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Ayurveda places great importance on the quality of nourishment reaching the tissues. Food alone does not determine nourishment. What matters equally is whether the body can properly digest, transform and assimilate what has been eaten.
Tongue cleaning is traditionally known as Jihva Nirlekhana or Jihva Prakshalana in Ayurvedic practice. It generally involves gently drawing a smooth tongue cleaner from the back of the tongue toward the front after waking.
Ayurveda does not traditionally define health through numerical blood-pressure measurements. Its physiological framework is built around concepts such as Dosha, Dhatu, Agni, Srotas and the functional relationships between organs and tissues.
The study was led by researchers from the Centre for Ecological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, working with scientists at the Technical University of Denmark and other collaborators. It was published in Science Translational Medicine on September 9, 2026.
Smart Scope CX is intended to tackle one of the persistent challenges in cervical cancer prevention: bringing screening closer to women who may have limited access to specialist hospitals, laboratories or gynaecologists.
India received recognition for sustaining the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus for a decade and for its progress in bringing people with hypertension and diabetes under standardised treatment through primary healthcare.
The liver already possesses sophisticated systems for processing and eliminating substances from the body. No juice, herb or short-term “detox diet” can wash toxins out of a healthy liver. Foods can, however, support overall nutrition, metabolic health and healthy body weight, all of which influence long-term liver health.
The Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences specifically associates osteoarthritis with Sandhigata Vata and describes pain, swelling and restricted movement as common features. Modern medicine similarly defines osteoarthritis as a condition involving progressive changes in joint cartilage and surrounding tissues that can produce pain, stiffness and reduced mobility.
A person who wakes hungry after an early and easily digested dinner may benefit from a substantial morning meal. Someone who ate a heavy dinner late at night and wakes with no appetite may not benefit from forcing down another heavy meal simply because the clock says it is breakfast time.
Bengaluru-based InnAccel Technologies has built its medical-device strategy around this gap. Rather than taking equipment created for highly equipped Western hospitals and simply reducing its price, the company identifies clinical problems inside Indian hospitals and develops devices specifically around the conditions in which doctors and nurses actually work.
