The grant covers four activities, starting with the technical assistance the WHO will provide to developing countries that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria operations do not cover. The WHO will provide assistance to some 25 countries in their clinical management of MDR-TB, infection control, laboratory facilities and community outreach. Second, the WHO will conduct workshops for health care personnel so they can better design and manage TB programs, for laboratory technicians so they can test for first and second line drug susceptibility, and for administrative personnel to record and report on TB incidence in their countries. A third component is support for training global MDR-TB experts so they can expand training in developing countries, run workshops in infection control, and strengthen laboratories for proper diagnosis and treatment. Finally, the grant will support the field-testing and evaluation of a new information system to record and report on MDR-TB rates in two countries.

“This grant represents Lilly’s continued commitment to support the WHO in its goal of treating 50 million TB patients and 1.6 million MDR-TB patients by 2015. It builds upon existing WHO and Lilly program successes in curbing the MDR-TB pandemic,” says Alex Azar, senior vice president of corporate affairs and communications for Lilly. “With drug resistance at an all time high, the engagement in fighting MDR-TB comprehensively is more important now than ever.”

Since 2003, approximately 30,000 patients have been enrolled on treatment in WHO Green Light Committee approved projects. Country officials and healthcare personnel have consistently identified the training of human resource management a major challenge to accelerating the global scale up of MDR-TB treatment programs. Lilly funds are instrumental for in-country capacity building for MDR-TB control. Eight regional training workshops have been conducted in high TB burden areas, training some 160 senior TB officers and health workers in WHO guidelines for the programmatic management of drug resistant TB. To complement this training, Lilly supports the monitoring and delivery of technical assistance, including the production of second-line TB medications, to over 20 Green Light Committee approved projects.

“Confronting the threat of MDR-TB is a priority for WHO,” said Dr. Mario Raviglione, director of the WHO Stop TB Department. “Our scale-up efforts have prompted the expansion of MDR-TB programmes in some of the world’s poorest countries. I am delighted that Lilly will continue to support our goal to strengthen measures to diagnose and treat all MDR-TB patients. This commitment is an important contribution and confirms Lilly’s position as a key partner in the fight to push back the spread of drug-resistant TB.”

“The expansion of WHO programs joins those of the larger Lilly MDR-TB Partnership — a five-year-old alliance of 14 public and private organisations fighting MDR-TB from every angle. We will continue to learn lessons from existing programs and improve our initiatives to best serve those suffering from MDR-TB, and to best prevent its spread,” Azar said.

Botanical Name : CASSIA TORA

Common Name : FOETID CASSIA, TORA, SICKLE SENNA, SICKLE POD, COFFEE POD, TOVARA, CHAKVAD

Part Used : SEEDS

Habitat : Grows in dry soil throughout tropical parts of India.

Uses : It is Aperient, Germicide, Mucilaginous & Laxative. It is used as a coffee substitute and has a maturant and anodyne action. Useful in treating skin diseases like ring worm and itch and psoriasis.

Botanical Name : CASSIA FISTULA

Common Name : FISTULA, LABURNUM, PURGING FISTULA, GOLDEN SHOWER, AMALTAS

Part Used : FRUITS AND BARK

Habitat : Grows in valleys upto 1200 m in Himalayas.

Uses : Pulp from fruits called “Cessia pulp” is a well known Laxative. Bark of tree is rich in tannins.

Botanical Name : CASSIA ANGUSTIFOLIA

Common Name : SENNA, INDIAN SENNA, TINNEVELLY SENNA, CASSIA SENNA

Part Used : PODS, STEMS, LEAVES

Habitat : Cultivated in dry lands of Southern & Western India, and indegenous to Arabia.

Uses : It is recognised by British and US pharmacopoeias. It is useful in habitual costiveness. It lowers bowels, increases peristaltic movements of the colon by its local action upon the intestinal wall. It is used as expectorant, wound dresser, antidysentric, carminative and laxative.

Different kind of brushes

The Cochrane study separated the electrical toothbrush designs into:

* side-to-side
* circular
* ultra-sonic vibration, like the Sonicare manufactured by Philips - which claims to have a secondary cleaning action caused by vibrating saliva[9]
* rotation-oscillation in which a circular head spins back and forth in quick bursts - like many of Braun’s Oral B-brushes.
* counter oscillation, in which tufts of bristles rotate in different directions simultaneously

As time progressed, Christianity divided into three major branches. The Roman Catholic branch of Christianity is the successor of the church established in Rome soon after Christ’s death. It traces its spiritual history to the early disciples of Jesus. The Pope, or spiritual leader, traces his office’s lineage back to St. Peter, the first Pope, one of Jesus’ disciples. Roman Catholicism was originally predominately practiced in Ireland, Poland, France and Spain.

During the fourth century, the Roman Catholic church split and the Eastern Orthodox branch was formed.

The split was primarily a political one due to the division of the Roman Empire into western and eastern components. The two churches became officially separate in 1054. Orthodox churches are largely national, each associated with a particular country. Orthodoxy is common in Russia, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, the Ukraine, and Armenia.

The Protestant branch split from Roman Catholicism during the Reformation, a sixteenth and seventeenth century series of church reforms in doctrine and practice. This movement challenged the authority of the Pope, and became popular in Scandinavia, England, and the Netherlands. Protestantism eventually divided into many denominations which arose in response to disputes over doctrine, theology, or religious practice. Some of the large denominations today are Lutherans, Methodists and Baptists.

Naturalistic Spirituality (NS) is chiefly concerned with finding ways to access traditional spiritual feelings without the inclusion of elements incompatible with science and a broad naturalism. Adherents believe that Nature, in all its diversity and wonder, is sufficient unto itself in terms of eliciting the intellectual and emotional responses associated with spiritual experience, and that there is no need for faith in the traditional anthropomorphic concept of ‘god‘ and similar ideas.

Although the overall movement toward these attitudes remains relatively small and loosely organized, various forms of Naturalistic Spirituality have existed since time immemorial, with philosophical Taoism and similar Eastern nature-mysticisms being perhaps the most notable example. At present, there is a growing interest in actively embracing Naturalistic Spirituality as a rational alternative in a modern world which many feel is losing belief in more traditional spiritual avenues. The recent rapid growth of pantheism (particularly of an avowedly naturalistic variety) is one example of this trend.

Adherents of NS are generally atheistic and scientifically-oriented in most aspects, with their primary difference from other hardline naturalists being their belief that the abandonment of superstition does not necessarily entail the abandonment of spirituality. To NS adherents, the intellectual and emotional experience of something greater than oneself is seen as a phenomenon of enduring value, a positive facet of the human condition to be preserved even while we purge ourselves of so much that has traditionally accompanied it. Despite the pervasive misunderstanding associated with the term ‘mysticism,’ a number of NS adherents would describe themselves as mystics in terms of the insight that ultimately, we are all part of an interconnected whole, that which we describe as Nature. Although it is not unique to the worldview described here, many would argue that it is this common “monistic insight,” stripped of any extraneous elements, which underlies all forms of Naturalistic Spirituality.

Crucial challenges for the NS movement currently involve developing and promulgating a naturalistic understanding of the somewhat ambiguous terms ‘spirituality‘ and ‘mysticism’ as well as several other terms traditionally laden with superstitious and/or supernatural connotations, as well as addressing the issue of whether or not it is desirable to organize a cohesive community of adherents through which to advance ideas critical in achieving mainstream acceptance of the worldview.

Secular spirituality in principle might embrace many of the the same types of practices as religious spirituality, but the motivation is different. Clearly, since belief and dogma are absent, the emphasis is likely to be on practice rather than belief and on the inner life of the individual rather than on a relationship to a spiritual being or beings. A fully reasoned case for a form of secular spirituality in which the motivation is simply to live happily, which demonstrates how such a motivation can lead to a spiritual life based on the development of qualities very like those prized by many religions, can be found in “The lost Art of being Happy -spirituality for sceptics” by Tony Wilkinson (Findhorn Press 2007)

Botanical Name : ACORUS CALAMUS

Common Name : CALAMUS, SWEET-FLAG, SWEET ROOT, BACH

Part Used : DRIED RHIZOME

Habitat : North Temperate and subtropical regions upto 2200m altitude in Himalayas.

Uses : It is Nauseant, Stomachic, Anthelmentic, Stimulants, Emetic, Expectorant, Carminative, Antispasmodic and Nervine Sedative. Rhizome is used in the cure of host of diseases such as epilepsy, mental; ailments, chronic diarrhoea and dysentary. It is used in incense sticks and dhup and is widely used as insecticide for lice, bedbugs, worms etc.

Botanical Name : BOSWELLIA SERRATA

Common Name : INDIAN OLIBANUM TREE, OLIBANUM, LUBAN, GOND

Part Used : BARK, GUM RESIN

Uses : The bark is sweet, cooling and tonic. It is good in vitiated conditions of Pitta, cough, asthama. It is useful in fevers, urethrorrhea, diaphoresis, convulsions, chronic laryngitis, jaundice and arthritis.