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A
talk given at the Indira Gandhi Center for Indian Culture, Phoenix,
Mauritius, by Arjuna das, on the 31st July, 2004, at the International
Forum for the Defense of People’s Health, in the context
of the Silver Jubilee Celebration of the Alma-Ata Declaration,
organized by the Mouvement Santé Communautaire, (MSC),
the Human Service Trust, (HST), and the Global Organization of
People of Indian Origin, (GOPIO).
As
a member of the International society for Krishna Consciousness,
(ISKCON), and a disciple of the Founder-Acharya His Divine
Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, I would like to share
with you all the divine way of eating as taught in the eternal
Vedic culture of Lord Krishna. Such a diet guarantees excellent
health, long life, elevated spiritual consciousness and freedom
from life’s miseries.
How
this is achieved is nicely explained in the Bhagavad-gita by Lord
Krishna: - (9.26)
patram pushpam phalam toyam
yo me bhaktya prayacchati
tad aham bhakty-upahritam
ashnami prayatatmanah
"If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower,
fruit or water, I will accept it."
When
the Lord accepts an offering of foodstuffs, it becomes spiritualized.
The goal is to spiritualize everything we eat. The Upanishads
give the example of iron and fire. Everything in this world is
created of material energy and hence like iron. When iron is placed
in fire it becomes red-hot and acquires the same qualities as
fire. In the same way when we offer whatever we eat to the Lord
with love and devotion, He accepts the offering which thus becomes
sanctified and freed from sin. Such prasadam, or spiritually
surcharged and sanctified foodstuffs burns away all our bad karma
for which we were obliged to suffer, janma-mrityu-jara-duhkhair
vimukto amritam ashnute – freeing us from birth, death,
old age and pain and allowing us to experience deathlessness even
in this life, (Bhagavad-gita 14.20).
The
Vedic culture means the brahminical culture. Brahman
means spirit. The eternal brahminical or spiritual culture
is based on cow protection. Why should cows be protected? One
of the main reasons is because cow’s milk is such an important
foodstuff. In Sanskrit, brain cells are called “medha.”
The same word means fat. Cow’s milk and butter or ghee
(clarified butter), is full of medha. It is a scientific
fact that nowadays mankind does not use more then 5% to 8% of
their brain cells. Albert Einstein is said to have used only between
8% and 11% of his brain. So drinking fresh cow’s milk gives
Brahmins (intellectuals) the necessary brain power to
be able to read and understand Sanskrit, also known as Devanagari
or the language of the gods, and thus accede to the vast knowledge
of the Vedas.
As
for the cholesterol, this problem is solved in the Vedic tradition
by taking three baths daily in cold water, even in mid-winter.
This is a basic Brahminical austerity that, according
to the science of Ayurveda, is excellent for good health
and enhancing brain power, especially when practiced together
with brahmacharya, or sexual abstinence. Furthermore
the latest scientific findings have shown that bad cholesterol
mainly becomes a problem when there is a deficiency in Vitamin
C. (for more about Vitamin C and cholesterol please visit www4.dr-rath-foundation.org
)
The
result of eating prasadam is that one becomes god-like
or godly. This is a step beyond simply being vegetarian, which
in itself is now well known for being a much healthier and especially
safer method of alimentation, with mad-cow disease etc. so prevalent
these days. With the health benefits of a vegetarian diet being
already so well established, let alone the beneficial economical
implications of a meat-free diet and the fact that it is the natural
diet of humans verses the meat eating diet of carnivores, let
us therefore now dwell more on the spiritual method of nourishing
ourselves. The basic principle of spiritual or brahminical
life is that the human body is a very holy temple of the Supreme
Lord who is present in all living entities as Supersoul, and especially
He lives in the heart of His pure devotees as Shyamasundara
Krishna. So the greatest foolishness is to treat the body as a
cemetery by burying all kinds of dead cows, goats, pigs and chickens
therein, which is a sure way to have the Lord shun ones heart.
The Upanishads give the analogy of the human body with
a bird-cage. If one spends all ones time and energy in simply
decorating the cage and neglects to feed the bird therein, then
the bird dies and the cage becomes useless. The bird means the
spirit soul who also needs nourishment. So prasadam is
the real soul-food that we need. ISKCON devotees, who eat only
prasadam, are known to be bright-faced. This is because
the face is the index of the mind or heart which in turn is the
index of the soul within. Good health is automatically achieved
when the mind and self or soul is content and peaceful.
Ghee
is also an essential ingredient in brahminical culture
as it used to perform yajnas or fire-sacrifices. The
specific yajna recommended for this age of Kali is Hari-nama-sankirtana-yajna
or the performance of congregational chanting of the holy names
of God. This is an integral part of offering foodstuffs to the
Lord so that we may benefit from His remnants in the form of prasadam.
In Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita as it is, (chapter three,
text 13), we are taught:
yajna-shishthashinah
santo
muchyante sarva-kilbishaih
bhunjate te tv-agham papa
ye pachanty atma-karanat
"The
devotees of the Lord are released from all kinds of sins because
they eat food which is offered first for sacrifice. Others, who
prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin."
Srila
Prabhupada nicely elaborates the principle of eating sanctified
foodstuffs in the purport of chapter three, text 11: "Ahara-shuddhau
sattva-shuddhih sattva-shuddhau dhruva smrtih smrti-lambhe sarvagranthinam
vipramokshah. By performance of yajna one’s
eatables become sanctified, and by eating sanctified foodstuffs
one’s very existence becomes purified; by the purification
of existence finer tissues in the memory become sanctified, and
when memory is sanctified one can think of the path of liberation,
and all these combined together lead to Krishna consciousness,
the great necessity of present-day society."
One
of the Lord’s Holy names in Sanskrit is Apavarga.
In the Sanskrit alphabet there are divisions of the consonants
called vargas. Pa-varga contains the
consonants pa, pha, ba, bha and ma. Pa stands for parishrama
or hard labour. Pha for phena or foam. When one works
too hard it leads to madness which is symphonized by foaming at
the mouth. Then ba stands for byarthata or bewilderment
or ones becoming baffled or frustrated, due to being imprisoned
in the external reality of duality, which leads to bha for bhaya
or fear. Finally ma stands for five things: mamsa or
meat; matsya or fish; mada or intoxication (alchohol
or drugs), and maithuna or sex, and these four ma’s
lead to mrityu or death. So the Lord or Apavarga
is always devoid of these contaminations, and those who follow
His path and become godly also free themselves from all bad habits,
which are the pathway to suffering, disease and death, thus one
becomes peaceful within and mentally healthy hence physically
healthy too.
In
Sanskrit the word aushadi means medicine and also means
vegetables and herbs. In the Bhagavad-gita (9.16) the Lord says,
aham aushadham, " I am the healing herb." He
further says (15.13), pushnami chaushadhih sarvah somo bhutva
rasatmakah, "I become the moon and thereby supply the
juice of life to all herbs and vegetables." In
Ayurveda it is recommended to eat that foodstuff that
resembles the internal organs or glands that are afflicted with
some disorder or other. For example beans, being shaped like the
kidneys, are good for kidney disorders. The brahmi leaf,
which looks like the brain, is excellent nourishment for the brain.
In
this context I would like to share with you all some information
of very effective natural aushadi products that are excellent
for keeping good health and preventing diseases, namely Noni,
Kombhucha and Aloe Vera.
Noni
or Morinda Citrifolia, is known in Mauritius as Bois
Tortue or the tortoise tree due to the fruit looking
like a tortoise shell. The Noni fruit resembles the cellular structures
of the body. It is similar to the pineapple, which is also a source
of Noni’s beneficial ingredient proxeronine but in a much
smaller quantity. It is said that eating pineapple before a meal
is good for losing weight, so taking some Noni juice before a
meal is like eating dozens of pineapples. Pineapples, as well
as most other fruit and vegetables commercial grown with artificial
fertilizers and excessive use of pesticides etc., nowadays contain
much less proxeronine then in previous times. Therefore Noni,
which has a greater quantity of proxeronine when compared to any
other fruit or vegetable, is an excellent aushadi. Home-made
Noni juice can be obtained simply by squeezing the ripened fruit
through a cloth.
A
powerful antioxidant and immune system enhancer, Noni contains
a molecule called proxeronine, from which we get xeronine, which
combines with proteins in your body and is essential in allowing
the body to better heal itself. Noni provides a rapid means for
detoxifying the human body from various poisons and toxins that
are so prevalent in modern society and that generally become carcinogens
in time. Noni juice has become a great source of financial income
for the Polynesian islands like Tahiti, where it has been used
for the last 2000 years, as the juice is being exported to countries
around the world, due to it’s helping in the treatment of
cancer and numerous other disorders such as aids, diabetes, heart
diseases, hypertension, arthritis, kidney diseases, asthma, chronic
fatigue, depression, constipation, head and body aches and cholesterol.
Here
in Mauritius it is presently being sold for Rs2,000 ($70) per
liter. With
the problem of the declining sugar industry in Mauritius the commercial
possibilities of this nature’s boon should be seriously
considered. Besides its health benefits, Noni can help solve one
of society’s worst problems - drug addiction. Noni juice
provides an easy cure for any kind of addiction - from nicotine,
caffeine, cocaine, morphine or heroin. Noni has been used traditionally
in Thailand for helping drug addicts in breaking their addiction
habits.
A
website on Noni, (http://www.defuture.com/12months/miracleofnoni.html),
informs us as follows:
“When you drink a glass of Noni juice, the proxeronine goes
through your digestive tract into the large intestine where it
is then sent through the hepatic vein into the liver. The liver
is the main storehouse for many of the body's essential nutrients.
Every two hours the liver releases a certain amount of this proxeronine
into the bloodstream, and then on to various tissues of the body.
Once the xeronine is formed from proxeronine it now combines with
proteins in your body. This is why Noni juice is such a uniquely
good health product. Rather than supplying the body with an active
chemical like so many drugs and pharmaceuticals do, Noni juice
supplies the body with the precursor to the active chemical, thereby
allowing the body to take control of and heal itself.”
“Noni
juice supplies the body with proxeronine, and the body regulates
this supply and uses what it needs to maintain a healthy level
of xeronine. What is not used is simply discarded. Therefore,
it is not possible to overdose on the proxeronine. Previous scientific
mysteries are explained with the newly acquired knowledge of xeronine.
Plants, animals and humans all use xeronine. However xeronine
is a very unstable chemical compound. An interesting difference
between plants and animals is in the way in which they dispose
of xeronine when it is no longer needed. While most forms of life
(humans included) merely allow xeronine to just naturally break
down after its job has been performed, many plants desire to keep
the xeronine so that it can be stored for the precious nitrogen
that it contains. In order to keep it for storage, but also to
inactivate it, the plant will add strings and clumps of ‘molecular
garbage’ to it so that it will not break down, but also
will not combine with protein anymore. Once the molecular garbage
has been added to the xeronine it becomes a very well-known chemical
compound called an alkaloid.”
“Alkaloids were one of the first biochemical compounds discovered.
There are now over 10,000 known alkaloids that have been found
in various plants. Some of these alkaloids include nicotine, caffeine,
cocaine, heroin, and morphine. Until now science has not been
able to adequately explain why plants contain alkaloids and what
they do in the plant. It is now understood that alkaloids are
nothing but "junk" forms of xeronine, designed to stabilize
the xeronine so it can be kept for its nitrogen supply. This is
fine for the plant in which these alkaloids are manufactured,
but interesting problems are encountered when humans introduce
these alkaloids into their bodies. These alkaloids are completely
inactive in the plant, but, because they are unfamiliar to humans
and resemble xeronine in structure, they are treated and accepted
as xeronine by our proteins. For example, smoking a cigarette
releases a great supply of nicotine into the body. Though the
nicotine is inactive in the tobacco plant, it resembles the structure
of xeronine enough that it fools the proteins in one’s body
into accepting it rather than the xeronine that it naturally needs.
Once the nicotine is accepted into xeronine's rightful place on
protein cells, albeit awkwardly, it activates the protein in the
same way that xeronine would, only in a less-effective way. Because
it still has the same basic structure as xeronine it is still
able to activate the protein, but it doesn't do it as well because
of the molecular junk that serves to inhibit it. If one continues
to smoke cigarettes and take nicotine into ones body, eventually
the body will adapt to the nicotine by slightly changing the shape
of the protein so it will fit with nicotine rather than xeronine.
This is the molecular basis for addiction. One then craves cigarette
after cigarette because many proteins in the body literally need
the nicotine molecules to function, just like the protein once
needed the xeronine molecule. The more one smokes the more proteins
will be converted to nicotine-proteins from xeronine-proteins
and it will become increasingly difficult to quit. This is why
smokers feel withdrawal pains. Eventually, however, if nicotine
is kept the out of ones system, then proteins will again adapt
to the xeronine that is already present in the body and reduce
the physical craving of nicotine. This same process applies to
all foreign alkaloids that we take into our bodies including caffeine,
cocaine, heroin, morphine, and so forth. When we take in these
foreign alkaloids our proteins adapt to them and we change from
our natural need of xeronine to an unnatural need of foreign alkaloids.”
“The reason we get a "high" from taking in these
alkaloids is simple. Because they resemble xeronine just enough
to fool us, these foreign alkaloids still allow proteins to perform
work. If we flood our bodies with these foreign alkaloids (by
taking a drug) they will cause our proteins to act more than normal
thus creating a feeling of euphoria. Different drugs will behave
differently because of the different pieces of molecular junk
that are added to them. Cocaine will act differently in the body
than morphine because of the slight difference in structure between
the two that will limit or enhance certain aspects of xeronine's
natural function. The key is that they are all simply mimicking
xeronine's natural function. Many alkaloids are commonly used
as drugs in the pharmaceutical industry, but underlying all of
the pharmacological activity of these foreign alkaloids is the
natural function of xeronine. Once we understand the true nature
of these alkaloids and the process in which we become addicted
to them, we can more fully help people overcome their drug addictions.
This is the true nature of addiction. When you first take a drug
like heroin, for example, you are literally flooding the body
with this foreign alkaloid. This great supply of heroin in the
bloodstream overcomes the smaller supply of natural xeronine and
converts many proteins quickly. To overcome this difficulty and
literally "cure" any addiction, all that needs to be
done is to flood ones body with xeronine. By doing this you "re-addict"
yourself to xeronine and you can avoid all of the problems of
withdrawal. To treat for addictions in this way with proxeronine,
you need to somehow get the proxeronine into the bloodstream rather
than through the digestive tract. In order to accomplish this,
one possibility is to add a few drops of a proxeronine supply
(noni juice) and place it under the tongue with an eyedropper
every hour. Doing this releases the proxeronine straight into
the bloodstream from the soft tissue under the tongue rather than
through the digestive system where its release is strictly regulated
by the liver.”
“Another application for Noni juice is its potential in
cosmetic products. As explained before, the liver is the main
place of storage for proxeronine. The second major storage place
for proxeronine is the skin. Proxeronine is converted to xeronine
all over the body, and the skin is no exception. In order to keep
your skin healthy and smooth, it will need to contain an ample
amount of proxeronine. Lack of proxeronine in the skin may be
responsible for unhealthy skin and many other skin conditions.
Proxeronine is also needed to maintain healthy hair and scalp.
Addition of proxeronine to the scalp and hair will leave a marked
improvement if those areas are lacking.”
Kombucha
is known as a miracle healer, and has become increasingly highly
regarded as an aid to preventing many illnesses. Approximately
80 years ago, a Japanese scientist, Dr Pan Pen, visited the region
of Kargasok in Russia and was stunned to find so many healthy
people who were over the age of 100. She actually met a man at
the age of 130 who had married an old woman of over 80 who was
still able to conceive children. The Japanese woman was fascinated
by this and attempted to obtain the secret of the 80-year old
woman who hardly had a wrinkle. She discovered that in every household,
young and old alike, consumed approximately a third of a liter
of Kombucha each day. In Kargasok, cancer and high blood pressure
are unknown.
To
make this beverage, the Japanese woman received a Kombucha culture
and instructions on how to use it. She took the culture with her
to Japan where she started to duplicate it. Her friends were invited
to drink the beverage as well and she also passed the culture
on to them with instructions on its use .They passed it on to
their friends. After having consumed the beverage for a period
of time, the people began reporting successful effects - a man
with blood pressure of 210/120 was able to reduce it to 140/80.
A young girl diagnosed with shingles was cured. Soon thereafter,
this beverage became the subject of TV and radio programs in Japan,
with well over one million Japanese consuming the beverage. Eventually
the beverage found its way to Taiwan, then to Hong Kong and now
travels around the world where it is passed on from one friend
to another as a token of appreciation and love.
The
Kombucha beverage appears to be a miraculous remedy for many types
of suffering. Researchers have discovered that the fungus has
three basic elements, without which the body cannot function.
Dr Pan Pen from Japan reported as follows on the effects of the
culture: “This beverage:
- lengthens lifespan
- is a healthy remedy against chicken pox and shingles
- reduces the formation of wrinkles
- discourages the formation of cancer
- prevents adverse menopausal symptoms
- restores visual acuity
- strengthens leg muscles
- heals arthritis
- heals sweaty feet, constipation, joint and back pains
- heals abscesses
- heals blocked arteries and reduces the bad cholesterol
- strengthens kidneys
- heals cataracts and heart disease
- restores the appetite and heals sleeping disorders
- reduces the chance of gallstones and liver problems
- reduces obesity
- stops diarrhea
- heals hemorrhoids
- helps restore colour to gray hair, helps baldness conditions
- heals diabetes.”
The most famous research results come from the University of Omsk
in Russia and, in the West, from the research of Dr Rudolf Sklenar.
Dr Sklenar’s research is often mentioned in the German press
. He came from Eastern Germany where Kombucha has been used since
the turn of the century among ordinary people . He studied medicine
in Prague and had his first contact with the Kombucha beverage
in a monastery . He worked with the culture during the Second
World War and based his scientific work upon Kombucha . In the
1960’s he published his research in the scientific and general
press, which resulted in increased awareness of Kombucha’s
healing and strengthening properties . Dr Sklenar used Kombucha
successfully for diabetes, high blood pressure, all types of digestive
problems, stomach and bowel illnesses, rheumatism and gout. Gout
is a common ailment of ISKCON Vaishnavas as they grow
older, due to eating great quantities of Maha-prasadam,
that is over-eating very rich food too often. In the days of British
India, Kombhucha was referred to as the ‘Indian gout jelly.’
Dr Sklenar’s main area of work became the biological treatment
of cancer, and he integrated Kombucha with this program. His healing
methods were so successful that they were adopted by many doctors.
A company which carries his name today manufactures the Kombucha
drops. When it was reported that Dr Veronika Carstens (wife of
a former German President) was using Kombucha with all her cancer
patients, the beverage became a popular healing remedy. Dr Sklenar
and Dr Carstens both recommended the use of Kombucha to their
cancer patients as a complement to other therapies. Cancer experts,
such as Dr. Johannes Kuhl, Dr.Skelner and Dr. Carstens, have become
famous due to their successful cancer therapy where Kombhucha
plays a major role in revitalizing the bowel flora of patients.
When it was reported that Roland Reagan suffered from cancer during
his tenure as US President, reports regarding his treatment were
lost in the larger issues of politics. According to researcher,
Gunther Frank, Reagan heard of the cancer healing successes of
Kombhucha through the autobiography of the Nobel Prize recipient
Alexander Solzhenitsyn who had been diagnosed with cancer in 1952
and subsequently recovered fully at the hospital in Tashkent (‘The
Cancer Ward,’ where Kombhucha was used) in 1953. Reagan
received a culture from Japan. By drinking one liter of Kombhucha
daily his cancer was prevented from spreading further.
Reports
dealing with the healing successes are widespread in Australia.
The general perception is that Kombhucha heals and does not have
any side-effects. Personally, I first received a Kombucha culture
from a health food shop in Melbourne, Australia, in 1993. I had
been suffering from a skin cancer on my left shoulder for about
8 years. So upon inquiring about a natural remedy for this condition
from the elderly salesman of the health food shop, who despite
being at least twice my age looked much younger and more healthy
and energetic then myself, I was told that many people in Australia
had cured skin cancers with Kombhucha brewed with green tea &
papaya leaves. Australia, like Mauritius, has very dangerous sunshine
due to the huge ozone depleted hole over the South Pole. In fact
he showed me the following newspaper article from the Australian
Gold coast of all the papaya trees being devoid of leaves in that
area due to everyone using the leaves to cure their cancers.
"The story of how Stan Sheldon cured himself of cancer by
drinking the boiled and brewed extract of pawpaw (papaya) leaves
was first told in the Gold Coast Bulletin in 1978. Now research
in the United States has given scientific support to his claim,
isolating a chemical compound in the pawpaw tree which is reported
to be a million times stronger than the strongest anti-cancer
drug."
When I asked him what Kombucha was, he said, "Tea wine".
"Oh no", I told him," I'm a yogi, & don't take
either tea or wine." “Only one green teabag per liter"
he replied, " and only half a percent of alcohol, why don't
you try it, it works!" So I thought, phalena parichiyate,
judge by the results, and after 2 months of treatment, taking
a glass of Kombhucha 3 times daily, my skin cancer of 2 inches
diameter had totally reduced. It also reduced my high cholesterol
& made me feel better then I had felt in 10 years. I have
been taking it regularly ever since, & feel better today then
when in my 20's.
No one can say, for sure, how and where the Kombucha culture originated,
but we do know that it has been used for at least two thousand
years by Indians and the Chinese, and later by Koreans, Japanese
and Russians. In Sanskrit, kumbha means pot and cha
or chai is Hindi for tea. Another interesting possibility
is that this was the base of the "sura" or
wine of the demigods (in which they perhaps brewed their Soma
rasa), as Kombhucha only contains 0.5% (half a percent)
of alcohol. Alcohol when consumed produces an immediate tamasic
effect. However, my personal experience is that Kombhucha has
the opposite effect, by alleviating one from the effects of the
lower modes of nature.
Kombucha
is composed of a number of bacteria and special yeast cultures
in a symbiotic (living together) relationship. This living organism
ferments sweetened tea to become the Kombucha beverage .The refreshing
taste gives one a feeling of well-being. The amount of living
yeast it contains gives the Kombucha beverage an active life which
continues after decanting it into bottles. The living organism,
that is the Kombhucha culture or jelly, feeds on two ingredients
- purin and sugar. Purin is a cancer causing component found in
alcohol, tea, tobacco, meat ect. When it is digested the liver
transforms most of it into uric acid, (causing excessive uric
acid in the blood, thus gout, back pains etc.) The beverage from
which the Kombhucha culture feeds is thereby transformed into
a kind of antidote for purin (i.e. an anti-purin) and also antidotes
for sugar (which are Gluconic & Glucuronic acids). When brewing
Kombhucha, sugar is being fermented & this produces lactic
acid & alcohol. With the minimum sugar content of 50 grams
per liter of water in the brew, (less then that the culture will
starve and perish), the beverage will have only 0.1% alcohol after
14 days. At the normal recommended dosage of 80 grams/liter the
beverage after 6 to 10 days contains between 0.3 to 0.5% alcohol,
i.e. the alcohol will be of very small proportions.
There
are two lactic acids produced in the beverage, one being "L(+)
lactic acid" and the other "D(-)lactic acid". The
L(+) lactic acid in Kombhucha is detoxifying. The metabolic by-products
of the fermentation of Kombhucha with tea and sugar include Gluconic
and Glucuronic acids, Acetic acid, Carbonic acid and vitamins
B1, B2, B3, B6, B12, Folic acid & various enzymes. The Usinic
acid also produced is antibacterial and partly antiviral. The
Acidic acid bacteria produced are antagonistic to streptococci,
diplococci, flexner and shilgella rods
(Nosredna).
From
this brief resume we can appreciate the amazing therapeutic properties
of regularly drinking Kombhucha. To read more on Kombucha and
to learn how to make it, please visit www.nexusmagazine.com
Aloe
Vera is another wonder-drug of nature. Aloe Vera is one
of the richest and most complete natural nutritional food supplements,
containing 52 vitamins, minerals and enzymes. It contains 7 out
of the 8 essential amino-acids (for the body’s protein metabolism),
including the one that is somewhat rare for vegetarians.
In 1984, Dr.Om Prakash Agarwal surprised his colleagues at the
annual conference of the International College of Heart Diseases
in San Antonio, Texas, with the positive results he obtained by
administering Aloe Vera to his patients. He conducted a study
on 5000 patients over 5 years by giving them chapattis twice a
day containing wheat mixed with 100 grams of Aloe Vera gel and
20 grams of Isabgol (total daily dose). He obtained a
85% cure of these patients who were suffering from different heart
diseases. He found that this treatment is highly effective in
clearing blocked veins by reducing the bad cholesterol and increasing
the good cholesterol (high density lipoproteins) of his patients.
He was aware of the potency of Aloe Vera from its age old use
in Aryurveda, where it is known as Kumari (literally
'a young virgin girl' - and is an Ayurvedic sanjivani
- or fountain of youth. The Atharva-veda calls
Kumari the silent healer & that as the name implies,
any female who takes Aloe Vera regularly will become like a princess
in beauty and never fall ill.) He also found that this treatment
had a 95% curative effect with his patients suffering from diabetes,
that Aloe Vera drastically reduces excessive blood sugar. Being
in charge of a charity hospital, he found that his patients reacted
positively to this treatment from the 2nd week of administration.
After 3 months of this treatment he was able to discharge 4652
patients of the 5000 tested with their ECG normalized.
Mahatma Gandhi was interviewed by an American journalist when
he was on the 3rd month of a protest fast, while imprisoned by
the British in India. She was surprised to find him in good health
and full of vigor, despite the severity of his fasting. She asked
him his secret. He laughingly told her that it was four things.
His faith in God, his simple lifestyle and habits, his daily regulated
practice of bhajana and yoga, and a secret medicine that
he had learned of when in South Africa - that medicine being Aloe
Vera.
Aloe Vera was also the secret weapon of the Jesuit missionaries
around the world in being able to befriend and convert even the
most ferocious of tribes. They had a secret medicine which cured
almost all ailments and diseases. This was Aloe Vera pulp (about
3 big leaves worth of pulp), blended with 500 grams of honey and
three tablespoons of whiskey, producing about a liter and a half
of the Jesuit Aloe Vera blend. This remedy has a cleansing effect
on the whole organism due to the honey which enables the healing
& disinfecting properties of the aloe Vera to reach even the
most inaccessible cells of the body. The tiny dose of alcohol
helps by diluting the blood vessels & veins, which facilitates
the cleansing & healing. After 10 days of this treatment of
a spoonful three times a day before meals, the blood is slowly
purified, which enables the whole organism to function with renewed
health.
Aloe Vera was also Alexandra the Great's secret weapon. His guru
Aristotle cured him of an arrow wound in the chest by applying
a peeled leaves of Aloe Vera to it. His army had wagons of Aloe
Vera plants following him around on his conquests, which enabled
his wounded warriors to heal in record time. Aloe Vera contains
a wound healing substance which is a natural antibiotic, astringent
and coagulating agent. Ancient Greeks used it for external and
internal medication.
Aloe Vera eliminates harmful bacteria while not affecting friendly
bacteria, unlike modern drugs which kill both friendly and harmful
bacteria. Thus it speeds the healing of wounds. It is helpful
for digestion, blood circulation and improvement of skin complexion.
Clod sores, boils and pimples heal better and quicker when Aloe
Vera is taken internally. Arthritis sufferers report relief after
taking it. Gastric and ulcer sufferers also report quick recovery
after taking Aloe Vera.
It was also Cleopatra's secret behind her beauty. She would regularly
take Aloe Vera gel baths. She attributed her beauty to Aloe Vera.
The great Sun-King Louis 14th of France passed a law in the 17th
century making it compulsory for all families in his kingdom of
France to grow Aloe Vera plants in their gardens.
Those
who are interested in knowing more about Noni, Kombhucha and Aloe
Vera or who want to know where to get them may contact me at arjunadas@intnet.mu
or by telephone at (230) 697 3497.
The
good Lord has given us all the healing herbs and the Ayurvedic
knowledge of how to live happily and in good health. When we turn
to Him with our prayers He inspires us towards such natural therapeutic
aushadis and thus we can make our lives perfect in all
respects.
Thank
you very much. Hare Krishna!
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