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LECTURES ON SELECTED SUTRAS OFASTANGA HRUDAYAM AND SANGRAHAMBy Rajiv Dixit Cell 09422903599E mail
[email protected] Lecture No 1 ã 2001 census -Health statistics of India o 112 cr population o Healthy people = 25 to 30 cr o Unhealthy o 5 cr diabetes -12 to 13 cr o lung problems -15-16 cr bone problems o 9 to 10 cr stomach problem o 20 -22 cr eye problems o Budget for Central Govt Rs.90,000cr/A o State and Centre together 1,25,0000cr/A o Total registered doctors 27 Lakhs-(Allopathic,Homeopathy, Ayurveda) o Another 23 lakhs unregistered medical practioners o Total 50 lakhs doctors =87 cr unhealthy people ã One doctor can examine max. 50 patientsmaximum per day (now ratio 1: 174) ã None can be healthy by 2014! ã Govt spent so far10 lakhs cr for doctor’seducation ã Hardiker, Pune, Modern Charak “200 years back only 8% Indian were unhealthy” ã Let every one be his own doctor ã 250 years of allopathic work has been to fightagainst pain ã Health issues o 15% only need specialist care o 85% can take care of by self ã Health for all : let every one be the doctors. ã VAGABHAT, 135 years, sanyasi- disciple of Charak but who worked more than Charak o Vagbhat simplified Charak sutras intocommon man’s language o 2 books by Vagbhat =Astangahrydayam, Astanga samgraham-together 6000 sutras ã If you want to be healthy o know your body(physiology andanatomy) & your food o The second more important o The one who knows/understand thefood requires no doctor o Know food = know your kitchen o Greatest pharmacy = Kitchen o Maximum chemical research done there o India the greatest research done in theKitchen o In other countries no food(all foodvariations of only pav rotti, double rotti +onions)) then what about research ? ã Proctor and Gamble(US) – 20,000 % profit in India by selling the allopathic drugs ã Eli Lilly(US) – 35,000% profit in India selling theallopathic drugs o Most of the allopathic doctors are Drugmanufactures commission agents o They prescribe medicines more thanvegetables o IMC and Indian govt failed to put brakes o Oath taken by Doctors thrown to wind ã Here, out of 6000 sutras shortlisted 50 sutras as themost essential ã Sutra No 1-Food cooked and eaten while there issunshine and touch of air is amruth and notmere food. o If food is cooked without this it is slow poison o Avoid use of pressure cooker as it prevents both the above o Micro oven and Refrigerator = No sunshine or touch of Air Findings of Centre for Drug ResearchInstitute, Lucknow o Aluminum vessels the most ill suited for cooking or keeping the food o Pressure cooker 99% of aluminum o 18 years of research : aluminum vesselscause Diabetes, bronchitis, arthritis, TB o 48 diseases purely out of pressure cooker o Immunity comes down-Research in Jails o 125 years back aluminum vesselsintroduced by EIC for Jail inmates o All freedom fighters in Jails during thosedays o Intention was to kill them by slow poison o Now the poor are using it more o And rich are using Pressure cookersmade out of it o logic used it saves times ã Question? What you do with saved time ã If falls sick the time spent in hospital squares thesaved time ã How Pressure cooker cooks fast? o Extra pressure on food with water ã Ayurveda principle -the food item that require moretime to mature in the field need to be given moretime to cook o Pressure cooker does just opposite to it 1 .For my book you can contact 07152260041 or 09822520113. o Arhar dhal- matures in the field in 6 to8 months. o Hence it need to be cooked more timeto be absorbed into the body. o Pressure cooker soaks or breaks dhal(mistaken as cooking) in 5 to 6 minutes o Cooking and soaking is 2 differentthings ã Puri Jagananth Temple Prasad cooked in earthenvessels o Earth is a bad conductor o Hence it takes more time to cook o It gives more time for dhal to becooked in an earthen vessel. o Earth contains micro nutrients o Body has the element of earth o Jaganath Puri Prasad does not get spoilteven after 36 hours o CSIR,Delhi research showsmicronutrient remain intact in thePrasad even after 36 hours o Pressure cooker cooked dhal – only13% micronutrient remains o If you want to make use of themicronutrient of dhal, it need to becooked and not soaked or broken! o Potters the greatest scientists o They are the greatest doctors bysupplying the earthen vessels that helpyou preserve micronutrients of food o Earth contains – 18 micronutrients – calcium, silicon, iron, sulphur, etc.,which are essentials for body. ã Body need all these 18 micro nutrients for well balanced growth. ã Food cooked in earthen pots contains all these 18micronutrients ã Alternative vessels made of metals o Khasa (Copper) – 97 % micro nutrientremains o Peetal – 93% micro nutrient remains Lecture No 2 ã TVS group family members cook food in earthenvessels o Dirubhai Ambani – Kokila Bhen – rotiin earthen thava ã If 20 cr families (112 cr population) start usingearthen vessels it gives employment to 18%Potter population in the country, who are nowun-employed ã Brahmin population is also 18% ã Simple way to be in touch with the soil = useearthen vessels in kitchen ã Refrigerator o CFCs helps to keep the temperature below the room temperatures inside therefrigerator o CFCs- 12 types of gases -Chlorine,Fluorine, CO2 etc., o Chlorine in dictionary meaning = poison o Fluorine in dictionary meaning = very poisonous o CO2 is also poisonous o Body mechanism takes out CO2 o If kept inside death is certain o Thing kept inside refrigerator affected bygases even when kept closed-Gas can penetrate any thing o Reason for Refrigerator invention=tocounter wide variation in temperature inEuropean temperature o 2 nd reason = to preserve allopathicmedicine o Used extensively for Army o No need for households in India ã How to overcome the refrigerator? Sutra No 2 ã Make use of food within 50 pals (in Sanskrit) orin 48 minutes of cooking o Why 48 minutes? o Vagbhat a great mathematician also o Any food beyond that is(known as Bhasiin Hindi) not even fit for animalconsumption o Out of 360 days in a year only one day bhasi is allowed to be consumed that ison Bhasi festival -That day the 3 gunas inthe body gets worse. Body needs proteinthat day- To give it , Vagbhat suggestBhasi food usage. o Jain equal the not usage of food after 48minutes to Ahimsa ã Western and Eastern people DNA is different ã Indians take values associated with religious belief ã Global warming another reason for not use of Refrigerator ã Micro Wave Oven-Only part of the food is heated ã Making of hot rotti known only in India. ã Western people do not know how to make it ã They eat bread made 3 months back Sutra 3 ã Raw materials of food not to be of 7 days old ã Powdered wheat to be consumed within 15 days o Other cereals powder within 7 days o Rural chakki running ladies in villageshealthy – no cesarean or arthritis o Reason? pressure on the stomach-Uterus 2 o More the elasticity for uterus and themuscles around the better for thehealth of the women o No cesarean in olden days o Ayurveda- till 7 th month of pregnancymother can exert (running the chakki) o When Menopause stops (45+ age)many problems -sudden changes in the body– shiver, hot, flashes, depression,etc., o Allopathy suggests hormonereplacement o Weight increases is the output o No permanent cure for problems out of menopause. But it can be controlledwith kitchen equipments-One is Chakkiand other Masala powdering equipment o Gym can not reduce the stomach o Vata more in Hot climate people. Toreduce it slow exercises, slow dances- bharatnatyam etc., o In western countries vata is low toincrease it fast exercises, dances etc.,- ballet, disco etc., o Technology in the kitchen has broughtcontrol on diseases o In the name of development we have brought diseases inside the houses o Machines have turned body intomachines. o All these have reduced the work of the body. Sutra 4 -Do not reduce the physical work till 60years ã 18 to 60 body need to work ã Children physical work in the form of games ã Now all have been mechanized ã It has made the life mechanized ã It removed the joy of life ã In olden days there was joy in work and life ã It was expressed thru songs ã In olden days people used to work with songs – different occasions songs varies - wedding,sowing, harvesting, festival, ã Now no body knows the songs ã Now boredom has come Sutra No 5 ã Live along with the geographical conditions ã India a place of hot climate- more vata problems ã 70 to 85 % problems out of this ã 10 % - 15% Pitta related diseases ã 5% Kapha related diseases ã Do not do anything that increases Vata egrunning -Running in India is wrong ã Food habits-People from Rajasthan living inChennai to consume rice and not wheat Lecture No 3 ã Vagbhat – Moksha concept –The person who isfree of sorrow and try to remove others un-happiness gets moksha -3 types of unhappiness ã One who has removed his sorrow but do not try toremove others sorrow, is not entitled to moksha ã Sadus try to remove only their own sorrow ã Householders alone try to remove others sorrow ã How to remove body sorrow- the most importantaspect stomatch-90% problems (nearly 150 typesof diseases) stomach related-10% related to other parts ã How to safe guard from the stomach related problems? ã How you eat is more important-eat withmastication Sutra No 6-Drinking water after eating food is equalto drinking poison o Jatara in stomach (amashaya) –Fire is produced. o Food eaten goes to Amashaya- o If water consumed after eating food itdouses the jatara and the food getsdecomposed instead of digestion-Result?Gas production- and nearly 103 types of diseases – acidity, hyper acidity-ulcer, peptic ulcer, cancer, Increase of cholesterol/fat o Proper digestion of food will not createcholesterol o Drink water after 1 ½ hours of food-region wise this differs – Uttaranchal itwould be 2 ½ hours o Drinking water before eating food can be40 to 50 minutes before eating food o Drinking water in between food – if 2types of food – rice and rotti – drink water in between the two-How much ? 2to 3 mouthful only. o After food drink Butter milk or milk or seasonal fruit juice o Fruit juice after break fast- why theenzymes needed to digest that is produced only in the morning o Butter milk only after afternoon food-why the enzymes produced only in themorning o Milk after supper o How to drink water after 1 ½ hours food? o Water does not have any qualities – itacquire quality into which it is mixed.Therefore even though butter milk/fruit juice etc., major portion is water, itacquires the quality of butter or juicewhen gets mixed. 3 o Drink water with lota not glass keepingvery near to body o Why? Surface tension issues. It createsstress on water o Lota is round- has minimum surfacearea- minimum surface tension o Glass has more surface hence the water kept in it has surface tension o Well is round and has minimum surfacetension o Water quality is cleaning. It reduces thesurface tension of the intestine and theunwanted things is thrown out o Water with high surface tension worksopposite and hold back unwantedthings. o Cold water surface is high and it willhold back the items ã Drink water by sipping ã Mouth produces saliva (alkaline) and jatara produces acids. Both mixed together neutralizes ã When water is drunk by sipping, it takes thealkaline saliva and then mixes the acidic enzymesand neutralizes both- pH level =7 ã In whose stomach the acid and alkaline is similar to water will live 100 years. ã Obesity reduced only by changing the water drinking habits ã Never drink cold water ã Drink water temperature of which is equal to body temperature- never above the bodytemperature. ã Cold water goes into stomach and cools thestomach-body gets cold-all organs also get cold. ã If the stomach is functional, it tries to convert thecold water into body temperature- more energyand blood needed for it which is taken from other parts- first from head- slowly it creates a problemfor that organs – brain hemorrhage ã Western countries –people drink chilled water – constipation – 2 hours in toilets ã Do not take ice cream, cold drinks etc., it createsconstipation ã Saliva produced in the mouth very potent andshould not be wasted. Animals lick the wounds toheal ã Sutra-Drink water as soon as you wake up(before brushing) ã Why? Saliva production active even during thesleep time. Brahmamurt saliva very potent – donot waste it-1 to 1 ¼ liter for grown up(3 glasses)750 grams for below that (2 glass) o Diabetes patients – wounds – healedout of saliva. Gangrene patients alsocured o Eye problem – fat specks – by applyingmorning saliva to eye like kajal o Conjunctivitis- apply saliva o Black eyes- black circles around the sun – apply saliva o What is the content of Saliva – samechemicals as in the soil – 18 micronutrients o Eczema, Psoriases – saliva can cure o Eating pan with chuna (1 gram withoutsupari and tobacoo) is recommended Lecture No 4Have a regular food timing ã Take food when the jatara is extreme ã Jatara time peaks till 2 ½ hours from the sun rise. ã Animals follows this rule ã Each body organs have its own times for peak work ã Eg heart – during brahmamurt- most of the heartattacks during that time ã Take the maximum food during that time. ã Anything that you like most take in the first food ã Take lunch before 9.30 am and not break-fast ã Break-fast is western concept- they take little break-fast and lunch more and supper maximum. ã Reason? No sun shine in western countries in themorning. ã Good morning concept – because of that- they wishthe sun shine in the morning ã Keep reducing the food intake subsequent to that ã Eg. 6 rottis in the first food, make it 4 at afternoonand 2 at night ã Food to fill the stomach and mind also. ã Take food that you make you happy Supper to be taken 40 minutes before sun setDo not take in-compatable items together -103 items ã Eg o Onion and milk – if taken together psoriasis, eczema will be output o Milk and Jack fruit o Milk and Citric items fruits(orange,lemon etc.,) o Amla alone can be taken along with Milk o Ghee and Honey o Urad dhal and Curd – blood pressureincreases (dhahi vada taboo) Eat food squatting on floor ã Jatara intensity maintained in sitting posture,standing position it is reduced, sitting on the chair itis moderately reduced. ã Why? The shad chakra behind the hip joints – it hasinfluence on the jatara . In sitting posture itsintensity on jatara is increased ã Plate can be slightly higher than the floor 4
