The (Missing) Human Touch
By Alok Pandey - Jul 15, 2025
In the race towards sophisticated medical systems, we have somewhere lost the human touch. Money and machines are the new lords now, rather than compassion and the personal touch. It is time to take a relook at our medical education and ask where we are heading. This article explores this issue of building healers rather than standardised medicine dispensing-machines.
Airway mucus hyper-secretion and its management through exercise interventions
By Manikonda Prakash Rao - Jul 15, 2015
In mucus-related respiratory health problems, the following changes take place in the airways: inflammation, hyper-secretion of mucus and bronchospasm. Together, these factors cause breathlessness. The author has devised some exercises which are therapeutic tools. They help to cleanse the adhesive mucus from the primary sites of colonisation of pathogens along the mouth, nose, pharynx, sinuses and bronchial airways. They reduce C-reactive protein resulting in decreased inflammation and strengthen the remodelled airways, resetting the biological ageing process. In all, these procedures comprise upper-airway passages cleaning exercises, bronchial airways cleaning exercises and physical, aerobic and yogic exercises. As any mucus-related respiratory health problem commences from the upper-airway passages and spreads to the tracheo bronchial tree, they constitute the same pathway. The mucociliary clearance mechanism becomes defunct when excess and sticky mucus forms. Once cleaned, the defunct cilia become active and ciliate mucus towards the nasal passages, which can be blown out easily. The bronchial airways cleaning exercises help in draining out total mucus from the airways and respiratory and other diseases originating from its pathway come under control. A healthy ageing process commences.