By Muslim Mirror News
New Delhi: The strengthening of library infrastructure and facilities is very essential for preservation and dissemination of knowledge and research findings, said Prof. Rais-ur-Rahman, Director General, Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine (CCRUM) inaugurating a one-day National Conference on Application of Social Media in Innovative Knowledge Services at here onĀ Saturday.
Talking about his recent experience at a WHO meeting, Prof. Rais-ur-Rahman underlined Ā that AYUSH has very great and promising potentials to combat non-communicable diseases, but the global scientific society is very least aware of the fact and advocated the application of social media and information technology to disseminate the knowledge and information.
Prof. Rais-ur-Rahman, along with other dignitaries, also released the souvenir containing 37 research papers to be presented during the technical sessions of the conference jointly organized by the CCRUM and the Society for Information Research and Studies (SIRs).
Earlier, in his introductory remarks, Dr. Khalid M. Siddiqui, Deputy Director General, CCRUM said that library and information professionals play very important role in enabling research and bridging the gap between knowledge resources and researchers. He appreciated the library staff of the CCRUM for recently starting Daily Medical News Alert service through email.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. A. M. Siddiqui, Director, SIRs said that the main objective of the conference was to discuss how social media could improve and complement the functioning of libraries. Mr. Anand Jha of SIRs also addressed the session and elaborated the aims and objectives of the conference as well as his organisation.
Later, at the three technical sessions, a total of 37 papers were presented by researchers, academicians, librarians, information professionals, and students on impact of social media in library services, user expectations, digital marketing in enhancing library services and other important aspects.
Those who attended the conference included Prof. Uma Kanjilal, Dr. Indra Kaul, Dr. N.K. Bar, Prof. Naushad Ali. Besides, researchers and library staff of the CCRUM and over 100 delegates participated in the conference.
What will be the REACTION of AYUSH PROMOTERS to the following FINDINGS on the CAUSE of High Blood Pressure:
*****Sodium does NOT INCREASE the B.P.*****
For about 30 years, I have known that SODIUM does NOT cause an INCREASE in the Blood Pressure. The EXCESSIVE CONSUMPTION of Sodium Chloride can cause High Blood Pressure, but the EXCESS of SODIUM is WRONGLY BLAMED for it, when it is the EXCESS of CHLORIDE that is ACTUALLY the CULPRIT for causing the INCREASE in Blood Pressure!
The EXCESS of CHLORIDE can cause a GREATER RETENTION of WATER in the body, which results in High Blood Pressure. I use SODIUM SULFATE as one of the medications to bring down my Blood Pressure to NORMAL, whenever it tends to rise.
By consuming MORE SODIUM in the form of SODIUM SULFATE, nobody can INCREASE his Blood Pressure, as the B.P. can only come DOWN with the consumption of MORE SODIUM SULFATE, which can cause LOOSE MOTIONS and LOSS of WATER!
For maintaining NORMAL Blood Pressure and GOOD HEALTH, we require small quantities of SODIUM salts like SODIUM SULFATE and SODIUM PHOSPHATE, besides an APPROPRIATE amount of SODIUM CHLORIDE. Of course, we should not ignore many other dietary factors, which also produce different effects on the Blood Pressure.
More than a century back, in 1904, two scientists, L. Ambard and E. Beaujard, had discovered the IMPORTANT ROLE that CHLORIDE played in RAISING the Blood Pressure. In 1929, the scientists R. S. Berghoff and A. S. Geraci had performed experiments which CLEARLY PROVED that CHLORIDE was RESPONSIBLE for increasing the Blood Pressure. Their experiments also indicated that SODIUM was NOT the CAUSE of HYPERTENSION.
Why were these GREAT SCIENTISTS not HONORED for their RESEARCH of such HIGH VALUE? The FINDINGS of such GREAT SCIENTISTS are still being IGNORED by the doctors and other medical scientists who WRONGLY continue to BELIEVE that SODIUM causes HYPERTENSION!!