 single person on this planet
that I have any leftover bad feelings with.
Moreover, I now know that I truly have no one to forgive, and I never
did. I simply had to correct my misperception that others were  causing me
to be miserable, that they were the cause of my discontent. Paradoxically,through the act of forgiveness, I have come to the place where  forgiveness
never comes up for me. I have learned to accept others exactly as they are,
and never pretend that I love something I don’t. But I also know  I no longer
need the immobilizing emotional reactions that used to accompany my
encounters with people who were behaving in ways which I disliked.
Consequently, acceptance has allowed me to see them for what they are and
where they are, and to remind me of the same thing in myself. Any hostile
or negative reaction in me, as a result of the behavior of others, really just
lets me know where I am, or am not, and no longer requires any
forgiveness. I have come to the point of not needing to forgive, by
forgiving. One more paradox.

PUTTING FORGIVENESS INT O ACTION

It is obvious to me, and I am sure to you as well, that we all resist
forgiveness when we prefer to use blame. We seek out revenge when we
live in a world which practices  it in every corner of the globe. We find
forgiveness a plausible princi ple when we read our holy books, yet
extremely difficult to live by, because it violates that need to get even and to
“right the score.” We also fail to look realistically at what an inability to
forgive does to the person who is carrying around the anger and hatred. The
first time we read about someone performing an absolutely horrendous act
of violence on someone else, our innate reaction is: “I hope they kill the
bastard!” When someone wrongs us in some way we tend to forget these
important words on forgiveness and say to ourselves, “I’ll get even,” or “I
hope he gets his.”
The entire business of putting forgiveness into action on a daily basis
involves accept ing the other six universal principles in your life. The
forgiveness part will come automatically when you go through the gate—
when you befriend your own personal transformation and honor the
intelligence that is behind your form and all form. When you use your
power of thought to be at harm ony rather than fighting the flow of energy
that is our universe. When you stop carving up your world and live in
oneness with all human beings,  knowing that we are all connected by that
divine intelligence, all of us, even those who do not think and behave as
you would prefer. When you know in your heart that what you think about
expands and you stay focused on what you love and what you are gratefulfor. Whe n you release yourself from all attachments and let yourself live
fully. When you have the knowledge that everything is synchronized and
working perfectly in this onesong.
When you start living this way and thinking this way and allow others to
do the same, then forgiveness will come automatically. You will have no
hatred or disharm ony left inside to give away. The forgiveness will come as
naturally and automatically as Nureyev performs a leaping pirouette after
thousands of hours of practice, or as Isaiah Thomas twists and turns for a
driving lay-up. No one can tell these two geniuses how to perform their
seeming miracle s. They do it from intuition after practice, practi ce, practice.
Forgiveness is very much like that. After practicing the lesson s of higher
consciousness, you will find forgiveness the easiest of all the universal
principles to put into your daily life. It will happen automatically. If it is not
happening automatically now, then you have more practice to do on the
other areas of your life.
Do not bemoan your inability to truly forgive. Simply work at living the
principles of higher harmonious consciousness, and before long you will
find it happening without any effort. When you see others practicing the
acts of blame, anger, and vengeance, forgive them and be open to
supporting them  in changing their choices to hurt themselves and others.
You will start devoting yourself to helping others to eliminate their
vengeful, unfor giving thoughts, and then you will know that it has
happened for you as well. It will be as if you were on automatic pilot,
reacting with your thoughts the same way you react automatically, without
consciously thinking, when you do something that you have practiced many
many times. But until that automatic act of forgiveness clicks in, here are
ways to speed up that process.

GIVING IS THE KEY  TO FORGIVING

This is one of the greatest lessons I have ever learned in my life. If you can
master this one without any cynicism, you will find forgiveness  is a way of
life for you. Giving is the answ er to “Why am I here?” Since you cannot
own anything, and all of your attachments prevent abundance from arriving
in your life, then all that you can do is give, of yourself, and of all of those
things that keep circulating back into your life. Most of us are so into
hoarding all that we can get for ourselves and our families that we forget theneed to keep it in motion. In our rush to acquire, we find ourselves creating
angry relationships, even with strangers, as we set up defenses in
anticipation of their taking something away from us.
Keep in mind that it is impossible to create any bitterness or hatred
toward others when your primary objective is to be a giving human being.
Forgiveness comes almost autom atically when you detach yourself from the
need to get something and instead focus on reaching out to others. The
irony is that the less you are obsessed with getting and the more willing you
are to give, the more you seem to get.
What you think about expands. Thus, if your thoughts are on getting all
that you can and beating the other guy who you believe is trying to do you
in, then you are constantly think ing about, worrying about, and planning on
the notion of deception. Your thoughts are focused on the dishonesty of the
other guy and the callousness of the world. That is what will expand in your
life, because that is what you are thinking about. Consequent ly, you will
find yourself getting more and more fearful about being cheated, insuring
yourself against the possibility, hiring attorneys to protect you, and loading
yourself up with adversaries. You literally put yourself in an adversarial
relationship with almost everyone that you meet. And sure enough, you find
this sort of thing continuing to expand.
Now take a look at the opposi te approach to your life. Your thoughts
(you) now shift to a new perspe ctive. You are not thinking about your own
quotas, your own acquisitions, your financial picture, at all. You are instead
giving away what you have inside. That is, harmony and acceptance. Since
you are not looking to gain anything from anyone, you have nothing to fear.
Suppose someone enters your life who might be determined to cheat you,
and that person encounters in you someone who truly cares about him as a
human being. The likelihood of the cheating behavior will be dramatically
lessened when there is no expectation of it. Looking for harmony and
cooperation and giving it to others will most likely result in your receiving
the same  kind of treatment. You will not attract enemies, because you are
not putting yourself into an adversarial position with anyone, regardless of
what anyone sends you. Giving becomes the key to creating relationships in
which forgiveness is unnecessa ry. This truly works! Bear with me before
allowing any of your enculturated skepticism to creep in here.
Of course, I am aware that there are people who behave dishonestly, in
the world. I know that horrible criminal acts occur regularly. I know thatmany people believe that we should keep building more and more prisons
and put all of “those kinds of people” away for good. But building more
prisons to put away more and more people simply is not workin g. We have
doubled and quadrupled the number of prisons in the past decade, and they
are still overcrowded. The answ er will come when we discov er why we
have so many people who want to take from others, and work at correcting
that approach to life. Raising our own consciousness is the only way that
we can begin such a journey. I have found that the quickest way to disarm
anyone who is focused exclusively on what he can take from me is to let
him know, with kindness, that I do not live that way.
I recently purchased an automo bile and found after the closing that the
dealer had adde d a charge of almost two hundred dollars into the contract,
over and above the price that we had agreed upon. I did not discover this
until I had returned home and looked over the final papers more carefully.
For me, this was a perfect opportunity to practice all that I have been
writing about in this book. Years ago, I probably would have been angry,
felt cheated, and had an unplea sant exchange with the car dealer. Not this
time. I simply called, and expressed my opinion to the salesman about what
had happened, and explained that I did not feel that he had acted from
integrity in the closing. I also talked to the owner,


ent?f
leprosy for the reason that this desease is of rare occurrence m
England.
Dr. Pushpendra Bhatta sent to me a patient suffering. from
leprosy. The patient Shri Kanajibhai Mohanlal age.d 32 IS ~n
inhabitant of Ahmedabad. He informed me about h1s trouble 1n
details. A skin expert had taken him for a patient of ~egenerative
leprosy and treated him as such for a long time but faded to cure
him. His hands and fingers now bore the wounds and he always f~lt
a piercing and burning sensation in his fingers. He was unable to hft 146 : AUTO.URINE THERAPY
anything with his hands. I noticed that the nerves of his hands were
strained and had contracted. He informed that he had already begun
with rubbing urine on his hands for a week and felt considerable
relief from the burning and piercing sensation. I advised him to
continue rubbing regularly and also start drinking urine next day and
to fast on urine and water after a couple of days.
Next week, he reported an improvement in his condition. He
fasted for three days and came to me again after a period of three
months. H~ was extremely happy. Here is his short accout :
"Before the treatment; I was unable to move my hands up and
down but it is possible to do so now. Moreover J was unable to do
work with them but now it is possible to do so. On the whole, I have
been considerably benefited by urine treatment and the wounds of
leprosy on hands and feet have disappeared. The piercing sensation
in the fingers has also vanished."
7. Psoriasis : Psoriasis is though to be an incurable malady. Shri
Popatlal G. Lakhani, a resident of Porbandar (Saurashtra), practised
as a solicitor in Bombay for about 25 years. Now he has retired from
practice and lives at Probandar. For the past 25 years, he was
afflicted with psoriasis and at last was relieved of his trouble by
urine treatment. Here is a summary of his account:
"Nearly 25 years.ago, I was attacked by Psoriasis. This disease
has a slow growth. Appearance qf a blister on the skin marks the
onset of the disease. Thrs bliseter resembles that caused in the case
of burning or stinging, but differs from others in the fact that it does
not contain any fluid. The skin of this blister often comes off and
gets renewed. Thus gradually the blister grows. My skin appeared to
be whithering and I felt severe itching sensation which compelled
me to scratch constantly. By· scratching, silvery powder-Hke
substapce came out of the spot of infection. I got myself examined
by skin specialist, and came to know for the first time that I suffered
from psoriasis. He gave me a prescription for injections and
·medicines. Though its further growth could be checked but SKIN DISEASES : 147
. im ssible to cure it. Later as the
according to the ~actor.It was edi:es in allopathy, homoeopathy,
disease spread, I tne~ vanoushm ractitioners of different systems but
Ayurved, etc. as advised by t e P 1 used to besmear
failed to have any relief. For the past m~ny years,d h k'n I had to
.. h. -f t d portion and It softene t e s I.
coconut oil o~ t e In ec e d 'f I ever failed in that, inevitably I
do so three times a day anl.d I It in tearing of the skin of the
invited more trouble. It wou resu
finger-joints and there was oozing of blood..
d Your book Manav " eanwhile I by chance happene to see
Mu~. I read it in couple of days and started urine treatment.
d urine in a bottle for massage. "Since june 12, 1960, I store my filed I began
bo I f 1 lb capacity each were I'
As soon as three. tt es 0 · 6_6_60 Next morning, my skin
with rubbing entire body ond 1 d -~ surprised me. The dead
. d to be soft and ten er an I. h bod appeare.. d felt still more softness on t e y
cuticles on the skm had clear~o~l ht of drinking urine; first I rubbed
w~en I took a bath.!hen 118~6-6~ I drank urine for the first time and
unne on my teet~ an on If D Dattani for an examination. He
next day 1 subm1tted myse to r.
was extremely glad to note the improvement... bb'
h. d I continued dnnkmg and ru mg "Since june 16th up tot 15 ay · h · I labour for. b Iff m top to toe do some p yslca
urine. Dally I ru myse rob h The dead· cuticles having entirely
an hour and then take a at. h lthy I do not recall any itching
gone, ~y skftin appea~~~~ ~h:~: g~tarid ~f psoriasis completely and
sensation a er June ·. ·. d M body is active and my
my constipation has also been ehmmate. y
appetite is good...
I bo t my successful expenement.
"I keep informing many peop e a u tl benefited"
Man of my friends have adopted it and are consequen y...
Y f 1 • e treatment mA1ve
Shri Lakhani has described ~cess u un~he patient was the
cases one of which wads ofMbl.. -p~~~yss~~~ he also got rid of his
health officer in Porban ar ume~pa
irritation in the soles. 148 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
AFTERMATH OF CASES
1. Shri Nandalal P. Solanki aged 35 is a tailor residing at
Kumbharvada, Bombay 17. He was suffering from eczema for the
last 20 years. He could get no benefit frqm the treatment of various
skin specialists and even from hospital I!Jieatment. He started urine
treatment on 28-5-67 and continued it for three months. He used to
drink four to six ounces of auto-urine daily and massaged with warm
and old urine for three monthsi the massage was twice a day. On
the spot of the disease he used to put urine-soaked cotton. He fasted
for eight days and during this time he had cold, loos motions and
thereby toxins were removed. The disease was completely cured.
2. Shri Bhagavandas N. Dhimar, D.M.E., lecturer at Polytechnic
Sch~l, Bulsar and residing at Dhimar Housing Society at Bilimora,
had p1o-derma for the last eight years. He used to have boils all over
the body and they were sometimes full of pus. He was not cured by
doctors and even hospitals. He started urine treatment in August
1967 and continued it for two months. He used do drink two ounces
of auto-urine twice a day. He massaged his whole body for half an
hour twice a day for two months. He used to put urine-soaked pads
on the boils. He had fasted for eight days in the beginning. He was
completely cured.
3. Shri Kalyanjibhai Mehta, -the first Speaker of Gujarat State
Assembly, had skin infection. He had itching sensation on the leg
and then there was burning and blood began to ooze. He tried
various medicines for a month but to no avail and was much
harassed by the disease. He applied urine-soaked pads on the spot
for three nights ~nd was completely cured..
4. S~rimati Chanchalben P. Patel (Rajbhavan, Malad, Bombay)
used unne for her eczema for 25 days, three times a day. She did
not drink it but only by application she was completely cured and it
never recurred since then.
5. ~hri R. N. Patel, Nairobi (Africa), had a small eruption on
leg-joint and it slowly turned into skin-disease on the whole body. SKIN DISEASES : 149
There was itching sensation all over the body and there was oozing
of watery substance at some places. Doctors could not cure the
disease even though he spent thousands of rupees. He undertook
urine treatment and was completely cured even though he did not
observe all the rules of the treatment. Thereafter he became a
propagator of urine therapy and cured his wife•s diabetes and his
friend•s burning sensation at the time of urination by urine treatment.
His brother•s diabetes, and sinus were completely removed by this
treatment.
6. Shri Hans came to know from Kaviraj Ramaswarup an instance
of successful cure of a fisherman from le


 around nerves, often in combination with food allergies, cause the inﬂammations and pain in muscles (myositis) and nerves
(neuritis).
The common medical treatment for these conditions consists mainly of anti-inﬂammatory drugs, pain relief measures and
physiotherapy to maintain a degree of mobility in affected joints, but it cannot slow or reverse the progressive deterioration of the
disease. As a last resort af fected joints may be surgically replaced.
WRONG FOOD
Arthritis is sometimes called the 'cooked food disease'. A high intake of cooked, sweet and fatty food is usually characteristic in the
development of the disease. Alternatively, there is an inability to handle sweet and fatty food. Other main factors are a high incidence
of food allergies, nutritional deﬁciencies as well as an unhealthy intestinal ﬂora.
Rheumatoid arthritis in particular is closely linked to food allergy. Most sufferers greatly improve when they are on a fast or restricted
diet, which eliminates the foods to which they are allergic. Cows' milk products and wheat products are the most common offenders,
but there is usually a whole range of foods to which individuals react with a worsening of symptoms.
When aspirin and other commonly used pain relieving drugs are taken, the intestinal wall becomes less effective in blocking harmful
partly digested nutrients and frequently a worsening of symptoms occurs in the longer term. The same happens if fruit acids are
ingested or sweet food is eaten. The inefﬁcient metabolism of these individuals converts sweet food only partly into energy; the rest
forms lactic acid. Acids liberate histamine, which in turn causes swellings and strong inﬂammatory reactions. Therefore, inﬂammatory
conditions deteriorate if fruit acids or acid-forming foods are ingested, while alkaline-forming foods, generally vegetables and those
rich in minerals are beneﬁcial.
Another group of foods to increase  allergic inﬂammations and pain sensitivity are the polyunsaturated oils. These are converted
to arachidonic  acid (also present in meat) and further into a group of tissue hormones, called prostaglandins, which are pro-
inﬂammatory. Also inorganic iron in supplements and water (brown residues) can trigger inﬂammations.
The opposite effect, reducing pain sensitivity and inﬂammation, has another group of oils containing so-called Omega-3 fatty acids.
These are mainly present in linseed and ﬁsh oils and form prostaglandins, which are anti-inﬂammatory.
While food incompatibility is a freque nt trigger of rheumatoid arthritis, there may also be allergies to inhaled substances, such as gas
from a gas stove or heater, car exha ust fumes, cigarette smoke, solvent fumes, perfumes, moth balls or any strongly or persistently
smelling substance at home or work. Even toothpaste, make-up, detergents in dishwater, synthetic clothing, especially nylon or any
environmental, agricultural or food chemicals may contribute to this condition.
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https://health-science-spirit.com/Diseases/Arthritis-and-Rheumatism.html 1/11All of the factors causing or inﬂuencing rheumatoid arthritis can also contribute to the development of osteoarthritis. As the onset later
in life shows, there must be another negative factor, which develops over time. As we will see, it is not age itself, which is the real
problem, but the declining health of most people with advancing age and that is an important dif ference.
Joints need to be well nourished to maintain a healthy structure. Vitamins, minerals and other nutrients are required in sufﬁciently
high concentrations to maintain and regenerate the cartilage linings of the joints and the synovial membranes and ﬂuids surrounding
them. Most individuals living on a 'normal' mixed diet are more or less deﬁcient in one or more of these essential nutrients and this
will lead over time to a gradual deterioration of joints, especially those which are heavily used but do not receive an adequate supply
of nutrients. Commonly af fected are the weight-bearing joints in overweight individuals and also joints with old injuries.
Medical Evidence
There are various experimental studies, which show the extent of the allergy problems, especially in the causation of rheumatoid
arthritis. In one report all 45 patients signiﬁcantly improved in all seven objective and subjective disease parameters while on a 7-day
water fast; a similar result was reported by another author in a study with 25 patients. Subsequent challenges with implicated foods
provoked intense reactions with severe deterioration.
Reactions occur mainly against foods, which are overused in a society. While in Australia these are mainly wheat, cows' milk products
and meat, in the United States there is also a high incidence of allergy to corn and soy products. However, the deciding factor is the
individual food preference of the affected person. Foods to which we are addicted and like to eat every day are usually the worst
offenders.
Another report concerns 6 patients with rheumatoid arthritis who all had remissions of joint symptoms when they went on a low-
calorie fat-free diet. When, after 7 weeks, either animal fat or vegetable oil was reintroduced they all experienced return of their
symptoms within 72 hours. Chicken, cheese, safﬂower oil, beef or coconut oil all caused inﬂammatory deteriorations in their joints.
Foods of the nightshade family frequently have a negative effect on arthritis. These include potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant and
capsicum. In a study with 5000 arthritics who avoided nightshades over 70% reported a gradual improvement over the 7 years of the
experiment.
Nightshade foods contain the alkaloid  solanine, which is highest in greened potatoes but also to some degree in green tomatoes and
green capsicum. It may be assumed that it is mainly the occasional ingestion of green parts of nightshades, which cause the arthritic
problems. This may include green capsicum and the green inner parts of some commercial tomatoes. Also damaged potatoes are
higher in solanine.
Arthritics frequently do not have sufﬁcient gastric acid for the proper digestion of proteins. This causes deﬁciencies in proteins,
minerals and vitamin B12 as well as over-sensitivity to bacteria in food and water. Of a group of 35 arthritics 28.6% did not have any
gastric acid (achlorhydria) while another 17% had only very low gastric acid levels (hypochlorhydria).
Supplementing meals with hydrochloric acid to assist in the digestion does not adversely affect joint inﬂammations. Such
inﬂammations are aggravated by insufﬁciently metabolized fruit acids, such as citric acid, but also vinegar. However, with advancing
age inﬂammatory processes decreas e to be replaced by increasing calciﬁcations and stiffness. In this situation it is actually beneﬁcial
to supply plenty of fruit acids and cider vinegar.
This difference in the reaction to fruit acids results from age-related changes in the metabolism. Initially the ingestion of sweet foods
causes  overacidity  in the tissues through accumulation of lactic acid and metabolic fruit acids from the citric acid cycle. This causes
joint erosion by leaching calcium from the bones. With advancing age, on the other hand, the metabolism slows down. Sugars may
then cause diabetes or be converte d to fat and cause overweight. Now a deﬁciency of metabolic acids develops. The tissues and
ﬂuids around the joints become too alkaline, inﬂammations fade out, inste ad calcium starts to deposit around the joints, forming spurs
and causing joints to grow together (ankylosis).
The generally low gastric acid levels in combination with an unhealthy intestinal ﬂora may be the major causes for the high incidence
of malnutrition in individuals with rheumatoid arthritis. In one study it was reported that nearly  75% of patients in Alabama  have signs
of malnutrition. Frequently deﬁcient are protein, zinc, folic acid,  pantothenic  acid, vitamin C, selenium and cystine.  Cystine  is a sulfur-
containing amino acid that is high in connective tissue, skin,  nail and hair. In arthritics the cystine  content of ﬁngernails was only 8.9%
compared to a normal value of 12%. Raw egg yolk is the best source of sulfur-containing amino acids (except if allergic to it). The
best supplements for organic sulfur are  MSM and DMSO.
Meat and Sugar
Calcium leaching out of joints, bones and teeth is a major cause of arthritis, osteoporosis and tooth decay. In addition to boron
deﬁciency there are two commonly used foods, which lead to elevated calcium blood levels and subsequently increased loss in the
urine. These are meat and sugar.
Meat stimulates the parathyroid glands to become overactive, due mainly to high phosphorus content. Also many soft drinks are very
high in phosphorus. Increased parathyroid activity means raised calcium blood levels and the sources of this additional calcium are
the joints and bones. Compared to vegetarians, meat-eaters lose on average


ds.
Add salt according to taste.
Part 2
Take the oil in a bowl.
Add red chilli pieces, mustard. Heat in very mild heat.
Observe that the mustard starts cracking, then add curry leaves to it and add
this mixture to the curds mixture that is kept ready in part 1.
Done.
is is the curds and Amla recipe.
Use it along with rice, id ly, Dosa, Chapathi, etc.
Benets of Curds Recipe
All the benets of amla, benets of curds, curry leaves etc are there in this
Ayurvedic recipe, ready to benet your health.
Variations
Green chilli can be replaced with red chilli, in case you have acidity
and gastritis.•
•You may not add salt, if you are on salt restricted diet, say in case of
Hypertension
Buttermilk can be used in place of curds, especially to make it an
excellent home remedy for acidity and gastritis.89. Lepa Kalpana: Ayurvedic
Dosage Forms for External
Application
By Dr. B.K. Prashanth MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
Ayurveda has explained in detail about the usage of diﬀerent types of
medicines for the treatment of diseases. e science has given importance to
the usage of external route of medicine. It includes Kalka, Lepa and Malahara
(diﬀerent types of paste).
Kalka – Paste
Preparation Method
It is a soft mass of the herbs prepared by pounding them using mortar and
pestle. If the herb is fresh and soft, it can be pounded and made into paste
easily. If the herb part is dry like dried bark, then it has to be soaked in water
for few hours to allow it to absorb water and make it soft. en the moist herb
part is ground in a mortar and pestle to obtain ne paste.
Master Charaka has explained that the prepared form of medicine should be
in bolus form – Charaka Samhita Sutrasthana 4/7.
e bolus form explains about the consistency of the nal product i.e. it
should be neither too liquid nor too dry. If the kalka is prepared properly with
exact water content, only then it can be rolled into a bolus form.•
•
•
•In the ancient books of Ayurveda like Charaka Samhita, Sushruta Samhita
and Astanga Sangraha, the term kalka was used for the paste which could be
used both for internal use and external use as application.
Neem Paste –
e leaves of nimba (Azadirachta indica) is crushed in a mortar and pestle and
made into a paste. is paste is used both internally and externally. Internally
it is used along with sesame oil to treat intestinal worms, skin diseases and
vomiting. Externally this kalka is applied over infected wounds to treat it.
Lepa
In books like Sharangadhara Samhita, Bhava Prakasha, the term ‘Lepa’ was
used for the preparation which was exclusively used for skin application.
Method of Preparation
e preparation of lepa is similar to kalka. One or more herbs are taken in
fresh form and ground to paste form. If the part of plant is dry, small amount
of liquid like water, milk can be added and ground to paste form. e words
Lipta, Lepana have been used as synonyms to Lepa.
Types of Lepa Based on the Quality/Nature of Herb
Pralepa
Lepa prepared from plants having coolant property.
Lepa applied, when it is cold to touch and it imparts coldness to the
body.
is type of lepa is applied in increased pitta dosha to reduce it.
Example – lepa prepared from Sandalwood
Pradeha•
•
•
•Lepa prepared from plants having hot potency.
Lepa applied when it is little hot to touch and it imparts heat to the
body.
is type of lepa is usually applied in increased kapha dosha condition
to reduce it.
Example – lepa prepared from long pepper and, Chitraka (leadwort –
Plumbago zyelanica).
Alepa: is type of lepa is a mixture of Pralepa and Pradeha.
Types of Lepa Based Upon the Action of the Lepa
Doshagna Lepa
e type of lepa which is applied to bring the vitiated dosha to normal
condition.
Example – Shothagna lepa
Ingredients
Punarnava – Boerhavia diﬀusa
Devadaru – Cedrus deodara
Ginger
Mustard
Moringa leaf or bark
All/any of the ingredients are taken in equal quantity and the lepa is prepared
by adding adequate quantity of sour buttermilk or any fermented liquid and
applied to reduce localized swelling.
Vishagna Lepae type of lepa which is applied to reduce the poisonous eﬀect caused due to
insect bite, poisonous animals, after coming in contact with poisonous plants
etc.
Example – Dashanga lepa
Ingredients
Sirisha – Albizzia lebbeck
Yashtimadhu – Glycyrrhiza glabra – Licorice
Tagara – Valeriana wallichii – Valerian root
Sandalwood
Cardamom
Jatamansi – Nardostachys jatamansi
Turmeric, tree turmeric
Kushta – Saussurea costus
Balaka – Acacia catechu
Any or all the ingredients are taken in equal quantity and the lepa is
prepared by adding adequate quantity of water and ghee. It is eﬀective against
skin diseases, herpes, insect bite, localized swelling due to infection, pus lled
wounds.
Varnya Lepa
is type of lepa is used to increase the complexion of the skin.
Example – Raktachandanadi lepa
Ingredients –
Red Sandalwood•
•
•
•
•Manjistha – Rubia cordifolia
Lodhra – Symplocos racemosa
Kushta – Saussurea costus
Priyangu – Callicarpa macrophylla
Vata – Ficus bengalensis
Masura – Vigna radiata
Any/all the ingredients are made into powder form and later added with water
or milk to prepare paste. It is applied over face to increase the complexion,
remove black spots, pimples.
e ickness for Diﬀerent Types of lepas has been explained in Ayurveda.
Doshagna lepa – purifying paste – 0.5 cm
Vishagna lepa – detoxifying paste – 0.6 cm
Varnya lepa – promoting complexion – 1 cm
Rules and Regulations to be followed during the application of the lepa.
All the lepa prepared are for instant and single use.
Lepa is applied against the direction of the hair follicles for better
absorption.
Lepa is removed soon after drying from the skin.
Fresh lepa is applied only after removing the previous layer of lepa
from the skin.
Lepa should not be applied during night time except in conditions like
poisonous bites, pus lled wounds. e lepa which is applied during
the night time prevents the exchange of body heat with the
atmosphere.•
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Lepa was formulated with the intention of localized action of the herb. e
thickness of various types of lepa is told to enable the active principles present
in the particular lepa to be absorbed into the skin and do the desired action
when the lepa is in wet condition and before it dries. In some of the diseases,
along with lepa, internal medications are also needed.
Some Common Lepa and eir Uses
Lepa prepared from gokshura (Tribulus terrestris), sesame ower,
honey and ghee is applied over the scalp to increase the density of hair
in scalp area.
Lepa prepared from turmeric and honey is used to treat cut wounds
and burn wounds.
Triphala herbal powder and honey is mixed to make a paste and
applied over mouth ulcer to treat it.
Lepa prepared from either the root or leaves of Ishwari (Aristolochia
indica) and black pepper is applied over the area bitten by snake,
scorpion to treat its poison.
e lepa prepared from the leaves of bitter gourd plant is applied to
treat insect bite and bee bite pain.
e paste of red sandalwood is applied over the area bitten by rat and
scorpion to decrease the burning sensation.
e paste prepared from garlic and nirgundi (Vitex negundo) leaves is
applied over the area aﬀected with osteoarthritic pain.
Paste prepared from cinnamon is applied over the area aﬀected with
pain.•
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, to compare cow's milk in any way to carrot juice is
decidedly paradoxical. Cow's milk is probably the most mucous-
11 forming food used by human beings. The casein content of cow's
milk is exceedingly high being about 300% more than is contained in
mother's milk. (Casein is a milk by-product used as one of the most
tenacious adhesive glues for gluing wood together). This is one of the
reasons for the mucous conditions experienced by both children and
adults who grew up drinking quantities of such milk. Colds, runny
noses, tonsil, adenoid and bronchial troubles are common results of
mucous, whereas carrot juice is one of the greatest aids in the
elimination of mucous.
This prodigious generation of mucus in the body as a result of
drinking such quantities of cow's milk is not limited to youngsters
but is found just as much in adults, where the effects are likely to be
far more disastrous because, as people grow older their resiliency is
correspondingly lower than in the younger generation.
When milk is needed, there is one kind of milk that is compatible
with human digestion from infancy to senility, Raw Goat's milk.
Raw Goat's milk is not mucus forming. If a mucous condition
develops after drinking it, it will usually be due to an excessive
previous use of starches and sugars, not to the Goat's milk. This milk
must be used RAW, and it must not be heated above 118°F, nor
pasteurized.
For infants there is no better milk than mother's milk. Raw Goat's
milk is the next best. Some fresh-raw carrot juice may be added to it
with benefit. In fact, Raw Goat's milk can be added to any fresh-raw
vegetable juice satisfactorily. We will have more to say about milk
later.
We must always bear in mind that in the use of fresh-raw vegetable
and fruit juice the quality of the juice has a distinct bearing on the
results obtained.
When the juice is incompletely extracted from the vegetable or
fruit, they are in the form of vital organic water and as such are still
beneficial, but their effective power is proportionately diminished
due to the absence of the vitamins and enzymes which are left behind
in the fiber and the pulp.
The various members and organs of the human body, as well as
every part comprising them, are composed of microscopic cells
containing the various elements already listed. These cells are
constantly being used up in the normal course of human existence
and must be constantly rebuilt. The food required for this purpose
must be vital, organic food and must contain an ample supply of the
12 vital, organic minerals and salts needed for the efficient upkeep of
the system.
A diet consisting wholly or mainly of devitalized foods inevitably
results in the breaking down of these cells, creating a condition of
sickness or disease.
To avoid such a condition, it is necessary to furnish the body with
an abundance of vital elements in its nutrition. When the breaking
down of these cells is taking or has taken place, then the natural way
to return to normal would be to thoroughly cleanse the system and
start a process of reconstruction by means of raw vegetable juices.
It has been proved beyond doubt that supplementing our meals
with raw vegetable and fruit juices is the quickest and most permanent
way to replenish the body with the elements it lacks. The following
will be found useful as a guide in the use of properly extracted juice.
HOW WE PROTECT OURSELVES
AGAINST PESTICIDES AND SPRAYS
IN THIS POISONED WORLD
There is a little-known fact regarding the effect of pesticides on
our vegetables and fruits, which should be given much publicity in
these times.
We have been able to determine that pesticides and sprays may be
injurious in the consumption of vegetables and fruits, it is the FIBERS
of such foods that collect these toxins. The enzymes, atoms and
molecules are allergic to them.
The following will be found useful as a guide in the use of properly
extracted juice. Fruits and vegetables grown in devitalized soil, or
improper composting and fertilization will be deficient in vital factors.
The lack of nutrients in the food will correspond in proportion to
the deficiency of nutrients in the soil.
Furthermore, under the very best soil conditions the use of sprays
and pesticides will enter into the plants and roots but will be completely
absorbed by the fibers of the plants and roots. The plants will continue
to grow and thrive not because of these toxins, but in spite of them.
Why? Because the enzymes, atoms and molecules will continue to
carry on their work without interruption in spite of the poison saturated
fibers.
The question arises: How to get the enzymes, atoms and molecules
from our vegetables without using the poisoned fibers? After all these
enzymes, atoms and molecules are the nourishing elements we require.
The fibers have virtually no nourishing value.
13 The answer is simple: When vegetables are correctly triturated
(pulverized ) the cells of the fibers are split open and these elements
released. It is important to note that these elements are as allergic to
toxins as oil is to water. Therefore they will regain their Virgin Virtue
by not mixing with the triturated (pulverized) fibers.
By squeezing this triturated (pulverized) pulp through proper
straining material, the enzymes, atoms and molecules in the juices
are extracted from the fibers and the toxins with which they are
saturated.
Therefore, we have found our answer on how to avoid being
afflicted by the pollution which has infested food products throughout
our Nation.
However, our use of the electric triturator (which is a device that
pulverizes) and hydraulic press does not rule out the use of centrifugal
machines. While it is recognized that by centrifugal action we cannot
extract ALL of the enzymes, atoms and molecules, nevertheless, the
use of a filter in the centrifugal extractor prevents the fibers from
mixing with the extracted juice. We can thus obtain a juice which is
free from the poison-saturated fibers.
The appliance known as a Liquefier or Blender is not practical
for the extraction of juices. Its action merely cuts up the vegetables as
fine as desired, but the pulp is still present in its entirety.
We use blenders in our kitchen to make dressings, desserts, etc.,
for which purpose they are admirably suited.
In our choice of vegetables and other foods, we shop at whatever
market or supermarket has the freshest and best quality vegetables
and other foods, and at the Health Food Stores. We always shop for
quality. There is no substitute for quality at any price, and if the cost
is higher, it is both safer and more economical in the long run.
Furthermore, not only has the vibrations of our food been raised
to its' highest nutritional point, but our Blessings have been multiplied
beyond what we think we deserve. We pass them on to you.
HOW MUCH JUICE CAN BE TAKEN SAFELY?
Just as much as one can drink comfortably without forcing oneself.
As a general rule, one pint daily is the least that will show any
perceptible results, and preferably from two to eight pints or more.
We must bear in mind that the more juice we drink the quicker the
results.
14 When juices were first promulgated from the lecture platform, it
was suggested that they be taken in small doses.This was undoubtedly
due to the fact that there wasn't any machine on the market at the
time with which juices could be made in reasonable quantities. To
make even a cupful of juice at a time with a hand juicer was difficult
and laborious. Had larger quantities of juice been advocated,
undoubtedly there would have been little market for hand juicers
because of the labor involved in using them. Today, we find the electric
Triturator and Hydraulic Press the most efficient.
There are certain definite principles involved. First, in releasing
the mineral and chemical elements, vitamins and hormones from the
tiny microscopic cells of the fibers of vegetables and fruits, and second,
in collecting them and separating them and the juice from the fiber.
Hand juicers only partly crush the fibers and because they cannot
triturate (pulverize), it is not possible to extract all the vital elements
from the vegetables. Trituration (pulverization) is a fundamental
principal in the reclamation of these vital elements.
Howbeit, centrifugal and other such machines are just as useful
when the supreme quality of the juices is not of paramount importance.
Furthermore, such machines do not involve the large investment of
money required for a Triturator and Hydraulic Press.
The principle of the centrifugal type of juicer extractor involves a
fast rotating plate with a sharp grating surface at the bottom of the
basket in the machine. As the rotation is extremely fast, the pulp which
is grated on the bottom plate is flung by centrifugal force against the
sides of the perforated basket and the juice from the pulp is thus
separated and collected through a spout.
Of course, it is understandable that it is physically and
mechanically impossible to extract all of the juice by centrifugal action,
but the juice so obtained is generally good and should not be kept
long before drinking it.
Notwithstanding the disadvantages of


), malathion and others (22, 32).
In 1950, a year in which more thau 200 million
pounds of insecticides were used in agriculture alone
in this country, inves tigators of the Federal Food and
Drug.Admini stration announ ced:
"The finding of hepatic cell alteration at dietary
levels as low as 5 P·. p. m. of DDT, and the con
siderable storage of the chemical at levels that
might weU occur in some human diets, makes it
e.'<tremely likely that the potential hazard of DDT
has been underestimated." (68) · •
In 1951, the United State' Public He alth Service
( 49) pointed out :
"DDT is a delayed-action poisoQ. Due to the
fact that it accumulates in the body tissues, espe
cially in females, the repeated inhalation or in
gestion of DDT constitutes a distinct health hazard.
The delt!terious eiiects are manifested principal ly
in the liver, spleen, kidneys and spinal cord.
"DDT is excreted in the mjlk oi cows and of
nursing mothers after exposure to DDT sprays
and after consuming iood contaminated with this
331 We�tport, Connectic u.t
poison. Qllldren and infants especially are much
more susceptible to poisoning than adults."
And the next year the U.S. Department of Agri
culture ( 1�) inchcated that the chtorinatt!d na.plltna
lenes had been implicated as a cause of "X dtsease"
t hyperkeratosis) in cattle, a usually (a tal malady that
has aestroyed many thousands ot anunals in the United
States in re:ceut years ( 10,000 were reported from
Texas alone in March 19)3) (119). Tluo represent.
not only a multimillion dollar loss to cattle-ra1sers but
as will soon be ev1dent, a serio us hazard to the public
that consumes meat. milk and animal fats. Just when
chLorinated naphthalenes were first used in agricult ure
is not m<llcatea m published reports ( 4lS), out it ap
pears that tney have been thus employed for some year!i
and that they have been added to or ha.ve occurred as
contammants o£ other products used as insecticides. In
addition they have been used for some time in lubri
cants (greases, cutting oils and crankcase oils) •-ior
what purpose is not made clear, and they have appear
ed in certain wood pre servatives.
A number of remarkable features of the observations
thus far reported on "X disease11 deserve comment.
The active agent has been found in wheal (59, 77, 87)
(but the investig ators say nothing about bread), and it
is excreted in the mille Calves fed on this milk develop
the disease (nothing is said about babies•• who drink
such milk nor about those who eat the meat from these
animal s.) Cattle placed in a field in Indiana that had
harbored others that previously had died of hyperkera
tosis (1946 to 1949 ), developed the disease while cattle
in an adjacent field were quite unaffected ( 114). All
the investiga.tors are e..xtremely reticent about obvious
and highly pertinent questio ns: Where did the wheat
come from that contained the noxious agent? \Vas it
sprayed or dusted in the field or e.."<posed in storage
to an insecticide, and it so, what? Were the cattle who
originally developed hyperkerat osis on the farm in
Indiana sprayed with insecticide, anrl if so, with what?
Was the pasture likewise treated? The glaring omis
sion of these data is not reassuring.
It is obvious from published material that the chlori-;
nated. naphthal enes are not the only chemical agt:11ts
that can cause the disease. One such compound has
tentatively been identified as tric.hlorobenzene ( 48).
In view of the fact that in early studies on DDT in
animals hyperkeratosis was observed (85), it seems
very likely that this agent too is involved (9). And
among the solvents used for DDT and related sub-
•Tbe nse of ehlotinated uaphthalencs in. cr:wkease oil11 ;wd
other lubricants poltNI other public bult.h proble ms: inbal&t.iou
of theac substances from motor axbauet on streeta ru:Hl high
ways :wd dermal absorption on the p�trt of gRrngc, servil':f!
.stntl.on and i,udust.ria! \'fOrkers.
••we hnn.: 0<.-eu uel'ustom ct1 fo.. 101nt.: ti.Jn1; tu a att!Mily
<l�clininj!' iJ!.fm1t mortality. Dut the o•�r·a.H infant dco.th rn.t�
inere1l8Cd in M:ct.ropolitau New York City in 1952 'by 3 per
cent. For ec.onomiea li:'· lell5-fa. vored group11 tJt� rise was!I
por cont. (l:;:ditori al : The City's Health in 1952, N.Y. 'l'im�s,
J ruL H, 1953.)
The first two pages of American Morton Biskind's 10-page study, "Public Health Aspects Of The
New Insecticides," printed in November 1953 in the American Journal of Digestive Diseases. The
study's message is unambiguous: highly toxic substances like DDT produce the paralysis
symptoms so typical of polio.
68 The Microbe Hunters Seize Power
.332 Pt.:HL.IC HP.,\LTH A�f'f:crs n..-THJ.; :"\1�"' IXS-1-'CTrr.ro r:.�
stance� art• mixwrcs (�1\Tltaining nltthylated navhtha
lenefl:. Siuce u1ethyl group;.; may oiteu be substituted
ior chlorine atom� in thi�,-ariety oi compou nds, w ithout
ln.:' of toxicity (16), theM: mixtures are at least suspect.
One inse cticide S•JIVtlll was indicated bv \V. C.
Huepcr (61) rJi the :\ational Cancer Jnstitut"e to have
been found h,· (Jthtr workt!rs to be carcinogenic. One
can only worider why detail,. oi these imdinf:"S haYe
not l..etn made cn·ailablc to the medical proit-.SSIOn.
Since the last war there have been a number of
curiou:\ chang<"s iu the incidence of (;frlain ailmtnts
and the clt:\'tlopment oi new syndromes ne\·er before
obs.en:eU. A most si.g"ificant jca.twrr. of this situation
is that bvtl' tu.aJI and all hi.r domestic animals hat.•c
sim ulla�u:o •,s( v been ajfec:ed.
ln man, the incidt•m:c of poliom yelitis has risen
!.h.uply ; there has been a striking increase in cardio
\'ascular diseases, m c:mcer, in atypical pneumonias
and espec ially inlcrstitial pneum onitis in babies and
childr�n (58), in retrolental fibroplasia among pre·
mature infant.;, in' conditions invoh·ing excessi,•c fat·
igability and muscular weaknes s, 10 hepatitis wd in
obscure gastrointestinal and neuropsyc hiatric disorders
Ciftt'n «ttributed to a new ''virus" (tlr ''virus X").
In atlimals, cattle h•n•c dc\'tlOJ>td hyperkeratosis
(or ''X disea�e' 'J, and the incidence of hoof and mouth
disease has ri�eu; hogs have vesicular e..�anthemata ;
sheep have ''blue tongue," '·scrapie" and "overeating
disease;" chickens ha\'e Newcasth� disease and other
ailments; dogs have devdoped the so-called "hard pad"
disease and the highl_.,.. f<Hal "hepatitis X," and so on
( 43 J. \Virh the obviou:: exception of hoof and rnouth
dist".asc, not one of these conditi()ns is mentioned in. the
comprehensive U. S. Dtpar tme:nt of Agriculture Ha.nti
OOok, ·'Keeping Liv<�stock HCO!lthx,'' published in 1942.
This co


 around.
Take str ength fr om knowing how healthy you ar e becoming.
Remember, in this country, one out of every three people is obese, and one
out of every two will die of heart disease. You are now eating in such a way
that you need never fear becoming a statistic—and will be free of the grip
of the Western diseases that are debilitating so many Americans.
Take a test.  Not everyone in every city has easy and af fordable access to
blood testing. But if it’ s available in your town, it can be a real help.
Imagine how good you will feel when you see that after only two weeks of
being on the E2 Diet, your cholesterol has dropped 20, 30, maybe even 40
percent. Your lethal LDL  is falling. And your blood pressure is dropping.
Your weight will be dropping, too. What better way to tell of f the naysayers
than by showing them hard-and-fast numbers? (Y ou can read more about
benchmarks and measurements in Engine 2 Vital Signs, page 97.)
Keep healthy options handy. You don’ t want to find yourself craving a
snack only to discover there’ s nothing in the cupboard. Carry something to
nibble with you at all times, and keep healthy food handy in your of fice or
car. One of the participants in the Engine 2 Pilot Study, Paul Koeningsman,carried a small cooler containing baby carrots, bell pepper slices, fruit,
healthy crackers, and Fig Newtons everywhere he went. It paid of f: His
cholesterol went from 199 to 143, and his LDL  from 98 to 35, and he tells
me his painful diverticulitis came to an end.
ON JUL Y 28, 2003, CYCLIST  LANCE ARMSTRONG  won his fifth and most dif ficult
Tour de France—the world’ s most prestigious cycling event—by just under
one minute over his great rival, Jan Ullrich of Germany. In so doing, Lance
tied four other cyclists who had won the Tour de France five times.
On August 12, I received an e-mail from Lance asking if I would help
him with his diet.
I wrote back saying I would be happy to help. I also asked, “Y ou want to
win number six, don’ t you?”
“Do I want number six?” he replied. “Why do you think I’m asking you
about this? Hell yeah, I want number six. More than I wanted number five
actually. This year was not acceptable.”
Not only do I love Lance’ s kick-ass attitude, but I also love that less than
two weeks after his fifth victory, he was already thinking about the next
one.
Is there something you’d like to improve in your life? Your
performance? Your health? Your ener gy? Your longevity? Your weight?
Make these goals a reality. Think about the sweet taste of success, and how
good you will look and feel, inside and outside, in four weeks!
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E2 VITAL SIGNS
How many people know their height and weight? Probably almost
everyone. But how many know their total cholesterol, LDL  cholesterol,
HDL  cholesterol, triglycerides, fasting glucose, blood pressure, and BMI?
Probably very few.
I want this situation to change. You should be able to rattle of f these
numbers as easily as you do your address and phone number. These
signposts are important clues as to the current state of your health and
potential for disease.
Though we’ll be talking about each of these markers individually,
understand that all of them af fect the others. If you see improvement in one
area, more than likely you’ll see it in others as well.
WEIGHT
One of the best parts of the E2 Diet is that you will lose weight in a
sustainable, healthy, and permanent way. You will not be depriving yourself
of any nutrients. Far from it—you will consume more nutrients than you
ever have in the past. And you won’ t be hungry, because you can eat as
many plant-happy foods as you wish.
However, this wonderful weight loss may not happen immediately—
sometimes it can take up to two weeks for your body to transition to
burning these cleaner fuels. Unlike some of the trendier diets that eliminate
carbohydrates so you’ll lose 10 to 15 pounds of water weight in the first
two weeks, on E2 you’ll lose real weight—i.e., fat, not just water—
honestly and naturally.So while you may lose only a few pounds or so a week for the first two
weeks, the next two weeks should give you something to cheer about.
Check your weight regularly while on the plan; besides the joy you will
feel as you watch the pounds drop, there is another advantage: If you are
not losing as much as you’d like, it’ll give you a chance to make a course
correction. Pay careful attention to see if you are consuming too many
calorie-dense foods, such as olives, avocados, peanut butter, nuts,
smoothies, and fruit juices. These items can impede weight loss, and should
be minimized or eliminated, depending on your goals.
For example, when thirty-six-year -old E2 Pilot Study participant
McClaine Sampson complained that she wasn’ t losing weight, I asked her
to send me a one-week food log (see box, opposite), and I quickly saw that
she was eating peanut butter, olives, and guacamole at almost every meal;
i.e., she was simply substituting plant-based fats for animal ones. When we
took these items of f her menu, McLaine lost 8 pounds over the next two
weeks.
If you’re trying to lose weight, but not succeeding as rapidly as you’d
like, I recommend at least three cardiovascular exercise sessions, along with
two E2 Functional Training sessions, a week (see The Engine 2 Exercise
Program, page 69). This will increase your resting metabolic rate (as noted,
the rate at which you burn calories at rest). By exercising regularly, you can
replace lazy fat with ener getic muscle, burning calories at your desk or in
bed as well as at the gym.
Some people actually lose too much weight on the E2 Diet—particularly
men. At six feet, six inches, Jef f Brinker weighed 225 pounds when he
started the diet. Over the next six months, he dropped down to below 185
pounds. So one night he called me, saying that he didn’ t want to lose any
more weight (although he was thrilled that his cholesterol had dropped from
185 mg/dl to 1 11 mg/dl). I told him to consume more of the calorie-dense,
plant-based foods McClaine had been eating, and to drink smoothies and
fruit juices and eat more whole grains and cereals. Soon enough, his weight
was back to normal.
THE E2 FOOD LOG
A food log is a daily journal in which you write down every single
thing you eat and drink during the day—breakfast, lunch, dinner,
dessert, and especially snacks, as snacks are what often kill a diet.My father first introduced me to the concept in 1985; he insisted
that every one of his patients keep one, and every two weeks he
would go over it with them to make sure they were correctly
implementing the diet. These people kept this routine going for five
years, so when you think twenty-eight days is a long time to keep a
food log, think again.
Here’ s the way I like to do it: In a notebook, write in six columns
that you fill in daily with your breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, daily
activities, and observations. Find a time at the end of the day to write
everything down, or better yet, make notes throughout the day so you
don’t forget anything.
For your convenience, feel free to sign up and keep one online at
www.theengine2diet.com.
Keep the food log for the entire twenty-eight days and it will give
you some very valuable feedback—Am I eating enough leafy greens?
Am I overdosing on breads and grains? Am I getting into a rut with
my food choices? Am I skipping meals? Do the packaged foods I’m
eating meet the E2 labeling standards?
I can’ t emphasize enough the importance of keeping a log for the
whole twenty-eight days. Everyone in the Pilot Study—and I mean
everyone —remarked on what an eye-opening process it was and how
much junk they were unconsciously throwing into their systems.
For example, one participant remarked how the food log kept him
honest; he knew if he drank a Coke or ate a piece of chicken he’d
have to write it down, and that was the one thing that kept him from
caving in. Another E2 participant ate oatmeal for breakfast, peanut
butter and jelly for lunch, pasta for dinner, and a scoop of sorbet for
dessert the entire first week. I told her I wanted her to diversify her
foods; eat more fruits and more vegetables from every color of the
rainbow. She agreed, started eating a lar ger variety of foods, and
immediately enjoyed the dif ferent flavors and textures she hadn’ t
even realized existed.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN THE FOUR-WEEK E2 DIET, please consider having the
following tests done so you can track the dramatic changes that will occuras your body becomes healthier. And of course, talk to your physician about


, maybe it's a rare one. Again, you will not
find Adenovirus  beeping its characteristic frequency out of your
mite specimen. Why not? Possibly, it is too faint; it must multi ply
and create a loud chorus before you can hear it. But multiply it
will, if given a chance, in you. You must, of course, first eat or
inhale the dust.
Then the tape eggs hatch into the cysticercus  stage, which
promptly gets to the liver. Sometimes it gets to other organs, like
the muscles, the spleen, the pancreas. Presumably the liver
screened it out of the blood originally.
Soon you will zap them, wherever they are. If you are using a
slide specimen of cysticercus  you can locate it in your body. If
you are only listening to its beeps, you can't. If you can do both,
you may be able to see which organ allows the virus to replicate
after it emerges. Maybe only the respiratory  organs do; maybe
they start to replicate in the organ where they emerge, such asCURING THE COMMON COLD
359the liver and then get to the respiratory tract. This is a fascinat ing
avenue I have not yet explored.
Mites are inhaled or swallowed or both, just as tapeworm
eggs are. They are on your kitchen sponge, and in any food or
dishes that stand uncovered anywhere in the home. Never drink
water from a glass that has “stood out” all day. After finding one,
you will notice it beeping in you for several days. Then the beep
disappears; presumably the mite  is dead.
The tapeworm  stage  beeps may disappear in a few days, too,
presumably dead. Except in cases of disease. Muscles that are
diseased will take in the newcomer and allow it to survive add-
ing to the parasites and pollutants already there! Evidently the
immune power of such diseased locations is way down.
On the day that the mite  stops beeping,
the day it dies, Adenovirus  appears!
Not many Adenovirus  at first. You will need to search sev-
eral times during the day to find it in your white blood cells.
(And you have no symptoms, yet, either!) Is it a coincidence that
Adenovirus  appeared directly after a tapeworm  stage  or mite
died?
You can find out by waiting until a time when you have a
tapeworm  stage  or mite  and no Adenovirus. Then kill your
tapeworm stage or mite by zapping for seven minutes. Within
minutes after that, the beeping of the tapeworm stage or mite is
gone and Adenovirus  can be heard, loud and clear at 393 KHz!
And minutes later you may feel a stuffy nose, a slight conges tion
developing, a certain head  feeling that is different. You are
“catching” a cold!
Will you really get this cold? Will it become a full blown
cold of the usual kind? After seeing this happen dozens of timesTHE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
360after killing a mite  or tapeworm  stage  I concluded that Adenovi-
rus really belongs to them; the virus is scuttling its dying host
like people jumping off a sinking ship into the ocean. Our bod ies
are the ocean for them. They too, immediately swim and search
for a hospitable island. Our respiratory  tract is such an island;
perhaps other organs, too.
Yes, this “baby cold” will develop into a full blown cold if,
but only if, you have a mold in you!
Molds and Colds
This is part two of the cold story. You may have Adenovi-
ruses  quietly slipping into your blood stream and tissues from a
tapeworm  stage  or mite  you inhaled, or E. coli  bacteria that
strayed into your tissues, and which is being slowly killed by
your immune system. Your immune system can keep up with them
quite easily provided  you don't have a mold in you at the same
time. The significance of the mold is that it lowers your
immunity, specifically and generally.
Mold eluded, is health improved.
This has already been studied extensively for a number of
food molds. There are a variety of ways that mold toxins lower
immunity. Some simply kill white blood cells. Others seem to
“bind and gag” them so they just can't go about eating viruses.
So with mold toxins present, Adenovirus, fleeing the dead
tapeworm  stage, mite, or E. coli  is not gobbled up. It has time to
get to its favorite organ and enter the cells there. It may get inCURING THE COMMON COLD
361your lungs if they're full of arsenic  or formaldehyde, in your
throat  if it's full of mercury from your fillings, in your spinal cord
if it's full of thallium. Sometimes you feel the viral attack,
sometimes you don't.
When E. coli  is the source of your Adenovirus, a question
pops up. Why don't you have a perpetual cold, since these bac-
teria are always in your colon...and should be! As long as E. coli
stays dutifully in your colon, no Adenovirus  is seen. But as soon
as any cross the colon wall to invade your body, your white
blood cells pounce on them. After this, Adenovirus  appears and
again you are catching a cold. They may go to your internal or-
gans where you don't feel them.
One place you do  feel an attack is in your respiratory  tract:
lungs, bronchi, sinuses, nose, Eustachian tube s, inner ear, eyes or
head. And the size of the attack depends on whether you re cently
ate moldy food.
Human food (in general, in the U.S.) is very, very moldy. We
do not taste it because manufacturers have been using more and
more flavorings in food. This covers up small amounts of mold
or “off” flavor. Measures to reduce mold are not effective
enough.
Bread is a good example. Calcium propionate is added to
bread-stuff to inhibit molding. That's fine. But then the bread is
encased in plastic to hold in moisture and keep it “fresh”. The
moisture acts to incubate mold spores and overwhelms the in-
hibitor. Vinegar is used instead of calcium  propionate  in some
breads but, again, the plastic ruins its effectiveness.
Another good mold inhibitor is lime water. This is used in
making tortillas. None of the old fashioned tortillas (made with
just corn, water, lime) that I tested had any mold, even without
propionate added! Other tortillas made of flour  and calcium
propionate frequently had molds.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
362Bread is such a staple we must correct its mold problem
immediately. The two likely sources for the mold spores are: in
the flour  to begin with, or just flying about the bakery and landing
on the newly baked loaves. Bread flour in the grocery store is
quite free of mold spores, so maybe it is the bakery that needs to
change. Perhaps it is not possible to bake 24 hours a day in the
same building, year after year, without bits of flour and moisture
accumulating in the millions of tiny cracks and crevices that all
buildings have and germinating mold. Yet bread from small
neighborhood bakeries does not have mold!
Fig. 47 This Mexican bread has no molds. It is made from
white, unbleached flour  and is not wrapped in plastic.CURING THE COMMON COLD
363Only buy fresh bread not wrapped in plastic.
As soon as you feel a cold coming, ask yourself: what did
you eat recently that might have been moldy? Cold cereal, hot
cereal, bread, crackers, cookies, rice, other grains, fresh fruit,
store bought fruit juice, nuts, syrups, pasta, honey? This takes up
a large part of any person's diet, even in a single meal. The
answer is yes, no doubt you ate moldy food recently.
So you can't catch a cold directly from some sneezy com-
panion, or E. coli, or tapeworm  stages, or mites. You have to eat
moldy food first. This lowers your immunity, allowing any
Adenovirus  to invade your weakest tissues. If that happens to be
your respiratory  system, you get classic symptoms. (Those same
“cold” symptoms can be caused by bacteria, for which I have
preliminary evidence of arriving in a similar fashion.)
As fascinating as this whole story is, the bottom line is: how
can you stop a cold, in record time?
The Cure
Remember, zapping does not kill your cells. So anything
hiding in them  will not be harmed by the electric current either.
Viruses live inside  your cells while they reproduce. You can
only kill the outsiders: those stuck in your cell gateways. The rest
will be killed by your own cells in time. Not much time. Five or
six hours at most. Your cells do it with mucous secre


 to agree with some of these statements, and a few may seem
preposterous or beside the point. Be that as it may, the next time you sit
down to do this exercise, look over the list again. You may be surprised at
how much more acceptable it seems. Accepting your own ambiguity opens
you to the truth that life itself cannot help but be ambiguous, which is what
makes it so fascinating.
OceanofPDF.comIN OUR LIVES
What’ s a Little Gray?
WHEN SHE FOUND  a bottle of black hair dye in Alan’ s drawer, Jeanne passed
it off as a touch of middle-aged male vanity. She had always thought of her
husband as intensely attractive; in fact, given how much younger he was
than she—seven and a half years—Jeanne had been secretly flattered to
catch him. Looking in the mirror, she noticed more gray in her hair than he
ever had.
Jeanne had found the bottle of dye late at night while looking for aspirin;
it was in a draw er she usually didn’ t open. The next morning  she asked
Alan about it as he was rushing  out the door. He looked surprised and said
the dye wasn’ t his.
Jeanne didn’ t know whether to believe him or not. This feeling surprised
her, since she had always assumed that Alan could be trusted. Jeanne had
some time to kill before she went off to her own job—there was no baby to
attend to, since the couple, marr ied just three years, had decided not to have
children. She found herself cleaning out the clutter in the bathroom
cabinets. No more bottles.
Jeanne brought up the incident over lunch with her best friend Cecille,
making light of it. Cecille looked worried. “I don’t know how to put this,
but if I were you, I’d be careful.”
“Of what?” Jeanne asked.
“Hasn’ t it occurred to you that your husband might be having an af fair?”
Of course it hadn’t. Jeanne flushed scarlet; she didn’ t like having
suspicions plant ed in her head, but instead of saying so she asked Cecille to
elaborate. You can’t let yourse lf go, her best friend warned, not for a
minute. From the age of three little boys are taught that when they grow up
they will have power; they expe ct to run things from the time they are in the
sandbox. Little girls, by contra st, are trained to be worthy of men withpower, which means being beautiful enough to attract them. If she isn’t able
to hold a man, what power does a woman have? With considerable
earnestness Cecille advised Jeanne to buy a hundred-dollar facial and some
skimpy lingerie.
Jeanne didn’ t know what to make of her friend’ s little speech— a mixture
of fascination, doubt, and dread warred inside her. But why would Alan lie
about something as trivial as a bottle of hair dye if he wasn’ t hiding
something else?  Jeanne decided that buying a sheer nightgown wasn’ t the
worst idea in the world, and when she brought it home her husband looked
pleased. He had a lot of work to do that night, however, and the amorous
evening she had planned didn’ t pan out. Alan seemed less than involved
when they made love; he fell asleep without saying anything. Jeanne had
promised herself that she would never wheedle the words “I love you” from
Alan, but that night it was hard to keep the promise.
Jeanne began to feel that Alan probably was having an affair, and why
shouldn’ t he? He was hardly aging at all, while she was falling apart. It’s
always faster with a woman, she mourned, and new nightgowns weren’ t
going to reverse  things. Nobody had ever commented to her face about the
age disparity between herself and Alan, but Jeanne had no doubt that their
friends, especially the women, all remarked about it behind her back. She
began to have fantasies about who the other woman was.
The downward spiral would have been swift, but it came to a merciful
halt thanks to second-class mail. A week later an identical bottle of hair dye
arrived in the mailbox. Jeanne went back to the bathroom drawer—the first
bottle also said “free sample” on the back. She now vaguely remembered
having pitched it into the draw er without really looking at what it was.
Jeanne didn’ t know whether to laugh or cry.
As I see it, this incident isn’t really about how attractive a woman feels.
It’s about how deserving she feels. We all attach self-worth  to outside
things. Status, money, a big house, all become in some way a reflection on
“me.” We also do this with other people. To be attached to someone young
and good lookin g becomes an important part of “me” if I feel I lack those
qualities. Any lack we feel can be filled in this way, by projection, but as
soon as the connection is broken, projection fails.
“When romantic  love is at its height,” I told Jeanne, “it’s only natural to
want to sustain it. Romance is selfish, in that you become absorbed in yourfeelings. When you fell in love with Alan, his attractiveness—or yours—
had nothing to do with the inner experience. Delight in another person, the
feeling that you have met a perfect being, is only a reflection of what you
have suddenly remembered in yourself.”
“But there are beautiful people,” Jeanne said.
“Are there peop le who are not?”  I asked. “Setting certain peopl e aside as
beautiful is simply image-making, which actually obscures the larger truth
that, in the eyes of spirit, no one is excluded from the highest state of
perfection. How do you feel when you look at an extremely attractive
person?”
“More than one thing,” replied Jeanne. “If he was mine, I’d feel proud,
but there’ s also a good deal of insecurity involved—that’ s no secret now.”
“The whole strategy of being beautiful by proxy can never work,” I said.
“Not only are you living vicariously, which is always fragile at best, but you
are not coming from a place of love. Using another person isn’t loving; it’s
treating that person like an object. Objects always wear out, or the joy we
take in them fades. More important, using someone as an object forces you
to miss his value as a human being.”
I asked Jeanne to examine what this incident said about her. She might
begin with this lesson: You are only as attractive as you feel you deserve to
be. Deservedness is the deep issue that beauty hides. Someone who is
deserving can be open to love in all its spiritual significance; someone who
is not will be limited to love that includes fear, since what you don’ t deserve
can always be taken from you.
“This issue of what you deserve arouses insecurity,” I said, “only if you
put it in isolated terms. Spiritually, we are all totally deserving because we
are all whole. If your being includes everything, how can you deserve one
thing less than another? This sense of completeness isn’t materia l. It doesn’ t
consist of being absolutely beautiful, infinitely rich, or impeccably virtuous.
The miracle of love is that you can be imperfect and still be completely
whole.”
This last point isn’ t easy to grasp. But if you consider how a mother loves
her child, it is immediately obvious that the imperfections of the child do
not coun t in her eyes. This isn’t blindness but the vision of love. Love is
extremely sensit ive to weaknesses. It responds by wanting to support and
lend strength in any way possi ble. But there is no judgment in it againstweakness or defect. A mother helping her toddler to walk isn’t thinking, “If
you were compe tent, you’d be walking on your own by now.” She accepts
that growth moves by stages and takes it as her joy to nurture each stage.
The question is, how can she do this for herself?
Jeanne could have just let her anxiety in this one instance pass—that was
always an option—but the beginning of wisdom would be to take this
opportunity to learn how to reconsider her insecurity. Every time she thinks,
“I’m too old,” she should follow  it with “That doubt isn’t me.” Every time
she thinks, “Ala n is too young for me,” she should follow it with “That
insecurity isn’t me.” Every time she thinks, “Another woman is interested
in my husband,” she should follow it with “That suspicion isn’t me.”
Bringing the issue home to herself instead of projecting it onto an external
object will make  it easier to face her responsibility for creating all her false
beliefs.
“Situations mirror beliefs,” I told her. “Removing other people from the
picture and bringing every moment of self-doubt back to its real source is
the best way to stay focused on the truth.”
Having found the truth, Jeanne can begin the inner work of solving her
concealed issue s. Being an “older woman” has never been entirely
comfortable for her, and living in proximity to Alan’ s nonchalance about
their age difference hasn’ t really helped. “You should make it clear to
Alan,” I said, “that you


 his eyes and sit quietly. As he did, I
said, “For the moment, let’s take time o from talking or thinking
about your case. Just be yourself. Don’t identify your mind with any
particular problem; don’t do anything.” I paused, and we both sat in
silence.
“Do you notice any pain?” I asked.
“No,” he murmured.
“Good,” I said. “Now just sit comfortably appreciating whatever
comes to mind. If you have a strong thought, even a gripping one,
just let it go by. You’ll nd that it’s not hard to do.” Another pause,
and then, “Did you feel any impulse of fear or anxiety?”
He nodded.
“Don’t mind that,” I said. “It’s just a passing cloud. What I want
you to notice is that there are spaces between your thoughts, like
patches of blue between the clouds. When you notice such a space,just give a nod.” He closed his eyes again, and after a moment, he
slowly nodded. We continued the exercise for a few more minutes.
“Do you feel anxious now?” I asked. Lou shook his head, and I
asked him to open his eyes. He had a rather surprised look on his
face.
“You see, it’s not so hard to stop being a cancer patient,” I said. “I
wanted you to sit quietly for a moment in order to experience, if
only vaguely, the state of inner silence. Thoughts come and go in
this silence. But when a thought isn’t present and there is also no
impulse of fear, no strong memory or temptation to act, the mind is
just by itself, being itself. At that exact second, there is a choice to
have the next thought or emotion. Now ask yourself, who faces that
choice?”
“I don’t know,” Lou said, somewhat baed. “No one has ever put
it to me in quite those terms.”
“To project a movie requires  a screen,” I said. “The images move
and play on the screen; vivid emotions and high drama are enacted.
Despite all that, the screen itself isn’t engaged. It’s not part of the
movie, is it?”
“No,” he said doubtfully.
“The dierenc e between the mind and a movie screen is that we
do become engaged in the movie, because it’s our life. The screen
inside us becomes so soaked in compelling personal images that the
sense of there being a screen— an unchanging, unaected part of the
mind—is lost.”
We both realized how new this all sounded. One’s inner sense of
“me” is built up of images from the past, all the fears, hopes, wishes,
dreams, loves, and disappointments one calls “mine.” However, if
you strip all of these images away, something of “me” is still left:
the decision maker, the screen, the silent witness.
“I can’t nd that untouched core for you,” I said earnestly. “It has
to be encounte red directly. One clue I have given you, though. The
thoughts and feelings that ow by, like clouds against the sky, are
distractions. The real you is the sky beyond. Every time you manage
to witness that clear, open space, you will nd a place that is safe,
because it never had cancer to begin with. Here you come face toface with yourself—the witnessed is also the one who is doing the
witnessing.”
The Thread of Yoga
The belief that the self has an untouchable core plays a crucial
part in modern psychology, particularly in the setting of
psychotherapy. In therapy, a patient will at best undergo supercial
change as long as he confron ts only the supercial layers of himself.
To break through and accomplish major change, he has to unveil
the “central nucleus—that whorl of the self which possesses absolute
wisdom and self-knowledge.” These words are from Irvin Yalom, a
senior psychiatrist and professor at the Stanford University medical
school. At rst, only the therapist realizes that a core of wisdom and
self-knowledge exists. The patient himself, under the inuence of his
mental distress, is alienated from this part of his psyche.  Therefore
the therapist’s role (I am speaking here of classic “couch therapy”) is
to give the patient the courage and freedom to bring his deepest self
to light.
In almost every case, the rst step is to convince him that the
deeper self is real. The patient must be shown and then made to
experience that part of his mind which transcends crises, which
registers life with crystal clarity even when the conscious mind is
reeling in bewilderment and panic. It is not an easy exploration.
Ever since Freud, depth psychology has proceeded on the notion
that the knower is buried  under layer upon layer of painful
experiences. It cannot be confronted directly; therefore it must be
tricked out. The patient is thus presented with dreams, slips of the
tongue, and free associations that betray what is actually happening
under all the layers of disguise.
Once I was discussing the current high divorce rate with another
internist and happened to ask if his parents were divorced. “No,” he
said. “Believe it or not, they are still married after forty-ve years.
They’re almost museum pieces in this day and age. I should have
them put under grass.” Before I could react, he caught himself. “My
God, I meant ‘under glass,’ of course.” Eighty years ago, he couldhave dismissed  his Freudian slip lightly; now he has to wonder at
the disguised wish that popped out between the cracks of his
psyche.
One of the great cultural dierences between East and West is
that the quest  for the know er, which we undertake as a cure for
disorders like neurosis or depression, is a normal goal of life in the
East. In India, nding the knower is considered life’s great
adventure. Although a highly personal adventure, the way is marked
by a tradition of knowledge—amounting to a science, really—called
Yoga, from the Sanskrit word for “union.”
The union a yogi seeks is not with anything outside himself; nor is
it a union with God, ecstasy, or the supernatural, althou gh each of
these may be manifested at one time or another. The yogi’s union is
more ultimate, rooted in his craving to nd the speck of himself that
experiences reality directly, without lters or masks.
The legacy of yogic knowled ge in India is ancient and extensive,
and very bewildering to outsiders. If they bother to dene it, most
Westerners assume that Yoga means practicing variou s physical
exercises that, if taken to extremes, twist the body into grotesque
postures. This discipline is properly called Hatha Yoga and is just
one of Yoga’s eight “limbs,” or divisions (and by no means the most
important).
Since the search for the knower is not an exclusively Indian
project, neither is Yoga. Its aim is to systematically uncover the
silent witness inside us, a possibility open to anyone at any time.
Here it appears in thirteenth-century China, distilled into four lines
by the poet Wu-Men:
One instant is eternity,
eternity is the now.
When you see through this one instant,
you see through the one who sees.
The great Su poet Rumi beckons us to freedom with just two
tantalizing lines:Out beyond ideas of right-d oing and wrong-
doing,
there is a eld.
I’ll meet you there.
If we want a more literal idea of what Yoga amounts to, we must
turn to the whole problem called identication, for this is what will
be solved when union has been achieved. All of us move through
life by identifying with one thing after another. My house, my
career, my wife are all forms of identication that give us comfort
and security— but not permanently. The mind has to keep shifting
its focus of identication because conditions change: my house gets
too small to live in, my caree r slumps, my wife grows bored. If I can
shift smoothly with these changes, it is possible to remain relatively
secure, but there is always the risk that the bottom will drop out
because I have attached myself to something totally insecure. In
Lou’s case, he identied with his disease, not because he consciously
chose to, but because identifying with one’s body comes  naturally.
When the body falls sick, its pain might not have to be a problem,
but it turns into one automat ically if the idea of “my” body is strong
enough.
Because identication is built into the mind, one cannot abolish
it. Rather, the yogi solves the problem of identication by turning it
on its head. Instead of identifying with things, a person who
practices Yoga—primarily through meditation—begins to identify
more and more with the silent witness inside. The process is like
following a gossamer thread until you reach the spider that spun it.
My thread may be very dierent from yours, because I have spun
the web of inner reality according to my unique experien ces. I may
believe in a certain master, school, method, or book. Or


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very important form of vitamin A that by
acting as an antioxidant helps protect our
body against diseases like Alzheimer’s,
cataracts, arthritis and cancers. Palm oil
also contains high-density lipoprotein
(HDL), the good type of fat that helps
protect against cholesterol. The key is to
use palm oil in moderation.
Sesame Seed Oil
Derived from the sesame seed, sesame oil
is perhaps best known as a commoningredient in Asian and East Indian
cooking. Also known as gingelly, sesame
oil has also been used for thousands of
years as a popular alternative medical
treatment in Ayurvedic and Oriental
medicines. The oil is obtained from both
raw seeds (cold pressed) and toasted
seeds, and is valued for its long shelf life
and high heat tolerance.
Historically, sesame oil has been used as
an anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and pain-
reliever in skin conditions, gum disease
and a variety of other illnesses. Modern
science now knows that sesame oil is a
powerful antioxidant, high in
polyunsaturated fats and an excellent
source of vitamin E and minerals. Sesameoil, in fact, has the fourth highest
concentration of polyunsaturated fats of
any oil. Polyunsaturated fats are thought to
be important in the prevention of illnesses
such as diabetes, heart disease, high blood
pressure, arthritis and autoimmune
disorders. Because sesame oil is a
natural, readily attainable source of these
important polyunsaturated fats as well as
because of its vitamin and antioxidant
properties, it has begun to gain the interest
of traditional western medicine. It has
been the subject of multiple clinical
studies and continues to be examined as a
potential treatment for cancer, menopause,
gum disease, high blood pressure and
heart disease.Sesame oil is known for its healing
power. When used as a massage oil, it
protects the skin from problems such as
eczema, psoriasis and blemishes. It is an
excellent emollient and is beneficial in
alleviating tension and stress. It has been
observed that people suffering from
hypertension are usually prone to anxiety,
poor circulation, nerve and bone
disorders. Thus, application of the oil
protects the body from various disorders
associated with the nervous system. It also
helps with insomnia and mental fatigue.Chapter 3
Spices
There are a lot of spices on the
market that have medicinal
benefits in their own right.
Many have been around since
ancient times and have been
used both for medicinal and
culinary purposes. It is worth
noting though that the more
spices are used on a daily basis,
the more beneficial their effects.
Also, they work better incombination as certain spices
enhance the nutritional benefits
of others, for example a
compound in black pepper
enhances the effects of other
spices such as turmeric.Aniseed
Aniseed, or Illicium verum, is a native
plant of Asia, commonly used in
traditional societies to spice food, reduce
intestinal gas, aid in digestion and act as a
powerful diuretic medicinal herb. These
aromatic seeds are used in confectionary
and as flavouring for alcoholic beverages.
They have a rich, pervasively spicy-sweet
odour resembling liquorice.
Aniseed is potently therapeutic. Warming
and enlivening the body, it can invigorate
the mind and stimulate circulation. Its
powerful action on the digestive system
stems nausea and vomiting, and easesindigestion and flatulence. Its expectorant
properties are also useful in treating
respiratory infections. Aniseed is also
known to promote vitality and vigour in
the human system, and is a common
ingredient in the French liqueur Pernod.
Basil
Basil is used extensively as a condiment
in both Eastern and Western cuisines. The
herb is used traditionally as a digestive
aid and an antiseptic. A number of basil’s
phytochemicals have been well
researched in other spices and are known
to have important medicinal properties.According to scientific studies, basil
contains several potent anti-microbial
chemicals. Ursolic acid and apigenin
demonstrate strong activity against the
herpes viruses, and apigenin is also
effective against hepatitis viruses.
Linalool helps fight adenoviruses that are
responsible for the common cold and
other respiratory infections like croup.
The antioxidant, eugenol, inhibits platelet
aggregation. The flavonoids in basil
protect cell structures as well as
chromosomes from radiation and oxygen-
based damage. Basil has anti-
inflammatory effects, making it an ideal
food for those people suffering from
arthritis. Basil oil contains eugenol, which
blocks the activity of an enzyme in thebody called cyclooxygenase that normally
causes swelling.
Basil is a rich source of beta-carotene
which helps protect epithelial cells (the
lining of numerous body structures
including the blood vessels) from free
radical damage. It is also a good source of
magnesium, a mineral that makes the
muscles and blood vessels relax, thereby
improving blood flow and lessening the
risk of irregular heart rhythm. Basil is a
very good source of iron, calcium,
potassium and vitamins C and K, and
dietary fibres.
Bay LeavesAlthough the bay leaf was not introduced
to England until the sixteenth century, it
has been around since ancient Greek and
Roman times. It was held in such high
esteem that victors of battle, sport and
study were crowned with garlands of bay
leaves (also known as laurel), as a symbol
of their success.
Bay leaves are a good source of vitamins
A and C, and also contain significant
amounts of iron and manganese in
particular, as well as smaller amounts of
calcium, potassium and magnesium. In
ancient times, bay leaves were used
medicinally for a number of ailments such
as liver, kidney and stomach problems,
and were also thought to heal wasp andbee stings.
Bay leaf contains caffeic acid, quercetin,
eugenol and catechins, all of which have
chemo-protective properties against
several different types of cancer. As an
important component of Mediterranean
seasonings, bay leaves contain valuable
compounds that contribute to the
cardiovascular health benefits associated
with the Mediterranean diet.
Black Peppercorns
Black pepper is derived from the fruit of a
climbing vine native to Southern India and
Sri Lanka. Used almost universally, it isone of the most common condiments
worldwide. One of black pepper’s most
important attributes is its ability to
improve digestion. It actually stimulates
taste buds to notify the stomach to increase
its secretion of hydrochloric acid thereby
improving the digestion of food once it
reaches your stomach – so load up on
black pepper! Personally, I can’t cook
anything without it.
The antioxidant property of black pepper
prevents and curtails oxidative stress.
Moreover, several of these compounds
work indirectly by enhancing the action of
other antioxidants. It also reduces the
damage caused by a diet full of saturated
fats, which is found to be the main causeof oxidative stress. Black pepper also
prevents bacterial growth in the intestinal
tract.
Black pepper is effective against cancer.
It counteracts the development of cancer
directly by enhancing the cancer-fighting
abilities of other spices. Its principle
phytochemical, piperine, enhances the
effects (bioavailability) of other
compounds and spices such as curcumin in
turmeric to inhibit some of the pro-
inflammatory cytokines that are produced
by tumour cells, hence reducing the
chances of tumour progression.
CardamomCardamom is one of the most important
spices in many Eastern cuisines and is
used in some Middle Eastern countries for
flavouring coffee. It is also used as a
breath freshener. As one of the most
expensive of the spices, cardamom is
exceeded in price only by saffron and
vanilla.
Studies have shown that cardamom
possess the ability to kill harmful H.
pylori bacteria associated with ulcers. It
also has a calming effect on the rest of the
digestive tract and has been used to treat
indigestion and gastritis (inflammation of
the lining of the stomach).
Cardamom is best purchased and stored inwhole pod form because once the seeds
are exposed or ground, they quickly lose
their flavour. It can be added to rice
pudding and other milk-based dishes.
Chilli
Chilli peppers contain a substance called
capsaicin, which gives them their
characteristic pungence and produces mild
to intense spice when eaten. Capsaicin is
a potent inhibitor of substance P, a
neuropeptide associated with
inflammatory process. The hotter the chilli
pepper, the more capsaicin it contains.
The hottest varieties include habanero and
Scotch bonnet peppers. Jalapenos comenext in their heat and capsaicin content,
followed by the milder varieties,