
Shikha PrakashPadaav Speciality Ayurvedic Treatment Center · Ayurveda
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Background: Ayurveda, an ancient Indian system of medicine, encapsulates comprehensive principles and formulations for disease prevention and treatment. A herbo-mineral Ayurvedic formulation, IMMBO, comprising Mandoor Bhasma and 18 herbs has shown promising results in treating allergic rhinitis in clinical studies.
Objective: This discussed series...
Background: Migraine is a disorder marked by recurrent episodes of headache. There is a subset of migraine patients who remain refractory to the conventional prophylactic and abortive therapies. This study aimed to assess the therapeutic role of an ayurvedic treatment protocol in patients who had chronic/ refractory migraine. Methods: This single-c...
Chronic pancreatitis is the long-standing inflammation of the pancreas, leading to irreversible damage of the gland. The disease is characterized by loss of exocrine and endocrine functions of pancreas owing to fibrosis and parenchymal damage. Clinical manifestations of the disease include abdominal pain, episodes of acute pancreatitis, nausea, vom...
Rasa Shastra is a branch of Ayurveda that deals with the therapeutics of metals and minerals. It emphasizes on the essentiality of balance of metals and minerals in body tissues for the regulation of body metabolism. The role of metal based Ayurvedic formulations has been explored in various disorders. Here, we discuss about an Ayurvedic Mineral Co...
CA19-9 is a carbohydrate antigen used as a cancer marker in pancreatic cancer. CA19-9 levels are found to be elevated in patients of pancreatic cancer along with some other gastrointestinal carcinomas. Recent studies also indicate etiological role of this antigen in pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer. The marker is widely used as an indicator to as...
Background: Recurrent Acute/Chronic Pancreatitis (RA/CP) is a progressive disease that significantly affects the physical and psychological well-being of its patients. In recent years, there is an upsurge in the incidences of pancreatitis in India. The limitations of conventional treatment, along with the psychological fear and financial burden ass...
Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia (APML) is a form of blood cancer. The general
symptoms of the disease include anaemia, fatigue, weakness and fever marked by
thrombocytopenia, leucopenia and in some cases pancytopenia. Easy bleeding and
coagulopathy associated with APML make it fatal, if not readily managed. Although
new contemporary treatment options...
Changing Demography of Pancreatitis Patients in India
Background: Recurrent Acute/Chronic Pancreatitis (RA/CP) is an inflammatory disorder of the pancreas. The disease is progressive in nature and may turn fatal in due course. The aetiology of this inflammatory condition majorly remains mysterious, especially in Indian context, where majority of the patients of RA/CP are non-alcoholics and non-tobacco...
Background: Recurrent Acute/Chronic Pancreatitis (RA/CP) is an inflammatory disorder of the pancreas. The disease is progressive
in nature and may turn fatal in due course. The aetiology of this inflammatory condition majorly remains mysterious, especially
in Indian context, where majority of the patients of RA/CP are non-alcoholics and non-tobacco...
Recurrent Acute Pancreatitis/ Chronic Pancreatitis (RAP/ CP) is generally marked by sudden onset of symptoms like severe abdominal pain, vomiting and weight loss that needs emergency hospitalization. Owing to irreversible and progressive nature of the disease and limitations of conventional treatment, many patients look for an alternative solution....
The design and development of nonresonant edge slot antenna for phased array applications has been presented. The radiating element is a slot cut on the narrow wall of rectangular waveguide (edge slot). The admittance characteristics of the edge slot have been rigorously studied using a novel hybrid method. Nonresonant arrays have been fabricated u...
This paper describes the work carried out at Electronics and Radar Development Establishment towards the design and development of the airborne ultra-low sidelobe level antenna for radar applications. This elliptical contoured antenna employs longitudinal offset radiating slots on the broadwall of rectangular waveguide and is of travelling wave typ...
Waveguide-fed slot radiators are widely used in several strategic applications. The published literature in this area is vast, spanning a period of nearly 50 years. There is a need for consolidating the information and present it at a glance, to aid future research. The purpose of this article is to present a survey of the published literature in t...
This paper describes the design and development of anairbone ultralow sidelobe level antenna, starting from the design of individual linear arrays and the power divider network. The antenna employs radiating slots on broadwall of --rectangular -waveguide and is of traveling wave type. The various stages involved in the design process are described...
An experiment was conducted during the rainy season of 2000 and 2001 in sandy-loam soil to find out the most productive and remunerative intercropping combination of pigeonpea and groundnut under rainfed conditions in mid-hills of Uttaranchal. Pooled yield data showed that all the intercropping treatments were found significantly superior in respec...
The study suggests that relay cropping of wheat in finger millet (transplanted) + pigeonpea (4:1) is the best preposition in terms of finger millet equivalent yield (10.18 tonnes/ha), net returns (Rs 23 149/ha) and benefit :cost ratio (1.65) against finger millet-wheat system. The production efficiency of sole finger millet-wheat system in terms of...
A fixed plot field experiment was conducted during 1999-2000 to 2002-2003 at the Research Farm, Hawalbagh, Almora (Uttaranchal), to study the effect of tillage management (zero, minimum and conventional) and cropping system, viz soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.]-wheat (Triticum aestivum L. emend, Fiori & Paol.), soybean-lentil (Lens culinaris Mediku...
A field experiment was conducted during rainy (kharif) seasons of 2000 and 2001 at Hawalbagh, Almora, to find out the most productive and remunerative relay intercropping combination of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. nom. cons.) in maize (Zea mays L.). Relay intercropping of tomato in maize reduced fruit yield of tomato by 12.1-31.5 % compar...
Damage observed during the Kutch earthquake of 26th January 2001 is classified according to the type of structure. This damage
pattern has been used to draw the isoseismal map on the basis of the intensity scale given in IS 1893-2002 which covers only
traditional one to two storey houses. Having thus estimated intensities, and observed damage to ot...
A field experiment was conducted at Experimental Farm, Hawalbagh, Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan, Almora, during 1997 and 1998, to evaluate the efficacy of integrated weed-control method in capsicum (Capsicum annuum L). All the weed-control treatments except pendimethalin at 1.0 kg/ha and fluchloralin at 1.0 or 2.0 kg/ha significa...
A field experiment was conducted at Almora during the rainy (kharif) season of 1995, 1996 and 1997 to find out optimum plant density and suitable variety of baycorn (Zea mays L.) production. Three populations, viz. 111,000; 133,000 and 166,000 plants/ha and 6 varieties, viz. 'VL Makka 16', 'VL Makka 41', 'VL Makka 42', 'VL Makka 88', 'VL Amber (pop...
A field experiment was conducted during the rainy (kharif) season of 1999 and 2000 at Almora, Uttaranchal, to work out effective weed-management practices for babycom (Zea mays L.) cultivation. Fourteen treatments, comprising atrazine @ 0.625 and 1.25 kg/ha, pendimethalin @ 0.75 and 1.50 kg/ha, alachlor @ 1.00 and 2.00 kg/ha and lower levels of the...
A field experiment was conducted during the winter (rabi) season of 1996-97 to 1998-99 to find out the contribution of different production factors on grain yield of wheat (Triticum aestivum L. emend. Fiori & Paol.) and preferential order of input supply under resource constraint conditions. Complete package of practices resulted in significantly h...
A field experiment was conducted at Almora during 1994-96 to find out most effective control measure for weeds in rainy-season maize (Zea mays L.) under rainfed conditions. Pre-emergence atrazine (1.25 kg/ha), pendimethalin (1.50 kg/ ha) and alachlor (2.00 kg/ha) alone and in combination with 3 post-emergence (30 days after sowing) control measures...
A field experiment was conducted during winter (rabi) season of 1996-97 and 1997-98 to study the effect of herbicides (fluchloralin, oxyfluorfen, pendimethalin and alachlor) alone and in combination with hand-weeding (45 days after transplanting) on weeds and onion (Allium cepa L.). Season-long crop-weed competition reduced the bulb yield by 81.2%...
The method-of-moments has been used for the analysis of the
nonresonant narrow-wall slot array in a rectangular waveguide. As this
approach works with the fundamental integral equations that describe the
entire array. No assumptions about the aperture electric fields are
required. Also, the equivalent circuit representation for the individual
radia...
Successful ablation of ectopic beats originating from the pulmonary veins (PV) could eliminate paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF). However, information about the structure of the PV in patients with PAF that is initiated by PV ectopic beats has not been reported.
We studied the morphology of the PVs and measured their diameters in 3 groups of pat...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) can be initiated by ectopic beats originating from the atrial or great venous tissues. This study investigated the anatomic characteristics and electrophysiological properties of pulmonary veins (PVs), as well as the possible mechanisms and response to drugs of ectopic foci, and assessed the effects of radiofrequency (RF) a...
Information about focal atrial fibrillation (AF) originating from the right atrium has not been well described. The purposes of this study were to demonstrate the electrophysiologic characteristics and radiofrequency catheter ablation in patients who had right atrial focal AF.
From January 1996 to September 1998, 172 patients with clinically docume...
Several reports have demonstrated that focal atrial fibrillation (AF) may arise from pulmonary veins (PVs). The purpose of this study was to investigate the safety and efficacy of using double multielectrode mapping catheters in ablation of focal AF.
Forty-two patients (30 men, 12 women, age 65+/-14 years) with frequent attacks of paroxysmal AF wer...
Focal Atrial Fibrillation. Introduction: Information about focal atrial fibrillation (AF) originating from the right atrium bas not been well described. The purposes of this study were to demonstrate the electrophysiologic characteristics and radiofrequency catheter ablation in patients who bad right atrial focal AF.
Methods and Results: From Janua...
A field experiment was conducted during the winter season of 1990-91 to 1992-93 to study the effect of planting pattern of wheat (Triticum aestivum L. emend. Fiori & Paol.) and Indian mustard [Brassica juncea (L.) Czernj. & Cosson] under 2 wheat row spacings (22.5 and 15 cm) and as seed mixture under broadcast sowing. Wheat + Indian mustard intercr...
A 43-year-old man, with repeated episodes of postmyocardial infarction monomorphic VT, had three forms of induced sustained VT in the electrophysiology lab. The three forms of VT had variable termination patterns with no change, decrease, or increase of cycle length.
Information is lacking about the occurrence of ablation-related proarrhythmic events during application of radiofrequency (RF) energy at the pulmonary veins in patients with paroxysmal focal atrial fibrillation. The purpose of this study was to assess the theoretical risk of reflex bradycardia and hypotension response during RF ablation of these re...
Ablation of Focal AF. Introduction: Several reports have demonstrated that focal atrial fibrillation (AF) may arise from pulmonary veins (PVs). The purpose of this study was to investigate the safety and efficacy of using double multielectrode mapping catheters in ablation of focal AF.
Methods and Results: Forty-two patients (30 men, 12 women, age...
A novel analysis to compute the admittance characteristics of the slots cut in the narrow wall of a rectangular waveguide (also called edge slot) is presented. The slot aperture field is expanded in terms of entire domain sinusoidal basis functions and is solved using Galerkin's method. The computed results have been compared with the measured data...
A novel analysis is used to compute the admittance characteristics
of the slots cut in the narrow wall of a rectangular waveguide, which
includes the corner diffraction effects and the finite waveguide wall
thickness, is presented. A coupled magnetic field integral equation is
formulated at the slot aperture which is solved by the Galerkin approach...