AYURVEDIC TREATMENTS AND NATURAL YOGIC REMEDIES

1. DYSPEPSIA (INDIGESTION)

Symptoms: Belching with a bad smell, watering of the mouth, distension of the stomach,
loss of the appetite, aversion to food, offensive internal gas, physical weakness, fretful temper,
constipation or loose stool containing food particles.
Causes: When we take food it is converted into a juicy mass with the help of digestive
fluids, then it is transformed into blood. Blood is the most important substance in the body.
Fruits, roots, leafy green vegetables and other alkaline-type foods, after being digested, preserve
the vitality of the blood by increasing its alkaline portion, whereas fatty and carbohydrate-type
foods increase in the acidity of the blood. If there occurs a disproportionate increase in the
acidity of the blood, then the spleen, liver, heart, kidneys, etc.., which are our blood-purifying
organs, come under too much pressure. As a result, these organs, being over-worked in purifying
the blood, become gradually so week that they ultimately fail to do their task properly.
Since the different kinds of juicy fruits can be sufficiently digested in their own fluids, the
liver bile does not have to make much effort to digest them. But in order to digest starches and
carbohydrates, the saliva of the mouth must help at the preliminary stage. Chewing food brings
an adequate quantity of the saliva into the mouth. No sooner does the food mixed with saliva
enter the stomach than the liver and the pancreas are enabled to start secreting their bile and
digestive fluids. So unless food is chewed well, the liver can never function properly.
If the quantity of non-vegetarian food is large, then the internal organs will ultimately
become weak due to the increasing acidity of the blood. Then when the food the stomach, having
already been partially digested by fluid from the liver, enters the duodenal canal, the week
pancreas will be incapable of secreting enough of its digestive fluid. As a result, the partially
digested food does not become completely into rasa (chyle).In consequence, the partially
digested food gradually decomposes inside the duodenum and thereby partially blocks the
intestine. This spoiled food creates a poisonous gas in the body which the acidic contents of the
respiratory system fails to purify. It also increases the acidic contents of
the blood to an excessive degree. This state of health is called "indigestion" or "dyspepsia".
Although dyspepsia is not itself fatal, it can be the cause of several fatal diseases. And in
social life, dyspepsia aggravates peoples acrimonious tendencies and makes them extremely
irritable. Stomach intestinal and rectal ulcers, constipation, and serious dysentery may arise from
dyspepsia

Treatment:

Morning-Utks'epa Mudra', Mayu'ra' sana, Padahasta'sana,

Utkat'a Vajra'sana, A'gneyii Mudra and
A'gneyii Pra'n'a'ya'ma.
Evening-(with constipation) Agnisa'ra Mudra', Diirgha
Pran'a'ma, Yoga'sana or Yogamudra', and
Bhu'jaunga'sana.
(with loose movement) Agnisa'ra Mudra', Sarva'-
 unga'sa, A'gneii Mudra' and A'gneii Pra'n'a'ya'ma.
Diet: Boiled old rice (grains a few yers old), soup of green vegetables; in case of lose
motion, curd(yogurt); in case of constipation, curd made from buffalo's milk, mixed in water and
taken with a little sugar. Remember that curd-water is particularly beneficial for dyspepsia
patients.

Dina'nte ca pivet dugdham'

Nisha'nte ca pivet payah
Bhojona'nte pivet takram'
Kim' vaedyasya prayajanam?
[Drink milk at the end of the day,
Drink water at dawn,
Drink curd-water after the noon meal,
Then what need for a doctor?]

Do's and don’t's: Dyspesia originates from unbalanced food habits.Eating when one is
not hungry or only half-hungry is very harmful in this disease.
It is better not to eat breakfast or any afternoon snack till the disease is fully cured.
However, if one feels hungry, one can have some sweet or sour juicy fruit, particularly of sub-
acid type, such as mango, pineapple, jam, any kind of citrus fruit(though citrus fruits belong to
the acidic group, their action on the body is alkaline),or in case of constipation, papaya. It is
important to remember that acidic foods such as lemon and curd(Yogurt)should be taken with a
little water and salt.
All non-vegetarians types of food except for small-fish, are harmful for dyspepsia
patients. Meat and eggs are poisons. All intoxicants aggravate constipation, hence they are not to
be taken either.
With dyspepsia it is very essential to take a walk in the fresh air and to do little physical
labor every day. Sleeping in the day-time and staying awake at night are forbidden. It is better to
take the

evening meal before 8 PM, and a short walk thereafter is very helpful.
Pulses are alkaline food but rich, so they are not to be eaten in cases of dyspepsia.
It is desirable to take food or to defecate when the main flow of breath is through the
right nostril. Even after food, it is desirable if the flow of breath mainly through the right nostril
continues for some time. Because that is the time when the digestive glands start secreting a
sufficient quantity of fluids to help digestion.
Observing fast on Ekadashii and regulation of the diet at night on Pu'rn'ima' and
Ama'vasya' (i-e. taking just a little milk, fruit and dry things on those two nights) is desirable.

Some remedies

1.Take 1\16 tola asafoetida (Ferula foetida Regel), fried in ghee and mixed with an
equal quantity of rock-salt, before meals.
2.Take shredded dry coconut or the flesh of a mature coconut along with a prepared
betel(Piper betle Linn)leaf or with aniseed.
3.Take jamir lime sprinkled with salt.
4.Take 1\16 tola (not more than that) of ash of a cowrie, wrapped in a betel leaf, after
the evening meal every day.*
5.For a few days take some myrobalan powder, mixed and ground with an equal
quantity of anissed powder and double the quantity of Kashii sugar(sugar refined by hand
equipment and hence a reddish color).Do not use myrobalan seeds which, if dropped in water,
float than sink.

*To prepare the ash take the kind of cowrie with knots on it; dip it in lemon or lime juice, and to
ashes.

2. HERNIA--- INTESTINAL PUTREFACTION

Symptoms: When undigested food or accumulated and vitiated stool starts building up
pressure, or the offensive internal gas caused by them puts a severe strain on the intestine, the
intestine gets dislodged from its normal position, opens a hole in the abdominal wall, and
protrudes through it. This condition is called "hernia".
If the dislodged intestine comes out through an opening left in the canal to the scrotum,
it is called "inguinal hernia". When it pushes out through the hole in the canal of the nerve fibers
and the muscular network controlling the legs, it is called a "femoral hernia". Occasionally it
pushes out through the navel opening of children, and this is called an "umbilical hernia".As long
as it is possible to push the protruded intestine back inside or to pull it back into position
temporarily through suction, this condition, though painful, does not become fatal. But if the
protruded intestine becomes hard like a rope and obstructs the normal functioning of the lower
anatomy, then the disease can be said to have reached the critical stage. When the protruded
intestine becomes trapped in the opening, causing severe suffering to the patient, then it is called
a "strangulated hernia".

Causes: Food enters the stomach and there gets partially digested. It then passes into the
duodenum (upper intestine) for complete digestion. Too much non-vegetarian and fatty food
aggravates the acidity of the blood. As a result, different hormone-secreting glands become
weak, and the partially-digested food starts decaying inside the body, creating a foul and
poisonous gas witch, in turn, puts pressure and strain on the stool-filled intestine and forces its
dislodgement. Therefore failure of the liver to digest all the food properly is the main cause of
hernia.
 Treatment:

Morning-Utksepa Mudra, Ashvinii Mudra, Mayaurasana,

Padahastana, Ud'd'ayana Mudra and A'gneyii
Mudra or A'gneyii Pran'ayama.
Evening-Ud'd'ayana Mudra, Sarvaugasana, Ashvini
Mudra and A'gneyii Mudra or A'gneyii Pran'ayama.

Diet: Because hernia originates mostly from intemperate food habits, special care should
be taken about food-especially regarding non-vegetarian food and all types of food which may
cause constipation.
Hernia patients must never completely fill the stomach, in order to prevent pressure on
the stomach.It is also desired to take a small quantity of food a greater number of times, rather
than to eat a large amount at one time. Drinking a small amount of water or lemon -water many
times a day is also advisable. A hernia patient should also remember to maintain a slight but
continuous feeling of hunger. Hernia patients should get out of the habit of straining while
defecating.

Do's and don'ts: For hernia patients, bending forward to lift heavy articles, jumping about
excessively over-eating out of greed, and indulging in sex are all very harmful.

3.APPENDICITIS—LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN

Symptoms: Swelling of appendix and simultaneous unbearable pain

in the abdominal region; fear of eating in spite of appetite or desire for food.

Causes: Adhesion to physical labor, spending much time indoors, not taking part in
sports and exercises, constipation; such short-comings, along with overeating
With appendicitis, fibrous foods, all types of non-vegetarian foods, a' tapa rice(a fine-quality,
very white type of rice) and all foods that cause constipation are strictly forbidden.

4.ACIDITY------PH IMBALANCE

Symptoms: Physical weakness, acidic or watery belching, dizziness, burning stomach,

heartburn, e t c.

Causes: Oxygen inhaled in breathing enters the body and eventually turns into carbon
dioxide .Through the influence of this carbon dioxide, the digestive fluid-secreting glands are
activated. If food is taken irregularly and excessively day after day, or if food is forced down
with little or no appetite, or if eating rich food is forced down with little or no appetite, or if
eating rich food becomes a steady habit, it becomes impossible for the digestive fluid to digest
the food properly .Then just as on the undigested or partially-digested food turns into poisonous
gas, so on the other hand the secreted digestive fluid gradually turns into harmful acid.
The digestive fluids are themselves acidic, but under normal conditions when they digest
food they themselves are digested. When ,however, as a result of the aforesaid irregularities, they
are unable to digest the food, the fluids themselves also remain undigested.
 The cause of acidity, therefore, is the poisonous gas being produced by the decomposed
food, together with the putrid acid produced by the deterioration of the undigested fluids.
The purtdid acidic gas and fluids cause a burning sensation in the stomach. When they
rise up to the chest they cause heartburn ; when they reach the throat, burning is felt in the throat;
when they rice further they cause dizziness .
Due to this excessive acidity, the blood becomes acid-dominated. Being overworked, the
blood-purifying organs of the body also become week, and the patient feels week.
This over-acidity of the blood also causes swelling and consequent pain in different parts
of the body, especially the joints.The name of this condition is "rheumatism".
When a strong and continuos effort is being made by the body's organs to purify the
over-acid blood, this condition is called "colic" or "shooting pain".

Treatment:

Morning-Utks'epa Mudra, Mayu'ra'sana,Padahasta'sana

Ud'd'ayana Mudra', Agnisa'ra Mudra' and
A'gneyii Mudra' or A'gneyii Pra'n'a'ya'ma.
Evening-Agnisa'ra Mudra',Utkat'a Pashimotta'na'sana
Sarva'unga' and A'gneyii Mudra' or A'gneyii
Pra'n'a'ya'ma.

Diet :In acidity boiled old rice(grains a few years old), soup of green vegetables(no
vegetable fried, parched, or taken in large quantity), juicy sweet or sour fruits, and curd-water are
especially useful. Curd(yogurt) alone is not particularly beneficial for acidity patients.

Do's and don’t's: For patients of acidity it is particularly important to walk in the open
air, to eat less food than the appetite demands, and to drink plenty of water, in small amounts, at
intervals throughout the day. Coconut and coconut-based food and medicines are especially
useful in this disease. patients should refrain from eating breakfast and snacks. If the hunger is
unbearable, the patient may eat a little bit of juicy fruit. A frequent symptom of the disease is
that, due to old habits, the digestive glands discharge an excessive quantity of fluids, as a result
of witch the patient suddenly feels an extreme hunger at odd times, witch is called "demon
hunger".That is why we find that a patient who is often in a depressed mood about his/her
disease, or goes around talking about the disease to everyone, when he/she sits down to eat, eats
excessively. This symptom is the result of the secretion of digestive fluids at a particular time in
accordance with the old habits of the patient. It is therefore desirable to be cautious about this
"demon",detrimental hunger. An acidity patient should never violate these do's and don’t's.
If due the over-secretion of digestive fluids the patient suffers from "demon hunger", it
can be relived by drinking a large glass of water. When the acidity patient feels pain, it is
advisable to drink orange juice mixed in tepid water. After the pain has subsided, lemon juice in
cold water should be taken. As whit Dyspesia, during mealtime and for an hour thereafter breath
should be flowing through the patient's right nostril.
At the time of severe colic pain, the dominant flow of breath should be changed from the
through which it was flowing at the time the pain started to the other nostril. Allowing the bile to
accumulate by not taking something when one is hungry should never be permitted, because in
that event the undigested bile itself will become the cause of acidity.
 Some remedies:

1.Eat some shredded dry coconut along with a prepared betel(Piper betle Linn) leaf, or
some flesh of mature coconut along with anissed.
2.To get immediate relief from a distressing colic pain, equal quantities of chalk and
a'tapa rice powder should be taken.
3.Take with cold water1/16 tola of the white portion of the ashes of the
tamarind(Tamarinus indica Linn) pod.
4.Take 1/16 tola of the ashes of white akanda leaf and rock salt after burning them together
in equal quantities in an enclosed earthen pot.
5. As with Dyspesia it is desirable for acidity patients to observe fasting on Eka'dashii days
and regulation of diet on Pu'rn'ima' and Ama'vasya'.

5. HEMORRHOIDS (PILES)

Symptoms: If there is gas and blood in the body which cannot get out, the veins and
capillaries around the anus become swollen due to the pressure, and ultimately remain swollen.
When this happens it is called "developed piles".When developed piles appear outside the anus
they are called "external", and when they appear inside they are called "internal".
When, under the pressure of Apa'na Va'yu(vital energy controlling the lower abdominal
organs), blood stars oozing out of the developed piles, they are called "bleeding piles". But not
all piles bleed .If instead, they are painful, aching, burning or itching, they are called "dry piles".

Causes: Constipation due to the defective functioning of the liver is the main cause of
piles, but generally no serious ailment can develop for one reason only. Like other serious
disease of the entire system, so there are many other reasons for its development also. The first
and foremost of these reasons is lack of physical exercise and the second is sexual over-
indulgence. Straining at stool often aggravates the disease. Remember that without constipation
and defective functioning of the liver one can never suffer from piles.

Treatment:

Morning-Utks'epa Mudra', Ud'd'ayana Mudra', Ja'nushira'sana,

Shalabha'sana or Mayu'ra'sana', Agnisa'ra Mudra,
Padahasta'sana and Ashvinii Mudra'.
Evening-Agnisa'ra Mudra', Bhastrika'sana, Sarva'unga'-sana,
Matsymudra', Shasha'unga'sana, and Ahavinii Mudra'.

Diet: If the patient of piles feels hungry early in the morning, he/she may eat some sweet
or sour juicy fruit. At noon take a lot of leafy vegetables, or soup made from leafy vegetables,
along with a small quantity of rice of fresh ruti (cha'pa'ti-flat bread made from whole-wheat
flour). Arum(Amorphophallus campanulatus (Roxb) BI ), curd-water, soup, figs, ma'na kacu,
pat'ol, tomato, spinach, green pumpkin(curcubita pepo Linn), squash(Lagenaria vulgaris
Seringe), and nu'nesha'k are particularly beneficial. The patient should drink a glass of curd-
water twice a day.
 Do's and don’t's: It is possible to achieve a permanent cure by removing the developed
piles through surgery or through stopping the bleeding by any method, because if the root causes
are not eliminated, the disease may attack again at any moment, or contaminated gas and blood
in the body may cause some other disease. Therefore, though it may not be improper to employ
some temporary expedient to stop severe bleeding at the critical stage, the liver has to be restored
in order to obtain a permanent cure. If the liver becomes healthy,
the piles will disappear without any treatment.
The patient has to be careful to have a sharp appetite at noon. With piles all axtra-alkaline
food must be carefully avoided. It is desirable for the piles patient to avoid eating plantain
spathe, plantain flower, plantain fruit or meoya' fruit. At the critical stage of the disease fasting is
always recommended. During fasting, plenty of water, and, if desired, sweet or sour citrus juices
mixed in water, may be consumed. Plains patients should not eat hot(i.e.,spicy),salty or rough
foods.

Some remedies:
1.After defecation wash the anus with alum-water. If one applies slightly-warm neem
ghee prepared from tender young neem, or margosa(Azadirachta indica A. Juss) leaves on the
developed piles, the disease will be cured within a few days. It is desirable to use this neem ghee
at bed time also.
2. In the early morning take 2 tolas of dugdhaks'ira juice on an empty stomach. This will
bring good results.
3. In cases of severe bleeding, drinking 1 tola kuksima', or in its absence durba' juice
twice a day will produce good results.
4. A very favorable result can be obtained if 1 tola of husked black sesame seeds mixed
with 2 tolas of butter are taken early in the morning.
5. The developed piles will gradually disappear if, applying a piece of simula cotton
soaked in kuksima' juice on them like a bandage, they are exposed to the sun every day for a few
days.
6. 2 tolas of myrobolan pulverised in cow's urine, taken regularly along with cane gur'
(raw sugar) over a period of twenty-one days, by liking it, will have a wonderful effect.
7. Vya'paka Shaoca before and after meals is a must for all piles patients.

6. DYSENTERY

Symptoms: Repeated need to defecate but small movement, urge to strain while
defecating, pain in the navel region, etc.

Causes: Undigested half-cooked or uncooked meat or pulses or such things, when mixed
with contaminated air in the stomach, cause an abnormal reaction in the intestine, and when the
pitta, in spite of its best efforts, fails to digest these things, they come out in the form of loose
movement. But if this loose movement does not take its natural course, then those materials start
to decompose inside the colon in an ugly way, and begin to decay the mucous membrane.
Under those circumstances, the different fluid-secreting glands of the body engage in
secreting more fluids come into contact with the undigested food and other contamined matter,
they turn into mucus. So in a case of dysentery the stool is full of mucus. This mucus is no
disease by itself but is a natural system of healing the disease.

Treatment

Morning- Utkse'pa Mudra', Padahasta'sana, Agnisa'ra Mudra',

Ud'd'ayana Mudra' and A'gneii Pra'n'ya'ma.
Evening- Same.

Diet: No dysentery patient should remain with his/her stomach empty.

All kinds of fried things, parched things, pulses, non-vegetarian foods,
as well as foods containing ghee, oil, or fat, are to be carefully avoided.
At the first attack of the disease, whether or not fever is present, the patient should take
nothing but water mixed with citrus juice (orange or tangerine juice is best).
After allowing the stomach to rest in this way for a day or two, the patient should then
gradually take other foods. Hot and freshly-boiled rice, after being rinsed for about thirty
seconds in cold water, with a little soup made from pat'al, ga'nda' la, tella'kuca' or tha'kuni
leaves; curd-water, etc., may be taken.Always keep in mind that with dysentery more attention is
to be paid to selection of diet than to medicine. Roasted bel, or ripe banana peeled and fried in
ghee, can be taken as breakfast or a snack. These foods serve as both food and medicine.
If the dysentery is a chronic case, the patient should have diner before 9 PM and take
hot luci(puri-unleavened bread puffed by deep frying) with a little bit of salt. As breakfast or a
snack, chronic patients can take jila'pii (a curly fried sweet). If the patient takes agedtamarind
(Tamarindus indica Linn) chutney in small quantity (not more than two tolas) with the noon
meal, especially old-tamarind chutney with ripe bananas, it will bring a good result.

Do's and don't's: It is very harmful for a dysentery patient to have his/her abdomen
exposed to cold.
For a dysentery patient, curd(yogurt) is more beneficial than milk, and curd-water is
better than curd.
Wrapping a flannel cloth around the abdomen when the disease is in an aggravated
state is an excellent precaution.

Some remedies:
1. If there is profuse bleeding in an aggravated state of the disease, administering a
small quantity of durba' juice or kuksima'-leaf juice in the morning and evening both, will bring
good results.
2. Sucking 1/4 tola of acacia (Acacia arabica wild) bud ground with ba'ta'sa'(small
lumpy balls of powdered sugar and baking soda) is especially beneficial.
3.For excellent results within a very short time do any of the following:
a. Take ½ tola of the aerial root (the tender part) of banyan ground in the water in
witch rice has been rinsed; or
b. Take about 2 tolas of juice from the leaves of mango, ja'm and a'marula, with goat's
milk; or
c. Take a small quantity of a'marula-leaf juice with sugar in the morning on an empty
stomach.
 d. Soak a little aniseed, masu'r da'l and micharii(rock candy) together in water
overnight in a stone or glass pot and take them as a drink in the morning after grinding them
together. Likewise, soak the ingredients in the morning and take the drink in the evening.
4.Take tender leaves of mango, ja'm and kayetbel, and pound them together to
extract juice from them. Drink that juice with salt every morning on an empty stomach and the
disease will be cured.
If you dip a piece of red-hot iron in that juice and drink the mixture, than all types of
fever will be controlled.
5.If dysentery turns chronic, take tendrils of banyan-tree shoots, pound them to paste,
and take the paste with water in which uncooked rice has just been washed. Continue taking this
remedy for a few days and it will cure the disease.

7.SYPHILIS

This disease has been found in India only in recent times. A few centuries ago it entered
India from Europe. Many are of the opinion that syphilis first originated in sheep, and trough
contact with them human body got infected.

Symptoms: In the first stage the disease will appear in some part of the body,
especially on the genital organs, as cancers .The surface around the cancers is quite hard.
Generally there is no secretion of pus or fluid from these cancers. The cancroid usually appears
in the groin. In most cases these cancers and cancroids, dry up or heal within a short time. In this
stage many people cannot recognize the disease for sure as syphilis, because not all boils are in
fact syphilitic cancers and not all swelling of the groin (swelling of a gland in the groin) is
cancroid.
In the second stage of the disease, sores of different forms , small or big according to
the type of the disease, erupt on the body, and these sores start secreting fluids of different colors
and displaying different symptoms. Syphilis which erupts due to disturbance of the v'ayu is
called 'v'ayu syphilis'. The sores pain of this type syphilis are black in color and cause piercing
pain, throbbing twinging. When the disease erupts in a body which has already been suffering
from vitation of the pitta is called 'pitta syphilis' . Its sores are yellowish in color, very ugly and
dirty in appearance, and usually generate a sharp burning sensation. Similarly, when the kapha
has gone bad, the disease is called 'kapha syphilis'. In the disease, the mucus is a white color, and
the sores are bigger in size, produce profuse secretions, and cause mainly itching sensations .The
disease produced by the blood going bad is known as 'blood syphilis'. Its sores are copperish or
reddish in colour and give out red secretions. Where general disruption of va'yu, pitta and kapha,
all three, occurs, the syphilis is called 'Tridos'aja syphilis'. In this type all the above symptoms
are found in greater or lesser degree. In the second stage the disease has been called the great
imposter because it can masquerade as most any disease.
In the third stage the disease produces radical mental impairment. This effects several
mental areas. The effect on the speech area produces a slur which prevents the person from being
able to say “Methodist Episcopal Church”. The cellular degradation extends from nerves to
muscles and internal organs. This takes over seven years and usually over twenty.
Even though syphilis and cancroid are closely related , and their causes and symptoms are
more or less the, same they are two different diseases. It is not a fact that syphilis must cause
swelling of the groin; the symptoms of , cancroid as an independent disease are the swelling, of
the groin , the ripening of the swelling, and sores on different parts of the body especially the
sexual organs. The medical name of the syphilis germ is Spirillum pallida (T reponema
pallidum), and that of the cancroid germ is 'Bacillus ducre'.

Causes: Not keeping the sexual organs clean, excessive copulation, and contact with
syphilitic men and women are the causes of this disease. Syphilitic in generally widespread
among prostitutes due to their promiscuous sexual activities, and from them healthy men get the
infection. So it may generally be adjudged that syphilis has an inseparable relationship with bad
character.
This disease can be transmitted to a healthy person through excessive association with
syphilitic persons, using their clothing, eating their left-over food , or engaging in sexual
relations with them. But the disease is not is not normally transmitted by mere association and
eating together.

Treatment:

Morning-Utks'epa Mudra', Mayu'ra'sana, Padahasta'sana,

Na'sa'pa'na and Shiitaliik'umbhaka.
Evening-Sarva'unga'sana, Matsyamudra', Naoka'sana,Utkat'a-Pashcimotta'na'sana and
Agnisa'ya Mudra'.

Diet:
With syphilis, non vegetarian food, onion, garlic, too much spice, all kinds of sweets, and
milk products are to be strictly avoided. All types of alkaline foods and foods prepared with ghee
are good. At lunch, it is good to take rise with ghee and in the evening, ruti. Vegetable soup and
fruits and roots can be eaten in ample quantity. The patient should drink enough water every day.
It is good not to take milk till the disease is cured, but one can also take milk in increasing
quantity as the disease heals.

Do's and don’t's:

A sun-bath should be taken every day at a fixed time in summer and winter , exposing the
diseased parts of the body to the sun. The sores should be carefully washed with the juice of
neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss) leaves , or any other disinfectant lotion, on a regular daily
basis , after which neem oil should be applied. Among the many processes for washing the sores
, one of the best is to apply a paste of finely-ground girima'ti (red ochre) on the sores and to
cover them with a wet cloth. The cloth should be soaked in water frequently. After doing this for
an hour or an hour and half , remove the girima'ti and the cloth .In this way the sores will have a
thorough cleansing.
Remember that it is injurious to health to suppress the secretion of fluid , blood or pus of
any skin sores by external application of medicines . So in the preliminary stage of medicines.
So in the preliminary stage of the disease , no external ointments should be used. Only after the
disease is fully developed should neem oil or any other external medicine be applied .
Fasting is also very beneficial in this disease. Syphilis patients must fast on Eka'dashii,
Pu'rn'ima' and Ama'vasya. A continuous fast for three or four days on lemon-water alone will
bring immediate relief.
 The patient should never completely fill the stomach at the evening meal , and too should
be finished by 8 or 8.30 p.m. Sleeping during the day , staying awake at night , and mingling
with crowds should be avoided . Also , marriage and sexual relations are strictly forbidden for
one-and-a-half or two years after the healing of the disease. All types of intoxicants are to be
avoided like poison.

Some specific remedies:

A.Cancroid

1.Applying lime paste on the cancroid and the raw sugar or honey on top of it will quickly
cure it.
2.Soak a cloth in the juice of apa'ma'rga leaves , than dry it and tie it over the area of the sore.
3.Grind the root of bhuinca'pa in a water and then apply the paste on the cancroid as an
ointment. The cancroid will soon subside.
4.The cancroid will subside if young ha'tishun'r'a' leavesground in water are applied as
ointment; it will ripen and burst if ointment of ha'tishun'r'a'root bark is applied. Scores will be
healed if the bark is burnt to ashes and applied after mixing with sesame oil.

B.Syphilis sores

1.Green betel(Piper betle Linn.) not ground in a stone vessel, if applied as a paste on the sores
, will heal them .
2.take white dhuna'(resin or similar mineral secretions) or the white part of dhna',grind well
and beat it with butter into a paste , then rinse i it water and again beat it well ; apply the
ointment on the sores. They will dry up within a very short time.
3.Roots of white oleander(Nerium odorum Soland) well ground to a paste water , applied on
syphilitic sores, will dry them up .

C. Ways to destroy the poison of syphilis and mercury

1.Syphilis germs will be destroyed by drinking 5 toals of kuksima' juiceevery day at dawn ; or
2.Drinking every morning at dawn 5 tolas of juice from mashed kalamii tips; or drinking
every morning at dawn 5 tolas of the juice of black basil(Ocinum sanctum Linn) leaves; or
drinking 5 tolas of anantqmu'la boiled in cow's urine.
3.Both syphilis germs and mercury poision will be destroyed by eating 1/16 tola of
apa'ma'rga(Achyrantes aspera Linn) root stuffed and boiled in a green papaya.

D.Mercury spots

1.An application of buckiinda'na ground into a paste in the urine of a black cow; or
2.An application of the leaves of papaya and bel ground together ; will remove mercury spots.

E. An excellent way to destroy the poison of syphilis

1.The patient should obtain5 tolas of curd (yogurt)and keep it overnight in a stone container .
Early in the morning mix one drop (and not more) of trishira'siija juice in the curd and drink the
mixture on empty stomach . The patient will the soon feel nauseated and will have frequent
bowel movements will stop. The patient should take nothing but barley-water that evening , and
for a few days afterwards eat only a very light diet . This is an excellent process for destroying
the poison of syphilis.

The method for preparing neem oil:

Extract neem juice by mashing or grinding the leaves . For one measure of neem juice take one-
half that measure of sesame oil and mix them together . Boil the mixture down to one-half
measure and do not boil further . Take care not to burn the oil.

8.CANCER

Symptoms: Tearing pain in the diseased region, a very intolerant temperament , hyper-
sensitivity to touch , weakness and nausea , etc., are the main symptoms of this disease. In the
preliminary stage of the disease the patient does not suffer from much pain ; so in the beginning
the disease is generally overlooked .

Causes: Cancer is a disease of the whole body as well as a Tridos'aja disease ( i.e.,
involving disturbances of vayu , pitta and kapha).This disease is a combined effect of many
different factors. It is ordinarily observed that persons who suffer from likewise are lazy , lack
self-restraint , sleep during the day and keep late nights, are most likely to be attacked by cancer.

When due to constipation , the blood and the muscle-fibre become worn by the
contaminated digestive fluids of the body and the contaminated air produced by them, cancer
sets in . Parts of the internal organs of people who are extremely self-indulgent become weak .
And as a result of the attrition of shukra , their blood loses its vitality . When such people eat too
large a quantity of non-vegetarian food, their blood turns acidic and the disease gradually
breaks out in the weaker parts of their bodies .

With those people who shun physical labor but take acidic food , chilis, or intoxicants
and especially tobacco and similar things-there is every possibility that the disease will attack.
Treatment: The appropriate a 'sanas and mudra's will have to be prescribed after
ascertaining the reasons why the patient is suffering from the disease. Constipation is generally
one cause of this disease , so special attention must be paid to regular clearance of the bowels.

Morning-Utks'epa Mudra', Na'sa'pa'na', Diirgha Pran'ama, Yogamudra', Bhu'jaunga'sana

and Karcat'a Pra'n'a'ya'ma'
Noon-Same as in the morning except Utks'epa Mudra' and Nasapana.
Evening-Mats'yendra'sana, Padahasta'sana, Utkat'a Vajra'sana and Ka'rma'sana.

If the patient is unable to perform the above four evening a'sanas, he/she should practice
Sarva'unga'sana, Matsyamudra', Naoka'sana and Pashcimotta'na'sana. If he or she also unable to
perform these , then he/she should do the same a'sanas as at non.

Taking Vyapaka Snana every day is a must . If health permits it can be taken both at noon
and in the evening.

Diet: In order to reduce the acidity of the blood and make the liver function normally,
patients will have to eat alkaline foods as much as possible , that is , all kinds of fruits and roots,
vegetable soups, etc. Depending on the condition of the liver , sufficient milk will also have to be
consumed by patients. If the liver is bad, the patient should drink coconut milk, peanut milk or
curd-water instead of cow's milk. The evening meal should be finished before 8 P.M. Also the
patient should let the breath flow through the right nostril for about an hour after each main meal
. The patient should drink about two-and-a-half seers of water every day but never more than
one-eighth seer at a time. Pineapple, jam, banana ,all kinds of citrus fruits , and tomato are both
food and medicine in this disease.

Do's and don't's: It is very good for cancer patients to take sun-baths. A sun-bath should
be taken at sunrise and also between 9 and 10-11 AM and 12 noon in the winter. After the sun-
bath, the whole body of the patient should be wiped with a wet towel . Excellent results can be
obtained if the patient applies river-mud all over the body every day and afterwards bathes in the
river . Sleeping during the day , staying awake at night, chilis, non-vegetarian food , and sexual
relations are to be strictly avoided. Walking in open places as the strength allows , and , for those
who are lazy by nature , doing some physical
labor , are also necessary. Eating a piece of myrobalan after a meal is always helpful to clear the
bowels . Patients should go to bed every night by 8-30 or 9 PM so that they may get up very
early the next morning.

9.LEPROSY

Symptoms: The Sam'skrta word 'Kus't'ha' means 'skin disease'. So in Sam'krta prickly
heat is also a kind if Kus't'ha. But what in modern Indian languages we take kus't'ha (leprosy)to
be is called in Sam'skrta, 'Ba'tarakta Roga'.
Leprosy comes about due to the disturbance of the seven constituent elements of the
body. In the other words, leprosy develops only when all seven elements of the body. In the other
words, leprosy develops only when all seven elements of the body, i.e., the chyle, blood , flesh,
fat, bone, marrow and shukra are defective.
Leprosy has three stages. In the first stage the patient starts getting a feeling of discomfort
all over the body , i.e., suffers from pain in the joints, and feels feverish at odd times. Often he or
she suffers from headaches, and sometimes sweats profusely, sometimes not at all. He or she also
suffers from general debility.
In the second stage of the patient feels piercing pain throughout the nervous system. Off
and small pimples come out on different parts of the body. Hair of the head and eyebrows falls
out; parts of the lips , cheeks, nose and eyes become sunken or swollen. Various parts of the
arms and legs also get swollen. While walking the patient sometimes feels as if some hard
objects are lodging in the soles of the feet. In the colloquial language this stage of the disease is
called 'plum-stone disease', that is , the patient feels as if plum-stones are getting lodged in the
soles.
In the third stage of the disease circular red spots appear on different parts of the body
and gradually those places become numb.
 Causes: When nutritious foods and an adequate amount of green vegetables are lacking,
and when milk, ghee and other fatty substances are lacking for day together, the blood becomes
very weak. If in this condition a person continues for a long period to take those foods which are
known to cause dysentery or constipation, or eats a large quantity of spoiled fish , meat , snails or
shell-fish, or a large quantity of bailed, dimple or su'ryi pumpkin, jhim'ge or white brinjal (white
egg-plant), then this disease gets a splendid opportunity to develop.
After the blood , the remaining six elements of the body gradually get contaminated,
because when the blood is contaminated all the organs of the body become weak . And as a
result of this disturbance of the seven elements of the body , the person's immun system loses its
strength. In the long and bitter struggle which ensues between the white blood cells and the
leprosy bacteria, the fat, flesh, blood and chyle of the body , become spent , as a final result the
extremities of the body will also become loosened and start falling off.

Treatment:

Morning-Utks'epa Mudra, Padahastasana, Agnisara Mudra , Ud'd'ayana Mudra,

Naokasana and Shiitalii Kumbhaka. Then massage the affected limbs.
Evening-Ud'd'ayana Mudra, Agnisara Mudra, Banhatraya Yoga Mudra', Sarva'unga'sana,
and Mayu'rasana.

Diet: The patient must strictly avoid all vegetarian food , All sorts of nutritious
vegetarian food should be eaten if the condition of the liver allows. Ghee, butter, or olive oil
should be in item of the daily menu. The patient should drink a large quantity of water (about
four of five seers a day, but not much at time) and should observe the rules of fasting.

Do's and don't's: Taking sun-baths is a must for every leprosy patient. Taking a dip-bath
after applying river mud all over the body is desirable . As far as possible , the patient should live
on fruits and roots, milk, and vegetable soups. He or she should not succumb to eating out of
greed. Crowds , too much food , intoxicants and sexual relations should be strictly avoided.

Generally leprosy is not a contagious disease, so it cannot be contracted simply by

touching the secretions or blood of a patient. Unless the secretions or blood of a patient get some
chance to mingle with the blood of a healthy person, or the leprosy bacteria enter a healthy
person's stomach from a patient's left, over food or breath , there is no chance of the disease
spreading.
Leprosy is mainly a disease of the poor. Unless the masses are provided with sufficient
nutritious food, the spread of the disease among them cannot be totally checked.
For a patient , either the fruit or leaves of ucche-the quality(bitter gourd (Momordica
charantia Linn,) has fever qualities)- or palta, neem or stems should be an item on the menu
every day. Heleinca, gima, brahmii or some other leafy vegetable should also be taken daily.

Some remedies:

1.The disease can be cured by licking a little myrobalan powder with raw sugar every day.
2.Leprosy can be conquered by taking gualanca extract, daily after eating three to five
myrobalan seeds; or
 3.Drinking extracts of neem (Azadirachta indica A Juss.) bark mixed with palta extracts.
4.Good results can also be obtained by covering the diseased area with a poultice of neem
leaves.
5.Also by drinking and digesting gulainca extracts, then eating rice with ghee.
6.One can get rid of the disease by drinking some cow's urine with turmeric every day at
dawn for one month.

10.EMACIATION

Causes: There can be different reasons for physical emaciation-

1.Babies produced from weak or sickly spermatozoa or ova will naturally be weak and
emaciated.
2.If the baby does not get sufficient mother's milk it generally remains emaciated.
3.When due to poverty parents are unable to provide enough milk for their children and
consequently they are fed rice and pulse or plain barley from their early childhood , their
digestive organs and livers in particular become very weak, and such children normally turn out
emaciated.
4.If out of misguided love parents treat their children lavishly by feeding them ghee,
butter, fish, meat and eggs right from baby-hood, or if due to poverty or due to some belief they
feed their children non-vegetarian foods or spicy vegetable preparations instead of milk, fruits,
roots, and other foods appropriate for children, then the livers and other digestive organs of their
children become thin.

In adults emaciation usually comes about for the following reasons:

1.Too much mental exertion;

2.Weakness of the genital organs;
3.Constipation;
4.Acidity;
5.Any prolonged chyle and blood-wasting disease;
6.Male or female diseases.

Treatment:

For children-

Early morning-Ka’rma’sana, Bhu'jaunga'sana, Shalabha'sana, Garud'a'sana, and

A'gneyii Mudra'.
Evening-Dvisamakona'sana, Cakra'sana and Granthimukta'sana.

If proper treatment is under taken to rectify the root cause of the disease, adults will
automatically develop fat and muscle .Patients must also drink a sufficient quantity of water
(about for or five seers but not much at a time ) and should take sun-bath. Patients should also
spend sufficient time in the open air and in natural surroundings.
 Emaciated children are also to be encouraged to take part in sports.

Diet: In the case of children under five, milk, fruits and roots should be their main food.
The less starches , carbohydrates and fatty foods the better, because such foods weaken the
undeveloped liver and digestive organs of children. Under no circumstances should children
under five years be fed non-vegetarian food. From that age on, starches, carbohydrates and fatty
foods may be given in gradually increasing amounts. But fruits and roots and all kind of alkaline
food are always the best diet for children. Due to poverty many parents cannot provide much
milk for their children, though they require at least three-fourths of a seer to one seer every day.

Do's and Don't's: If children get enough fruits and roots , vegetable soup and milk to eat,
their emaciation will be cured. But it is a pity that in spite of begin well-of , some gluttonous
meat-eating parents and guardians deprive their offspring of their proper diet and feed them
items like fish, meat, eggs, ghee and butter . Such a mentality is very injurious to their children.
With adults , when the root cause of emaciation is cured, the disease automatically
disappears. If depending upon the condition of the liver and the other digestive organs, adults
take enough nutritious food , do plenty of physical labor, drink water as directed and do Sika
Mardan after each bath, they can become fat and happy within a short time .

11.ECZEMA SKIN IRRITATION

Symptoms: The symptoms of eczema are-the secretion of the fluids from sores, itching,
burning and throbbing, regular yearly re-appearance of the discase, weakness of the body,
intermittent fever, and ,occasionally , as result of a virulent attack of the disease, the eating away
of the body down to the bones.

Causes: When the chyle , blood, flesh and fat , these four elements, all become disturbed,
eczema appears. That is why this disease is worse and more harmful than leucodrema, or white
leprosy. When , due to weakness of the blood (this weakness is caused in most if not all cases by
an attack of dysentery, particularly when this disease has been suppressed by application of some
astringent medicine), the skin, flesh and fat become weak and their immune systems lose their
strength, the germs of eczema are enabled to settle in a person's body. As a result of the
continuous combat between the white blood cells and the eczema germs, the dead white cells and
germs start oozing out of the body in the form of pus, or together with fluids or blood. The
patient then suffers from continuous agony, because the exudation of the pus , fluid and blood
actually starts deep inside the body.

Treatment:

Morning-Diirgha Pran'ama, Yogamudra', Bhu'jaunga'sana, Agnisa'ra Mudra',

Padahasta'sana and Shiitalii Kumbhaka.
Evening-Mats’yendra’sana, Utkat'a Vajra'sana and Ku'rmaka'sana.

Diet: All kind of light, digestible and nutritious food, excepts sweets and non-vegetarian
foods, can be taken by the patient. The patient should also consume sufficient water without
fail. Fasting is to be observed on Eka'dashii, Purn'ima and Ama'vasya' days.

Do's and Don't's : Eczema patients must stay away from foods which cause dysentery
or constipation. The diseased areas should also be given a daily sun-bath. Till the disease is
completely cured, the temptation to take non-vegetarian food and intoxicants should be
overcome.

Some remedies:

1.White oleander(Nrium odorum Soland) roots, made into paste in water, applied as an
ointment; or
2.Taking 5 tolas of a mixture of raw turmeric juice and curd (yogurt),will yield good
results.
3.Quick benefit can also be derived by applying musabbar mixed with coconut oil on
the sores; or
4.By placing lime (mineral lime) and coconut oil together in a brass pot on the previous
night, and the next morning beating the mixture into a foam. Apply the foam on the sores.
5.Take some sulphur and coal soot and grind it into a paste together with coconut oil,
then apply as ointment on the sores; or
6.Grind the leaves of kelekonr'a' into a paste in the acrid water from a water-pipe
(tobacco pipe), than apply on the sores; this will bring relief even to severe types of sores. The
area of the sores should be covered with a bandage of betel (Piper beetle Linn) leaves drenched
in coconut oil or cow's ghee.

12.SEMINAL WEAKNESS
Symptoms: Discharge of semen before or after urination, discharge due to slight
excitement or lustful thinking, decrease in memory power, headache, and weakness of the legs
(particularly of the knees), are the symptoms of this disease.

Causes: Lack of proper sexual knowledge in adolescence or early youth, loss of semen
through unnatural means, lack of restraint in married life , eating non-vegetarian food and using
intoxicants from an early age, too little physical work and too much mental work, failing to
follow the rules for fasting, bathing, taking water and sun-bathing-these are the causes of seminal
weakness.

Treatment: Treatment, diet, and do's and don't's are the same as for impotence
(Chapter 24.). Low thinking, bad company, intoxicant and non-vegetarian food should be
completely given up. Seeing pornographic literature, etc. are also to be forsaken.

Some remedies:

1.One inch of basil (Ocinum sanctum Linn.) root, if eaten after chewing very along
with a betel (Piper beetle Linn.) leaf daily for about two weeks, will give excellent results.
2.Well developed roots of the shimu'la tree should be dried in the shade and ground
into fine powder. 1/4 tola of this powder should be taken along with milk every morning.

13.PARALYSIS STROKE CEREBRAL ISCHEMIA

The brain is the apparent controller of the body and its organs. With the help of
afferent and efferent nerves, the brain receives impulses from and transmits them to all parts of
the body. This nerve center of the brain is again, broadly speaking, divided into two parts, the
right and the left. The nervous system of the right side of the brain controls of the left portion of
the anatomy and that of the left side of the brain controls the right portion. if due to high blood
pressure or some other cause any portion of the brain's nervous system becomes damaged, the
part of the body controlled by that portion of the nervous system also becomes inoperative. This
inoperativeness of a particular part of the body is called 'paralysis' or 'palsy'.

Causes: Each specific part of the brain receives one specific impulse with the help of
the afferent nerves. If, on account of high blood pressure or some injury, that portion of the brain
becomes damaged ;or the nerve-cells or nerve-fibers are served; or the afferent nerves cannot
transmit the afferent sensation to the mind. This defect or shattered state of the nerves in the
cause of loss of movement of the limbs . Similarly, if the nervous system which transmits the
commands of the brain becomes damaged, or if the efferent nerves of that system develop any
defect, then, as a result of the breakdown in the nervous transmission between the brain and
some part of the body , paralysis strikes that part of the body.

In this regard, bear in mind that when the brain cells which receive or transmit a
specific physical impulse or mental concept become defective, only the corresponding
conceptual area will be impaired. That is why it may be observed that a person who was learned
in both English and Sam'skrta may, due to an attack of mental paralysis (memory loss) , forget
all the Sam'skrta he or she knew, but keep his/her knowledge of English intact.
Nor is it the case that paralysis will always affect the whole right or the whole left
side of the body. Owing to the reasons described earlier, an attack of paralysis can be limited to
any particular limb-right or left. for instance , the right eye can be affected while the left eye
remains normal, or the right side of the mouth may be paralyzed whereas the other side is not.
The root causes of blood pressure-related diseases and paralysis are almost the same.
This is because most effects of the nerves, and their degeneration, can be traced to high blood
pressure. But paralysis can also arise from some other causes. For instance, paralysis also strikes
those whose blood is over acidic, and whose nerve-fibers consequently degenerate, due to greed,
overeating, or too much fondness for non-vegetarian food .
Those people who have an over-active Man'ipura Cakra (psychic-energy center
located at the navel) also show a dominance of the lust and anger (mental propensities) . Such a
type of person, though always found to be energetic, generally suffers from constipation owing
to excessive anger and over-activity. If these pitta-dominated persons do not find a high ideal in
their lives, they become weak in their lower bodies degenerate, and paralysis sets in there. If
these pitta-dominated persons do have a high ideal in their lives and develop paralysis, it will
afflict the upper portion of their bodies because of the over-activeness of those parts.
Remember that in most cases constipation is found to be closely associated with
paralysis.
 Treatment:

Morning-Utks'epa Mudra', Diirgha Pran'a'ma, Yoga Mudra Bhujaunga'sana, or any of

these three which it is possible to do.Paks'abadha Pra'n'a'ya'ma.
Evening-Same as in the morning.

Diet: With paralysis , alkaline foods such a fruit and roots, vegetable soup, and a
sufficient quantity on lemon juice, should be taken. In a severe state of the disease, fasting on
just lemon juice and water is advisable. The patient should drink about two-and-a-half seers of
water every day, but never more than one-fourth seer at time.

Do's and Don't's: Non vegetarian foods, sex, intoxicants, sleeping during the day,
staying awake ta night, etc., are to be strictly avoided. Taking Vya'paka Sna'na is very beneficial.
A sun-bath should be taken at a fixed time in summer and winter. The patient should first take a
sun-bath over the whole body, then, wiping of with a wet towel, should again take a sun-bath-
this time exposing the diseased area only. After exposing the diseased area to the sun a few times
in this manner for about fifteen or twenty minutes each time, the lest step is to give that area a
thorough massage , either with or without oil.

14.Gastric and duodenal ULCER

Symptoms: Indigestion and constipation, aversion to food, nausea after meals, and
pain in the stomach immediately or one or two hours after taking food, are the symptoms of this
disease.

Causes: Partially-digested food or its juice passes from the stomach into a duodenum
or upper intestine for upper intestine for further assimilation. There the digestive fluids with the
help of the bile from the liver and digestive juices from the pancreas accomplish the task of
digestion . But if , owing to defective working of these organs, the food is not completely
digested here either , then it becomes spoiled and vitiated. At the same time, the unassimilated
digestive fluids and bile also become spoiled and create an adverse reaction in the system. This
spoiled digestive fluid and bile is the cause of gastric and duodenal ulcers. Habitually
undertaking mental or physical exertion after a meal without having any rest slows down the
blood circulation in the walls of the stomach and the duodenum, due to which the membrane
lining of the organs becomes easily susceptible to the acidic poison; and the ulcer appears.

If the acid-secreting organs of the body have to remain constantly active in order to
digest non-vegetarian foods, or if, owing to constipation, dyspepsia or any other disease, the
alkaline secreting glands become weak , then the alkaline secretions in the body cannot maintain
a balance with the acids, and these extremely poisonous acidic fluids than go on with their work
unimpeded. Wherever this excess acidic fluid gets on opportunity to accumulate, gradually an
ulcer forms . In the stomach, in the duodenum, or wherever these fluids attack the membrane or
the lining, they create wounds and there ulcers are formed- gastric(stomach) ulcers, duodenal
ulcers and other types of ulcers.
 If the blood loses its vitality due to excessive mental exertion coupled with a lack of
physical labor; or due to the use of very strong and poisonous medicines ( poisons are often used
in large quantity in the form of medicines to destroy the germs of blood disease); or due to taking
injections of poisonous medicines to cure or to prevent disease; or due to an unrestrained life;
that weak blood makes the membrane of the duodenum weak and unable to fight the
accumulated acidity, and becomes ulcerated. The ulcer is in the stomach, the patient suffers
immediately after eating. But if that ulcer forms inside the duodenum, the pain starts after a short
while not immediately. In this case the pain originates to the right of the navel. With gastric
ulcers, the consumed food has less opportunity inside the body to be digested, and therefore the
patient becomes thin and worn out. But with duodenal ulcers, the change takes a long time to
show eternally.

Whatever may be the reason , if an ulcer is formed inside the body, blood oozing out of
the wound tries to find an outlet and is emitted through vomiting, or through the anus or the
urinary passage. That is why the patient feels nauseated when suffering from acute stomach or
duodenal ulcers , and after vomiting always gets some relief. Often slightly darkish blood comes
out with the vomiting (haematemesis).In a severe state of the disease the stool of the patient also
appears blackish. Even when the disease is not in the severe state, the stool comes out in pellets
and a darkish color. This disease generally attacks people in early youth and kills them at the end
of youth or in middle age .

Treatment:

Morning-Utks'epa Mudra', Yoga'sana, Diirgha Pran'a'ma, Bhujaunga'sana, Agnisa'ra

Mudra', Padahast'sana, A'gneyii Mudra', and A'gneyii Pra'n'a'ya'ma.
Evening-Sarva'unga'sana, Matsyamudra' , Naoka'sana, Pashimotta'na'sana,
Ka’rma’sana, Agnisa'ra Mudra' and Ud'd'ayana Mudra'.

Diet: In the severe state of the disease nothing except plenty of water and sweet of
sour fruit juice should be taken. When blood is vomited , the patient should be fed dura' juice or
Kuksima'-leaf extracts only. When the patient is a little better , he or she should be given a small
quantity of diluted milk with honey to drink. So long as the stool remains darkish, the patient
should be given only different kinds of fruit juice , sweet or sour; the filtered juice or ripe
tomatoes: mis'ti nebu juice; or well-boiled potatoes thoroughly mashed with diluted milk.
After the serve state of disease has passed , the patient may eat soup or stew made out
of potatoes , pat'ol, jhim'ge, dhundula or similar easily-digestible vegetables, along with boiled
old rice (grains a few years old), etc. In this state , a small amount of pure , warm ghee should be
taken with rice or fresh rut'i. So long as even a vestige of the disease persist the patient should
never eat at much at a time .Instead, food should be eaten several times a day, eating only a small
quantity each time.
The cure of this disease depends largely on the selection of diet-therefore, even after
getting well , the patient should observe the dietary provisions strictly for a couple of years.

Do's and don't's: Acidity is the main cause of this disease , so it is desirable that food
which can increase acidify be carefully avoided . An ulcer patient must give up non-vegetarian
food an all types of intoxicants. Food which would stimulate or irritate the stomach should also
be forsaken; extra-sweet, hot (spicy) and salty foods are unwholesome for an ulcer patient .
Once the patient gets well, he or she will find alkaline food best. But it is better not to take
fibrous food even after a complete cure. After normal health has been restored , the patient
should include in the diet spinach, beto sha'k, mat'ar sha'k or jute leaves to help clear the bowels
and to prevent the vomiting of blood. As a medicine , shushuni sha'k fried in ghee is also
excellent . All ulcer patients must take daily at least two or three spoonfuls of honey mixed with
water or milk. Habitually doing physical or mental work without taking rest after meals is most
harmful.

15.GALL STONES

Symptoms: The Sam'skrta-derived word for gall-stone is pitta'shmarii', Ashma'

meaning 'stone' in Sam'skrta; so the colloquial term is 'pitta'shmarii'-'pa'thar' being the colloquial
word for: stone'. The symptoms of stone formations in the gallbladder are mainly pain on the
right side of the navel region while eating, nausea after eating , and getting some relief after
vomiting. When the disease has turned into a chronic one , loss of appetite and physical debility
of the patient become very apparent.

Causes: The liver of the human being is a very important gland. The secretion of bile,
the transformation of chyle into blood , are all done by the liver . The bile secreted from the liver
is first stored in the gal-bladder , and from there it is sent to the stomach and to the upper
intestine. The impurities of the blood and the chyle are also sent into the stomach along with bile
, and from there they pass through the intestine into the rectum and are emitted from the body as
waste. If the impurities are too great, these things are carried with the bile into the gall-bladder ,
these impurities accumulate in a condensed form and gradually crystallize. In this way stones of
different sizes and shapes are formed in the gall-bladder. When , after a meal, those stones block
the bile-duct, the body's organs apply great force to push the stones out into the stomach or
intestine. This application of force causes pain.

In the first stage of the disease, the body's organs can succeed in pushing out the
stones in this way, but when the disease turns into a chronic ache and the organs become weak ,
or the stones grow larger in size, ti is no longer possible to push them out. This chronic state of
the disease is truly fatal for the patient.

Treatment:

Morning-Utks'epa Mudra', Yoga Mudra', Diirgha Pran'a'ma, Padahasta'sana,

Na'sa'pa'na, A'gneyii Mudra' or A'gneyii Praga'n'a'ya'ma.
Evening-Agnisa'ra Mudra', Ka’rma’sana and Sarva'unga'-sana.

Diet: Intoxicants , non-vegetarian food , ghee and foods that may cause constipation
should be strictly forsaken. The patient should drink plenty of water , about four or five seers a
day, and should fast on Eka'dashii, Ama'vasya' and Pu'rn'ama' on water and lemon juice
.Whenever the disease is particularly bad , the patient should take nothing but lemon-water.
Fasting without water is strictly forbidden with this disease.

Do's and don't's: With this disease, the more rest that the liver gets the better . So fruit
juice and alkaline foods are best for gall-bladder patients. The patient must also be sure to do
sufficient physical labor, because gall-stones are the disease of the affluent. They are especially
prevalent among rich house wives. With this disease, lemons are both food and medicine.

Some remedies:

1.Boil a myrobalan seed in cow's milk, then throw the seed away and drink the milk; or
2.Take equal quantities of myrobalan, mutha', lodha' and banya fruits, mix them
together and extract their juice. Take two tolas of the juice rgularly.
These remedies will bring good results . The latter remedy can be used for diabetes
also. The above medicines should be taken on an empty stomach early in the morning.

16.Chronic gland swelling GLANDULAR FEVER

Symptoms: Inflamation of different glands and their surrounding areas, with

simultaneous throbbing pain (this does not mean that pain will accompany the swelling in every
case; and in chronic cases it is natural for there to be no pain); occasional fever, and aggravation
of the swelling during the fever, are the symptoms of this disease.

Causes:

1.The liver and the spleen become weak due to chronic fever , and as a result , the
immune defense of the blood and lymph become diminished. When this happens, the glands of
the body do not get the necessary support from them, and the gland or glands which are
neglected most have to strain to continue their activity. Because of this over-exertion, the glands
start swelling and enlarging .
2.Lack of iodine in the food causes those glands which need iodine to become weak ,
and in that condition they eventually become swollen.
3.If the body becomes deficient in shukra, the last-derived of all the bodily elements,
due to the wasteful discharge of semen ,all glands lose their vitality , because it is the shukra
which helps the glands stay strong and heathy.
Some of the important glands need shukra and iodine more than others, and therefore
any deficiency is more detrimental to them .The thyroid gland of the throat is one such gland, so
it easily succumbs to attack for any of the causes mentioned above. The two main supporting
arteries of the tyroid, named 'manya', also become incapable of carrying out their normal
functions and start swelling. As a consequence the whole region starts swelling and enlarging.
The name of this disease is 'goitre' .This type of swelling may also occur at the base of the ears,
in the arm-pits and in the groin.

Treatment:
 Morning-Utks'epa Mudra', Ka’rma’sana, Ud'd'ayana Mudra', Mayu'ra'sana,
Bandhatraya Yoga Mudra', and Pra'n'a'ya'ma concentrating on the controlling point of the
relevant glands.
Evening-Sarva'unga'sana, Matsyamudra', Agnisa'ra Mudra' and Matsyendra'sana. The
patient has to observe carefully the procedures for sun-bathing, drinking water, and fasting(see
Appendix).

Diet: With this disease, iodine-containing foods such as milk and fruits should be taken
in sufficient quantity. Bananas, papayas, pineapples, oranges, tangerines, jam and tomatoes are
very good food for patients. The patient must also pay careful attention to the regular clearance
of the bowels .

Do's and don't's: This type of disease, involving glandular swelling, is found in a larger
scale in the interior part of a country than in its sea-coast regions. So if it is possible for a patient
to go to some sea-cost place for a change of air , it will yield a good result. Since there is a lot of
iodine in sea water , the air near the coast is always found to be full of iodine.
Excessive seminal loss, in the case of the male, may
cause the thyroid gland to swell, so one should be careful to preserve one's semen.
Women who have given birth to a large number of children, or who are having
menstrual trouble, especially excessive bleeding ,or who are have breast-fed their children
excessively, may also be affected by swelling of the thyroid gland.
There is no much to fear it the swelling has only been present for a short time , because
taking precautionary measures in the preliminary stage will keep this disease from becoming
incurable. But if the disease persists and turns chronic, the above-mentioned do's and don't's will
have to be faithfully observed for a long period.

17.GONORRHEA

This disease has no name in ancient San'skrta. Because of its many similarities with
urethritis (meha), this disease has been called 'prameha'in Bengali . But the English word,
'gonorrhea', is more commonly used.

Symptoms: Burning sensation while urinating; the head of the penis swelling and
becoming blood-red; passing of urine drop by drop or with a white or yellowish coloration;
seminal discharge of a white color at first and yellowish in the later stage of the disease; sores
around the head of the penis or inside the urinary passage; the penis swelling and becoming hard,
etc.;are the indications of gonorrhea.

Causes: According to medical practitioners, this disease is spread by a bacteria called

'gonococcus'. This disease originates with those males or females who are habitually unrestrained
and unclean. And those who come in physical contact with such males and females also contract
the disease. This disease is contracted by males from prostitutes, and innocent women may in
turn be affected through physical contact with those males .
Generally speaking, before this disease is clearly expressed, patients suffer from ticking
or itching sensations inside the urinary tract or inside the vagina. And if the patient scratches or
in some way manipulates or rubs the genitals , he or she will feel a hot sensation and the same
time temporary relief.

Treatment: The same as for syphilis.

Diet: All nutritious foods that do not cause constipation can be eaten . Drinking of water
and lemon juice in sufficient quantity is recommended, and the fasting rules must be observed
carefully. Overeating, using intoxicating items , and eating non-vegetarian food should be
carefully avoided. The buds , stems and leaves of uccle, palta', neem (Azadirachta indica A.
Juss.) and sajane are very good for this disease.

Do's and don't's: Though not fatal , gonorrhea is more harmful than is simple fatally
record, because it gradually poisons the life of the entire society. It is not easy to get complete
cure from gonorrhea. This disease sometimes remains latent for a long time , and a little
intemperance will make it surface again. Therefore gonorrhea patients should observe Naes't'hika
Brahmakarya (strict abstinence from sexual intercourse) for a long period of time , to avoid
having blind or deformed offspring. Even after achieving a complete cure from the disease, strict
continence must be maintained for at least three years.
If pus from this illness somehow gets into the eyes , it may destroy the eyesight. So the
hands should be washed with soap if they have been contaminated with the pus . The diseased
area should be exposed to the rays of the sun after taking a regular bath. If the pain becomes
unbearable, soak the genital organ in alum-water as hot as can be endured. For relief from pain ,
the penis can also be covered with a pack if yellow clay, leaving the urinary passage open . The
clay pack can be intermittently replaced by a fresh one , throwing away the old pack as soon as
it has dried up.
Gonorrhea generates an unbearable burning pain in the genital organ-often with stoppage
of urine or passing of urine mixed with blood. So to keep the urination clear and easy, any of the
following steps should be taken:

1. Take 1/4 seer of fresh, unboiled milk along with 3/8 seer water as a drink very early in
the morning every day.
2.Drink 1 tola of heleinca' juice.
3. Take 1 tola of raw turmeric with a drink of micharii in water .
4. Take 1 tola of a'mr'a-skin juice, mix it with sugar and drink it .
5.Drink with water 1/8 tola dry yajina d'umura seeds crushed into powder.
6.Take with sugar 1 tola of ar'ahara-leaf extract.
7.Soak ba'bla' gum in water overnight and drink it early in the morning with sugar-
water;or take a powdered cubeb(Piper cubeba Linn.f.)along with 1/16 tola of michrii.
8. Drink 10 drops of sandal oil in water.
9.Mix half a tola of white sandal powder with michrii-water.
10.Take a drink of 1/16 tola of Isabgul in michrii-water.
11.Grind the tender aerial root of a banyal tree into unboiled milk and drink it.

Some remedies:
 1.Drinking 2 tolas of shatamu'lii juice with 1/8 seer milk; or
2.Grinding sugar and 2 flowers of Pala'sha together and drinking them in cold water; or
3.Taking 1/16 tola of raw turmeric mixed with emblic myrobalan (Emblica officinalis
Gaertn.) powder along with cold water; will cure urethritis.
4.Good results can be obtained by putting 1/16 tola of alum powder into the interior of a
green coconut, burying the coconut from the morning of one day till early morning of the next,
then drinking the coconut water.
5.Take 5 tolas of water in which 8 to 10 leaves of red china-rose (Tamarix aphylla karst.)
have been mashed until the water has become reddish, then strain out the leaves and take it with
sugar as a drink, in order to relieve the disease.
6.All urethritis-type diseases can be cured by taking gulainca extract with honey.
7.If the patient suffers from severe abdominal pain, an application of the white sandal
paste on the navel region will bring relief.
8.If the secretions or pus of , have gotten by chance into the eyes and have made them red
or runny, application of a collyrium of apa'ma'rga will prevent blindness. Prepare a paste by
burning a dry twig of apa'ma'rga in a candle flame, and mixing the ash with cow's ghee. This
paste should be applied to the eyes with a pigeon feather.

18.DIABETES

Symptoms: Incessant desire for urination , burning sensation in the urinary tract,
continuous thirst and sweet taste in the mouth , attraction of flies and ants towards the urine ,
headache , dizziness, pale and dry skin , becoming old in appearance at a young age , discomfort
all over the body, etc., taken together , are the indication of diabetes. It is often found that
diabetic persons suffer from cataracts.

Causes: If is not always the case that sugar is present in the urine of diabetes patients.
Diabetes with sugar in the urine is called 'somaroga' or 'madhumeha'. Diabetes without sugar is
called 'mu'tra'tisa'ra' or 'udakameha'.
The debility of the Man'ipura Cakra is the main cause of diabetes. Amongst the
pancreatic juices, on secretion helps in the digestion of the food, and another separates the sugar
content from non-vegetarian and starchy types of food. The sugar in the stored in a particular
section of the liver and according to body requirements it is dissolved to generate heat and vital
power to run the body mechanism. Chronic indigestion (here also the stool usually turns into
pellets),mental exertion without any physical labor, use of intoxicants and excessive seminal
waste-all weaken vitality of the liver .When such weakening takes place, the sugar contents of
the food , failing to find a storage place in the liver, are assimilated into the blood and gradually
accumulate. As a result, the blood gets polluted and loses its immune properties to a great extent.
The natural reaction of the body in such a situation is to try to purify the blood by separating out
its sugar content and expelling it with the urine. To dissolve the sugar, the human body needs
plenty of water, and tat is why diabetes patients suffer from a continuous thirst. Sugar emitted
with the urine in large quantity gradually reduces the vital energy of diabetes patients.

Treatment:
 Morning-Utks'epa Mudra, Ka’rma’sana, Agnisa'ra Mudra'Upavis't'a Ud'd'ayana Mudra',
Janushirasana and A'gneyii Mudra' or A'gneyii Pra'n'a'yama.
Evening-Yogamudra', Diirgha Pran'a'ma, Bhu'jaunga'sana,Pashcimotta'na'sana,
Bhastrika'sana and Agnisara Mudra.

Diet: As diabetes is basically a disease of liver and pancreas, care has to be taken to keep
these organs in a healthy state, and to do so patients must select food that will keep their bowels
clear, yet which is nutritious and easily digestible .All types of fruits are good for this disease,
especially ripe bananas .Non-vegetarian food must never be eaten. Vegetable proteins are also
acidic, hence they are to be eaten as sparingly as possible .It is therefore advisable to reduce the
intake of rice and rit'i(made of wheat flour) and instead to use more foods such as vegetable
soup, pat'ol, okra, dhundula, palta', squash(Lagenaria vulgaris Seringe), plantain spathes and
flowers, figs, etc.,which contain alkaline properties.

Do's and don't's:Diabetes is the disease of intellectuals. Those who do physical labor
seldom suffer from this disease. Undergoing mental exertion remaining indoors for a long
period, physical laziness, constipation, intemperance, etc., are reasoned for the contraction of
diabetes. As has already been said, diabetes is basically connected with the liver and the
pancreas, hence only those foods should be selected which do not over-stimulate those vital
organs. Similarly, work and exercise which will help to bring these organs into their normal state
of health must be pursued more and more. For those who are averse to physical labor, a cure
from diabetes is next to impossible.
The human body also needs the nutrients offered by starchy and non-vegetarian types of
food; therefore foods which are not acidic but rather alkaline yet contain those nutrients, should
be taken in greater quantity to meet those needs. This will include coconut, peanuts, curd
(yogurt), bananas, etc. A drink of peanut extract and water without sugar and with little or no
honey is ideal as both food and medicine for this disease.
Remember that insulin may increase the vitality of a patient but can never cure the
disease.
Generally diabetes patients are a bit greedy, and sometimes they eat too much
sweetened food, which brings on the disease. Diabetes patients must keep control over such
temptations , and should practice fasting.
In the severe state of the disease a continuous fast for two or three days taking nothing
but a little juice of lemon or other fruit will definitely reduce the sugar content of the urine.
Sometimes sugar is completely absent in the urine . In this respect one has to remember
that sugar may be found temporarily in the urine if the urinary bladder, kidney or some other
internal organ is subjected to a blow. If in such cases insulin is given , it will actually harm the
patient. Under such circumstances the best thing to do would be to treat the injury of the
concerned organ appropriately, and then the urine of the patient will automatically become
sugar-free.

Some remedies:

1.Boil myrobalan , mutha', lodha' and banyan fruits in equal quantities and drink 2 tolas
of the extract early in the morning for a few days regularly.This will bring a good result.
 2.Crush about 1/8 seer of guava leaves in water at night . The next morning strain the
leaves out and drink the water. This will bring good results during the severe state of diabetes.

3.(a) 1 tola of yajina d'umura juice with honey;or

(b) 1 tola of tele'kuca' leaf extract taken with honey early in the morning by licking it
;will relieve diabetes.

4.(a) 1/16 tola of the inside of ja'm seeds with honey; or

(b) Dry shimu'la root crushed into powder , to be licked with honey in a quantity of
1/16 tola ;will yield excellent results in diabetes.

5.When the disease is worsening, 5 tolas of ba'nsha leaves in half a seer in water , boiled
down to 1/8 seer, and the leaves strained out , should be drunk for immediate results.

6.Boil gentle d'urba(see d'urba in Glossary), vajina d'urma , emblic myrobalan (Emblica
officinalis Gaertn.), myrobalan , coriander seets and gandha-mutha' in equal quantities in half a
seer of water. When boiled down 1/8 seer, drink it. Do this every day for a week and break it
dawn. This will bring beautiful results.

19. DEAFNESS_— TINITIS

Symptoms: At the initial satge the patient hears a buzzing sound in the ears, and
gradually all other sounds become indistinct to him.

Causes: Deafness is not a disease by itself, unless it is congenital. It is an after-effect or

reaction to some other ailment. Therefore one may find innumerable reasons behind deafness.
1.Excessive use of quinine or similar poisonous medicines for a long time reduces the
power of hearing.
2.Due to lack of nutritious food , the auditory nerves of many persons of middle or old
age weaken , and as a result they suffer from deafness.
3.Too much use of intoxicants increases acidity of blood , due to which hearing power is
reduced.
4.Persons in whom kapha is the dominant principal sometimes suffer from excess
accumulation of kapha in their system, which causes obstruction to the organs of hearing , and as
a result deafness occurs.
5.The power of hearing is sadly reduced due to excessive seminal loss, and permanent
deafness results.
6.Those who are in the habit of taking snuff or who blow their noses forcibly often
obstruct the natural function of their auditory nerves and invite deafness.
7.A disturbance in the vayu or kapha obstructs the normal functioning of the auditory
nerve-fibers and creates deafness.
8.Swelling of the inner ear or accumulation of pus inside the ear may cause deafness.

Treatment, diet, and do's and don't's: By treating the disease that the deafness originates
from gradually , the deafness will be cured.
 20.RHEUMATISM

Symptoms: Swelling and contractors of the muscles or of different joints , acute pain of
deformity of the swollen parts, etc., are the symptoms of this disease.

Causes: The causes of this disease are just like those of acidity. That is to say,
rheumatism occurs when the va'yu bodily air is disturbed due to excess of poisonous acids in the
body.

Treatment: Same as for acidity.

Rheumatism patients should drink a sufficient quantity of water (say four to live seers a
day, but not much at a time ), and should also observe the bathing and sun-bathing procedures.
First the diseased limb should be exposed several times to the rays of the sun, and finally the
entire body. The prescribed procedure for sun-bathing should be carefully followed, i.e.,
exposing the particular limb or the entire body to the sun for fifteen or twenty minutes at a
stretch at the time fixed for summer or winter months (see Appendix).When the particular limb
or the entire body, as the case may be , has become sufficiently warm, the patient should retire to
the shade and wipe the area with a wet towel. This can be repeated several times.

Diet: When a person's system becomes acid-dominated, rheumatism is the consequence.

Hence the more a patient takes alkaline types of food, the better . If three-fourths of the food is
alkaline it will cure rheumatism completely within a very short time. That is to say , all kinds of
sweet and sour fruits, and roots, are good for a rheumatism patient. Fasting with lemon juice and
water on Eka'dashii, Pu'rn'ima' and Ama'vasya' days must be observed. Instead of cooked rice, it
is better to take relatively dry food like, rut'i at night. But it is always better for rheumatism
patients to take as little as possible starchy and acidic food such as rice, rut'i, luci, etc., and
instead to take fruits, roots, vegetable soups, etc.,which are alkaline.

Do's and don't's: Just as for acidity; special care must be taken to clear the bowels
regularly.

Some remedies: All remedies prescribed for acidity are also applicable in this disease. In
addition-
1.When rheumatism first starts expressing itself, a mild purgative will cure it quickly. 10
or 12 tender leaves of soda'la fried in ghee;or
2. 19 or 12 tender leaves of bichuti fried in ghee-either of the two eaten with rice , will
yield good results in the initial stages of rheumatism.
3.Castor oil with a little salt; or
4.A'kanda gum with a little salt; rubbed on the rheumatic limbs, will give good results.
5.Rheumatism can be cured by placing a warm solution of sajane gum mixed with water
and a little asafoetida (Ferula foetida Regel) on the affected limb; or by applying.
6.Garlic, ginger and the root of apa'mar'gha, pounded together, to the affected limb.
7.Fry some pork in mustard oil on the limbs. This will ease the pain.
 8.Tiger fat rubbed on the limb will work similarly.
9.Either anantamu'la extract with honey; or
10.Gulainca extract ;duly cooled and taken in 5 tolas' quantity every morning, will yield
good results within a very short time.
11.Boil 2 tolas of triphala' in half of see of water ; and when it has boiled down to 1/8
seer and is still warm, add 2 tolas of ginger extract. Drinking this for three days will surely cure
rheumatic fever as well as to elephantiasis, filaria, or any similar condition.

21.HYDROCELLE

Symptoms: Swelling of the scrotum , swelling and stiffening of the supporting

ligaments and the blood vessels of the testicles, throbbing pain in the abdomen and in the
scrotum, swelling of the scrotum due to accumulation of water , etc.,are symptoms of this
disease.

Causes: Generally there are two possible causes for this disease; (1)internal, and
(2)external.
(1)In different parts of the body there are glands which act as a storage places for
shukra. In these glands the life-carrying spermatozoa are produced from the shukra. A males
testicles are such shukra-producing glands.
When a man's mind is subjected to lustful thinking or any short or sexual passion,
his testicles are stirred into action very quickly and start producing spermatozoa. The
spermatozoa are then channeled along with the seminal fluid to their ultimate storage sacs.
During intercourse or nocturnal emission, spermatozoa are emitted from the body in the semen.
If ,however, the semen cannot find an outlet for some reason or if its flow is unnaturally
obstructed ,then the semen becomes decomposed in the storage sacks. If under such
circumstances a particular patient is found suffering from any kind of pitta defect, constipation,
etc.,which has already weakened his blood and his lower anatomy ,then the decomposing semen
becomes watery and the person suffers an attack of hydrocele. His testicles start swelling very
slowly, and ultimately the swelling becomes permanent.
(2)Due to too much leaping about without wearing a Kaopiina (laungota),a tight-
fitting kind of underwear, or due to a sudden blow, the testes, along with their supporting
ligaments and their blood vessels, may get swollen. This results in enlargement of the testicles
and allows accumulation of fluids in them to form a Hydrocele.
If people who do not take a dip bath(i.e.,who splash water or shower without fully
immersing themselves)also bathe in a standing position ,the lower abdomen and back may
remain completely dry. This dryness may irritate the nervous system and invite an attack of
hydrocele.

Treatment: Whenever an opportunity arises, the patient should perform Vasti

Kumbhaka on an empty stomach. Rules of bathing and of drinking water should also be followed
strictly.

Morning - Utks'epa Mudra',Vasti Mudra',Vasti Kumbhaka, A'mbhassi Mudra',or

A'mbhasii Pra'n'a'yama,Sarva'unga'sana and Gomukha'sana.
 Evening - Upavis't'a' Ud'd'ayana Mudra',Agnisa'ra Mudra and Utkat'a Vajra'sana.

Diet: If the condition of the liver permits,all types of nutritious food can be
taken.However,a very close watch must be kept on the regular clearing of the bowels. Fast on
Eka'dashii,Pu'rnima' and Ama'vasya'.

Do's and Don't's: Sexual thoughts and excitement are among the causes of hydrocele,so
the more one can stay away from these things the better. Patients should use Kaopiinas. Alternate
applications of cold and hot compresses will give quick relief.

How to apply a compress: Lying in a supine position, apply an ice pack or an ice-cold
water compress on the testes for fifteen to twenty minutes at a stretch. After the tissues have
become thoroughly cooled, a warm flannel compress should then be applied to the skin for about
one or two minutes to bring back its warmth. Again, apply the cold compress for fifteen to
twenty minutes, following it with a warm compress as described above. At night before retiring
to bed, alternate cold and hot compresses should be applied a few times in a similar manner. The
last compress of the night should be a cold one instead of hot- to keep the tissues of the testicles
cool for the night.

Some remedies:

1.Wrap the testicles in kadamba leaves; or

2.Dissolve ammonium chloride in a water use a wet bandage soaked in that solution; or
3.Pound opium and white sandal into paste together and apply the paste on the testicles;
or
4.Grind leaves of mango,ja'm, kayetbel and lemon together into a paste, and apply it to
the testicles; in order to relieve hydrocele.
5.Apply the root of Brahmayasti or bamunha'ti ground in the water with which rice has
been washed; or
6.On any Tuesday, tie a root of a barren jujube plant (Zizyphus jujuba Lam.) around the
waist in such a manner that the root remains dangling down touching the testicles; these
remedies will relieve hydrocele.
7.Good results can also be obtained in a very short time if one ties fibers of bora'caka
leaves around the waist.

22.KIDNEY-STONES

Symptoms: Difficulty in urinating, passing of urine drop by drop instead of in a flow,

stoppage of urine, blood in urine, etc.,are symptoms of kidney-stones.

Causes: The kidneys are located one on each side of the body, just below the liver and the
spleen. When the liver, busy in its manifold duties, is not entirely capable of doing its job of
purifying the blood, the remaining work is taken up by the kidneys. The kidneys, after filtering
out the wastes and impurities and surplus water of the body, supply pure blood to nourish the
body. The surplus water and waste materials and from there are passed on to the bladder.
Ultimately these waste fluids are expelled from the body through the urinary tract as urine.

If the acid content of the blood becomes excessive or if the blood suffers from other
poisonous contaminations, this upsets the heart, liver and kidneys. The harm may be so great that
the heart becomes incapable even of exerting sufficient pressure to keep the blood circulating
unobstructed through the blood vessels. If such a situation continues for some time, the different
waste materials found in the urine (accumulated naturally in the collecting system of the kidneys
and in the urinary bladder)become high in proportion to the surplus water found there. And when
that urine becomes sedimented, the waste materials start crystallizing. These crystals or stones
can occur in different sizes and kinds. During urination, the presence of these stones blocks or
obstructs the natural flow of urine. In that situation the bodily organically tries to eject these
stones from the kidneys to assure the flow of urine. This very effort of the organs is very painful
for the patient. So wherever urine containing such impurities gets a chance to settle, the
impurities crystallize and form kidney stones.

Treatment, diet, and do's and don’t's: Same as for gall-stones.

Some remedies:

1.Urinary trouble will be eased by soaking 2 tolas of linseed or kula'ttha kala'i overnight
in 1/8 seer of hot water and drinking it in the morning; or
2.By drinking 2 tolas of the juice of pa'tharkuci leaves with water.
With this disease also, the patient must consume a great amount of water, and use plenty
of lemon, and should never fast without water. The more one can fast on water and lemon juice,
the better.
Boil milk with a myrobalan seed and drink the milk after removing the seed; or mix
myrobalan, mutha', lodha' and fruits in equal quantity and drink 2 tolas of their extract. This will
yield good results within a short time.

23.TUBERCULOSIS

Symptoms: Rattle of the throat in the morning and evening, hoarse voice, dry cough; or
sputum with flecks of blood, or bloody vomiting; feeling slightly feverish from evening on; pain
in the chest and back; general debility; and sweating at night- especially sweating of the head-
are the main symptoms of tuberculosis.

Causes: Tuberculosis germs are present in almost all human bodies in greater or lesser
numbers. So long as the strength of the blood and vitality of the human body remain normal,
tuberculosis germs cannot do any harm or cause any disease. If, however, the strength and purity
of the blood break down for any specific reason, then the tuberculosis germs get a chance to
settle in different glands and joints and start multiplying.
Persons with pure blood usually have sound lungs- that is why it is not possible for
tuberculosis germs to attack them. But when the strength of the lungs declines due to weakening
of the blood, the germs succeed in establishing a foothold in them. Under such circumstances, to
maintain their own health, the lungs try to expel the germs. This attempt takes the form of
coughing.
Such coughing is a natural phenomenon to keep the body free of mucus and is not at all
harmful. The best way to recognize this harmless type of cough is that there is almost always
some phlegm or mucus coming out with it. But when the cough happens to be dry and persists
day after day, then it should be understood that there must be something seriously wrong in the
system or that the tuberculosis germs are trying to dig into the lungs with all their might. This
condition is the first stage of tuberculosis. In this stage there is usually a feeling of general
debility, accompanied by night sweats- other symptoms are not so fully expressed.
In the subsequent stage of the disease, nature starts forming mucus around the diseased
parts of the body in order to keep the internal organs strong and active. That is why a little bit of
mucus is usually brought up while coughing. After the germ has managed to acquire a firm
foothold in the lungs ,the mucus also shows some flecks of blood, and the patient suffers from
pain in the chest and back. Due to obstruction of the natural movement of the body's fluids, a
rattling sound and hoarseness appear in the throat. In the evening a fever of 99- 100 F. occurs.
Sometimes the patient vomits blood also.
'Begarodha't ks'aya'cchaeva sa'hasa'dvis'ama'shana't'- that is, when the fluid elements or
the vital energy of the body becomes obstructed, people suffer an attack of tuberculosis. When
tuberculosis attacks as the result of such obstructions, patients become emaciated and lose
strength of mind within a short passage of time.
The final essence of the human body is shukra. As butter is obtained by churning milk,
similarly the essence of the blood turns into shukra. Due to the excessive wasting of this essence
of the body, shukra, the blood becomes lifeless and the vital energy decreases. As a result,
tuberculosis germs easily get a chance to acquire a foothold in the body.
If people labor beyond their capacity, whether just taking a risk, or driven by the mentality
of gaining applause or by financial greed, then their vital energy is reduced and tuberculosis may
attack.
If any person is long habituated to eating badly-combined foods, such as meat, fish, eggs
and similar Ta'masika foods immediately before or after milk ,ks'iira (a kind of rice pudding) and
similar Sa'ttvika foods, then those foods create a favorable condition in the body for
tuberculosis.

Overeating day after day when one is only a little hungry or not hungry at all is also a bad
food habit. Such harmful habits encourage tuberculosis germs.

If one for a long time cannot obtain enough food or takes unnutritious food, this is also a
bad food habit. In most cases such habits are the main cause of tuberculosis.

There are many other possible reasons for this disease, such as:
1.Blood weakened by acidity due to excessive use of intoxicants;
2.Liver, blood and digestive organs weakened by taking too much non-vegetarian food;
3.Weakening of nerves, veins, arteries and glands of the pelvis by too much indulgence in
sexual intercourse;
4.Living in unhealthy surroundings;
5.Too many persons living crowded together;
6.Close contact with tuberculosis patients;
 7.Drinking the milk of tuberculosis animals or eating their meat.

One has to remember in this context that wild birds and animals hardly ever suffer from
this disease, whereas if often breaks out among domestic animals such as cattle, horses, ducks,
hens, etc. Those persons who have not suffered from tuberculosis even when they have been
using the milk or meat of domestic animals for a long time can be presumed to possess
exceptionally great vital energy.

Among the domestica animals, goats sheep, dogs, cats and rabbits are seldom found to
suffer from tuberculosis. That is why ancient people use to advise tuberculosis patients to live in
close proximity to rabbits. In the Hindu Pura'n'as(mythology)it is said that the moon also once
suffered from this disease, and since that time has kept a rabbit on his lap to counter the disease.
Therefore another name for the moon in the Pura'n'as is Shasha'unka'(the Sam'skrta word for
rabbit' is 'Shasha' .

Extreme mental exhaustion and despondency in life also destroy people's vital energy, and
as a result, tuberculosis may strike. Tuberculosis of the lungs, or pulmonary tuberculosis, can
very quickly destroy the vitality. For this reason pulmonary tuberculosis is the most dangerous
kind. However, tuberculosis germs can strike any part of the body, and the causes are the same
wherever is strikes.

One who does not suffer from constipation nor wastes his semen seldom becomes a
victim of tuberculosis. This is because, in the first place, in such persons there is no possibility
for undigested food, stool or unassimilated pitta to cause any contaminated gas or to breed any
kind of harmful bacteria. And in the second place, the sufficient supply of lymph provides
vitality to the blood and thereby strengthens the body.

Remember that:

Mala'yattam' balam' pum'sa'm'

Shukra'yattam' ca jivitam'.
[One who has control over the bowels grows stronger,
And one who has control over his semen enjoys long life.]

Treatment:

Morning- Utks'epa Mudra',Karma'sana, Agnisa'ra Mudra',Matsyendra'sana,Diirgha

Pran'a'ma, Yogamudra', Bhu'jaunga'sana and Va'yavii Mudra' or Va'yavii Pra'n'a'ya'ma.

Evening- Sarva'unga'sana, Matsyamudra', Naoka'sana, Utkat'a Paschimotta'na'sana and

Agnisa'ra Mudra'.

Diet: Due to deficiency in blood and in body fluids, tuberculosis patients lose vigor very
quickly; so tuberculosis patients should take easily-digestible and nutritious foods. One should
never eat very much food at a time. Foods that may cause constipation should be carefully
avoided. Depending on the condition of the liver, one should drink sufficient cow's milk, goat's
milk, peanut milk or coconut milk. Spices, meat, eggs, ghee and a'tapa rice should not be taken
until the disease has been completely cured, because such types of food cause constipation.
As with most other diseases, acidic food should be avoided. Instead, alkaline types of
food, such as sweet and sour fruits and roots of all varieties, and soup of green vegetables, are
ideal for tuberculosis patients.

Critically-ill patients should not take anything other than lemon juice and fruit juice.
Afterwards, as the critical stage of the disease abates, they should eat nutritious yet easily-
digestible food of alkaline type as far as possible. Non-vegetarian may be permitted to eat soup
of small fish made with a little spice .It is far better for tuberculosis patients to use honey than
raw or refined sugar. At night, rut't instead of rice should be served. They should also consume
about two-and-a-half to three seers of water daily, but never more than one-eighth seer at a time.
Fasting without water is strictly forbidden for all tuberculosis patients.

Do's and don't's: Tuberculosis patients should never exert themselves physically. If the
health permits , will of course be beneficial for them to take walk through an open field in a light
and happy mood . Taking Vya'paka Sna'na daily and having sunbaths in summer and winter at
proper time (See Appendix) are also very useful in the cure of the disease. As far as possible ,
sun-bath should be taken completely naked and all over the body .After the sun-bath is over , the
whole body should be wiped with a wet towel .
Patients should always try to retain confidence and strength of mind. They should not
allow despondency about the disease to get the upper hand in their minds.
A patient's bedroom and bed must be dry , and there must be good ventilation and
lighting.
On the whole, the more patients remain in natural surroundings the better; they should
guard against cold or sudden gusts of wind by covering their bodies with a wrapper of some
kind. It will harm them if they are not allowed to take baths or if they are confined indoors for
fear of their catching cold, because such restrictions will rapidly diminish their power of
resistance.
Too much talking, sexual intercourse , eating together with healthy person, etc.,are
strictly forbidden. Removing body hair is not advisable , but their bodies should always be kept
very neat and clean .
Tuberculosis patients should also avoid staying awake at night , traveling from one place
to another, and engaging in much mental exertion. If they vomit blood, they should not get
scared , but take Vya'paka Shaoca Kriya' at once, washing the head , then place a wet towel on
the chest and keep it there until they feel better, wetting the towel in cold water periodically and
wringing it out.

Some remedies:

1.Mix equal quantities of berela, ga'mbha rii, shatamu'lii, ashvagandha and punarnava,
dried and powdered , and take 2 tolas of the mixture with honey. Soon after, the patient should
drink a glass of goat's milk , boiled just once. This will give good results with tuberculosis.
2.It is desirable for patients to take every evening one spoonful of a mixture of bara elac,
powdered along with the husc, and powdered cinnamon , mixed in equal quantities.
3.Cut a gola pigeon into pieces , discarding the feathers, and dry the pieces in the sun.
Powder these dried pieces and give tuberculosis patient 6 ratis (6 ratis=73 gram) of the powder
with honey every morning.

24. Impotency and infertility

Symptoms: Quick discharge of semen, absence of any pleasurable nervous sensation ,

loss of reproductive capacity , fathering still-born or short-lived children, etc., are symptoms of
this disease.

Causes: In most cases , if not all, impotency is a disease of the intemperate. There are
various causes of this disease -

1.When the seminal receptacle is already full, a passionate thought will bring a seminal
discharge in no time. This is called mental impotency.
2.Excessive accumulation of poisonous acid or pitta in the body can also effect a quick
seminal discharge. Under such a condition the pitta of the male eliminates the possibility of
conception by killing female ova. This is called pitta impotency.
3.If the male and female have a bitter relationship, the resulting mental conflict in the
male can bring about a quick emission and destroy chances of conception. This is called conflict
impotency.
4.If excessive waste of semen occurs due to the bad habit of masturbation during
adolescence or youth , or due to lack of restraint in married life ,the seminal fluid becomes thin
and the symptoms of seminal weakness appear. This is also a kind of sexual debility, and is
called seminal infertility.
5.If one is engaged in much mental or spiritual effort or devotes much time to Dhya'na,
Dha'rna'a', and Pra'n'ayama, then his shukra takes too much of an upward course, due to which
his testes cannot produce sufficient spermatozoa: in the absence of passionate thoughts,
spermatozoa cannot be formed. That is why it is usually observed that scientists and other
intellectually- inclined men father no children ; or if they do , the children are very short-lived.
This is known as infertility due to a ascension of shukra.
6.Due to chronic venereal diseases such as gonorrhea or syphilis , sometimes males
and females suffer from impotency or infertility.
7.A serious lack of sexual restraint will make the nerves of the pelvis and genitals
weak or damaged. The penis loses its power of erection and becomes very weak . This is called
genital impotency.
8.If there is a congenital weakness of the genital organs , testes, ovaries, etc., this
disease is called congenital impotency. This type of impotency is not curable without surgery or
intense meditation. Of course , with the help of surgery or intense meditation , it is not
impossible to convert a male person into a female or vice versa.
Females who lack sexual self-restraint may also suffer from infertility (analogous to
seminal infertility in the male ). Such infertile females suffer from severe abdominal pain during
intercourse and also from chronic constipation.
Over-indulgence in sexual intercourse may also bring frigidity to women. Such frigid
women do not have any particular nervous sensation during sexual intercourse.
 Treatment:

Morning-Utks'epa Mudra',Bandhatraya Yoga Mudra',Mayura'sana, Karma'sana and

A'mbhassi Mudra' or A'mbhassi Pra'n'a'ya'ma.
Evening-Sarva'unga'sana, Matsyamudra', Padahasta'sana, Matsyendra'sana and
Vajra'sana.

In the cases where impotency or infertility is just the result of some other disease,
proper treatment of the original disease should be undertaken and the impotency or infertility
will also disappear when the original disease is cured.

Diet: Depending upon the capacity of the liver, all kinds of nutritious food should be
taken. The patient should daily drink a sufficient quantity(four to five seers)of water. Fasting
should also be observed on Eka'dashii,Pu'rn'ima' and Ama'vasya' days as prescribed.
Sufficient butter or ghee should be taken along with rice or rut'i.If the liver is
healthy,the patient should drink one seer of milk every day.With this disease, squash(Lagenaria
vulgaris Seringe), green pumpkin(Cucurbita pepo Linn.)and kalamii sha'k can be considered
excellent food.

Do's and don't 's: As I have already said,impotency and infertility,in most cases if not
all,are diseases of over-indulgence;so one should keep control over his/her thoughts and
actions.The male should stay away from feminine company as long as the disease is not fully
cured.During the disease Naes't'hika Brahmacarya(complete abstinence) must be observed.The
prescribed rules for bathing and sun-bathing should be followed.

Some remedies:

1.Ma'skala'i fried in ghee and then boiled in milk and taken with sugar;or
2. 1 tola of sha'lama mishrii (a kind of Afghan fruit) taken with milk and micharii;or
3. 1 inch of basil (Ocimum sanctum Linn.) root chewed and eaten with betel (Piper
betel Linn):or
4.Shimu'la-root (Salmalia malabarica Schott & Endl.) powder taken with milk; will
give relief in this disease within 2 to 3 weeks.
5.Rubbing the essence of na'geshvara (Na'ga Keshara)on the penis will give good
results with impotency.
6.The powder of bhu'mi kus'ma'nd'a is an ideal medicine for seminal weakness,
impotency and infertility.
Method of preparation: Cut the bhu'mi kus'ma'n'da into pieces and dry the pieces in the
shade. Next day pour some more bhu'mi kus'ma'n'd'a juice on these cut pieces and dry them
again. Repeat the process of seven days. After the final drying ,powder the pieces and mix 1/4
tola of the powder with a tola of ghee and 2 1/2 tolas of milk. Drink this amount every day early
in the morning. Generally this will cure impotency within 2 or 3 weeks.
7.Grind the root of puin in water, and when it becomes a fine paste, mix it with 1/4
seer of water and drink it. Then take the soup of ma'skala'i which has been soaked in water, with
sugar. This will give excellent results with impotency.
8.Take regularly as medicine for 2 or 3 weeks punti fishor the middle portion of rui
fish fried in ghee. This will cure infertility caused by over thin semen.

25.BLOOD-PRESSURE DISEASES

Symptoms: Lack of sound sleep, getting up a number of times at night to urinate,

headache, dizziness, palpitation or pain in chest, etc.

Causes:
1.Usually those who do little physical labor but at the same time have a lot of fatty
foods such as oil,.ghee, etc.,in their diets become victims of high blood pressure. Fat, in the
absence of any physical activity, does not get an opportunity to break down and be converted
into heat or energy. The surplus fat turns the body into a mass of flash and fat, and this exerts an
undue pressure on the various organs and glands of the body.
When this surplus fat accumulates within the veins and arteries, in narrows the passage
available for the blood. As a results, the blood vessels fail to help the heart in maintaining
adequate blood circulation. Under such circumstances, to keep the blood circulation normal, the
heart has to overwork.

2.Those who do not undertake much physical labor, but eat substantial quantities of
nutritious food, suffer from excessive blood formation in their system. This surplus blood, after
being converted into flash and flat, gradually obstructs the activity of the blood vessels, as
previously described, and produces too high a pressure of blood on the heart.

Meanwhile, the different bodily organs and glands of those who have an excess blood
supply and whose hearts are under too much pressure, become over-active, and it generates anger
or sexual passion in them. So in people with this type of high blood pressure, sexual desire and
anger grow along with the disease. Sometimes this extreme anger or desire causes death due to
bursting of the blood vessels.

3.Those who shun physical labor, yet eat an abnormal quantity of animal or vegetable
proteins, risk injury due to the surplus protein in their systems. Human bodies have no place to
store surplus protein, because they have no need to store it.So the organs of the body try to expel
it from the system.
This surplus protein decreases the alkaline portion of the blood and increases the
acidic portion. Over-acidity of the blood weakens the blood -producing and blood-purifying
organs, such as the liver, kidneys, etc.,and as a result the veins and arteries also get hardened and
weak. These hardened, weak blood vessels cannot maintain the blood circulation, due to which
the heart comes under heavy pressure. In this condition, to keep the bodily organs functioning
normally, the heart has to over-exert. But the weak blood vessels cannot bear this over activity of
the heart; they burst and cause internal hemorrhaging.
4.For various reasons the blood-producing and blood-purifying organs may become
weak. And when they become quite weak, one gets less than the required quantity of blood for
the body. In this condition the patient suffers from lack of sleep, headache, dizziness, serious
physical weakness, etc. This is called low blood-pressure.

Treatment:
 Morning- Utks'pa Mudra',Karma'sana,Yogamudra',Diirgha Pran'a'ma,
Bhu'jaunga'sana,Agnisa'ra Mudra',and Va'yavi Mudra' or Va'yavii Pra'n'a'ya'ma.
Evening- Karma'sana,Yogamudra',Diirgha Pran'a'ma,Bhu'jaunga'sana,Agnisa'ra
Mudra' and Upavis't'a Ud'd'ayana Mudra'.
Wonderful results can be obtained if Iishvara Pran'idha'na(meditation) is practiced by
patients as taught by an A'ca'rya. In fact, so long as patients have not acquired the capacity to
perform a'sanas and and mudra's,Iishvara Pran'idha'na is the only medicine for the disease.With
this disease Vya'paka Sna'na is especially helpful.

Diet: With blood-pressure diseases all acidic foods are to be rejected and alkaline types
of food are to be rejected and alkaline types of food are to be taken in increased quantity. As far
as possible, food such as rice , pulses and rut'i should be eaten in less quantity, and fruits , roots
and leafy-vegetable soup be avoided. Fried, parched and sweetened foods are also harmful. If
one feels the need , a little raw sugar or honey can be taken.
The amount of physical labor should gradually be increased and mental exertion should
be decreased and mental exertion should be decreased. But those who are suffering from low
blood pressure should decrease their physical labor until the disease is cured.
Fasting is very beneficial in this disease, so patients must fast on Eka'dashii, Pur'rn'ima'
and Ama'vasya', taking only water. Those who are physically weak, however, can drink lemon
juice with water .It is desirable for patients of low blood pressure to take milk, fruit juice , etc.,
on fasting days.
Those who suffer from high blood pressure due to do much fat should drink curd-water
or coconut milk instead of milk. Patients should carefully abstain from using intoxicants and
should be careful to avoid eating constipating or fattening foods. They should also stay away
from anger and sex.

Do's and don't's: The do's and don't's prescribed for heart disease should generally be
observed here also .

Some remedies:

1.Take one small spoonful of cardamom powder with a little honey twice a day.
2.Take one spoonful of sarpagandha' juice with a little honey twice a day; or
3.Take 1/16 or 1/8 tola of sarpagandha' root powder with a little honey and triphala'
juice twice a day.
4.Powder of bhumi kusama'n'da in 1/16 tola quantity should be taken twice daily with
honey .
5. 1/16 or 1/8 tola of dried sarpagandha' root powder with michrii-water should be
taken twice daily.

26.ELEPHANTIASIS

Symptoms: Swelling of the legs ,gradual thickening and wrinkling of the skin ,
intermittent fever , and throbbing pain are the indications of this disease. Usually elephantiasis
attacks the legs , but sometimes it attacks the arm also. The legs will grow resemble those of
elephants; that is why in English the disease is called 'elephantiasis'.

Causes: By the side of the arteries there is another system of vessels called
shukrabaha' na'rii. These vessels , by carrying the most essential element of the body, the shukra,
to various parts of the body, maintaIn the vitality of the nervous system, cells and glands. These
shukrabaha' na'rii supply shukra to the sperm producing glands, and with the help of the
spermatozoa or ova-produced in those glands, help to maintain the immune power and the very
existence of the body. If , due to constipation , too much pitta in the body, over-acidity ,
excessive seminal discharge , or malnutrition, or due to a woman's giving birth to many children
, the person's blood has lost its vigour or become contaminated , then a certain type of microbe
starts breeding in it. When these microbes enter the shukrabaha' na'rii and get a chance to settle
here, they obstruct the flow of shukra and cause the vessels to swell. This swelling of the
shukrabaha' na'rii takes the form of elephantiasis.

Teatment:

Morning-Utks'epa Mudra', Padahasta'sana, Agnisa'ra Mudra', Ud'd'ayana Mudra',

Diirgha Pran'a'ma, Utkat'a'sana, Yogamudra' and Naoka'sana.
Evening-Sarva'unga'sana, Matsyamudra', Matsyendra'sana and Agnisa'ra Mudra'.

Patients should properly follow the rules for bathing, drinking water and sun-bathing.

Diet: All kinds of nutritious food can be eaten if the condition of the liver permits.All
kinds of fruits and roots, especially sour fruits, are good with this disease.Patients should observe
fast on Eka 'dashii, Pu'rn'ima' and Ama'vasya days.

Do's and don't's: Doing regular physical labor and control of diet and thought are
essential for elephantiasis patients. Leave of heleinca' and punarnava' are most beneficial in this
disease.
As far as possible , patients should keep the diseased limbs wrapped in flannel cloth.
Before retiring to bed, put a hot flannel compress on the diseased limbs .Good results are also
obtained by keeping the affected limbs wrapped in kadam leaves , or , before retiring to bed for
the night, wrapping the limbs in a bandage soaked in water mixed with ammonium chloride.

Some remedies:

1.Very early in the morning take 1 spoonful of sesame oil or pure mustard oil , mixed
with an equal quantity of gulainca juice on an empty stomach; or
2.Take some myrobalan powder mixed with urine of a goat or a cow on an empty
stomach at dawn: to help in recovery from elephantiasis.

27.ASTHMA

Symptoms: Difficulty in breathing , caused partly by kapha and partly by Va'yu, is

the symptom of this disease.The attack is usually felt towards the end of the night.
 Causes: When the fine bronchial tubes through which air flows to the lungs become
full of phlegm or mucus due to wekness of the glands connected to the Ana'hata Cakra, the
passage of air becomes obstructed.Due to contraction of the weak bronhical tubes , the carbon
dioxide of the body cannot come out as it should , and that poisonous gas, trapped in the body, is
too large extent responsible for the breeding of disease germs.

The weakening of the glands connected to the Ana'hata Cakra cannot alone be
responsible for permanent respiratory trouble , When weakness of the glands related to the
Man'ipura Cakra-as a primary cause-and of those related to the Vishuddha Cakra-as a secondary
cause -is added to the weakness of the glands of the Ana'hata Cakra, then only does a respiratory
disease express itself. If, due to weakness of the digestive fluids, the blood gets contaminated by
acids, or if one is suffering from constipation, then different organs of the body also become
weak .In such a condition , due to weakness to the lungs, the nervous system controlling the
lungs also suffers from debility and finally the bronchial tubes as well become weak. That is the
time when asthma becomes fully manifest.

Treatment:

Morning-Utks'epa Mudra' , Naoka'sana, Padahasta'sana, Matsyendra'sana and

Va'yavii Mudra',.Vya'paka Sna'na should be taken at morning and noon.
Evening-Sarva'unga'sana, Pashcimotta'na'sana, Yogamudra', Bhastrika'sana and
Ud'd'ayana Mudra'.

Diet: For breakfast patients should eat local sweet or sour fruits, or meoya' fruits
soaked in water for a few hours. A little lemon juice should be consumed a number of times
during the day. The patient should never completely fill the stomach. The bowels should be
cleared carefully, because constipation aggravates asthma. As for food , a small quantity of hot
boiled rice or rut'i , together with sufficient leafy-vegetable soup, milk, curd (yogurt) or curd-
water should be used. In fact all alkaline foods are beneficial in this disease. Ghee, oil , rice,
pulses, rut'is these are taken the better.

Do's and don't's: Milk should be the best main drink for asthma patients. It is better
for them to finish the evening meal as early as possible, certainly by an hour and a half after
sunset, that is, by 7:30 or 8 PM, because it will keep the stomach light , having digested the food
well before dawn. Then acute asthmatic spasms cannot occur. Remember that asthmatic spasms
cannot occur when one's stomach hungers for food, so in a severe attach of asthma, the more one
fasts, the better.
Asthma patients should strictly abstain from all sorts of intoxicants.Anyone who
drinks less than three-fourts seer of milk a day should not drink even one cup of tea. Also, all
non-vegetarian types of food are to be rejected.
For a person who cannot avoid eating non-vegetarian food , a little soup of small and
freshly-caught fish is permissible. In those countries where it is almost impossible to obtain
vegetarian types of food, patients should use myrobalan or some other laxative agent after meals
in order to save themselves from constipation. Sweet and fried foods are also harmful for asthma
patients. In summer , winter and in all seasons, patients should take a long walk in the open air.
 Some remedies:

1.Excellent results can be achieved if the patient takes one tola of the branch-roots of
white punarnava' ground together in river water with 2 ½ pieces of black pepper. Do this on an
empty stomach while sitting facing north, on any Monday, after bathing.
2.Boil 5 tolas of cow's ghee in a ka'nsa' pot.In anotheer pot heat 2 1/2 tolas of ginger
extract, and mix it into the boiled ghee and cover with a Ka'nsa' plate. When the mixture has
stopped simmering, take about 2 tolas and pour it into 1/8 seer of hot milk and give it to the
asthma patient to drink when his/her suffering is accute.Plenty of mucus and phlegm will
immediately be brought up , and the patient will feel relieved.If the mixture can be taken
continously for fefteen days, the disease will be completely cured.
3.Catch a frog and take out its heart.Cut the heart into four parts.For for consecutive
mornings, afer having a bath, eat one piece together with a banana on a completely empty
stomach.It will bring good results.
4.Catch 6 or 7 cockroaches and boil them in half a seer of water. When the water has
boiled down to 1/8 seer ( 10 tolas), strain it carefully and drink it hot twice a day, 5 tolas each
time. This relieves asthma.
5.Burn a peacock feather to ashes and take 1/16 tola of the ashes by slowly licking
with honey. This will relieve the suffering of asthma within a short time.
6.Aged raw cane sugar and pure mustard oil mixed in equal quantities ( preferable one
tola each), if taken by licking them each day early in the morning for twenty-one days
contiguously on an empty stomach, will give excellent results in asthma.

28.Leucoderma ( White Leprosy)

Symptoms: Leucoderma , though identified as a disease of the leprosy group, is not as

fatal as leprosy , nor are secretions of fluid present; and that is why leucoderma is not a
contagious dissease. Leprosy due to disturbance of all seven elements of the body , and severely
affects the entire body and mind within a very short time; but with leucoderma , usually only
three elements-blood, flesh and fat-become disturbed.
At first , reddish-colored spots appear in different parts of the body , such as the chest,
face, heels, toes, fingers and lips. It appears as if the skin of those parts has become pale, and
later those red spots become white. It has already been said that leucoderma is not a contagious
disease, but those white patches look so ugly that people are frightened and look at leukoderma
patients hatefully, as if they were sinners or criminals.

Causes: Contamination of the blood is the root cause of leucoderma .Where the skin
has suddenly become weak due to excessive acidity of the blood, there the disease appears. We
usually notice that if a person is suffering from chronic constipation, or if one has been treated
with astringent medicines which keep the poison of dysentery inside the body, than that a person
may suffer from an attack of leucoderma as an after-effect of or reaction to the previous disease.
That is why a previously felt obliged to express my opinion against using injections to stop
dysentery.
 Treatment:

Morning-Utks'epa Mudra', Karma'sana, Ud'd'ayana Mudra', Agnisa'ra Mudra', Diirgha

Pran'a'ma, Yogamudra', Bhu'jaunga'sana, and A'gneyii Mudra' or A'gneyii Pra'n'a'ya'ma.

Evening-Sarva'unga'sana, Matsyamudra', Naoka'sana, Pashcimotta'na'sana, Ud'd'ayana

Mudra', Agnisa'ra Mudra' and Mats'yendra'sana.

At both times , after performing the a'sanas, patients should do shiitalii kumbhaka and
should give the affected areas a good massage.

Diet: Constipating foods should be strictly avoided. Foods which increase the amount
of pitta should also be rejected. Fish, meat, eggs, ghee and large quantities of spices usually
weaken the liver and bring about constipation, which is one of the causes of leucodrema. In this
disease fish and other non-vegetarian foods are very harmful, hence they are to be avoided like
poison . No matter how great is the desire for non-vegetarian dishes, patients shall have to
control that desire.
Leafy vegetable such as heleinca', gima', a'marula, bra'hmii, etc., are most beneficial
for leucoderma patients.

Do's and don't's: Leucoderma and dysentery are related diseases . Therefore, the do's
and don't's stipulated for dysentery should generally be observed with leucoderma also. It is
desirable for patients to drink at least four-and-half seers of water a day-a small quantity at a
time, many times during the day. Both sweet and sour fruit juices are very beneficial. It is also
very diserable to fast on Eka'dashii, Pu'rn'ima and Ama'vasya days.
In summer and winter at proper time , patients should take a sun-bath for ten to fifteen
minutes and thereafter should sponge the whole body with a wet towel. This process should be
repeated a few times. After the least sun-bath , instead of using a wet towel , patients should
massage their body with olive oil, or this is not available , with mahuya' oil. One has to
remember that sunshine is essential if one is to maintain the health of the skin and therefore sun-
bathing is very beneficial for any disease produced by weakness of the skin.
It is not at all impossible to recover from leucoderma if the a'sanas and other
prescriptions given above are followed with patience .
Because three elements of the body are disturbed in this disease, care must be taken to
control one's diet and other habits. Sleeping during the day, staying awake at night , sexual
intercourse, overeating, etc., have to be avoided at all costs.

Some remedies:

1.Mix extract of a'mra' barc in goat's milk and drink the mixture every morning early;
or
2.Take the juice of a'marula sah'k with sugar; or
3.Take a ripe banana fried in ghee, together with a spoonful of dugdhaks'iira juice,
every day in the morning.
4.Prepare a paste of buckiida'na' by grinding it in water, and apply it on the affected
skin; or
 5.Procure a piece of cow's bone and grind it in the juice of ka'la kesenda', and apply
the mixture as on ointment on the affected area. This will yield good results.
6.To cure lucoderma away within a very short time , grind 1/16 tola of white jayanti in
cow's milk, and drink that mixture an a Sunday.

29.Nocturnal emission

Symptoms: Occurrence of nocturnal emission more than four times a month;

weakness on awakening, especially weakness of the knees; voice becoming rasping for one's age,
or cracking; swelling of cheeks and neck ; frequent colds; etc. are symptoms of this disease.
Generally a portion of the semen produced in the body is surplus . In single men, this
surplus semen is expelled whit the urine or during three or four nocturnal emissions per month.
In married men it is discharged during intercourse. This discharge is harmful neither physically
nor mentally. But if the discharge becomes greater than this , or if one does not enjoy any
nervous pleasure during the discharge or if the semen becomes watery , or if one does not wake
up after a wet dream, than it must be taken as a serious disease.

Causes: Generally nocturnal emission is a disease of adolescence and early youth. It

can have various causes-
1.If due to the bad habit of masturbation a large amount of semen is wasted or the
semen becomes thin, one will contract this disease.
2.If the genital organ is not kept clean, a particular kind of microbe can start breeding
and cause nocturnal emission.
3.The disease may occur if, due to lack of knowledge about sex or due to any other
reason, personal hygiene is not maintained properly; or
4.If at a young age, a boy does not take part in sports, perform a'sanas or enjoy the
outdoors, and instead studies excessively; or
5.If the nerves of adolescents or youths are stimulated by reading erotic literature or
seeing erotic pictures and films.
6.The disease can occur when one lacks control over his thoughts or lacks
concentration on the Supreme and lets his vrttis (mental proopensities) run toward sensual
experience.
7.Eating too much spicy food, non-vegetarian food or rich food, or eating late at night,
can make the stomach hot.In such cases, or if one suffers from constipation due to a defect of the
liver, the shukra cannot ascend from the lower to the upper part of the body. Instead, it flows out
of the body and causes this disease.

Treatment:

Morning-Utks'epa Mudra', Mayura'sana, Sarva'unga'sana, Matsyamudra', Naoka'sana,

Pashcimotta'na'sana, A'mbhasii Mudra', and A'mbhasii Pra'na'ya'ma.

Evening-Matsyendra'sana, Agnisa'ra Mudra', Ud'd'ayana Mudra', Bandhatraya Yoga

Mudra', Gomukha'sana, and Vajra'sana.
 Diet:All nutritious food that will keep the bowels clear can be taken.
Patients will have to stop eating non-vegetarian food at night and reduce the amount
they eat during the day.Asuitable Quantity of fruits , roots and milk can be taken. All kinds of
intoxicants should be avoided. Squash (Lagenaria vulgaris Seringe), green pumpkin (Beneincasa
cerifera Savi), kalamii sha'k and sha'nka'lu are good in this disease.

Do's and don't's: Taking vya'paka sna'na now and than is good for patients. If health
permits, patients should bathe at least twice a day. Patients should also drink four to five seers of
water a day. Doing ample physical labor and walking or running in the open air in the morning
and evening is a must in this disease.
To keep the disease hidden from others out of shame is very harmful. Therefore, as
soon as the symptoms become apparent, the advice of appropriate persons should be sought and
acted on.
Patients should observe the rules of fasting on Eka'dashii, Pu'rn'ima' and Ama'vasya',
and should live as far as practicable in natural surroundings.
Nature's rules should be observed in all respects, whether in food , in behavior or in
one' s daily life. At the beginning of adolescence and youth, one has to acquire a correct
knowledge about the arrangements that nature has made to meet the demands of human bodies
and minds, because through such knowledge one can protect oneself from the onslaught of
disease.
Due to the quick development of physical energy at this age, nature has provided
necessary hair at the joints of the body to keep the body heat balanced and , because of the
possibility of rubbing , to keep the skin healthy. So when people remove this hair owing to lack
of proper knowledge, they harm themselves both physically and mentally.
Dinner should be finished by 8:30 or 9 P.M., and one should not retire to bed within
one-and-a-half hours after dinner. After a meal the breath should flow freely through the right
nostril for some time.
Excessive mixing of the sexes, reading or seeing pornographic books, pictures and
films , are to be strictly avoided. Water should be used after urination, and the genital organ
should be kept clean, keeping the foreskin pulled back. When bathing, the joints, especially the
groin and armpits, should be properly cleaned. It is very important to take vya'paka shaoca
before and after every meal, before and after study, and before going to bed.
Remember not to take the disease lightly, because nocturnal emission effects a
pervasive waste of shukra, the most essential element of the body, and causes or the organs of
the body to become weak. It is shukra that nourishes all the brain cells and nerves. Therefore, too
much loss of shukra makes the brain weak; the memory becomes short; in adolescence one
becomes mentally old; one suffers from palpitation in the chest for no reason; and courage and
spiritedness are lost.

Some remedies:

1.Eating an each of basil (Ocinum sanctum Linn.) root with betel (Piper betle Linn.)
every morning for 10 to 15 days , chewing carefully, will cure the disease.
2.Taking 1 tola of basil-leaf juice on an empty stomach every day in the morning for
10 to 15 days will also cure the disease.
 3.The disease will cured if one regularly chews a piece of myrobalan after one 's
principal meal.

30.Female diseases

30A. Abnormal menstruation

Symptoms: Normally menstruation occurs once in a lunar month. Though as a rule ,

it occurs every twenty-eight days; the interval may be twenty-nine or thirty days for some and
twenty-six or twenty-seven days for others, according to the woman's physical condition.
Usually menstruation lasts for three to five days . In the menstruation does follow the above
pattern, according to the lunar month; or if it lasts for a week or two; or if it sometimes occurs
and sometimes not; or if sometimes there is excessive bleeding and sometimes very little; then it
may be termed 'irregular menstruation'.
In a healthy woman the menstrual discharge is usually about one-fourth seer. If for
any reason the quantity is less than normal, it is called 'hypomemorrhoea'.
If there is no menstrual discharge on the fixed date, or if the menstruation stops for
two or three months in spite of the woman not being pregnant, then the condition is termed
'amenorrhoea'.

Causes: In tropical countries a woman's fertility lasts from the age of twelve or
fourteen up to the age of forty-five or fifty-five, and in could countries it lasts from fourteen or
sixteen up to fifty or sixty. A regular interval of monthly menstruation and a regular amount of
discharge throughout these years is a sign of good health. Every month in a fertile woman the
uterus prepares its endometrium (uterine lining) to be a first home for a possible embryo. All of
the glands that maintain the youth of the body help directly in this work of forming the embryo.
These glands also co-operate in providing blood to the uterus to develop the embryo. When the
sperm comes into contact with the ovum and an embryo gets an opportunity to form, that blood
supply is used in building the body of the embryo. But if, for any reason , no embryo is formed,
then the uterus , now full of blood , breaks up the endometrium, and the accumulated blood, not
being of any other use to the body, is expelled with the remains of the endometrium. This
unnecessary blood is called 'menstrual discharge'.
Anaemia is the main cause behind all types of abnormal menstruation-menorrhagia
(excessive flow), hypomenorrhoea and irregular menstruation. When women suffer from
anaemia the glands that help maintain youth also suffer from debilities and as a result the
endometrium cannot develop. And in the case of anaemia, sufficient blood cannot be stored in
the uterus to form an embryo. This condition brings about hypomenorrhoea. When, owing to the
meager blood supply or to any defect in the organs of the body (conditions which may be found
in both thin and fat woman), very little blood is stored in the uterus :and the woman also suffers
from upward-moving vayu; then her menstrual flow may stop completely, and this is called
'amenorrhoea'. In such a situation , the accumulation of impure blood may create many disorders
in the body which can lead to premature death. This type of woman with a weak constitution
often also suffers from tuberculosis, asthma and similar chronic diseases. Amenorrhoea can
cause hysteria or even temporary insanity. A woman may also become irritable in disposition
due to disease.
 The reasons behind irregular menstruation are liver defects, constipation and excessive
sex.
When the blood becomes over-acidic and weakens the liver and other blood-purifying
organs, the poisons of the body are thoroughly flushed out along with the menstrual discharge.
This state is called 'menorrhagia'.

Treatment:

Morning-Utks'epa Mudra', Padahasta'sana, Bandhatraya, Yoga Mudra', and A'mbhasii

Mudra' or A'mbhasii Pra'n'a'ya'ma.
Evening-Yogamudra', Diirgha Pran'a'ma, Bhu'jaunga'sana , Karma'sana and
Ka'kacaincu Mudra'.
See restrictions given under 'Treatment', Section C of this chapter.

Diet: During the menstrual period only easily-digestible and nutritious food should be
eaten. All types of fruit juice , milk , leafy vegetables, and vegetable soups are excellent foods
during this period. Non-vegetarian food , too much fried or parched food, and too much ghee, oil
or spicy food are to be rejected. Of spices, asafoetida (Ferula foetida Regel) and clove are very
useful, but they should not be taken in large amounts.

Do's and don't's: During the menstrual period sleeping during the day , staying awake
at night and hard physical labor should be avoided. Bending forward to lift heavy loads is
forbidden, because such pressure may displace the blood-filled uterus. Warming oneself by the
fire is also forbidden, because staying too long in the heat of the fire is also, forbidden, because
staying too long in the heat of the fire may excite the body and mind. Women who have no one
to assist them in cooking may cook meals outside the kitchen in the open air, using a portable
stove.As much as possible they should keep away from the food; otherwise there is a high
possibility that the menstrual discharge will come in contact with the food and contaminate it. To
keep the body completely free of excitement, menstruating women must not touch adult males.
In order to save their husbands and children from any harmful effect from their menstrual
discharge, they should sleep in separate beds. And those beds should be kept dry, warm and
comfortable.
Women should keep away from strenuous acts such as singing , dancing and blowing
conch-shells during their menstrual period, and for the shake of their minds and bodies should
keep engaged in light , restful chores or amusing conversation. Finally, they should utilize as
much of the day as possible in Iishvara Pran'idha'na (meditation) as taught by A'ca'rya'.
In so many cases at present we see that the above do's and don't's are not being
followed, and this is leading women in greater numbers to suffer from menstrual problems.
There is no objection to bathing during the menstrual period but bathing in very cold
water to be avoided. On the first day of menstruation on may bathe in normally-cool water unless
it is comfortable. On the second and third day one should bathe in sun-warmed water .
During menstruation , using tampons of cotton or linen which block the wagina is
harmful. Instead, women should wear shorts over a Kaopiina ( a thigh-fitting kind of underwear)
or a cotton pad.
A woman with a healthy liver may consume butter or ghee with rice. A menstruated
woman should drink sufficient water, say four or five seers a day , but not much at a time . Those
who are suffering from menorrhagia should , during a time of excessive bleeding , lie in bed with
the legs raised and the head slightly lowered.

Some remedies:

1.If due to excessive bleeding a women becomes too weak , she should drink 2 tolas of
kuksiima' juice or durba' juice along with a little honey every day during her menstrual period.
2.Take 3 or 4 pomegranate ( Punica granatum Linn.) flowers ground in raw milk twice
a day during the period.
3.Take the root of ka'nt'a'nat'e wit honey; or
4. The juice of va'saka leaves with sugar ; every day during the menstrual period.

30 B. Dysmenorrhoea

Symptoms: Unbearable pain in the abdominal region, which begins before the
commencement of the menstrual discharge and subsides as soon as the menstruation is over; and
irregular menstruation-too little or too much discharge-are the main symptoms of this disease.

Causes: women who are averse to physical labor , and who generally are from rich or
upper middle-class families, are found suffering from this disease. Due to lack of physical labor ,
or due to physical debility for any reason, the uterus and the ovaries become weak and cannot
and cannot stand the pressure of the blood during the menstrual period. As soon as the blood
starts entering the uterus , both the uterus and the ovaries start reacting adversely, and that
adverse reaction express itself as pain in the abdomen.
Women doing adequate physical labor seldom suffers from disease. If mental
dissatisfaction is added to the lack of physical labor, then the disease is aggravated. When
women is upper-class society are compelled to lead dissatisfied sex lives on account of various
social restrictions, they also suffers from this disease. This disease is one of the reasons for
infertility.

Treatment: Same as for abnormal menstruation.

Diet: Special attention should be paid to see that the food is alkaline. All types of fruits
, and vegetable soups , are good in this disease. Fried, parched and non-vegetarian food, too
much oil , ghee, garlic and onions , and too-spicy foods are to be avoided.
Even after recovering from the disease, a woman should not have intercourse with her
husband for at least four months.

Do's and don't's: During the painful stage of the disease, the patient should apply a hot
compress to her abdomen . And during menstruation she should not eat anything except milk and
other liquid food .

Some remedies:

1. 10 to 12 ashoka flowers without stems should be boiled in a mixture of 4 seers of

water and 1/2 seer milk, until the mixture boils down to 3/8 seer. This preparation is called
'ashokaks'iira' , and it should be taken for three continuous days, 1/8 seer per day.
2.Tying the root of a bel sapling around the waist will relieve the pain of this disease.
3.Remove the bark of a ghor'a'nim root and boil 3 or 4 tolas of the root in water. Drink
that preparation during the menstrual period every morning and it will clear up menstrual
troubles.

30 C.Leucorrhoea

Symptoms: If one suffers from a discharge without any reason or provocation , it is

called 'leucorrhoea'. If the discharge is yellowish , reddish, blackish or foamy; or if it resembles
the water in which meat has just been washed, it is called 'bloody leucorrhoea'. And if the
discharge is whitish , it is called 'white leucorrhoea'. White leucorrhoea is very common.

Causes:
\
1.Abortion or miscarriage;
2.Constipation;
3.Too many medicines or injections;
4.Excessive sexual intercourse; and
5.Anaemia.

If a woman suffers from anaemia for whatever reason, the organs of the body become
incapable of supplying an adequate amount of blood to the uterus . In such a case , the
inadequate supply of blood gets mixed with other fluids of the body, turns whitish , and is
flushed out of the uterus-and the woman suffers from white leucorrhoea.
Abortions and miscarriages also make women anaemic and cause leucorrhoea.
Similarly , too much administration of medicines and injections weakens the blood , and
leucorrhoea is the result.
Excessive sexual intercourse invites constipation , which pollutes the blood and brings
on acidity , and this causes leucorrhoea. Virgins with the unnatural habit of masturbation invite a
similar reaction , and leucorrhoea may occur.
When both the liver and pancreas become weak, the blood will show an increase of
acidity, and generally bloody leucorrhoea occurs. In bloody leucorrhoea, unlike white
leucorrhoea the patient may not be suffering from anaemia, but her blood will be more polluted.
If due to ignorance adolescent girls and unmarried women leave the vagina unclean,
they suffer from a certain type of discharge. This discharge is not actually leucorrhoea; it should
be considered an ordinary discharge . However, if care is not taken in good time , it may turn
into incurable leucorrhoea later on.

Treatment:

For adolescent discharge

Morning-Utks'epa Mudra', Karma'sana, Bandhatraya Yoga Mudra', and A'mbhasii
Pra'n'a'ya'ma.
 Evening-Yogamudra', Diirgha Pran'a'ma, Bhu'jaunga'sana, Karma'sana , and
Ka'kacaincu Mudra'.

For leucorrhoea

Morning-Utks'epa Mudra', Karma'sana, Gomukha'sana, Yogamudra', Diirgha Pran'a'ma,

Bhu'jaunga'sana, A'mbhasii Mudra' or A'mbhasii Pra'n'a'ya'ma, Agnisa'ra Mudra', and Upavis't'a,
Ud'd'ayana Mudra'.
In all types of menstrual trouble-dysmenorrhoea, leucorrhoea or any other female
disease-a woman should not practice a'sanas or midra's during her menstrual period. Instead, she
should perform pra'n'a'ya'ma only.

Diet: Same as for abnormal menstruation.

Do's and don't's: Of the many causes of this disease, the main cause is unrestricted
sexual activity. So far those who want to be cured , control over sexual activity-by both husband
and wife-is necessary. Anaemia is the root cause of white leucorrhoea, so the patient should
make a special point of taking easily-digestible and nutritious food. If the patient cannot tolerate
milk, she should take curd-water or coconut milk, instead.

For adolescent girls suffering from abnormal discharges, attention should be given to
the maintenance of their personal hygiene, together with the practice of a'sanas and mudra's.
Leucorrhoea occurs if contaminated matter gets a chance to accumulate inside the genital organ.
So both males and females should use water after urinating. Adolescent girls suffering from this
disease should wash internally either with soap and water or with water which has been boiled
with neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss) leaves. The fingernails should be cut short, otherwise
women may injure themselves internally.
Unmarried women should strictly avoid the habit of masturbation.

Some remedies:

1.Grind 4 red China-roses (Tamarix aphylla Karst.) in the water in which rice has been
cooked. If taken in 1/2 tola quantitly every day during the menstrual period , this will cure all
kinds of menstrual troubles.
2.Ashokaks'iira [see Remedy 1 for dysmenorrhoea ( Cramps)above] gives good results
with all menstrual troubles.
3.Take the root of while a'kanda and grind it in the raw milk of a black cow on a Sunday.
The patient should drink 1/4 tola of the preparation every day during menstruation. This will give
good results.

30 D. Displaced uterus

Symptoms: Heavy feeling in the abdomen , difficulty in defecating and urinating,

anaemia, white leucorrhoea, pain in the back and waist, pain like the pain of cramps, etc., are the
symptoms of this disease.
 Causes: The uterus lies in a suspended position supported by a few ligaments behind
the naval region. So it is not at all unusual for the uterus to get displaced or to change sides.
Since the uterus is situated in between the urinary bladder and the rectum, any displacement of it
may hinder defecation or urination. The uterus has an elastic quality and can shrink and expand.
This is why a positional change of the uterus may cause great disorder in the lower trunk.

Though constipation is not the only cause of this disease, it is the main one . Because ,
due to accumulation of stole , the colon gets swollen, putting pressure on the uterus , and causing
it to change its position. Again, though there are many reasons for constipation, excessive sexual
activity is the main one.

During menstruation , when the uterus remains full of blood , bending forward to do
any heavy chore, or lifting heavy pots from the stove, may also lead to the displacement of the
uterus.
Due to excessive sexual intercourse, the nervous system of the lower portion of the
body may suffer from all-round debility. Consequently, those few ligaments that keep the uterus
suspended also become weak, and thereby become a factor in the displacement of the uterus .
Too much use of medicines and injections also weakens the blood and nerve-cells, due
to which dislodgement of the uterus may occur. Anaemia and nervous debilities caused in this
way are two of the many causes of displacement of the uterus .
Repeated induced child-births, short-cutting the body's normal child-bearing forces,
may also weaken the nerves of the lower body . This enhances the chance of displacement of the
uterus.

Treatment:

Morning-Utks'epa Mudra', Padahasta'sana, Shalabha'sana, Ud'd'ayana Mudra',

Bandhatraya Yoga Mudra', and A'mbhasii Mudra' or A'mbhasii Pra'n'a'ya'ma.
Evening-Padahasta'sana, Pashcimotta'na'sana, Sarva'unga'sana, Matsyamudra', and
Ka'kacaincu Mudra'.

Taking vya'paka sna'na is very beneficial with this disease. See restriction on a'sanas
given under 'Treatment', Section C of this chapter.

Diet: Same as for abnormal menstruation.

Do's and don't's: With this disease patients should be allowed to rest as much as
possible. Sexual intercourse should be completely stopped.
If the uterus is found to be totally displaced; or if there is acute burning; or if the
displacement arises from a tumor in the uterus or in the abdomen; then adopting the above steps
will bring good results.
But some women in this situation undergo surgery to remove the uterus or ovaries.
Obviously, such surgery cannot bring about a cure. Rather , this is like trying to cure a headache
by cutting off the head. The loss of these important glands makes a woman sexually neuter and
brings about great changes in body and mind. Different mental disorders appear, and often the
women goes mad. So as soon as a woman realizes that she has a displaced uterus, she should be
especially careful to avoid constipation and to see that her urination remains normal.

30 E. Sterility and infertility

Symptoms: If a women between the ages of sixteen or seventeen and thirty or thirty-
five is unable to conceive in spite of having sexual intercourse, this may be considered a case of
sterility or infertility. However, the sterility may or may not be that of the woman. Often it is
due to sterility of the male partner that society considers a woman sterile.

Causes: Behind sterility or infertility there can be a number of causes.

1.The ova, produced in the ovaries, pass through the Fallopian tubes to reach the uterus.
When the fallopian tubes are weak, diseased, or blocked by contaminated matter, the ova either
fail to reach the uterus or die on the way. Consequently, conception cannot take place even if
living spermatozoa are present in the uterus.
2.The ovaries, the ova-producing organs, are situated a little above the groin or either
side. Due to lack of physical labor , anaemia, physical debility or any other physical defect, or
any congenital defect, the ovaries may not be able to produce ova, or only overly-weak ones.
When this takes place, women will be sterile or give birth to still-born babies.
3.In the case of women who are very bad-tempered, that is , dominated by the va'yu or
pitta factor a little of the pitta can enter the uterus and be stored there. This poisonous pitta kills
the sperm and destroys the chances of conception.
4.Excess body fat can cause the female genitals to become somewhat misshapen. As a
result, the sperm cannot reach their destination and conception cannot take place. To such
women intercourse becomes frustrating, and their sexual dissatisfaction makes them both over-
desirous and quarrelsome, and destroys the place of their domestic life.
5.Excessive intercourse makes the nervous system of the lower portion of the body
weak and insensitive, and conception cannot take place. For just this reason , prostitutes are
generally infertile.
6.Excessive acidity of the body, many a time , does not allow the foetus to draw the fluids
or blood necessary for its development, so the foetus dies a premature death ; that is , the woman
tends to have still-births. Women who are excessively found of eating non-vegetarian food but
do not undertake adequate physical labor suffer from over-acidity of the blood.
7.Those males who develop the unnatural habit of wasting their semen excessively before
they attain the age of twenty-five or twenty-six tend to lose their capacity to produce healthy
sperm. The sperm of such persons cannot produce an embryo.
8.In the case of males who, even after attaining adulthood, live intemperate, the testes
cannot produce healthy sperm; in this case also conception cannot take place.
9.If a male suffers from excessive pitta secretion, that pitta destroys the ova in the uterus
and does not allow any embryo to be formed.
10.If the spermatic duct becomes diseased, weak, hardened or full of impurities, then a
person becomes infertile, and conception cannot take place.

Treatment: Take causes behind sterility and infertility are many. Therefore on particular
remedy cannot be applied in all cases. The original defect in the male or the female which has
caused the sterility should be treated properly. Removing the defect or defects will bring good
results with the sterility.
Inability to bear a second child, afer bearing one, should be treated in just the same
manner.
Many people think that infertility can occur due to leucorrhoea or displacement of the
uterus. But this impression is not entirely correct. Because even during such conditions the link
between the ovaries and the uterus through the Fallopian tubes remains unaffected. But it is true
that , if these diseases are present , the chance of still-births is greater.
If the testes of the male or the ovaries of the female are under developed for congenital
reasons, that type of sterility is very difficult to cure.
Very often the opening of the vagina becomes flaccid or stretched, and the vagina almost
protrudes. In such cases, for good results in a short time , patients should take Vya'paka San'na
regularly and perform Utks'epa Mudra', Yogamudra', Diirgha Pran'a'ma and Bhu'jaunga'sana.
Whatever the reason for sterility or infertility, taking Vya'paka Shaoka is very beneficial.

Do's and don't's: The diet and the do's and don't's are the same as for abnormal
menstruation.

A remedy:
1.A pregnant woman can avoid miscarriage if an entire root of white apa'ma'rga plant or
a root of white apara'jita' plant is worn around the patient's waist.

30 F. Still-births

Symptoms: Many women give birth to still-born children; some children die before or
after delivery.
A remedy: In case of this tendency (when it is apparent that the child in the womb is
alive ) , for a few days before the delivery the would-be mother should keep her hair united and
lose, and should tie a root of white jayanti plant in her hair and keep it there continuously till the
child is born. In this way she can avoid a still-birth.

30 G Women disease in general

At present a large number of women in society suffer from one female disease or other.
The main reasons are:

1.Lack of nutritious diet and consequent anaemia;

2.Unnatural way of life;
3.Lack of proper observation of the do's and don't's during menstruation;
4.Lack of sexual restraint by males and females;
5.Ignorance regarding sexual matters.
Though female diseases may not be obviously fatal, they slowly sap the vitality of the
individual, and children, who are the hope of society, are born with mental and physical defects
which remain throughout their lives. What a terrible situation this is for society can easily be
imagined. On account of female diseases women often die prematurely. In most cases, if not all,
lack of self-control by the male is one of the causes of female disease. It is certainly not desirable
for women to go to their graves prematurely due the intemperance of men. Sexual over-
indulgence is also harmful to the men, because it causes excessive wastage of shukra, which in
the lymph stage nourishes the brain. Remember that self-control, mental control, and spiritual
pursuit are the greatest things in life.

31.Obesity OVERWEIGHT

Symptoms: Fat is an indispensable element of the human body. Without fat, the natural
activity of the bones and muscles could not be sustained for a single moment. But when this very
fat abnormally accumulates beyond the ordinary requirement of the body , it causes all the
organs of the body to become incapacitated. This state is called obesity.

Causes: Lack of physical labor , and at the same time eating lots of curd (yogurt) , milk ,
butter and other high-calorie foods; eat in large quantities of sweets and large quantities of
mucus-producing foods (fish , tamarind, etc.) are the main causes of obesity. And especially if,
along with the above reasons, a particular person undertakes too much mental exertion, than in
most cases he/she becomes obese.
Persons who do physical labor need nutritious and non-vegetarian types of food, milk and
ghee. Those who do mental work and don't undertake much physical work require very little
non-vegetarian, sweet and fatty foods. But sensual persons , for the sake of taste-satisfaction,
take large quantities of foods which they do not need or need very little of.
In the world today a handful of people who do not people who do not physical work , but
live by their wits, have appropriated to themselves most of the wealth of humanity, so they are
able to buy comparatively expensive foods, and use them to satisfy their taste buds. As result,
they , on the one hand, swell with unnecessary fat, while, on the other hand, those people doing
hard manual labor are forced to live in poverty and deprived of the ghee, butter and sweets they
need to maintain their bodies; they have nothing to compensate properly the energy they expend ,
and they become weak, emaciated and broken in health. On account of malnutrition and
excessive hard labor , they fall victim to tuberculosis. Remember that in tropical countries non-
vegetarian food is generally like poison, but for those doing a great amount of physical labor , a
little such food does no harm to their bodies, nor does it exert its harmful influence intheir minds.
So my point is that obesity is primarily disease of well-off, non-laboring society. High-
salaried office workers, rich businessmen and parasitic politicans are those who suffer most from
obesity. It should be borne in mind that the fat stored in the human body is nothing but its work
energy in latent form. When fasting or doing physical labor , it becomes liquefield, then
transformed into vital energy or work energy. So when people perform little manual labor , their
fat becomes their enemy and pushes them to their death.
When this fat accumulates in the abdominal region , it causes sterility in women
and impotency in men. That is why we find that in most cases obese people have no children.
Too much accumulation of fat on the chest and abdomen disturbs the va'yu; and then , as long as
the liver is not affected , the persons suffers from 'demon hunger'; so much so that in homes
where the person is entertained, he or she becomes famous for his or her voracity. Another
distinguishing mark of such people is that they are most greedy for those foods which are most
fattening; that is , when invited outside, they will never even by mistake eat much in the way of
vegetable preparations-instead they will eat a lot of luci, fish, meat and sweats.
 As they grow older and their livers become weak , they will lose that voracious appetite.
Then they will sorrowfully say to people that they cannot consume food as they used to . Their
muscles become flaccid and they begin to suffer from acidity, constipation or intestinal troubles.
Fat accumulated on the; chest affects the heart and lungs and makes it difficult for these organs
to function. Victims' respiration becomes troublesome, they tire out very easily, gasp for breath,
and sit down sweating profusely. Fat accumulated in the blood vessels causes patients to suffer
from high blood pressure, which may finally lead to an internal hemorrhage by bursting the
blood vessels of the brain or of any part of the body, causing death or paralysis.
Excessive fat creates disorder in the normal functioning of the liver as well as in the breathing.
Fat also creates constipation, seminal diseases, abnormal menstruation, and different kinds of
intestinal disease.
Treatment: First phase
Morning-Utkse'pa Mudra', Diirgha Pran'a'ma, Yoga¡mudra' and Bhu'jaunga'sana. Evening-
Bhu'jaunga'sana, Pashcimottandsana and Shala¡bha'sana.
After gaining some mastery over these a'sarfas, begin the second phase.
Second phase
Morning-Utkse'pa Mudra', Diirgha Pran'a'nra, Yoga¡mudra', Bhu'jaunga'sana and Padahasta'sana.
Evening-Matsyamudra' Naoka'sana, Pashcimotta'na'sana and Matsyendra'sana.
After gaining some mastery over these a'sanas, begin the third phase.
Third phase
Morning-Utkse'pa Mudra', Yogarnudra', Diirgha Prana'¡ma, Bhu'jaunga'sana, Karma'sana and
Garud'a'sana.
Evening-Naoka'sana, Pashcimotta'na'sana, Matsyendra'sana and Kurmaka'sana.

Diet: Some obese people try simply to eat less, surmising

that in doing so they will be able to lose weight. This is not a correct approach, because such
dieting can weaken the patient to such an extent that he or she cannot even get up or walk. What
the patient needs is a simple, carefully selected diet. For instance:
1. One should drink about four or five seers of water daily, but not much at a time. As far as
possible the patient should always mix lemon juice with the water.
2. Completely stop taking non-vegetarian food, ghee and oil. Three-fourths to a seer of diluted
milk should be taken, a little at a time, a number of times during the day.
3. Depending upon the appetite, all kinds of fruit in plentiful quantity, preferably sour juicy
types, can be taken. These fruits are very beneficial for the obese.
4. Reduce or eliminate . rice, rut'i and pulses, and instead eat green vegetables and soups made
from them in, greater quantity.
5. One must reduce the use of raw and refined sugar, but may use a little honey-not more than
three spoonfuls a day.

Do's and don't's ; Rules of fasting and sun-bathing should be observed by patients. Generally
speaking, obesity is the disease of the sedentary and the greedy. So as far as possible, simple
food should be eaten. Instead of luci and puri, dry rut'i should be taken. And patients should give
up their habit of sitting and giving orders, and instead should do the work by their own physical
efforts.

32. HEART DISEASE

 Symptoms: Strong beating sound in the chest, chest pain, breathing troubles, trembling of
arms and legs, etc., are. the symptoms of this disease.
Causes : There can be many reasons behind heart-disease.
1. Persons who keep their stomachs full and heavy need a greater blood supply for their
stomachs, and their hearts have: to overwork in order to keep up that extra supply. Consequently
their hearts become weak.
2. Persons above thirty-five or forty years of age who consume an excessive quantity of
non-vegetarian food out of greed may also suffer from heart disease; because non¡vegetarian
food increases the acidity of the blood, and this compels the heart to overwork in order to purify
the blood ;. and the heart becomes weak. An increase in the acidity of blood also gradually
weakens other organs of the body, and those weaknesses directly or indirectly weaken the heart.
3. Taking excessive fatty and oily food and not under¡taking a proportional amount of
physical labor loads the human nervous system down with fat, and as a result it becomes.
impossible for the nerves to properly assist the heart. As a result the heart becomes weak. Fat
accumulated in the nerves and blood vessels terribly hampers the blood circulation, and in order
to maintain the circulation, the heart is forced to over¡work. As a consequence the heart soon
becomes weak.
4. Due to debility of the liver, surplus fat of the body may get a chance to accumulate in the
nerves and blood vessels, and the heart naturally becomes weak. Usually patients of this
condition have chronic dysentery also.
5. Another reason for heart disease is the practice of eating too much food at one sitting
with little or no appetite ; because taking a large quantity of food enlarges the stomach, and that
enlarged stomach starts putting pressure on the heart above it. Persons who do not have.
breakfast and an afternoon snack usually eat heavy meals at lunch and dinner. If such a habit
continues day after day, their stomachs. get enlarged and they suffer from heart disease.
6. Constipation is another reason for heart disease. If the bowels are not cleared, the
accumulated stool decays inside the body and breeds a certain type of germ. If these germs get a
chance to strike the heart; the patient suffers from heart disease.
7. Ill-tempered persons also run the risk of heart disease, because in anger the flow of blood
to the head and face becomes suddenly accelerated (which makes these people turn red). To
supply this extra blood, the heart has suddenly to work very hard. That is why persons who are
habitually ill-tempered suffer from weakness of the heart. For the same reason, extreme shyness
may make the heart weak.
8. In extreme fright also, the blood all of a sudden leaves the other parts of the body and
rushes towards the heart in great quantity. It is difficult for the heart to stand this pressure, so in
extreme fright the heart pounds or palpitates, and often even stops beating and causes death.
(People have often been known to die of heart failure in fear of imaginary ghosts; and just before
death or immediately thereafter, such terror-stricken people suffer from bleeding from the mouth
and nose, and other people see it and think that the victims have really been killed by ghosts). So
fearful persons are often found to be suffering from heart disease.
9. For the same reason, indulgence in sex causes the heart to strain and the breathing to
become heavy. So habitually passionate people. also suffer from heart disease. Too much
seminal loss in young people also brings about heart disease.
10. Use of wine, tobacco, vir'i, cigarettes and other intoxicants in excessive quantity brings
about constipation, which is one cause of heart disease. Moreover intoxicants increase the acidity
of the blood, weaken the glandular system, and ultimately prevent the active co-operation of the
heart and the glands, causing them to fall sick.
11. When a person suffers from some devitalizing or chronic disease for a long ~me, his or
her blood will become weak. And to revitalize that blood, the person's heart has to overwork, and
gradually the heart becomes weak. That is why with beriberi, pneumonia, tuberculosis, diabetes,
gonorrhea, syphilis and female diseases, the longer a patient suffers, the more the heart becomes
weak, and when it becomes extremely weak it stops and the patient dies.
Treatment
Morning-Utkse'pa Mudra', (don't drink too much water), Yogamudra', Diirgha Pran'a'ma,
Bhujaungdsana, Va'yavii Mudra or Va'ymii Pra'n'a'ya'ma, and Padahasta'sana.
Evening-Yogamudrd,DiirghaPran'dma,Bhu'jaunga'sana,Padahastdsana andVdyavii
Mudra' or Va'yavii Prdn'dydma.
Remember that patients should practise no a'sanas and mudra's other than Utks'epa Mudra' when
the disease is critical. Only after some improvement in the disease should these a'sanas and
mudra's be practiced. When patients are more or less cured, they should practise Karma'sana
instead of PABA¡hasta'sana. The practice of Vya'paka Sna'na is also especially helpful in this
disease.

Diet : Only fruits and milk should be taken with this disease. Breakfast and afternoon snacks
should also be composed of fruits and milk only. At noon a very small quantity of easily-
digestible and non-constipating food should be taken it is better to refrain from eating rice or rut'i
but a little boiled rice can be taken. At the evening meal nothing except fruits and milk should be
taken. (Patients should not eat bananas after sunset). Those who cannot digest milk or who for
some reason are unable to procure it, may drink curd-water instead. One should not add salt to
food while eating. Care should be taken to let the breath flow through the right nostril for some
time after a meal.

Do's and don't's : Patient's main concern should be to keep their digestive tracts clear, to increase
the alkalinity of their blood, and to protect the heart from overworking. That is why complete
rest is essential for heart patients. Patients should lie in Shava'sana all the time when they are
critically ill. They should not endeavor to get up from bed even for defecation and urination.
Patients should never eat a lot at one sitting-rather they should eat a small quantity at a time,
several times. When patients -are critically ill they should eat nothing but milk, fruit juice
(especially orange/tangerine and tomato), milk or water with honey, 'and the juice of spinach,
kalamii, beto, punarnava', shushuni or shulpha'. When thirsty, drink water with a little. lemon
juice. ¡
Sleeping during the day, keeping late nights, and greedily eating a full stomach of food are all
very dangerous for heart patients. Dinner invitations usually involve rich food, so patients should
not accept dinner invitations. They should go to bed between 8 and 8:30 in the evening.
One should again remember that eating a small quantity of spinach, beto, kalamii, shulpha',
shushuni or punarnava'-leafy vegetables-is good for heart patients. Bara ela'ca is also particularly
helpful in curing this disease. Utmost attention must be paid to clearing the bowels.
Heart patients should sleep for at least nine hours a night. The mind should always be held back
from anger and lust. Physical and mental exertion, garrulousness and sex should all be strictly
avoided.
Some remedies
1. Every day in the morning and before retiring to bed at night, patients should take a spoonful of
ba'ra ela'ca, powdered along with the husk, with honey. This will give good results.
2. The juice of shulpha' greens mixed with honey is very useful in heart disease.
3. A spoonful of cinnamon powder with a little honey, taken twice a day, will bring excellent
results.
4. Take 1 / 16 tola of bhu'mi kus'mdn'd'a powder with a little honey twice a day.

33. EAR-ACHES, MUMPS, ETC.

A remedy : Take a few mature, fresh leaves of white a'kanda and slowly fry them in pure
cow's ghee as, paratha is fried. Then extract juice from these fried leaves, add warm ghee to it
and pour three drops of that mixture into the affected ear three times daily-in the morning,
evening and before bed. Continue using the medicine till the disease is completely cured. This
remedy is very useful in diseases like mumps and pus-forming diseases of the ears.

34. EOSINOPHILIA (Polypus)

A remedy: Take a little camphor and some ma'skala'i beans and boil them mildly at a low
temperature in pure mustard oil in a thin brass pot. In case a brass pot is not available, use an
iron, copper or silver pot. Once this preparation has been made, put that boiled oil and those
ma'skala'i beans in a glass jar, corking it firmly and tightly, so that it can. be preserved up to a
month if necessary. Be particular to use a good, solid cork, for if the cork is not firm and solid,
the camphor may evaporate.
Now prepare a leaf-packet of a green banyan leaf and pour that prepared mixture into it. Now
light a mustard oil lamp and hold that leaf-packet over its flame. When the packet becomes
somewhat scorched and its contents start dripping, catch the mixture in a pot. Now keep some
warm water ready at hand.
Dip your little finger in that oil. push the finger inside each nostril as deep as possible, and rub.
Having rubbed both the nostrils well in that fashion, take warm water (as warm as you can
endure), and draw it in through your nostrils and expel it through the mouth. Repeat the use of
the water, and again repeat, for a total of three times through both nostrils.
Having used the water three times, use your little finger again to rub the oil inside the nostrils,
and repeat the drawing of the water, as hot as bearable, three times.
Repeat the alternation of oil and water for a total of six times, in two instalments of three times
each. While expelling the water through the mouth, insert your middle finger inside your throat.
Now holding a mouthful of warm water, splash your eyes repeatedly with the same warm
water from the pot. Thereafter your morning Vya'paka Shaoca should be completed as usual.
As long as the disease is not fully cured, use this remedy in the aforesaid manner three times a
day-in the morning, in the evening, and before bed.
When suffering from na'sa'shula, or if the nose, throat and lungs are all weakened at the same
time, this remedy will also yield a good result.
In na'sa'shula extra flesh grows inside the nose, throat or lungs. People who use snuff suffer
mostly from this disease. It is true that patients do not die of this disease, but they endure much
agony from it. When the disease becomes chronic, the ¡patient becomes nasal.
Those who are accustomed to smoke vir'i and cigarettes suffer most from cancer. With cancer
also this remedy yields results. But before using this medicine, patients of either disease should
strictly give up the habits of smoking viri and cigarettes, taking snuff etc.
35. TONSILITIS

Treatment : First practice Shiva'sana for five minutes, then Matsyamudra' for five minutes, and
thereafter Matsyendra'sana for a maximum of one minute in each position. The performance of
all three A'sanas will make one round.
Practice three rounds. Take your usual massage, and after that do Shava'sana for at least 100
seconds. Then take a stroll for a few minutes. Ten minutes after the stroll, drink some warm
water.
If you feel any pain while pressing hard the spot located two fingers' width up, on the left or
right side of the urinary passage, then you should drink half a glass of slightly-warm water,
mixing one teaspoonful of baked clove powder in it.
If pain is felt while inhaling at a spot three fingers' width up. on the left or right side of the
urinary passage, when those regions are pressed hard with the thumb, then in that case also, ten
minutes after your stroll you should take one tea¡spoonful of baked clove powder in tepid water.

36. BOILS
A remedy: Often we see that even though a boil has. ripened, it does not show any opening. If in
that case fresh pigeon droppings are applied on the boil, it will burst and an opening will show
within a few hours.

37. SPASMODIC FITS CLONUS CHILD EPILEPSY

Symptoms : In children, fever with up-turned eyes. Eventually the child dies.
Some remedies
1. The na'gdona' plant (which grows about two feet in height, with thorns and very strong-
smelling leaves) is an excellent medicine for nerves. If, when a child suffers from spasmodic fits,
leaves of this plant are pounded to paste and the child is made to smell the paste, the convulsions
will be cured. There is no other medicine for this disease. na’gdona plants also prevent being
struck by lightning.
2. If the patient's face, hands and feet are washed with water 'in which potatoes have just been
boiled, this will also control the convulsions.

38. GOUT, ELEPHANTIASIS AND HYDROCELE

A remedy: Take some kadamba leaves or white a'kanda leaves ripened yellow (the a'kanda leaf
turns yellow when fully mature). Warm the leaves on the fire and apply them to the affected
region as a fomentation for some time. Afterwards bind the leaves over the affected place with a
warm cloth, and it will cure the disease.
39. EPILEPSY
Treatment :. Shalabha'sana, Bhu'jaunga'sana, Matsya¡mudra', Sarva'unga'sana, Matsya'sana and
Mayu'ra'sana. Vya'paka Sna'na should be taken twice a day.
Diet: . Food prepared and cooked in ghee or oil is strictly forbidden. All sorts of boiled foods can
be taken, especially various types of green vegetables such as spinach, nat'e, cold, mat'ar and
heleinca'.
Do's and don't's : Every morning and evening take a stroll for some time, or run. If necessary
take someone with you.

40. STEATORHEA MAL-ABSORPTION

Symptoms: Belching with a bad smell, watering of the mouth, distension of the stomach,
loss of the appetite, aversion to food, offensive internal gas, physical weakness, fretful temper,
constipation or loose stool containing food particles.
Causes: When we take food it is converted into a juicy mass with the help of digestive
fluids, then it is transformed into blood. Blood is the most important substance in the body.
Fruits, roots, leafy green vegetables and other alkaline-type foods, after being digested, preserve
the vitality of the blood by increasing its alkaline portion, whereas fatty and carbohydrate-type
foods increase in the acidity of the blood. If there occurs a disproportionate increase in the
acidity of the blood, then the spleen, liver, heart, kidneys, etc.., which are our blood-purifying
organs, come under too much pressure. As a result, these organs, being over-worked in purifying
the blood, become gradually so week that they ultimately fail to do their task properly.
Since the different kinds of juicy fruits can be sufficiently digested in their own fluids, the
liver bile does not have to make much effort to digest them. But in order to digest starches and
carbohydrates, the saliva of the mouth must help at the preliminary stage. Chewing food brings
an adequate quantity of the saliva into the mouth. No sooner does the food mixed with saliva
enter the stomach than the liver and the pancreas are enabled to start secreting their bile and
digestive fluids. So unless food is chewed well, the liver can never function properly.
If the quantity of non-vegetarian food is large, then the internal organs will ultimately
become weak due to the increasing acidity of the blood. Then when the food the stomach, having
already been partially digested by fluid from the liver, enters the duodenal canal, the week
pancreas will be incapable of secreting enough of its digestive fluid. As a result, the partially
digested food does not become completely into rasa (chyle).In consequence, the partially
digested food gradually decomposes inside the duodenum and thereby partially blocks the
intestine. This spoiled food creates a poisonous gas in the body which the acidic contents of the
respiratory system fails to purify. It also increases the acidic contents of
the blood to an excessive degree. This state of health is called "indigestion" or "dyspepsia".
Although dyspepsia is not itself fatal, it can be the cause of several fatal diseases. And in
social life, dyspepsia aggravates peoples acrimonious tendencies and makes them extremely
irritable. Stomach intestinal and rectal ulcers, constipation, and serious dysentery may arise from
dyspepsia

Treatment:

Morning-Utks'epa Mudra', Mayu'ra' sana, Padahasta'sana,

Utkat'a Vajra'sana, A'gneyii Mudra and
A'gneyii Pra'n'a'ya'ma.
Evening-(with constipation) Agnisa'ra Mudra', Diirgha
Pran'a'ma, Yoga'sana or Yogamudra', and
Bhu'jaunga'sana.
(with loose movement) Agnisa'ra Mudra', Sarva'-
unga'sa, A'gneii Mudra' and A'gneii Pra'n'a'ya'ma.
Diet: Boiled old rice (grains a few yers old), soup of green vegetables; in case of lose
motion, curd(yogurt); in case of constipation, curd made from buffalo's milk, mixed in water and
taken with a little sugar. Remember that curd-water is particularly beneficial for dyspepsia
patients.

Dina'nte ca pivet dugdham'

Nisha'nte ca pivet payah
Bhojona'nte pivet takram'
Kim' vaedyasya prayajanam?
[Drink milk at the end of the day,
Drink water at dawn,
Drink curd-water after the noon meal,
Then what need for a doctor?]

Do's and don’t's: steatorhea originates from unbalanced food habits.Eating when one is
not hungry or only half-hungry is very harmful in this disease.
It is better not to eat breakfast or any afternoon snack till the disease is fully cured.
However, if one feels hungry, one can have some sweet or sour juicy fruit, particularly of sub-
acid type, such as mango, pineapple, jam, any kind of citrus fruit(though citrus fruits belong to
the acidic group, their action on the body is alkaline),or in case of constipation, papaya. It is
important to remember that acidic foods such as lemon and curd(Yogurt)should be taken with a
little water and salt.
All non-vegetarians types of food except for small-fish, are harmful for steatorhea
patients. Meat and eggs are poisons. All intoxicants aggravate constipation, hence they are not to
be taken either.
With steatorhea it is very essential to take a walk in the fresh air and to do little physical
labor every day. Sleeping in the day-time and staying awake at night are forbidden. It is better to
take the

evening meal before 8 PM, and a short walk thereafter is very helpful.
Pulses are alkaline food but rich, so they are not to be eaten in cases of dyspepsia.
It is desirable to take food or to defecate when the main flow of breath is through the
right nostril. Even after food, it is desirable if the flow of breath mainly through the right nostril
continues for some time. Because that is the time when the digestive glands start secreting a
sufficient quantity of fluids to help digestion.
Observing fast on Ekadashii and regulation of the diet at night on Pu'rn'ima' and
Ama'vasya' (i-e. taking just a little milk, fruit and dry things on those two nights) is desirable.
 Some remedies

1.Take 1\16 tola asafoetida (Ferula foetida Regel), fried in ghee and mixed with an
equal quantity of rock-salt, before meals.
2.Take shredded dry coconut or the flesh of a mature coconut along with a prepared
betel(Piper betle Linn)leaf or with aniseed.
3.Take jamir lime sprinkled with salt.
4.Take 1\16 tola (not more than that) of ash of a cowrie, wrapped in a betel leaf, after
the evening meal every day.*
5.For a few days take some myrobalan powder, mixed and ground with an equal
quantity of anissed powder and double the quantity of Kashii sugar(sugar refined by hand
equipment and hence a reddish color).Do not use myrobalan seeds which, if dropped in water,
float than sink.

*To prepare the ash take the kind of cowrie with knots on it; dip it in lemon or lime juice, and to
ashes.

41. SORE THROAT

Symptoms: Inflamation of different glands and their surrounding areas, with

simultaneous throbbing pain (this does not mean that pain will accompany the swelling in every
case; and in chronic cases it is natural for there to be no pain); occasional fever, and aggravation
of the swelling during the fever, are the symptoms of this disease.

Causes:

1.The liver and the spleen become weak due to chronic fever , and as a result , the
immune defense of the blood and lymph become diminished. When this happens, the glands of
the body do not get the necessary support from them, and the gland or glands which are
neglected most have to strain to continue their activity. Because of this over-exertion, the glands
start swelling and enlarging .
2.Lack of iodine in the food causes those glands which need iodine to become weak ,
and in that condition they eventually become swollen.
3.If the body becomes deficient in shukra, the last-derived of all the bodily elements,
due to the wasteful discharge of semen ,all glands lose their vitality , because it is the shukra
which helps the glands stay strong and heathy.
Some of the important glands need shukra and iodine more than others, and therefore
any deficiency is more detrimental to them .The thyroid gland of the throat is one such gland, so
it easily succumbs to attack for any of the causes mentioned above. The two main supporting
arteries of the tyroid, named 'manya', also become incapable of carrying out their normal
functions and start swelling. As a consequence the whole region starts swelling and enlarging.
The name of this disease is 'goitre' .This type of swelling may also occur at the base of the ears,
in the arm-pits and in the groin.
 Treatment:

Morning-Utks'epa Mudra', Ka’rma’sana, Ud'd'ayana Mudra', Mayu'ra'sana,

Bandhatraya Yoga Mudra', and Pra'n'a'ya'ma concentrating on the controlling point of the
relevant glands.
Evening-Sarva'unga'sana, Matsyamudra', Agnisa'ra Mudra' and Matsyendra'sana. The
patient has to observe carefully the procedures for sun-bathing, drinking water, and fasting(see
Appendix).

Diet: With this disease, iodine-containing foods such as milk and fruits should be taken
in sufficient quantity. Bananas, papayas, pineapples, oranges, tangerines, jam and tomatoes are
very good food for patients. The patient must also pay careful attention to the regular clearance
of the bowels .

Do's and don't's: This type of disease, involving glandular swelling, is found in a larger
scale in the interior part of a country than in its sea-coast regions. So if it is possible for a patient
to go to some sea-cost place for a change of air , it will yield a good result. Since there is a lot of
iodine in sea water , the air near the coast is always found to be full of iodine.
Excessive seminal loss, in the case of the male, may
cause the thyroid gland to swell, so one should be careful to preserve one's semen.
Women who have given birth to a large number of children, or who are having
menstrual trouble, especially excessive bleeding ,or who are have breast-fed their children
excessively, may also be affected by swelling of the thyroid gland.
There is no much to fear it the swelling has only been present for a short time , because
taking precautionary measures in the preliminary stage will keep this disease from becoming
incurable. But if the disease persists and turns chronic, the above-mentioned do's and don't's will
have to be faithfully observed for a long period.
Treatment : First practice Shiva'sana for five minutes, then Matsyamudra' for five minutes, and
thereafter Matsyendra'sana for a maximum of one minute in each position. The performance of
all three A'sanas will make one round.
Practice three rounds. Take your usual massage, and after that do Shava'sana for at least 100
seconds. Then take a stroll for a few minutes. Ten minutes after the stroll, drink some warm
water.
If you feel any pain while pressing hard the spot located two fingers' width up, on the left or
right side of the urinary passage, then you should drink half a glass of slightly-warm water,
mixing one teaspoonful of baked clove powder in it.
If pain is felt while inhaling at a spot three fingers' width up. on the left or right side of the
urinary passage, when those regions are pressed hard with the thumb, then in that case also, ten
minutes after your stroll you should take one tea¡spoonful of baked clove powder in tepid water.

42. LOW BLOOD SUGAR

Treatment : Matsyendra'sana, Utkat'a Kurmaka'sana and Padahasta'sana. Ta'n'd'ava dance for
males (see an A'ca'rya for instructions).
Diet : Little fat, no sugar (a little honey or flower nectar* is all right). -No tinned fruit. Less
white flour and more whole¡wheat flour, plenty of fresh fruits of any taste, more green
vegetables, less potato. No alcohol or tobacco or drugs. No animal product except curd (yogurt).
Do's and don't's : Fast walking or running is desirable. Taking a bath daily in water of body
temperature is good.
* Nectar gathered directly from flowers.

43. GENERAL HEALTH ADVICE

A. WATER DRINKING
`A'pashcavishvabhes'ajii'-that is, `water is medicine for all diseases.' Truly, all types of disease
can be relieved if one knows how to use water properly. To maintain the internal functions of the
body without hindrance and to maintain the internal liquid balance, everyone should drink a
sufficient quantity of water every day. A healthy person can consume three or four seers of water
a day, a sick person four or five seers, and a person suffering from skin disease five or six seers.
These amounts of water help cure a disease to a great extent.
Drinking water is good, but water with a little lemon and a little salt is still better.
Drinking a lot of water at a time is harmful, especially for heart patients.

B. SEX
People should not taint their sex lives by over-indulgence. Everyone should remember that
Shudra is the ultimate element of the body, and if it is absent or somehow impaired, all the
elements of the body may become impaired and invite attacks of various diseases.
Intercourse more than four times a month leads to wastage of shudra, which culminates in
debility of the nerve-cells, nerve¡fibers, glands, etc. People may become aware of the physical
debility caused by this immoderate loss of shudra belatedly, but they will begin to feel the mental
and spiritual loss right away. That is why it is not at all desirable for adolescents and young
people to remain ignorant of sexual matters.
And when it comes down to a choice between restraint and lack of restraint, it is better not even
to ~ stipulate four times a month, but simply to say : the more restraint the better.
C. MUD-PACKS
Soil. possesses great curative properties. With cuts, scratches, sores and boils, if soil is applied
properly, it can be especially helpful in curing the disease and drawing out the poisonous
substances.
If the mud-pack starts cracking within about three hours after drying, or if the pack becomes
stale, then the pack should be thrown away. The wound should then be cleansed carefully with
some antiseptic, and after giving it a sun-bath, a fresh pack should be applied.
Healthy person or persons suffering from skin disease should smear their bodies with yellow
soil, massage themselves, then immerse themselves in a river or in a pond. This will certainly
give good results. It is desirable for everyone to use this mud massage now and then when they
bathe. Those who are suffering from leprosy or other diseases characterized by contaminated
sores should definitely have such a mud-massage followed by a bath everyday.
D. SUN-BATHING
The meaning of A'tapa Sna'na is `sun-bathing', but sunshine is not the same for all countries at all
times. Therefore, it is not possible to fix the best time for sun-bathing. But at the present time, in
the plains of Bihar, a sun-bath can be taken during the .summer until 10 A.M. and during the
winter between noon and 2 P.M.
During the sun-bath, the diseased parts of the body are exposed to the sun's rays while the
remaining parts are kept in the shade. When the affected area becomes hot after leaving--it in the
sun for fifteen to twenty minutes, it should be brought into the shade and the procedures
described below followed.
1. If there is rheumatism or gout in that part of the body, that part .should, under advice, be
massaged with oil for four or five minutes:
2. If it is skin disease, then that area should be massaged with neem (Azadrachta indica A. Juss.)
oil for four or five minutes.
3. In the case of other diseases, the affected area should be massaged with a cool, wet towel that
has been wrung out.
After the temperature of the area has come down to normal, it can once again be exposed to the
sun's rays. After leaving it in the sun for fifteen to twenty minutes, again cool the area by
massaging with oil or a towel in the aforesaid manner. Exposure to sun and massage can be done
in the same manner again and again. But during the last massage, instead of using oil, it is
desirable to wipe with a wet towel in all cases except that of skin disease.
If a healthy or sick person so desires, he or she may take a sun-bath over the entire body. In this
case, after the completion of the sun-bath, the whole body must be thoroughly wiped off with a
wet towel. When taking a sun-bath over the entire body, one should wear little or no clothes and
keep the back. to the sun. If the diseased area is in the front portion of the body, that is to say, the
face, chest, stomach, etc., then it can be kept uncovered but the remaining portions must kept
covered..
One. should always remember, `Expose the stomach to. fire and the back to sun'; i.e., if you need
to warm yourself at. a fire, keep the stomach towards the fire, never the back.
E. TAKING THE AIR
Pure, fresh air has the power to cure diseases. It is advisable to breathe in as fully as possible,
because when we do so, the air gets an opportunity to penetrate the lungs completely. It is better
to take a walk in the fresh air than to ride a vehicle. If the body does not work up a sufficient
sweat, then you should know that you have you not taken the air properly.
F. FASTING
During fasting the body's organs get a good rest, and the healing process is more rapid. It is
possible for one to get relief even from chronic skin diseases if one goes on a long fast and
drinks plenty of water with lemon juice.
Only .persons in very good health and with good energy should fast without water. Persons
suffering . from - gall or kidney-stones should never undertake a waterless fast. Sick pensions
and people in mediocre health should observe fasting taking plenty of lemon juice and water.
Persons who are very weak may take a small quantity of fruit and milk.
Persons who, for whatever reason, do not fast on Eka'dashii, Pu'rn'ima' and Ama'vasya' should at
least abstain from taking rice, fried vegetables, pulses and non-vegetarian food on those days.
They should also take just a little milk, fruit and dry things on the evenings of Pu'rn'ima' and
Ama'vasya'.
G. MENTAL PURITY
Mental purity helps particularly in keeping a person healthy. Impure thoughts increase the acidity
of the blood and invite disorders of the stomach, heart and brain. That is why every human being
should make as strong a habit as possible of selfless service and Iishvara Pran'idha'na
(meditation). The best way to attain mental purity is to follow the principles of Yama and
Niyama. (For a fuller explanation of Yama and Niyama, see A Guide to Human Conduct.)*
Yama Sddhana'
Yama is divided into five parts (1) Ahim'sa', (2) Satya, (3) Asteya, (4) Brahmacarya and (5)
Aparigraha.
1. Ahim'sa'-Not to inflict pain or hurt on any living thing in the world by thought, word or action
is 'Ahim'sa".
2. Satya-The benevolent use of mind and words is `Satya':
3. Asteya-To renounce the desire to acquire .or retain the wealth of others is `Asteya'. `Asteya'
means `non-stealing'.
4. Brahmacarya-To keep the mind always absorbed in Brahma (the Supreme Entity) is
`Brahmacarya'.
5. Apangraha-To renounce everything excepting the necessities for the maintenance of the body
is known as 'Aparigraha'.
Niyama Sadhana
Niyama is also divided into five parts--(1) Shaoca, (2) Santoºa, (3) Tapah,- (4) Svddhydya and
(5) Iishvara Pran'idhana.
1. Shaoca is of two kinds-Purity of the body and of the mind. The methods for mental purity are
kindliness towards all creatures, charity, working for the welfare of others and being dutiful. ¡
2. Santoºa--Contentment with things received unasked-for is 'Santota'. It is essential to try to be
cheerful always.
3. Tapah-To undergo physical hardship to attain the objective is known as `Tapah'. Upavisa
(fasting), serving the Guru (Preceptor), serving father and mother, and the four types of Yajina,
namely, Pitr Yajina, Nr Yajina, Rhu'ta Yajina and AdhyAtma Yajina (service to ancestors, to
humanity, to lower beings and to Consciousness), are the other limbs of Tapah.. For students,
study is the main Tapah.
4. Svadhyaya-The study, with proper understanding, of scriptures and philosophical books is
`Sva'dhya'ya'. The philosophical books and scriptures of A'nanda Ma'rga are A'nanda Su'tram
and Subha'sita Sam'graha (all parts), respec¡tively. Sva'dhya'ya is also done by attending
Dharmacakra (group meditation) regularly and having Satsaunga spiritual company), but this
kind of Sva'dhya'ya is intended only for those who are not capable of studying in the above
manner.
5. Iishvara Pran'idha'na-This is to have firm faith in Iishvara (the Cosmic Controller) in pleasure
and pain, prosperity and adversity, and to think of oneself as the instrument, and not the wielder
of the instrument, in all the affairs of life.
Human life is short. It is wise to get all the instructions regarding Sa'dhana' (intuitional practice)
as soon as possible.

44 Male menopause

At present a large number of men in society suffer from one male disease or other. The
main reasons are:

1. Lack of nutritious diet and consequent hypoadrenia, deficiency of fatty acids, amino
acids, minerals, ;
2. Unnatural way of life; violation of natural law
3. Lack of proper observation of the do's and don't's during work, over doing;
4. Lack of sexual restraint by males and females;
5. Ignorance regarding sexual matters, lack of concern for the other, unfocused mind
produces wandering eyes to inappropriate females.
 6. Excess of life from caffeine, tobacco, drugs, sugar, food, adrenalin
7. Worry, guilt, regret, jealousy, coveting, Remember, aggression directed inward is
depression
8. Reduced exercise, Reduced meditation and Reduced spiritual investigation.

Though male diseases may not be obviously fatal, they slowly sap the vitality of the
individual, and children, who are the hope of society, are born with mental and physical defects
which remain throughout their lives. What a terrible situation this is for society can easily be
imagined. On account of male diseases men often die prematurely. In most cases, if not all, lack
of self-control by the male is one of the causes of male disease. It is certainly not desirable for
men to go to their graves prematurely due the intemperance of women. Sexual over or under-
indulgence is also harmful to the men, because it causes excessive wastage of shukra, which in
the lymph stage nourishes the brain. Remember that self-control, mental control, and spiritual
pursuit are the greatest things in life.

45. BENGALI AYURVEDIC GLOSSARY

Words in this glossary have been alphabetized according to the English alphabet, not the
Bengali. Accented letters have been treated the same as unaccented (e.g., A' the same as A).
A'kanda-Calotropis gigantea (Linn.) R. Br ex Ait. A'marula--<SHA'K). Oxalis corniculata Linn.
A'mr'a'-Spondias pinnata Kurz. Anantamula-Hemidesmus indicus R. Br. Apa'ma'rga-
Achyranthes aspera Linn. Apara'jita---Gitoria ternatea Linn. Ar'ahara-Cajanus cajan (Linn.)
Millsp. Ashoka-Jonesia ashoka Roxb. Ashvagandha'-Withania coagulans Dunal.
A'tapa Rice-A fine-quality, very white type of rice.
Ba'bla-Acacia arabica wild.
Baher'a'-Terminalia belerice Roxb.
Ba'munaha'ti-Clerodendron indicum (Linn.) Ktze.
Ba'nsha-Bambusa bambos Druco.
Bar'a Ela'ca-Amomum subulatum Roxb.
Bel-Aegle marmelos Corr.
Ber'ela'-Side cordifolia Linn.
Beto (Sha'k)-Chenopodium albm Linn.
Bhu'mi Kus'ma'n'd'a-lpomoea paniculatac R. Br.
Bhunica'pa'-Kaempferia rotunda Linn.
Bora'caka-Cyperus iria Linn.
Brahmayasti-Clerodendron indicum (Linn.) Ktze.
Bra'hmii (Sha'k)-Bacopa monnieri (Linn.) pennell.
Cola'-Cicer arietinum Linn.
Dhundula-Luffa cylindrica (Linn.) M. Roem.
Dugdhaks'iira-Wrightia tomentosa Roem.
Durba'-Cynodon dactylon (Linn.) Pers.
Ga'mbha'rii---Gmelma arborea Linn.
Ghor'a'nim-Melia azedarach Linn.
Gima -Hydrocotyle rotundifolia Roxb.
Gulainca-Tinospora cordifolia (willd.) Miers.
Ha'tishunr'a'-Heliotropium indicum Linn.
Heleinca'-Enhydra fluctuans Lour.
Isabgula-Plantago ovata Fors'k..
Ja'm-Eugenia jambolana Lam.
Jayanti-Sesbania sesban (Linn.) Merr.
Jhim'ge-Luffa acutangula Roxb. or Wa acutangula (Linn.) Roxb. var. amara Clarke.
Kadam (Kadamba)-Anthocephalus indicus A. Rich.
Kala Kesenda'-Cassia ocxidentalis Linn.
Kalamii (Sha'k)-Ipomoea reptans (Lien.) Poir.
Ka'nsa'-A particular alloy translated `white brass' or `bell¡metal' (because vessels of this metal
ring when struck). It is widely used for cooking vessels in India.
Ka'nt'a'nat'e-Amaranthus spinosus Linn..
Kayetbet--Feronia limonia (Linn.) Swingle.
Kelekonar'a'-Capparis sepiaria Linn. Kuksiima'-Veronia cinerea Less.
Kula'ttha Kala'i-Dolichos biflorus Linn.
Luci-Hindi `purr, unleavened bread puffed by deep frying.
Lodha'-Symplocos racemosa Roxb.
Mahuya'-Madhuca indica J. F. Gmel, Ma'n Kacu-Colocasia antiquorum Schott.
Ma'skala'i-Phaseolus radiatus Linn. Very similar to mung bean.
Masu'r Da'l-Lens esculenta Moench.
Mat'ar (Sha7c)-Pisum salivum Linn.
Meoya'-A dried fruit.
Michrii-Rock candy.
Mis't'i Nebu-Citrus limettioides Tanaka.
Mutha'---Cyperus rotundus Linn.
Na'geshvara (Na'ga Keshara~-Mesua ferrea Linn. or Ochrocarpus longifolius Benth. 8c Hook. f.
Pala'sha-Butea monosperma (Lam.) Ktmtze.
Palta'-Erythrina vagiegata Linn. var. orientalis (Linn.) Merrill.
Parat'ha'-Flat bread prepared like a RUTI, but usually folded into a triangular shape and fried
ghee or oil.
Pat'al-Trichosanthes nervifolia Linn.
Punarnava -Boerhaavia diffusr Linn. Puni-Basella rubra Linn.
Puri--Similar to LUCI, but sometimes stuffed.
Rut'i--Hindi `cha'pa'ti', fiat bread made from whole-wheat flour.
Sajane-Moringa oleifera Lam.
Sarpagandha'-Rauwolfia serpentine aenth. ex Kurz.
Shatamu'lii--Asparagus racemosus Willd.
Shimu'la--Salmalia malabarica Schott & Endl. , ,
Shiuli--Nyctanthes arbortristis Linn.
Shobha'injana-Moringa oleifera Lam.
Shukra-This term comprises a large class of substances in the body. `This vital fluid has three
stages, lymph or, Pra'n'arasa (Lasikaj, sperrmatozoa, and seminal fluid...' (P. R. Sarkar. Idea. and
Ideology [A'nandanagar A'nanda Ma'rga Praca'raka Sam'gha, 5th Edition, 1978]. p. 66).
Shukrabaha Na'r'ii-Literally, `SHZJKRA-carrying vessels'.
Shulpha'-Fumaria parviflora Lam.
Shushuni (Sa'ka)-Blepharis tdulis Pers.
 Soda'la---Cassia fistula Linn.
Tela'kuca'-Coccinia indica W. & A.
Tha'nkuni----Hydrocotyle asiatica Linn.
Triphala -Emblic myrobalan (Emblica ofcinalis Gaertn.), myrobalan and BAHERA' in equal
proportions.
Ucche-Momordica charontia Linn.
Va'saka--Adhatoda vasica Nees.
Va'yu-This comprises (1) the ten basic energy flows in the body, performing specific functions;
and (2) the gas that is created in the digestive tract, lungs, etc. when the energy flows become
distorted. For further.explana¡tion please see Idea and Ideology, pages 63-65. (P. R. Sarkar, Idea
arid Ideoolgy [A'nandanagar : A'nanda Ma'rga Praca'raka Sam'gha, 5th Edition, 1978]).
Vir'i-Leaf tobacco rolled in the form of a very small cigar, usually inhaled.
Yajina D'umura--Ficus cunia Ham. ex Roxb.

46. STRESS
A. WATER DRINKING
`A'pashcavishvabhes'ajii'-that is, `water is medicine for all diseases.' Truly, all types of disease
can be relieved if one knows how to use water properly. To maintain the internal functions of the
body without hindrance and to maintain the internal liquid balance, everyone should drink a
sufficient quantity of water every day. A healthy person can consume three or four seers of water
a day, a sick person four or five seers, and a person suffering from skin disease five or six seers.
These amounts of water help cure a disease to a great extent.
Drinking water is good, but water with a little lemon and a little salt is still better.
Drinking a lot of water at a time is harmful, especially for heart patients.

B. SEX
People should not taint their sex lives by over-indulgence. Everyone should remember that
Shudra is the ultimate element of the body, and if it is absent or somehow impaired, all the
elements of the body may become impaired and invite attacks of various diseases.
Intercourse more than four times a month leads to wastage of shudra, which culminates in
debility of the nerve-cells, nerve¡fibers, glands, etc. People may become aware of the physical
debility caused by this immoderate loss of shudra belatedly, but they will begin to feel the mental
and spiritual loss right away. That is why it is not at all desirable for adolescents and young
people to remain ignorant of sexual matters.
And when it comes down to a choice between restraint and lack of restraint, it is better not even
to ~ stipulate four times a month, but simply to say : the more restraint the better.
C. MUD-PACKS
Soil. possesses great curative properties. With cuts, scratches, sores and boils, if soil is applied
properly, it can be especially helpful in curing the disease and drawing out the poisonous
substances.
If the mud-pack starts cracking within about three hours after drying, or if the pack becomes
stale, then the pack should be thrown away. The wound should then be cleansed carefully with
some antiseptic, and after giving it a sun-bath, a fresh pack should be applied.
Healthy person or persons suffering from skin disease should smear their bodies with yellow
soil, massage themselves, then immerse themselves in a river or in a pond. This will certainly
give good results. It is desirable for everyone to use this mud massage now and then when they
bathe. Those who are suffering from leprosy or other diseases characterized by contaminated
sores should definitely have such a mud-massage followed by a bath everyday.
D. SUN-BATHING
The meaning of A'tapa Sna'na is `sun-bathing', but sunshine is not the same for all countries at all
times. Therefore, it is not possible to fix the best time for sun-bathing. But at the present time, in
the plains of Bihar, a sun-bath can be taken during the .summer until 10 A.M. and during the
winter between noon and 2 P.M.
During the sun-bath, the diseased parts of the body are exposed to the sun's rays while the
remaining parts are kept in the shade. When the affected area becomes hot after leaving--it in the
sun for fifteen to twenty minutes, it should be brought into the shade and the procedures
described below followed.
1. If there is rheumatism or gout in that part of the body, that part .should, under advice, be
massaged with oil for four or five minutes:
2. If it is skin disease, then that area should be massaged with neem (Azadrachta indica A. Juss.)
oil for four or five minutes.
3. In the case of other diseases, the affected area should be massaged with a cool, wet towel that
has been wrung out.
After the temperature of the area has come down to normal, it can once again be exposed to the
sun's rays. After leaving it in the sun for fifteen to twenty minutes, again cool the area by
massaging with oil or a towel in the aforesaid manner. Exposure to sun and massage can be done
in the same manner again and again. But during the last massage, instead of using oil, it is
desirable to wipe with a wet towel in all cases except that of skin disease.
If a healthy or sick person so desires, he or she may take a sun-bath over the entire body. In this
case, after the completion of the sun-bath, the whole body must be thoroughly wiped off with a
wet towel. When taking a sun-bath over the entire body, one should wear little or no clothes and
keep the back. to the sun. If the diseased area is in the front portion of the body, that is to say, the
face, chest, stomach, etc., then it can be kept uncovered but the remaining portions must kept
covered..
One. should always remember, `Expose the stomach to. fire and the back to sun'; i.e., if you need
to warm yourself at. a fire, keep the stomach towards the fire, never the back.
E. TAKING THE AIR
Pure, fresh air has the power to cure diseases. It is advisable to breathe in as fully as possible,
because when we do so, the air gets an opportunity to penetrate the lungs completely. It is better
to take a walk in the fresh air than to ride a vehicle. If the body does not work up a sufficient
sweat, then you should know that you have you not taken the air properly.
F. FASTING
During fasting the body's organs get a good rest, and the healing process is more rapid. It is
possible for one to get relief even from chronic skin diseases if one goes on a long fast and
drinks plenty of water with lemon juice.
Only .persons in very good health and with good energy should fast without water. Persons
suffering . from - gall or kidney-stones should never undertake a waterless fast. Sick pensions
and people in mediocre health should observe fasting taking plenty of lemon juice and water.
Persons who are very weak may take a small quantity of fruit and milk.
Persons who, for whatever reason, do not fast on Eka'dashii, Pu'rn'ima' and Ama'vasya' should at
least abstain from taking rice, fried vegetables, pulses and non-vegetarian food on those days.
They should also take just a little milk, fruit and dry things on the evenings of Pu'rn'ima' and
Ama'vasya'.
G. MENTAL PURITY
Mental purity helps particularly in keeping a person healthy. Impure thoughts increase the acidity
of the blood and invite disorders of the stomach, heart and brain. That is why every human being
should make as strong a habit as possible of selfless service and Iishvara Pran'idha'na
(meditation). The best way to attain mental purity is to follow the principles of Yama and
Niyama. (For a fuller explanation of Yama and Niyama, see A Guide to Human Conduct.)*
Yama Sddhana'
Yama is divided into five parts (1) Ahim'sa', (2) Satya, (3) Asteya, (4) Brahmacarya and (5)
Aparigraha.
1. Ahim'sa'-Not to inflict pain or hurt on any living thing in the world by thought, word or action
is 'Ahim'sa".
2. Satya-The benevolent use of mind and words is `Satya':
3. Asteya-To renounce the desire to acquire .or retain the wealth of others is `Asteya'. `Asteya'
means `non-stealing'.
4. Brahmacarya-To keep the mind always absorbed in Brahma (the Supreme Entity) is
`Brahmacarya'.
5. Apangraha-To renounce everything excepting the necessities for the maintenance of the body
is known as 'Aparigraha'.
Niyama Sadhana
Niyama is also divided into five parts--(1) Shaoca, (2) Santoºa, (3) Tapah,- (4) Svddhydya and
(5) Iishvara Pran'idhana.
1. Shaoca is of two kinds-Purity of the body and of the mind. The methods for mental purity are
kindliness towards all creatures, charity, working for the welfare of others and being dutiful. ¡
2. Santoºa--Contentment with things received unasked-for is 'Santota'. It is essential to try to be
cheerful always.
3. Tapah-To undergo physical hardship to attain the objective is known as `Tapah'. Upavisa
(fasting), serving the Guru (Preceptor), serving father and mother, and the four types of Yajina,
namely, Pitr Yajina, Nr Yajina, Rhu'ta Yajina and AdhyAtma Yajina (service to ancestors, to
humanity, to lower beings and to Consciousness), are the other limbs of Tapah.. For students,
study is the main Tapah.
4. Svadhyaya-The study, with proper understanding, of scriptures and philosophical books is
`Sva'dhya'ya'. The philosophical books and scriptures of A'nanda Ma'rga are A'nanda Su'tram
and Subha'sita Sam'graha (all parts), respec¡tively. Sva'dhya'ya is also done by attending
Dharmacakra (group meditation) regularly and having Satsaunga spiritual company), but this
kind of Sva'dhya'ya is intended only for those who are not capable of studying in the above
manner.
5. Iishvara Pran'idha'na-This is to have firm faith in Iishvara (the Cosmic Controller) in pleasure
and pain, prosperity and adversity, and to think of oneself as the instrument, and not the wielder
of the instrument, in all the affairs of life.
Human life is short. It is wise to get all the instructions regarding Sa'dhana' (intuitional practice)
as soon as possible.
47. KARMA or SPIRITUAL ATTACK

Karma can be relieved by spiritual investigation and negativity release. Work on non-
judgmental self awareness and calm the waters of your inner soul to reflect any evil back to its
source. Still waters act as a mirror, where stormy waters absorb negative energy.