This food prevents many infectious diseases

Ayurveda says a healthy and balanced diet works like medicines. If we able to regularise our routine lifestyle, there is no burden to the intake of more medicines. Intake of more medicines in any form may directly or indirectly affect our immune system. Nowadays, maintaining the immune system becomes a great challenge for all. A person with a strong immune system will be able to fight with a number of diseases. Is maintaining Immunity difficult? Absolutely No ! This can be maintained very easily by controlling our mood for eating unhealthy and junk food. Vegetarianism is also a good choice to maintain our immunity. A vegetarian meal in the form of a balanced diet is now the need of new normal life after unwanted entry of COVID -19 in the life of human beings.

Nowadays, eating nonvegetarian food becomes a fashion and a sign of prosperity for middle and high society people without considering health. Meat either it is pork, mutton, beef, or chicken, it will be served by grilling, roasting, or frying with more spices and oil will not going to give any good health benefit except bulk storage of animal protein, spices and oil in our body. This is also very important to consider the health condition of an animal while killed for obtaining meat. Whether the animal used for obtaining meat was in stress, in fear, suffering from any microbial contamination, or suffering from any life-threatening diseases like tumors, cancers, etc. Whether any fitness certificate was obtained before its killing for meat? 

As we know that many psychrophilic microbes can survive below -5 degrees Celcius temperature. In this way, if meat refrigerated will remain holding microbes. Some of the thermophilic microbes may survive 41 - 120 degrees Celsius temperature. Such microbes will not be killed on grilling, roasting, or frying the meat and they will remain in the living conditions in the food.  Though the gastric juices and other secretary substances present our body is working to kill the utmost microbes which are entering our body along with food but it will not be sufficient and as a result, many more infectious diseases may occur. 

It does not mean that a pure vegetarian will not be sick but chances are comparatively less than the person who fully or partly opting to eat non-vegetarian food.

Is there any compulsion to eat only Non - vegetarian food ? Surely answer will be - No. We should make a passion to eat vegetarian food and avoid frequent eating of non-veg food. Vegetarian food will give more strength, boost the  immunity and maintain longivity by minimising risk of frequent infection to the body.

This is not in the purview of my suggestions to hurt anybody's emotion but in my opinion, opting vegetarian food is now a good choice considering the worldwide situation because health only becomes wealth and also the best survival criteria in the world. 

Party cake, ceremony and COVID - 19: Attention please ...

Any country cannot prolong the lockdown beyond a certain period as there are many reasons involves that directly associated with public welfare.  It has been seen that many countries started to give relaxation in the lockdown based on the country's situations. In one way relaxation in lockdown may help the citizen of the particular country to survive with the new normal condition but on the other hand, there is many chances to spread COVID - 19 an invisible and communicable spreading disease.

It has also been observed that after getting relaxation, people forgetting to follow the guidelines given in order to safeguard themselves from COVID -19. On many occasions, I have personally experienced that people were not following the social distancing, neither wearing facemask nor sanitizing their hands frequently. The rate of spreading of the aforesaid disease is still increasing day by day. The awareness and alertness is the only key to make us remain healthy and uninfected. 

As soon as lockdown relaxed, many of the rituals as well as common functions started to organize. the gathering has been seen without social distancing. Everybody wants to return back in normal life but normalcy is not greater than a healthy life. If health can be obtained even with some condition, also it is good only I think so.

As we know that the COVID -19 symptoms to the patient most of the time not appeared in advance. The infected persons seem to be very normal and this is why such a patient now named "Asymptomatic" These asymptomatic patients are safe and look like a normal person it may be due to strong immunity. But, it does not mean that they will not be the causal factor for others. Whenever they come in contact with such a person who already had some health issue might get severe infection and may or may not be cure. No one asking not to attend function in the community but consciousness should be in priority for all. I would like to bring the attention to the person who feels compulsory to go to attend party or any ritual ceremony should first take care of his or her health. Traditionally, any party looks incomplete without cutting the cake. We know that while cutting cake there is a small system involve to blow out a candle through the mouth. This may be stopped in order to avoid contamination. Pasting of other person faces with cake also an unhealthy way nowadays. If the cake party is necessary, we may avoid putting candles on the cake. If putting candles on the cake is very much required then it may be blow out with sanitized hands but not by mouth.   Or otherwise, the cake may remain be without candles. 

It is not my objective to hurt anybody's emotions but being a responsible person of health Deptt., I feel my duty to add a small suggestion to the public interest considering that it might be helpful to public health. 

Origin of natural substances used in aushadhi (Medicines)

On the basis of their origin, substances have been classified in the following four categories - 

1. Jangam (Movable) - the substances obtained from such creatures that can move from one place to others eg. gorochan (a yellow color, fragrant substance obtained from the bile of cow), Kasturi - musk  (obtained from musk deer), milk, butter, ghee, honey, wax, etc. 

2. Jada or Sthavar (Non-Movable)-  They come to existence from the underground of the earth such as trees, creepers, vegetations., etc.

3. Parthiv (Born by Earth )- These substances are obtained by the deformation of the soil in raw form such as salt, metals, shilajit., etc.

Jada (Non - Movable) substances further divided into four categories - Vanaspati (Cryptogams - non-flowering and seedless plants), Vanaspatya (Phanerogams - flowering plant and having seeds), Aushadhi (it includes those plants that is either annual (complete their life cycle within the year or in a season) or biennial (they will complete their life cycle within two years or two seasons) Such annual and biennial plants become dry after completing their lifecycle. these are cereals, legumes, and all other herbaceous plants)

4. Virudhi - It includes various types of creepers. 

Among the above four categories annual and biennial plants are used in plenty in the preparations of medicines. Nowadays, these plants are being cultivated and attracts very good market too. Mentha (Mentha piperata), Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum), Kalmegh (Andrographis paniculata) etc. are the few examples given here. 

As we know the medicinal plant can be cultivated along with other crops. Now, awareness towards utilization of traditional medicine rising day by day and the demand of traditional medicine becomes high not only India but also in the world and therefore, it is very much required to start cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants in bulk so that it can be utilized in the manufacturing of traditional medicine (Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha) as the traditional medicines demands very high and in comparison to present requirement, the production of medicines seems very least due to scarcity of raw materials. There are many know-how for cultivation and other guidelines have already been published by various institutes. Only the things to approach and move ahead.     

Do we have to live with COVID-19?

Do we have to live with COVID -19? It is a very big puzzle. Whether will it be solved in the future? or we have to adjust to this disease and adopt the same in our regular and routine life? There are many more questions vibrating in our mind. There are many diseases like HIV, AIDS, Influenza, H1N1, dengue, malaria etc.,  and many more seasonal and communicable disease making guest appearances in our life every year and human beings become accustomed by using precautionary measures for instance, when mosquitos breedings started in May to October every year in India, we are making alert ourselves to avoid infection of dengue, chikungunya, and zika like seasonal diseases and for that, we are maximum taking safety measures in order to avoid mosquito bites. Many seasonal and infectious may not severely harm human beings because of our alertness and the following of correct guidelines made for every citizen. Apart from that many vaccines also invented and now are being given compulsorily at a particular age by hospitals. Many diseases often enter to our life but no one harm like COVID -19. It is the matter of investigations that what particular lacunae from human beings giving favorable conditions to spread the corona. Why we are not able to create a check post for it. Why figures increasing day by day. Why it occurs repeatedly? These are the questions that are now being frequently asked by the public. At present, wearing the face mask and making social distancing and avoid physical contact etc., the recommended precautions are beings adopted but what are the guarantees that even an alert people will not commit any mistake. We have to find out proper solutions in this regard. Many research laboratories in the world keep on trying to invent a vaccine for this pandemic but it will take time. We have to come forward to think seriously on this issue to avoid further spread of Corona so that we may come back to our normal life as we had earlier. 

CORONA - an unwanted guest in human life

CORONA has totally disturbed the routine life of not only any individual country but also the whole world. It is true, it will not come in our ways with its own but if we invite it to bring home, then, it will act just like an unwanted guest. Many of us might have experienced such guest appearances minimum one time in our life certainly that some gust will come to our house and we will also give them good hospitality considering that the Guest is just like GOD but we cannot tolerate them for long time. however, among our family, some of our family members supporting such guests, and that's why they try to stick with us. 

More or less CORONA also behaves like an unwanted guest.  If we consider entire world like our family, then, we will be able to see two categories of people. One, who trying to send back to CORONA by following proper guideline of the particular states or countries like washing hands frequently, wearing a face mask and maintaining social distancing, etc and another who won't like to send this CORONA from their home and providing it favorable conditions to survive by common gathering, shaking hands, spitting on public places, not maintaining social distances, not wearing mask properly. If they wear masks, it is just a show to escape from the police or other corona warriors because they will put mask over their chin even though knowing that the main entry of corona in our body is through the nose and mouth. 

A country cannot prolong lockdown beyond a certain limit in order to save their countrymen, their business and other necessary work like education, transport, hospital, etc., Now, whether, is it not our duty to cooperate that family member who really want to eradicate the corona from our life? 

Why we are unable to control our mood and mind? Why we allow our mind to overrule us and compel us to do such activities that are favorable for corona spreading? These activities are going to cinema, visit the mall, restaurant, barbershop, bar shop, conducting public functions, etc. at least one year. Is it not our duty to follow all precautionary measures that are being given by our Government from time to time.

The government is still trying to make our nation free from corona, then is it not our moral duty to follow the Government guidelines and also teach the persons who are not aware? We should not blame our Government but it is time to correct ourselves.

Let us come forward together to fight with COVID -19 a terrible pandemic and pray to GOD, it will never come back to our life.