Category Archives: Uncategorized

While having my treatments today I started to think about going back to work. I have been on vacation for a month this coming Friday and I have had relatively few moments that I had to put on my “work” … Continue reading →

We are told the clinic will do our laundry if we want.  Turns out the cleaning ladies do the laundry outside our room in a corner on the roof in bucket and put it on the line to dry.  Upon … Continue reading →

I finished the thyroid treatment and resumed the regular meals, thank goodness! Turns out there are 18 meals, in groups of three with each group given flavor by adding different herbs.  The tastes are sweet, bitter, sour, salt, pungent and astringent.  I … Continue reading →

I went on a fun outing yesterday (Tuesday) to have lunch at the Taj Falaknuma Palace. The palace took nine years to complete and was finally inhabited in 1889 by the then prime minister Nawab Vikar-ul-Umra as a personal residence. … Continue reading →

On Sunday, Dr. Krishna’s older brother and also a doctor of Ayurvedic medicine came to the clinic. Dr. Raju-ji (a term of respect)  After lunch he gave a lecture on a variety of topics including question and answers about the general … Continue reading →

This morning waking I heard a strange animal noise and had a look down in the street.  There was a cow strolling and mooing quite loudly though the street.  There are two cows that live in the gated community and … Continue reading →

I am completely fascinated by the practice of using the mind as a complement to medicine in the process of healing the body. Here at the clinic I have the opportunity to engage in that practice multiple times throughout the … Continue reading →

Today is Thursday morning, we have been gone from the States for two weeks and I notice I have really slowed down. Our days are patterned around what time Dr. Raju checks our pulse, when we have treatments and when … Continue reading →