Our transition from food & hunger to health & nutrition
Index Home To the world of postage stamps, sixties was a time of global omnibuses. First such occasion was the year 1960 itself, when many countries of the world issued postage…
Allergies: A case of Itchy hives, sneezes and wheezes
Index Home Today the word "allergy" is in common usage. This word was born quite recently in the year 1906. Clemens von Pirquet (1874–1929) was a paediatrician in Vienna. He and…
One stamp story: Is history of medicine in need of a museum ?
Index Home Postage stamp on 50 years of Paula Stradin History of Medicine Museum (Latvia, 2007) One postage stamp in my collection has intrigued me for long. This is a fairly…
My postage stamp garden of unusual herbs & plants
Index Home Our tryst with health-care, and use of plants as healers is long. While more well developed health systems used these in their formulary, remote and untouched communities also had…
Fifteen famous herbs and their use for health
Index Home List of medicinal plants is long. This list gives space to both rare as well as common. Some of these plants, have beautiful and colourful flowers. Others have pungent…
Cinchona comes to rescue the world
Index Home Man has known malaria for centuries. It is a fever, that comes with shaking chills, a lot of pain, and turns white of the eyes yellow. Sometimes this fever…
Award for most popular health plant goes to Aloe vera
Index Home We all may look at tall and mighty in awe, but we love the grounded. This surely is true for the most popular health plant in the current times.…
Ingredients in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Index Home For Indians, lands beyond the Himalayas were always an enigma. Till the beginning of 20th century, parts of Tibet were still unexplored. While, a couple of Chinese pilgrims did…
Eleven Herbs from High hills in postage stamps
Index Home I grew up in the Himalayas, highest hills in the world. Like all children, we would walk down to the school or run up and down the hills to…
World AIDS day 2024:Take the rights path
Index Home HIV stigma, perpetuates inequality Stigma befriends some diseases.In ancient times it was Leprosy, followed by Syphillis, and in the modern times HIV. In ancient times, individuals with a flat-nose,…