30 January, 2012

How to keep acidity at bay

You can believe me on this one without any qualms. I say this because I was suffering from acidity for almost a decade.This is most commonly seen in people having 'Pitta'(1) body type and the most common symptom being pain or burning sensation in the upper abdominal region right below your chest.  Never ignore this as a trivial issue. If unattended it might even turn fatal.
You can keep acidity at bay by following some simple routines. This is what I did

1. Most important being, eat right quantity at the right time. Many of us when busy tend to ignore our tummy calls and this is exactly what I was doing which aggravated my acidity. Now I follow a regular routine and this has helped a lot in reducing the severity of my problem.
2. Drink good amount of water.
3. Eat fried, spicy and bakery items in moderation.
4. Regularly consume cumin seeds(jeera) before going to bed. Either chew it directly or prepare a decoction of it.

If acidity has reached its threshold limit, you tend to vomit whatever you eat and along with it comes out a yellowish bitter juice. Under such circumstance, keep yourself hydrated by drinking fluids. In particular, drink warm water.
Following the above mentioned details has helped me. Hope it helps others too.

(1) - According to Ayurveda, human body is broadly divided into 3 types. Kapha,Vata,Pitta. If you want detailed information regarding this you can go through http://www.ayurvedapages.com/ayurveddic_body_types.html or read Deepak Chopra's Perfect Health book.

27 September, 2011

Did you know, in UniVerse

1. Dynamic array takes more execution time as it starts searching from the first position.
2. Virtual fields are also called I-descriptors, EVAL expressions or I-types.
3. UniVerse allows creation of menus and submenus with the command MENUS.
4. Pick systems impose a maximum size limitation of 32K on any item.
5. In UniVerse, 31 Dec 1967 has a value of 0. Dates before this are considered negative.
6. 0 and empty string are treated as false.
7. MERGE.LIST works only with numbered select list ranging from 1 to 10.
8. HASH.HELP works only with static files.
9. INPUT command normally takes 140 characters.
10. COUNT('abc','d') results in 0 whereas DCOUNT('abc','d') results in 1

PS: Corrections if any are most welcome. Its been quite some time I worked on UniVerse.

Some Simple Stotras


When taking bath
Gangecha Yamunechaiva Godavari Saraswati
Narmade Sindhu Kaveri Jalesmin Sannidhimkuru

Before having food
Annapoorne Sadapoorne Shankarapranavallabhe
Jnana Vairagya Sidyartham Bhikshaam Dehicha Paarvati

Before going to bed
Ramaskandam Hanumantham Vainatheyam Vrikodaram
Shayane Smarenityam Duhswapnam Tasya Nashyati

Before eating yellu bella during Ugadi festival
Shatayur Vajradehaya Sarvasampathkarayacha
Sarvarista Vinashaya Nimbakam dala bhakshanam

24 September, 2011

Life Of Pi

Written by Yann Martel and has also won the Man Booker Prize in 2002. This revolves around an Indian boy from Pondicherry named  Piscine Molitor Patel or in short 'Pi'. The story is about the survival of Pi after a shipwreck, while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
I was presented this book on my birthday and when I read the first few pages I was wondering what made it win the Booker. I had kept it aside for almost a month and then when I had no option, began reading it again. Good that I decided to read it else I would have missed all the adventure in the book. Once Pi's journey in the Pacific starts to unfold you will completely get into the character.

According to me this book is

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