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With the passage of time, our lifestyle has changed a lot. Today, most of us lead a busy and hectic life and the more we try to ecel, the more we pose a danger to our health. Of all the organs, our heart is most severely affected by the stress. Regular exercise can guarantee safety for the heart. There is no better way to improve the efficiency of the heart than exercise. Remember the following facts :

• Heart is like a muscle that works better when it is in shape.
• Exercise makes it stronger, helping it to pump more blood.
• A healthy heart can pump a large amount of blood with fewer heart-beats than an unhealthy heart does.
• During exercise, blood is pumped at a much faster rate - as much as 20 times the normal volume of blood.
• Cardiovascular or aerobic exercises target the large muscles of the body and create an increased demand for oxygen.
• Exercise - such as walking, cycling, jogging and swimming - improves the circulatory and pulmonary systems.
• Five to six days a week, we must think of 20-60 minutes of continuous activity of an intensity of 55% to 90% of maximum heart rate.
• Those who have undergone a bypass surgery or angioplasty, can simply start by walking. They can, however, increase it gradually.
• Heart rate must be monitored when one indulges in exercise, to keep track of its prescribed limit.
• For specific exercise recommendations a physician should be consulted.

Manipulating the body’s “energy pathways” with hair-thin needles - as esoteric as

that sounds - is easily the most well respected complementary therapy popular in many countries around the world. Even NIH researchers, America’s medical standard bearers say - there’s plenty of evidence that acupuncture works (much of it in the more than 2300 studies conducted on the technique). Dr. Hiranandani, a renowned acupunturist pioneered the use of Laser & Ultrasound in acupuncture area and is now a standard text in acupuncture institutes all over the world. Most common uses of this technique is in back pain, asthma, headaches, bladder problems. Dr. Hiranandani’s studies led him to -

“the conclusion that few illness had single causes and that healing the mind body and soul required help from many sources.”

According to him acupuncture can relieve migraine headaches and can often lead to a cure. One study found that after several treatments, women who had three or more urinary tract infections in a year, all experienced less pain and fewer recurrences. Plan on 6 to 10 visits before seeing results in some instances of acute migraine attack, says Dr. Hiranandani,

“pain relief may occur within 5-7 minutes which is faster than any drug.”

As small as the needles are, acupuncture isn’t always painless. It’s usually not awful, just a dull ache. But it’s the action behind that ache that counts. The needle, paced at key points on the body, is thought to stimulate the release of chemicals and balance energy flow (or qi) , says Marshall H. Sager, D.O., President of the AAMA. Charles May, MD, a family physician in Cleveland, finds the therapy soothing and ha sought treatment for muscle injuries, even bronchitis and the flu:

“I didn’t know what to expect my first time, but I found it incredibly relaxing and there was minimal discomfort.”

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.

Aromatherapy is comparatively new concept in modern medicine. Aromatherapy remedies can be used in treating various ailments. It can be used successfully in management of stress related disorders. In aromatherapy various fragrances & aromas are used for soothing effects to patients, which reduces stress & various stress related disorders. Aromatherapy is one form of stress remedy. Yoga is an excellent way to get rid of stress. One should practice yoga for half an hour everyday to remain free from stress. Yoga is a technique which work as a stress remedies process, it also cures many incurable diseases. Yoga not only cures certain incurable diseases, it also prevent many diseases like high blood pressure, diabetes, back ache to name a few. Yoga make the body physically strong, it causes secretion of certain hormones which help fight stress as well as immunity of body develops to a great extent. Meditation is another way out from stress related problem. Meditation calms down the mind, body & soul and one can get peace of mind. Some people get sick while traveling. Commonest sickness during travel is motion sickness & sea sickness. Treatment is same for both motion sickness & sea sickness. In travel sickness remedies one has to take promethazine theoclate (avomine) one tablet one hour before undertaking journey. In sea sickness one can use transdermal patch of Hyoscine which acts for three days