. . . And I ask, as the lungs are so close at hand, and in continual motion, and the vessel that supplies them is of such dimensions, what is the use or meaning of this pulse of the right ventricle? And why was nature reduced to the necessity of adding another ventricle for the sole purpose of nourishing the lungs? —William Harvey, Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus...

I recently read the book Nourishing the Soul of Pharmacy: Stories of Reflection, which is published by the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.1The title of the book references a quotation from William Zellmer, long-time editor of the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy and coeditor of this volume: “Depth, value, relatedness, heart, and personal substance. People want and need pharmaci...

Aim. The present study aims to investigate the effects of nourishing "Yin" removing "Fire" (NYRF) Chinese herbal mixture on puberty onset and hypothalamic mTOR expression in female rats. Materials and Methods. Forty female 20-day-old Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into Chinese herbal mixture (CHM) and normal saline (NS) groups. Rats in CHM and NS were treated with NYRF mixture and no...

A 4.5-month-old female baby, presenting with complete paralysis of right upper limb with typical waiter's tip deformity, diagnosed as Erb's palsy was brought to Sri Ganapati Sachchidananda Hospital. Patient was treated with an integrated approach of physiotherapy and Ayurvedic treatment with an intention of aiding faster recovery of the patient to lead a near normal life. As per Ayurvedic class...