stroke

Stroke is known in Ayurveda as "Pakshaghaat". Ayurveda has mentioned facial paralysis as disease entity called "Ardita". Acute stroke is a full-fledged medical emergency where immediate hospitalization and specialized medical care of the patient can be life saving and can minimize permanent disability. After a patient is discharged from hospital, it is imperative to start Ayurvedic treatment at the earliest possible, to get maximum benefit.

Chelation and heart

Hands, arms or legs feel cold
Leg aches or pain when you're walking
On slight exertion you seem to get breathless
Your memory is worse than it used to be
Maybe you are lacking energy you once had
Test results indicate cardiovascular problems
Listen To What Your Body Is Telling You.
If you can answer yes to one or more of these questions, you may be having the warning signs of blocked arteries. You shoud act now and do something about it !!!

None of us relish the thought of getting older, however it's a fact of life and your body is telling you that it's time to make changes to your lifestyle if you want to lead a healthier and longer life. Liquid Oral Chelation Therapy can increase your circulation and unblock your arteries, it's never too late to make changes for the better and improve your health.
Chelation therapy is a recognized treatment for heavy metal (such as lead) poisoning. EDTA, injected into the blood, will bind the metals and allow them to be removed from the body in the urine.
This supplement combines more than 60 ingredients known to have beneficial effects into one total cardiovascular support program. "The name of this new product states exactly what it is, " says Dr. Gordon. " It's what the public should be taking if they've already had chelation or can't afford it, or simply want to take advantage of new breakthroughs that permit us to safely and effectively reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke." In addition to promoting heart health, Dr. Gordon has found that his supplement

Research on chelation

The use of repeated intravenous infusions of EDTA, which has become known as "chelation therapy," has been promoted for treating intermittent claudication as well as a wide range of other disorders. Multiple reports of excellent results in large numbers of patients have encouraged the use of this regimen. The lack of well-controlled studies substantiating the benefits of this treatment has limited its use mainly to private clinics. The aim of the study was to assess the benefits of chelation therapy in patients with intermittent claudication. METHODS AND RESULTS: A double-blind, randomized, controlled trial included 32 patients with intermittent claudication who were randomized to a treatment group (15) and a control group (17). Main outcome measures were subjective and measured walking distances and ankle/brachial pulse indices. Other outcome measures included lifestyle and subjective parameters of improvement, cardiac function, ECG, renal function, hematology, blood glucose, and lipid biochemistry. No clinically significant differences in main outcome measures between chelation therapy and placebo groups were detected up to 3 months after treatment. Measures of mood state, activities of daily living, and quality of life factors were not consistently affected by chelation therapy. An equal proportion (13%) of each group thought that they had received the active agent. The proportion of patients showing an improvement in walking distance was not significantly different between the chelation group (60%) and the control group (59%). CONCLUSIONS: Chelation therapy has no significant beneficial effects over placebo in patients with intermittent claudication

Detoxifcation and chelation.

I was going through an article on chelation which I stumpled upon ,It was really interesting in our contest of heavy metal usage in Ayurveda there is no use in going in denial mode about the usage of heavy metals in ayurveda it highly effective in many cases where both modern medicine and conventional ayurveda fails ,I dont find any problem in using properly purified heavy metals ,since they offer good and chelation offers a good way out incase some thing go wrong ,many companies like dabur ,zandu are manufacturing medicines which are used widely ,I dont know if someone has done a reasearch on using chelation drugs .I hoped it was a key areaa of research.Meanwhile chelation is the process by which heavy metals are removed from body.Detoxification with Diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid is one of the chemicals used remove heavy metal from body.detoxification with these is accepted method in USA ,approved by FDA.

Neem ( nimba )

For ages the beneficial properties of Neem (Azadirachta indica ) have been recognized in the Indian tradition. Each part of the neem tree has some medicinal property.
Neem has two closely related species: A. indica A. Juss and M. azedarac, the former is popularly known as Indian neem (margosa tree) or Indian lilac, and the other as the Persian lilac. Neem has been extensively used in ayurveda,The Sanskrit name of neem tree is Arishtha meaning 'reliever of sickness' and hence is considered as Sarbaroganibarini.(cure for all diseases ) The tree is still regarded as 'village dispensary' in India. The importance of the neem tree has been recognized by US National Academy of Sciences, which published a report in 1992 entitled 'Neem – a tree for solving global problems'.
More than 135 compounds have been isolated from different parts of neem and several reviews have also been published on the chemistry and structural diversity of these compounds. The compounds have been divided into two major classes: isoprenoids (like diterpenoids and triterpenoids containing protomeliacins, limonoids, azadirone and its derivatives, gedunin and its derivatives, vilasinin type of compounds and C- secomeliacins such as nimbin, salanin and azadirachtin ) and non-isoprenoids, which are proteins (amino acids) and carbohydrates (polysaccharides), sulphurous compounds, polyphenolics such as flavonoids and their glycosides, dihydrochalcone, coumarin and tannins, aliphatic compounds, etc.
crude bitter principle extracted from the oil of seed kernels of A. indica demonstrated several biological activities. From this crude principle some tetranortriterpenes, including nimbin, nimbinin, nimbidinin, nimbolide and nimbidic acid have been isolated.

Nimbidin, a majorounds
Anti-inflammatory; Antiarthritic; Antipyretic; Hypoglycaemic; Antigastric ulcer; Spermicidal; Antifungal; Antibacterial; Diuretic; Antimalarial; Antitumour; Immunomodulatory .
Medicinal Uses
Various parts of the neem tree have been used as traditional Ayurvedic medicine in India. Neem oil and the bark and leaf extracts have been therapeutically used as folk medicine to control leprosy, intestinal helminthiasis, respiratory disorders, and also as a general health promoter. Its use for the treatment of, chronic syphilitic sores and indolent ulcer has also been evident. Neem oil finds use to control various skin infections. Bark, leaf, root, flower and fruit together cure blood morbidity, biliary afflictions, itching, skin ulcers, burning sensations and pthysis ( see Table 1).

Immunostimulant activity
The aqueous extract of neem bark and leaf also possesses anticomplement and immunostimulant activity. Neem oil has been shown to possess activity by selectively activating the cell-mediated immune mechanisms to elicit an enhanced response to subsequent mitogenic or antigenic challenge.
Hypoglycaemic activity
Aqueous extract of neem leaves significantly decreases blood sugar level and prevents adrenaline as well as glucose-induced hyperglycaemia. Recently, hypoglycaemic effect was observed with leaf extract and seed oil, in normal as well as alloxan-induced diabetic rabbits.
Antiulcer effect
Neem leaf and bark aqueous extracts produce highly potent antiacid secretory and antiulcer activity.
Antifertility effect
Intra-vaginal application of neem oil, prior to coitus, can prevent pregnancy. It could be a novel method of contraception.
Antimalarial activity
Neem seed and leaf extracts are effective against both choroquin-resistant and sensitive strain malarial parasites.
Antifungal activity
Extracts of neem leaf, neem oil seed kernels are effective against certain fungi including Trichophyton, Epidermophyton, Microspor Trichosporon, Geotricum and Candida.
Antibacterial activity
Oil from the leaves, seed and bark possesses a wide spectrum of antibacterial action against Gram-negative and Gram-positive microorganisms, including M. tuberculosis and streptomycin resistant strains. In vitro, it inhibits Vibrio cholerae Klebsiella pneumoniae, M. tuberculosis and M. pyogenes. Antimicrobial effects of neem extract have been demonstrated against Streptococcus mutans and S. faecalis.
Antiviral activity
Aqueous leaf extract offers antiviral activity against Vaccinia virus, Chikungemya and measles virus.
Anticancer activity
Neem leaf aqueous extract effectively suppresses oral squamous cell carcinoma induced by 7, 12-dimethylbenz[a] anthracene (DMBA), as revealed by reduced incidence of neoplasm. Neem may exert its chemopreventive effect in the oral mucosa by modulation of glutathione and its metabolizing enzymes.
Antioxidant activity
The antioxidant activity of neem seed extract has been demonstrated in vivo during horse- grain germination.
Effect on central nervous system
Varying degrees of central nervous system (CNS) depressant activity in mice was observed with the leaf extract. Fractions of acetone extract of leaf showed significant CNS depressant activity.

Safety evaluation with various parts of neem and neem products
Various studies have been reported on the safety evaluation of different parts of neem as well as its various biologically active products.
Nimbidin produces sub-acute toxicity in adult rats after daily administration of 25, 50 or 100 mg/kg for six weeks. A significant hypoglycaemic effect was observed by feeding nimbidin to fasting rabbits. Nimbidin also has spermicidal activity. Nimbolide, a major chemical component of neem seed oil, and nimbic acid were found to be toxic to mice when given intravenously or intraperitoneally. They are, however, less toxic to rats and hamster. Nimbolide and nimbic acid at a lethal dose cause death in most animals by dysfunction of kidney, small intestine and liver as well as by marked and sudden drop of arterial blood pressure.