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The hundreds of types of meditation share a key feature: they all involve keeping your attention on the present moment, often by sitting quietly and focusing on your breath or a mantra.

These days many doctors, even in America are prescribing meditation instead of medication as a cure for many disorders or conditions suffered by thousands of people. Researchers have found that meditation has great healing power in stress related problems, high blood pressure, chronic pain, anxiety disorders, headaches, PMS etc. Since premenstrual woes can be exacerbated by stress, using meditation to reduce tension can help a mod out of the dumps, says Dr. Geoffrey Redmond, director of The Hormone Center of New York. In one study Oming 15 to 20 minutes twice a day for three months cut women’s PMS symptoms by more than half. It was a patient who told Dr. Brian L. Weiss of her success with meditation; the technique helped her prevent colds and anxiety-induced stomach-aches. So he tried it.

“At first it was difficult to remain so focused, but once I dropped the concept of needing to progress, I felt great.”
says Dr. Weiss who runs a holistic medicine center in Miami.
“I even get fewer migraines.”
His patients benefit too. Dr. Weiss recently saw a woman who couldn’t tolerate chemotherapy.
“She meditated once a day for two months and he pain threshold went up so much that she could go back to chemo.”
he says. Because she was able to finish her treatment, she is now in remission.
So ready to try it? Any Yoga center will teach you meditation techniques. You can also check out Alternative Cure India (ACI), established by a former KEM doctor, Dr. Deepak Rao whose own multiple health conditions – a long-to-heal ligament tear, chronic peptic ulcers and ulcerative colitis let him to try out alternative therapies.

“Natural cures are driven by fundamental truth – that the human body has an innate capacity to heal on its own if it is allowed to do so.”
says Dr. Rao. ACI also offers classes in Qi Gong and Zen Meditation.
“These Chinese forms of meditation involve synchronizing breathing with Qi, i.e. universal energy,”
says Komal Mishra, who teaches at the institute. She claims her sessions have not only helped individuals suffering from heart diseases and stress but also aided couples embroiled in marital discord.

The symptom called ‘Jaundice’ refer to yellow appearance of the skin, sclera and the mucous membranes resulting from the increased bilirubin concentration in body fluids. It is detectable while the plasma bilirubin exceeds 50µm o1/1(3mg/dl). The internal tissues and the body fluids are colored yellow but not the brain since bilirubin does not cross blood-brain barrier other than in immediate neonatal period.
Cholestasis is the failure of bile flow, and the cause may lie anywhere between hepatocyte and duodenum. The jaundice becomes gradually severe in the unrelieved cholestasis because the conjugated bilirubin is unable to enter bile canaliculi and passes back into blood. It happens also because there is the failure of the clearance of un-conjugated bilirubin arriving in liver cells.
Aetiology: - Cholestasis may be because of failure of the hepatocytes to generate the bile flow, to the obstruction to bile flow in bile ducts in portal tracks, or to the obstruction to bile flow in extra-hepatic bile ducts between porta hepatic and papilla of Vater. The cause of cholestasis may operate at more than one of these levels. Those confined to extra-hepatic bile ducts can be amenable to the surgical correction.
Clinical Feature: - The clinical features in the cholestasic jaundice include those to the cholestasis itself and to the development of the cholangitis consequent on biliary obstruction. Jaundice is very variable. It may be static or may fluctuate. If it is prolonged and severer; it may give the skin a greenish look. Stools are pale or clay colored for the deficiency of pigment derived from bilirubin. The urine is dark from renal excretion of conjugated bilirubin. Many patients may have pruritus generated and the accessible parts of the body may also show scratch marks. The lipid deposits may develop in skin during prolonged cholestatic jaundice. Most of them are xanthelasmas on eyelids but sometimes xanthomas also occur. Prolonged cholestasis may also cause marked mal absorption leading to weight loss, severe steatorrhoea, and hemorrhagic tendency because of Vitamin K deficiency associated with the calcium and vitamin D deficiency. Clinical and biochemical evidence of the biliary cirrhosis and hepatocellular failure occur eventually. Cholangitis, due to the infection with or without rigors and the coincident pain and the hepatic tenderness may indicate the development of the hepatic abscess. None of the features are pathognomonic of any particular cause, but are more likely to be in some diseases than the others. Read more…