Naturopathy Treatment - Health and Diet realated

Dear Raganuga readers,

I have some health tips to share. I used to suffer a lot from stress and arthritis, sinusitis and other maladies. I underwent many kinds of treatment--allopathic, ayurvedic, homeopathic, Chinese acupuncture, etc--for almost ten years without any relief. Then, I happened to go to a naturopathy clinic in India and got cured for all. So I want to share the treatment I followed with you.

You would be surprised to see how many people who have come to this clinic with heart block, high blood pressure, sugar, or stress have been completely cured. From what I understand, the sattvik food and natural living make it possible. They say that the body can repair itself if you give it the right kind of food and rest.

Jai Radhe!

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Tips for good health.

• Get up in the early morning. Early to bed and early to rise make a person healthy, wealthy and wise.
• Get up and drink a glass of preferably green juice. Take no coffee, tea or alcohol.
• If you are constipated, then take a non violent enema twice a day, one in the morning and one at night.
• Massage the whole body with oil before taking your bath. Do not use soap or shampoo, but chana powder or herbs.
• Bathe in "lukecool" water, not lukewarm water.
• Do meditation.
• Take a sun bath for half an hour before 9 o'clock AM or after 5 PM.
• Eat a big salad and some starch (roti) with curry for breakfast. The salad should consist of lettuce, carrot, tomato, grated coconut, broccoli, flax powder, and any other vegetable you like.
• The afternoon meal should consist of freshly cut fruits with nuts. Why only fruits in the afternoon? Because there should be at least a seven-hour gap between one major meal and another. The fruits plate can be banana, apple, coconut, badam, peanuts, raisins, etc.
• Evening after work, you can take a nice "lukecool" water bath.
• If you have any pain, wrap a cold cloth around that place for 30 minutes.
• It is also a good practice to wear a cold towel around the stomach for about 30 minutes.
• Never eat food after sunset. Eat dinner between 6 and 7 PM. It can be chapatis, a big salad, and one subji.
• Do pranayama for 5 minutes, 10 minutes Surya-namaskar, and 10 minutes of Shavasana.
• Walk every day for thirty minutes.
• Listen to music, it can relieve tension to a great extent.
• Take as much rest as you need.
• Fasting on Ekadeshi

Things to Completely avoid:

• Meat, Milk, Liquor, Egg, Onion, Garlic, Tin food, Red chilly, Black paper, Masala powders, soft drinks like Pepsi, sugar and its products, salt to minimum, Mida, deep-fried items, medicines, baking soda, food cooked more than one hour, and of course, stressful job and situations.

Things can be used

• Instead of red chili use little green chili and ginger
• Instead of sugar, use honey and jaggery (gur).
• Instead of milk, use buttermilk.

Eating rules:

• Only eat when you are hungry, otherwise not.
• Only drink when you are thirsty, otherwise not.
• Eat very slowly and chew properly so that the saliva can mix with food for proper digestion.
• Never mix starch with protein, like rice and dahl. If using rice at all, eat it with sprouted mung dahl.

What to do when sunset is before 6PM?

What to do when sunset is before 6PM?

It is better to eat before sunset because after sunset their are some bad bacteria's in the atmosphere that goes along with food. That is why yogies don't eat after sunset. I really don't know what people in some European countries do when they have long day and short night. Some place I heard that they have 6 months day and 6 months night!

What about Indians "daily meal", rice and dahl? You say rice doesnt go well along with dahl. And what about drinking hot milk with kurkuma and ginger in the evening?

That would be places such as our Lapland up north. It stopped rising and setting on the 16th there. On that day, it rose at 1:41 and set at 0:37. It'll get back to business in the end of July, dropping out again in the end of November until mid-January. Before and after those times, the sun rises sometime after 11:00 and sets around 13:00. That's not 6/6 months, but enough at any rate!

Here in the south, Helsinki, the sun rose today at 4:17 and will set at 22:20. The peak will be in the third quarter of June, 3:54 / 22:50. The winter is not as bad here as it is in the north, at the darkest season the sun rises at 9:25 and sets at 15:20. Now, of course it's damn cloudy much of the time, so the sun doesn't do much good to cheer you up if you don't really see it for several weeks from behind the clouds. That might be a bit problematic with the meal issue, but hey, look at the positive side of it: it's real easy to be a good vedic fellow and rise before the sunrise then.

There are only two places on Earth where the Sun does not set for six months and then does not rise for six months: the two poles. At these two locations, the local horizon is parallel to the celestial equator. If we are at the northern pole, the Sun will appear on the horizon when it reaches the vernal equinox, and it will then remain above the horizon until it reaches the autumnal equinox. This takes roughly six months. It will then remain below the horizon until it reaches the vernal equinox again. This, of course, also takes roughly six months.

Manu has this interesting verse:


According to the verse, a nychthemeron for the gods is one year for us. Their day is the udagayana, i.e. the period when the Sun is travelling north of the celestial equator, and their night is the dakSiNAyana, i.e. when the Sun is travelling south of the celestial equator. This is the condition we find at the northern pole, and the Indian astronomers always place Mount Meru, the home of the gods, there. They similarly place VaDavAmukha at the southern pole.

Manu has another verse that speaks about the nychthemeron of the forefathers (pitRs):


So, the day of the forefathers is the dark pakSa (fortnight is not a good translation of pakSa), and their night is the bright pakSa. PRthUdakasvAmin, in his commentary on the 21st chapter of the BrAhma-sphuTa-siddhAnta, has a delightful discussion where he demonstrates that the forefathers cannot be evenly distributed on the surface of the Moon; they have to all be at a particular point on the surface for the above statement of Manu to be true. (Some consider that the forefathers dwell on the Moon.)

As far as I know, the northernmost settlement on Earth is Ny Ålesund on Svalbard with a latitude of almost 79 degrees north. Thule on Greenland is at about 76.5 degrees north.

Couldn't the bright/dark division be seen simply as a general measure of time rather than a definition of how long the residents of Candraloka spend in light/dark? i.e. Couldn't they have their own Laplanders?

Interesting stuff in any case. Unfortunately I have a terrible time with abstract concepts of a mathematical or astronomical nature. I need pictures.



FYI: Govardhan used to be in the Guiness Book of Records for the hottest (permanently) inhabited place on the planet. I don't recall the temperatures listed. The hottest day I remember in Vrindaban was 54 Celsius.

That is certainly possible. I guess that PRthUdakasvAmin insists that they all dwell at one point in order that the situation becomes similar to that of the gods who all dwell at one point on Earth, namely the terrestrial north pole. Or perhaps he just wanted to show that he was able to do the math and find the place on the Moon where the ideal situation occurs.

PRthUdakasvAmin is an interesting commentators. Often the astronomers will give methods that are theoretically correct, but practically useless. It is obvious that they never really experimented, but just repeated a theoretical method handed down by tradition. PRthUdakasvAmin, however, will repeat the method, explain why it theoretically works, and then go on to say that in practice it will not work (it could, for example, be because they were not able to measure time precisely enough for the method to be useful). At the same he also gives instructions for constructing a gizmo of a cosmological model that obviously cannot be made practically. Go figure!

He also has an endearing account of how they would experiment to demonstrate that the Earth is not spinning on its axis. There are passages in AryabhaTa that state that the Earth rotates on its axis (and there are other passages in the same author denying this), but this view was rejected for various reasons. PRthUdakasvAmin had his pupils throw pieces of earth and stones up in the air, and when they fell down on their heads they would have demonstrated that the earth does not rotate on its axis


I think that everybody needs pictures and diagrams when it comes to these matters.


Interesting. You that it used to be. Which location now holds the entry?

"Used to be" in the sense that I haven't seen it listed there last time I looked. That was back some time in the early 90s.

Google finds several contenders: Djibouti, Massawa (Eritrea), Dallol (Ethiopia). All of them seem to be based on yearly averages though, and, if I remember correctly, Govardhan was in there for its summer temperatures only, not the average.

"Dal" or mong can be sprouted and you can have with rice not otherwise. Also they don't recommend milk but only butter milk allowed. Cow milk is for it's calf. They say that cow give milk that make a baby calf to become so strong in few months. that is not necessary for a human child. For human child mother's breast milk. Also the life span also short for a cow compared to human being. so they say no need for it. But of couse Krishna drink milk and it's product!
Also I forget to mention one point is eat maximum sprouts like Wheat, mong, alpha-alpha, flex etc. These sprouts can be added to salad or can be made green juice.

I personally follow this diet for the past 2 years and I feel great. I even reduced 17 Kg.

Dear Manjari,

thank you for the health tips. I always find it interesting to read how people feel different treatments working.



Could you tell something more about this, why there is more bacteria after sunset and what kind of bacteria it is? And is it in all circumstances (country, place of living, place of eating etc.) that there's bacteria in the air after sunset?

I have heard one explanation for not eating after sunset was simply that there were no electrical lights at that time and people wanted to make sure they could see what they were eating.
Make sure they were not eating bugs or other living beings in the dark along with the dahl and rice.
Sometimes it's hard enough fighting the bugs off in the daytime when your eating in India.

this of course could be a rationalistic explanation.

so there it is..

BTW
India ranks #1 worldwide in Diabetes cases and you would think right away it was because of all the sweets.
Really it's because of all the white rice comsumed.

I forget mention one very important thing is Ekadeshi fasting. If you can't do it then at least a fruit fast is recommended at least once in 2 weeks. In Ekadeshi we must not eat any thing solid only fruits and juices. Naturopathy recommends fasting with fruits than nir-jala fasting. According to an auyerveda acharya he says in that day moon position is in the stomach. any solid food in the stomach make it poisonous. I don' know what bacteria their so I did a goggle search and got this little information. It is nice article.
form the above web site I got some nice tips to your questions
Fasting is more than mere abstinence from food. Food intake leads to accumulation of toxicants in the body which adversely affect health. Fasting is one way of getting rid of toxic substances from the body since it provides rest to the digestive system. A faulty digestive system can have a negative effect on the functioning of the respiratory system, leading to breathing problems.
Acharya Hemachandra wrote in the Yogashastra Astangate Divanathe that the digestive system becomes less active after sunset. The sun is the greatest source of energy. Systems of vital physical energy remain active only because of the sun. As the sun sets, all these systems become sluggish. Food eaten after sunset is not conducive to health.
Temperance in eating, regular regimen to facilitate ejection of toxicities and following a timetable for fasting are three ways of maintaining good health in the Jain tradition. Following a balanced diet alone is not enough - internal cleansing and fasting are also important for good health. For this, we have to practice both fasting and eating
Fasting is more than mere abstinence from food. Food intake leads to accumulation of toxicants in the body which adversely affect health. Fasting is one way of getting rid of toxic substances from the body since it provides rest to the digestive system. A faulty digestive system can have a negative effect on the functioning of the respiratory system, leading to breathing problems.
Those who cannot fast, should practise unodari, that is, eat less than what is needed to satisfy one’s hunger. It is a proven fact that by eating less, one can lead a healthy, long life. Continuously stuffing the stomach is the cause of many illnesses - it can even reduce one’s lifespan. Unodari is not less important than fasting. Temperance in eating is a very important formula for good health.
Having one meal a day is a good way to minimise food intake - Ekabhattam Cha Bhoyanam. Restraint in eating was the main component of Mahavira’s self-mortification. A controlled diet helps us conserve energy. The vital energy, prana urja, is produced around the navel. It is called the samana-prana in Hatha Yoga. The navel is the centre which produces the vital energy. That energy is reduced in persons who overeat. Over-eating and constipation have a close connection because food does not get digested as it should. This leads to other problems like sleeplessness, depression and restlessness. Bhagvan Mahavira explained in the language of his times that the food intake of a healthy person consists of 32 morsels. Eating a couple of morsels less means unodari.
The third way of penance that is good for health is vritti-sankshepa. The number of items to be eaten can be limited in many ways - you can decide not to eat more than five items; to avoid certain foods or not eat on certain days. You could opt to eat only at select places. Vritti-sankshepa gives protection against many illnesses.
The fourth way to maintain health is to avoid eating foods of a certain taste. Or stagger their intake on different days. The body would be strengthened by maintaining such a balance and will facilitate the ejectment of toxicities from the body.
Once these four ways of penance are followed, you might never need a physician. But there are other factors that are responsible for illnesses like the atmosphere, season, bacteria, virus, resistance etc. Fasting and eating less are more beneficial than over-eating. This leads to saving vital energy, and conserving strength. Several other penances like navakarasi, paurushi, purimaddha, ekasana, and 10 pratyakhyanas are practised in the Jain tradition. All these are ways of saving the vital energy. According to Ayurveda, food is digested best after 10 a.m. when the bile’s function becomes more effective.
Acharya Hemachandra wrote in the Yogashastra Astangate Divanathe that the digestive system becomes less active after sunset. The sun is the greatest source of energy. Systems of vital physical energy remain active only because of the sun. As the sun sets, all these systems become sluggish. Food eaten after sunset is not conducive to health.
Temperance in eating, regular regimen to facilitate ejection of toxicities and following a timetable for fasting are three ways of maintaining good health in the Jain tradition. Following a balanced diet alone is not enough - internal cleansing and fasting are also important for good health. For this, we have to practice both fasting and eating.
another quotes from web
4. Giving up eating at night - If possible both food and water should be given up after sunset. If water cannot be given up, taking food at night must be given up.
Hygiene also says that food taken after sunset is not properly digested. Non-digestion of food leads to diseases like dyspepsia, constipation, etc. If the stomach is disturbed, surely one cannot worship god with a calm and tranquil mind.
At night many small insects are produced and they die. If we take food at night, many small insects are killed. Eating at night should be given up to save oneself from the sin of violence and also to keep oneself healthy.

Dear Vaisnavas ....
dandavats pranam
i want to know about Ezquizofrenia.
How the Vaisnavas understund this ? i readed the psiquiatric point of view.

But i want to undertund this in another point of view

Jaye Sri Radhe ! !

Dandavats pranam,

Well Dino Prabhu if you mean schizophrenia I know all about that as I've suffered from schizo-affective and OCD depression. Some time thoughts and words get incohernt wanna say 1000 things at once. Mainly I've been told its past karma and mind has transmigrated thru so many gross bodys in material world.So just have to try to build as much sukrti and spiritual lobha.

As far as Ayurveda ive heard ashwagandha can be helpful but Have pitta and have read that ashwagandha can increase pitta for now im just taking amalaki fruit for pitta etc very good stuff, lots of stuff i would like to explore in ayurveda of course takes $$ if you wanna take to many herbs. Nonetheless ive found japa and eating sattvic foods quite helpful (thank Bhagavan for that). I see many who are sick physically and mentally still eating meat smoking coffee etc. So if your on Vedic path its a very good thing, to bad we cant get mainstrean to use ayurveda then we could get ayurveda products with our insurance LOL.

well wishes