Seeragam respectively.
Parts used
Seeds.
Dose
Caraway 1-3 g, Cumin 3-6 g. Classical use
Three varieties of cumin seeds have been mentioned in Bhaavaprakaasha Jiraka, Krishna Jiraka and Kaarvi (Prithvikaa, Upkunchikaa). |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| In cases of general debility, nervous exhaustion, loss of muscle strength, and that all-familiar "brain fog," the ashwagandha plant that grows and is cultivated in india and even the Himalayas is well-known in folk medicine of that region as a traditional treatment of these problems. This plant is regarded in india as a tonic and adaptogen, with properties similar to ginseng. In one study, physical endurance was doubled in participants given extracts of ashwagandha {Withania somnifera).203
Rhodiola. |
C. P. Khare
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| Widely cultivated throughout the upper Gangetic plains and in peninsular india.
Figure 1 Amorphophallus paeonifolius [ADPS]
Classical & common names
Ayurvedic: Soorana, Kandula, Arshoghna, Kandayak, Gudaamaya-hara.
Unani: Soorana, Zaminkand (Persian).
Siddha: Karnsa.
English: Elephant-foot Yam.
Parts used
Tuber (Corm).
Dose
Powder 3-5 mg. Classical use
The tuber was prescribed by Sushruta as a part of diet for treating piles, rectal polyp formations and condyloma. The tuber, firmly closed inside the well-kneaded clay lump, is cooked by closed heating. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| In part because of the hypermethylating effect of potentially carcinogenic habits, methylation patterns can also be an early warning signal. In india, millions of people are addicted to betel nuts, a peppery seed that stains the teeth and gums red when it's chewed and, like nicotine, is mildly intoxicating, highly addictive, and seriously carcinogenic. Because of betel nut chewing, oral cancer is the most common cancer in Indian men. |
C. P. Khare
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| Europe and Asia minor, is imported into india and is used as Gentian or yellow gentian. Constituents of yellow gentian are bitter glycosides (including gentiopic-rin, gentiopicroside, amaropanin, amarogentin and amaroswerin; gentiin and gentiamarin are formed from gentiopicrin on drying); alkaloids (including gentianine); flavonoids (including gen-tisin).
Amarogentin is used as a bitter standard (it is able to be tested at concentrations of 1:50,000); gentianine shows anti-inflammatory activity. |
| Habitat
Found in the forests of sub-Himalayan tract and in the Shiwalik hills, as well as in the hills throughout india ascending to 1200 m.
Classical & common names
Ayurvedic: Dhava, Madhuravalka, Vakavrksha (Charaka); Veerataru (Sushruta); Gaur, Dhurand-har, Nanditaru, Shakataakhya. Not to be confused with Dhaataki (Dhaaya flower). Unani: Dhaavaa; Samagh-e-Hindi (gum). English: Crane Tree, Button Tree, Axle Wood.
Parts used
Heartwood, gum-resin. Dose
Decoction 50-100 ml, gum-resin 1-2 g. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Based on decades of experience on plantations in india, Howard advocated incorporating large-scale composting into industrial agriculture to restore and maintain soil fertility.
In Howard's view, farming should emulate nature, the supreme farmer. Natural systems provide a blueprint for preserving the soil—the first condition of any permanent system of agriculture. |
| More ominously, the green revolution's new seeds increased third-world dependence on fertilizers and petroleum. In india agricultural output per ton of fertilizer fell by two-thirds while fertilizer use increased sixfold. In West Java a two-thirds jump in outlays for fertilizer and pesticides swallowed up profits from the resulting one-quarter increase in crop yields in the 1980s. Across Asia fertilizer use grew three to forty times faster than rice yields. |
| China and india combined. One estimate places the amount of agricultural land used and abandoned in the past fifty years as equal to the amount farmed today. The United Nations estimates that 38 percent of global cropland has been seriously degraded since the Second World War. Each year farms around the world lose 75 billion metric tons of soil. A 1995 review of the global effects of soil erosion reported the loss of twelve million hectares of arable land each year to soil erosion and land degradation. |
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