 nutrients, their bodies can easily become depleted. We need to feed them well so they
are strong and feel happy. We do not have to be victims of tooth decay. The dietary guidelines I have suggested, when closely
followed, are a powerful tool for preventing and halting tooth decay. In the wake of these
dysfunctional treatments for tooth decay, there lies a simple and profound method to dramatically
improve the health of your children: good nutrition. Since about 82% of children’s decayed primary teeth fall out without them experiencing any
symptoms and without any sort of nutritional treatment, imagine what the results would be with
specially reinforced nutrition to prevent against infection and remineralize the tooth. Even with
successful nutritional treatments, the teeth might still decay a bit for a while, and some may not look
very attractive. Even if one or two baby teeth do not make it to their full life, changing your child’s
diet will make a lasting impact on his health for the rest of his life and help form healthy adult teeth. Your child’s dental health is in your hands. Reclaim responsibility for your children's dental health!About the Author
Ramiel Nagel is a father who resides in Los Gatos, California. Ramiel became interested in natural
health when he discovered that his daughter was suffering from tooth decay. His background of study
includes emotional health care, hatha yoga and bhakti yoga of devotion. Ramiel earned a B.A. in Legal Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He feels
compelled to bring the knowledge contained in this book to the world so that other people can be
healthier and happier. The work is done in the spirit of service to all. His health websites include:
www.yourreturn.org
www.curetoothdecay.com
www.healingourchildren. org
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        Parents can be lazy and claim that decay is inevitable, and that as parents one
can do nothing about it. This type of excuse is subtle. It encourages parent not to be responsible for
their child's health and it relinquishes one’s decision-making power to an authority figure, such as a
dentist. Cosmetic Appearance
If your child’s teeth are decayed, even if they are functional and protected, they may not look very
pretty. Your young child, however, thinks everything is beautiful. If her teeth do not conform to the
ideal standard of beauty, it won’t concern her as long as she is innocent of those standards. Otherwise, the condition of her teeth will seem quite natural and good to her. It is the adult mind and
vision that demand a certain cosmetic appearance for our children’s teeth. From our conscious and
many times limited vision, we may want to hide that our child has tooth decay. I want to encourage
you to find beauty in your child’s teeth even with the decay. If her teeth have ceased to decay, then
they now represent a triumph. They show you what sort of healing is possible, and remind you of how
important and cherished your child’s health is. When you make the choice about the cosmetics of your
child's baby teeth, make the choice that will honor your child and her needs, not one that pays tribute
to the adult world filled with superficiality. Truth & Knowledge
Within the pages of this book I have provided you with a more accurate view of tooth decay than has
been generally presented to the public. This is based upon the physiological and biological processes
that occur in the natural world. This information has taken a significant amount of motivation and
dedication to find. I have done my best to compile


often	disappears. Not	all	toxins,	however,	affect	all	people	in	the	same	manner. Just	as	each	of
us	has	unique	needs	for	nutrients,	each	of	us	also	has	unique	tolerances	and
susceptibilities	to	toxins. Toxin	levels	that	can	put	one	person	into	overload
might	not	be	particularly	serious	or	even	noticeable	for	someone	else. Genetic
predisposition,	nutritional	status,	stress	levels	and	lifestyle	all	influence	toxin
levels. Because	currently	we	have	no	way	to	predict	the	effects	that	specific
toxins	(or	combinations)	have	on	any	individual,	the	solution	is	to	minimize
exposure	to	all	toxins	and	to	take	steps	to	support	the	body’s	detoxification
mechanisms. A	Buildup	of	External	ToxinsChronic	exposure	to	small	amounts	of	seemingly	harmless	toxins	presents	a
problem	more	dangerous	than	people	realize. Even	in	trace	amounts,	toxins	can
build	up	and	overload	our	cells,	causing	malfunction. The	average	American	is
building	up	(bioaccumulating)	between	three	and	five	hundred	manmade
chemicals,	most	of	which	did	not	exist	prior	to	World	War	II	and	have	never
before	been	in	human	tissue. Therefore,	the	combined	toxic	effects	of	these
chemicals	are	impossible	to	calculate. Physicians	rarely	consider	toxic	buildup	as	a	primary	cause	of	disease	and
rarely	test	for	toxic	underlying	problems. In	fact,	about	the	only	time	the	medical
community	will	cite	toxicity	as	a	primary	cause	of	disease	is	when	somebody
dies	or	becomes	obviously	ill	from	massive	toxic	exposure,	such	as	a	chemical
spill. Subtle	and	gradual	toxic	exposures	typically	go	undetected,	which	explains
how	people	suffering	from	toxic	overload	can	go	to	their	doctors	repeatedly
(with	persistent,	if	vague,	complaints	of	“not	feeling	quite	right”)	and	never
receive	a	correct	diagnosis. When	people	finally	do	become	sick	from	their	bioaccumu-lated	toxins,
following	the	path	of	their	illness	back	to	the	myriad	toxic	sources	is	nearly
impossible. If	these	toxins	weren’t	so	insidious	and	if	they	made	us	sick	or	killed
us	quicker	and	more	straightforwardly,	we	would	understand	more	readily	the
need	to	avoid	them. Instead,	we	expose	ourselves	unknowingly	and	we	lay	the
groundwork	for	massive	cellular	malfunction,	little	by	little. Combine	these
external	toxins	with	those	generated	inside	the	body,	and	the	eventual	result	is
toxic	overload. A	chilling	example:	Environmental	and	dietary	toxins	bioaccumulate	in	a
mother’s	fatty	tissues	throughout	her	life. When	she	starts	nursing,	her	toxin-
loaded	fatty	tissues	produce	cancer-causing	breast	milk. In	his	1987	book
Diet
for	a	New	America,
John	Robbins	notes	that	the	milk	of	most	American	mothers
is	so	contaminated	with	chemicals	(PCBs,	dioxins	and	various	pesticides)	that	“it
would	be	subject	to	confiscation	and	destruction	by	the	FDA	were	it	to	be	sold
across	state	lines. ”	Robbins	also	says	“the	EPA	has	concluded	that	the	average
American	breast-fed	infant	ingests	nine	times	the	permissible	level	of	dieldrin,
one	of	the	most	potent	of	all	cancer-causing	agents	known	to	modern	science. ”
Fortunately,	dieldrin,	which	was	used	on	crops,	has	now	been	removed	from	the
market,	but	the	average	mother’s	milk	(while	still	far	better	than	infant	formula)
remains	contaminated	with	numerous	toxic	chemicals. No	One	Is	SafeAt	present,	toxic	chemicals	can	be	found	in	trace	amounts	in	the	tissues	of
virtually	everyone	in	America—including	you. These	chemicals	include:	plastics
such	as	styrene	(disposable	Styrofoam	cups),	1,4-dichlorobenzene	(mothballs,
deodorizers),	sodium	lauryl	sulfate	(synthetic	detergent	from	soaps,	shampoos,
toothpastes),	pesticides,	PCBs,	dioxins,	phthalates	(plastics),	formaldehyde
(plywood,	particleboard,	permanent-press	clothing),	prescription	drugs	and
organic	solvents. No	place	on	earth—and	no	modern	home—is	free	from	man-
made	toxic	contamination. Molecules	of	the	pesticide	DDT,	for	example,	blanket
the	entire	planet. Henry	Schroeder,	M. D.,	a	former	professor	of	medicine	at	Dartmouth	Medical
School	and	author	of
The	Poisons	Around	Us,
wrote	that	“five	toxic	trace	metals:
antimony,	beryllium,	cadmium,	lead,	and	mercury	are	involved	in	at	least	half
the	deaths	in	the	U. S. and	much	of	the	disabling	disease. ”	In	all,	more	than	one
hundred	thousand	chemicals	are	now	in	commercial	use,	at	least	25	percent	of
which	are	known	to	be	hazardous;	many	others	have	never	been	tested	at	all. Even	when	chemicals	are	tested	for	safety,	studies	are	virtually	always	short-
term	and	tested	individually;	few	have	examined	the	long-term	effects	of
chemicals,	or	how	they	react	in	the	body	in	combination	with	each	other. Yet
these	long-term,	combined	effects	are	the	reality	of	living	in	America	today. In
other	words,	the	testing	programs	are	flawed. Adverse	effects	are	not	necessarily
observed	in	small	groups	of	animals,	nor	do	experimental	animals	necessarily
react	to	toxins	the	same	as	humans. Ultimately,	any	chemical	that	is	not	normal
and	natural	to	our	bodies	puts	a	load	on	our	detoxification	systems	and	may
damage	cell	function. Most	people	make	little	effort	to	avoid	toxins	because	officially	established
tolerances	presume	that	toxin	levels	are	within	safe	limits. Unless	you	make
special	choices,	you	constantly	eat	foods	with	trace	toxins,	you	constantly	drink
water	with	trace	toxins,	you	constantly	use	personal	products	with	trace	toxins,
and	you	constantly	breathe	toxic	air. By	the	end	of	each	day,	these	toxic
contaminants	often	reach	a	substantial	cumulative	total. EPA	scientists	found
that
the	total	toxic	residues	in	our	daily	diet	can	exceed	500	percent	of	the
recommended	daily	maximum,	even	if	each	individual	food	is	within	“safe”
limits. A	Poison	Gas	Chamber	of	Her	Very	Own
Several	years	ago,	a	young	married	couple	from	Chicago	asked	me	to	help
their	three-year-old	daughter,	Anne,	who	was	experiencing	seizures. Anne	hadbeen	examined	by	at	least	a	dozen	specialists,	but	their	only	recommendations
were	anti-seizure	medications	that	made	Anne	sick,	yet	failed	to	stop	the
seizures. The	desperate	parents	called	me,	a	complete	stranger	two	thousand
miles	away. They	begged	me	for	help,	even	though	I	am	not	a	physician. Because	there	is	only	one	disease,	I	knew	that	Anne’s	problem	was
malfunctioning	cells. But	why	were	they	malfunctioning. Although	I	asked
many	questions	about	Anne’s	history,	nothing	seemed	unusual	about	her	birth,
background	or	development. She	had	been	bre


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and Elemental Nutrients, New Canaan, CT: Keats, 1975. [24] National Research Council, Recommended Dietary Allowances, 9th ed., Washington,
DC, National Academy of Sciences, 1989. [25] L. Allen, “Protein-induced Hypercalcuria: A Longer-term Study. ” American Journal
of Clinical Nutrition,1979, 32:741; J. Brockis, “The Effects of Vegetable and Animal Proteins on Calcium, Urate, and Oxalate Excretion. ” BR J. Urology, 1982, 54:590; V. Barzel, Osteoporosis. New York: Grune and Stratton. 1970. [26] B. Brenner, “Dietary Protein Intake and the Progressive Nature of Kidney Disease: The
Role of Hemodynamically Mediated Glomerular Injury in the Pathogenesis of Progressive Glomerular Sclerosis in Aging, Renal Ablation and Intrinsic Renal Disease. ” New England Journal of Medicine,1980. 307:652; G. Maschio, “Effects of Dietary Protein and Phosphorus Restriction on the Progression of Early Renal Failure. ” Kidney Int., 1982, 22:371. [27] Same as note 16.214
Fruiticulture[28] Same as note 17. [29] Same as note 15. [30] Ibid. [31] Lappe, Frances Moore, Diet for a Small Planet, tenth anniversary edition, Ballantine
Books, New York, 1982. 17, 162. [32] For complete documentation, refer to: John McDougall, MD and Mary A. McDougall,
The McDougall Plan, Piscataway, NJ: New Century, 1983; John McDougall, MD, McDougall’s Medicine, A Challenging Second Opinion. Clinton, NJ: New Win Publishing, 1985), 75; John Robbins, Diet for a New America, Walpole, NH: Stillpoint, 1987. [33] For complete documentation, refer to: John Robbins, Diet for a New America,
Walpole, NH: Stillpoint, 1987; John McDougall, MD and Mary A. McDougall, The
McDougall Plan, Piscataway, NJ: New Century, 1983; John McDougall, MD, McDougall’s
Medicine, A Challenging Second Opinion. Clinton, NJ: New Win Publishing, 1985, 75. Food Choices and the Planet
http://www.earthsave.org/environment.htm
The toll exacted on human health by a diet laden with saturated fat and cholesterol is
devastating, and thoroughly documented. What is this same diet doing to our planet? It takes 2,500 gallons of water, 12 pounds of grain, 35 pounds of topsoil and the energy
equivalent of one gallon of gasoline to produce one pound of feedlot beef. Because of over-consumption of fish, all 17 of the world’s major fishing areas have reached or ex -
ceeded their natural limits. One-third of the world’s fish catch is fed directly to livestock. Seventy percent of U.S. grain production is fed to livestock.Five million acres of rainforest are felled every year in South and Central America alone
to create cattle pasture. Roughly 20% of all currently threatened and endangered species in the U.S. are harmed
by livestock grazing. Animal agriculture is a chief contributor to water pollution. America’s farm animals pro -215
Fruiticultureduce 10 times the waste produced by the human population. The Good News About the Environment and Our Food ChoicesMany farmers are rediscovering the farming methods of their grandfathers and aug-
menting this with new knowledge of sustainable techniques. These are achieving the same or greater yields without the use of costly, harmful and soil-depleting petrochemi -
cal fertilizers and pesticides. Ultimately, it is consumer demand that has brought us to this juncture of depleted and
polluted soils, seas and freshwater supplies through the desire to have a “cheap” food supply. Only a profound change in consumer demand can prevent a total collapse of the seas and the soils. By eating a varied plant-based diet, you can easily get all the nutrients you need to lead
a healthy active life. Besides being easy, delicious, economical, fun and healthful, follow -
ing a plant-based diet transforms your fork into a powerful tool for environmental pro -
tection and restoration. Land Utilization and Soil ErosionOne-half of the Earth’s land mass is grazed by livestock. [1]More than 60% of the world’s rangelands were damaged by overgrazing during the past
half century. [2]
As much as 85% of rangeland in the western U.S. is being degraded by overgrazing. [3]Overgrazing is by far the most pervasive cause of desertification. [4]Thiry-five pounds of topsoil are lost in the production of one pound of grain-fed beef. [5]Sixty-four percent of U.S. cropland produces livestock feed. [6]Only 2% of U.S. cropland produces fruits and vegetables. [7]Pounds of edible product that can be produced on an acre of prime land: Apples 20,000;
Carrots 30,000; Potatoes 40,000; Tomatoes 50,000; Beef 250. [8]
Water ConsumptionThe number of gallons of water needed to produce one pound of edible product: Apples 216
Fruiticulture49; Carrots 33; Potatoes 24; Tomatoes 23; Beef 2,500. [9,10]
Endangered SpeciesAt least 100 animals are added to the endangered species list each year. [11]Between 19 and 22 percent of all threatened and endangered species are harmed by
livestock grazing. [12]
Rainforest DestructionFive million acres of rainforest are felled every year in South and Central America to cre -
ate cattle pasture. [13]Cattle ranching has destroyed more Central American rainforest than any other activity. [14]
Seventy percent of cleared forests in Panama and Costa Rica are now in pasture. [15]PollutionManure produced by all farm animals in the U.S. annually is roughly 10 times the waste
produced by the human population. [16]
Factory farms are the biggest contributors to polluted rivers and streams in the US. [17]At least 1,785 water bodies were impaired by feedlot pollution in 39 states in 1993. [18]About 60,000 miles of streams in the U.S. have fisheries impaired by feedlot pollution. [19]
More soot is emitted from the grills in Los Angeles fast food restaurants than all the city
buses. [20]
Pesticides & Food ContaminationSince 1945, when pesticides made from petrochemicals became popular, the following
changes have occurred:[21,22,23]
Percentage Increase
 Three thousand, three hundred percent overall pesticide use
 Twenty percent overall crop losses due to insects
 One hundred thousand per cent pesticides applied per acre of corn217
FruiticultureThe drinking water in nearly every midwestern city south of Chicago is contaminated
with agricultural weed killers. [24]
Meat, poultry and dairy products contain the major source of pesticide residues in the
western diet. [25]
Ninety-five percent of human exposure to the potent carcinogen dioxin comes from
consuming meat, poultry and dairy. [26]
The EPA issued more than 1,000 warnings against eating fish from chemically-contami-
nated waters in 1994. [27]
Nearly half of all fish sampled by Consumers Union was contaminated with bacterial
from human or animal feces. [28]
Ninety-nine percent of U.S. non-vegetarian mother’s milk has significant levels of DDT. [28]
Only eight percent of U.S. vegetarian mother’s milk has significant levels of DDT. [29]Resource DistributionResources used in the production of livestock:
 33% of world’s fish catch[30]
 38% of the wor ld’s grain harvest{31]
 50% of all the wa ter used in the U.S.[32]
 60% of Brazil ’s grain harvest[33]
 70% of U.S. grain harvest[34]
 80% of U.S. corn harvest[35]
 Almost half of all energy expended in U.S. agriculture[36]
Fourteen percent of all cattle are fed back to cattle as part of protein-fortified feed[37]Approximately 8 million pounds of poultry manure are fed annually to California’s beef
cattle. [38]
Fifty-five percent of all the antibiotics used in the U.S. are fed to animals, and 80% of 218
Fruiticulturethem are used to promote growth, not to treat disease. [39]
Twelve to sixteen pounds of grain and soy are needed to produce one pound of grain-
fed beef. [40]
All 17 of the worlds major fishing areas have reached or exceeded their natural limits due
to overfishing. [41]
$3.7 billion subsidized animal feed grains in 1995. They are the U.S. ’s most heavily subsi -
dized crop. [42]World HungerFive million children in the U.S. go hungry every month. [43]Approximately 40,000 people die each day worldwide due to hunger or hunger-related
causes. [44]
If Americans


 balancing
therapy to work, we must know how the qualities of
things affect us. The following chapters examine the role
of food, impressions, and associations so we can apply
them to return to this original state of harmony that is
inherent in our original nature. 11. The Cycle of Nutrition
for the Mind:
The Role of Impressions
ow can we have a healthy mind. How can our
H consciousness, like the body, become strong,
flexible, resilient and enduring. Just as there
are rules for creating physical health, so there are
creating mental health. Most importantly, just as the body
needs the right nutrition for health, so does the mind. The mind is an organic entity, apart of Nature, and has
its cycle of nutrition that involves taking in substances to
build it up, like impressions, and releasing waste materi-
als that can become toxins, like negative emotions. Food
for the mind, like that for the body, creates the energy that
allows it to work. Like the body, the mind has its proper
exercise and expression, which requires the right food to
sustain it. Though most of us consider how we feed our bodies, we
seldom consider how we feed our minds. We are often so
caught up in our emotional impulses that we do not nour-
ish our minds properly. As a result, our minds become dis-
torted. Their natural urge toward light and knowledge
becomes warped into seeking pleasure and self-aggran-
dizement. To change the mind, we must change what we
feed it. Unless what we put into the mind changes, we
cannot change what comes out of it. But what are the sub-
stances that feed the mind. Unless we know this we can-
not go very far in treating the mind. 170 Ayurveda and the Mind
In this chapter we will examine in detail all the main
factors of mental nutrition and mental digestion. Various
methods will be provided to improve our mental nutrition
and increase our capacity of mental digestion. Physical — Food
The first level of nourishment for the mind comes
through the food we take in, which provides the gross ele-
ments of earth, water, fire, air and ether. The essence of
digested food serves to build up not only the brain and
nerve tissue but also the subtle matter of the mind (note
chapter on Diet and Herbs). The five gross elements build
up the physical body directly and, indirectly, the mind. For example, the earth element in the food we take, like
proteins, builds the heavy matter of the body, like the
muscles, and helps ground and stabilize the mind through
increasing the earth element within it. Subtle — Impressions
The second level of nourishment for the mind comes
through the impressions and experiences we take in
through the senses. Through the senses we take in impres-
sions from the external world: the colors, shapes, and
sounds around us, which constitute the subtle elements. The five sensory potentials directly build up the outer
mind (Manas) and indirectly the inner mind or deeper con-
sciousness (Chitta). Sensory impressions color our
thoughts and affect our feelings. The mind (Manas) itself
brings in mental and emotional impressions that most
strongly affect it. The Cycle of Nutrition for the Mind 171
Corresponding Gross and Subtle Elements
1) Earth smell
2) Water taste
3) Fire sight
4) Air touch
5) Ether sound
6) Mind mental and emotional impressions
Causal — Gunas
The third and deepest level of nutrition for the mind,
which determines the nature of our deeper consciousness
(Chitta), is through the three gunas of Sattva, Rajas and
Tamas. The gross and subtle elements (food and impres-
sions) affect our deeper consciousness according to their
constituent gunas. Most importantly, we are affected by
the gunas of the people we associate with at a heart level. After all, our relationships make the greatest impression
upon us. This is why right relationship is so crucial in
treating the mind. Our deeper consciousness is the level of
the heart. The gunas are the primal level of matter (Prakriti) and
cannot be destroyed, but they can be transformed, which is
what our food, impressions and associations affect. Sattvic
food, impressions and associations activate the Sattvic
qualities of consciousness like love, clarity and peace. Raja-
sic food, impressions and associations activate its Rajasic
qualities like passion, criticalness and agitation. Tamasic
food, impressions and associations activate the Tamasic
qualities of insensitivity, ignorance and inertia. Chitta, our
deeper consciousness, is the ultimate product of digestion
of food, impressions and associations. To have a healthy A172 Ayurveda and the Mind
consciousness requires that we consider all three levels of
nutrition. Impressions and associations go together as the
basic factors of our experience. Mental Digestion
We must not only consider the nature of the food we
take in but also our capacity to digest it. Even if we take
good food, if our digestion is weak, it may turn into tox-
ins. The mind, like the body, has its digestive power or
digestive fire (Agni) which is intelligence (Buddhi). The mind exists to provide experience and liberation
for the soul. Experience that we have digested or under-
stood brings freedom and allows for the expansion of
awareness, just as food we have digested releases energy
that allows us to work. Experience that we have not digest-
ed becomes a toxin and initiates various pathological
changes in the mind, just as undigested food causes the
disease process in the physical body. Just as well-digested
food brings physical happiness and undigested food causes
disease, so well-digested experience brings mental happi-
ness, and poorly digested experience causes mental disor-
ders. The mind has its own pattern of digestion which
resembles that of the physical body. 1. Outer Mind and Senses — Gathering of Impressions
The five senses bring in impressions, much like the
hands and the mouth bring in food. These are gathered in
the outer mind (Manas), which organizes them but does
not have the power to digest them. The outer mind corre-
sponds to the stomach in the physical body, which gathers
and homogenizes food but cannot fully break it down or
absorb it. The Cycle of Nutrition for the Mind 173
2. Intelligence — Digestion of Experience
Once the outer mind has gathered and homogenized
our impressions, intelligence (Buddhi) works to digest
them. Intelligence is the Agni or digestive fire for the
mind and corresponds to the small intestine as a physical
organ. Intelligence digests impressions and turns them
into experiences. It turns present events into memories. Proper mental digestion depends upon proper function
of intelligence, through which we discern the truth of our
experience from its outer names and forms. It enables us to
take in the Sattva guna from our experiences and release
their Rajasic and Tamasic components. Wrong mental
digestion occurs when we are unable to break down the
names and forms of our experience into truth energies. Then the undigested names and forms accumulate in the
mind and block its perception. We mistake the appearance
of things for their meaning or truth content. 51
3. Consciousness — Absorption of Experience
Once intelligence has digested our impressions, they
pass in the form of experience or memory into our deeper
consciousness (Chitta), which they affect according to their
qualities (gunas). Experience absorbed in the deeper con-
sciousness becomes part of its fabric, just as the food
digested becomes part of the tissue of the physical body. II
our experience is not digested properly, it damages the
substance of the mind, just as undigested food damages
the tissues of the body. Experience that we have digested
does not leave a mark or scar upon the mind in the form of
memories, but allows us to function in life with peace and
clarity. Let us examine some examples of this process. If we sec
a beautiful sunset with an open heart this impression is Ayurveda and the Mind
easily digested and leaves an energy of light and peace in
our deeper consciousness. If someone attacks or robs us,
however, our mind gets disturbed. The experience is hard
to digest, and leaves a residue of anger, frustration or fear. Our lives are filled with many such examples. Undigested
experiences re-arise from our subconscious, influencing
our current state of mind, until we understand and resolve
them. The Three States of Waking, Dream, and Deep
Sleep
In the waking state we gather impressions through the
outer mind (Manas) and senses. In the dream state we
digest impressions through our inner intelligence (Bud-
dhi) and these are reflected through our subtle senses in
the form of various dreams. In deep sleep, the residue of
our digested impressions, reduced to seed form, becomes
part of our deeper consciousness (Chitta). Our dreams show the process of mental digestion. Good dreams reflect good mental digestion. Bad dreams
show poor mental digestion. 2 Similarly, good deep sleep
reflects a well-developed body of consciousness. Inability
to sustain deep sleep shows a poorly developed body of
consciousness. Detoxification for the Mind


rejoining with spirit. This is healing and Saint Francis asks you through his
prayer to be an instrument of this process. WHA T IS A HEALER. In her marvelous book, The Physician W ithin Y ou, Gladys T aylor McGarey,
M. D., relates a conversation with her son Carl, who had just finished his
internship and was specializing in orthopedic sur gery. After he had told his
mother of his fears about having people’ s lives in his hands, she related,
“Carl, as a sur geon you may pull an incision together and suture it well, but
you cannot make it heal. If you think you are the one who does the healing,
you have a right to be scared. But if you understand that you are a channel
through which healing moves, and that you are contacting the healing force
within your patients, you have nothing to fear. You will have awakened the
physician within them and sent them on their way to heal themselves. ”
As you begin living your life on the spiritual plane you will discover that
both your body and your mind become instruments of God when you are
able to bring a kind of consciousness to the sick or injured wherein you are,
in effect, bringing the potential for pardoning or releasing the disease itself. Healing occurs when we approach our own healing power through faith in
our spiritual perfection and an abiding sense of unconditional love. The
healer is not performing the healing, but bringing pardon in the form of
unconditional love and the faster ener gy of spiritual consciousness to bear
on the injury, while turning the entire process over to God. As you af firm your spiritual perfection you actually set into motion the
universal law. It is through the surrendering of your doubts and fears, the
laying aside of your little ego and living the principle of existence, which is
the principle of thoughts becoming things. It was the thoughts or mental
conditions that created the illusion of illness as separate from the divine,
and it will be your own thoughts of spiritual perfection that will allow the
healing force to work through you in your self, as well as in others. I am not speaking here of the laying on of hands or the world of the occult,
but merely the awareness that a healer must be able to accept in his or her
own mind the spiritual perfection of mind and body as well as the spiritual
perfection of those injuries you look to pardon. In a word, it is love that is
the power that heals. Remember, the opposite of love is fear, and a belief in
fear is a belief in the second power of disease. Y ou are always reminded
that “Perfect love casteth out all fear,” and the root of all disease and injury
is fear; the fear of being separate from the one power of God. CAN YOU BE A HEALER. Anyone can become a healer who understands that he or she is merely a
channel through which perfect spiritual love can flow. When you are ill you
have disconnected from the capacity to heal yourself. Y ou have lost contact
with your healing source. Y our healing abilities will be found by rejoining
to the source. As a healer, you stay in touch with the whole, never falling
prey to the superstition of separateness, which causes the illness to take
hold in the first place. When you touch the illness of another with the
energy of spirit or the source, you activate the connection and facilitate the
healing process. In that sense, yes, you are a healer, even though you heal
no one. Y ou don’ t even need to understand the mechanics of this process. When you help another to become aware of the source from which healing
takes place, you not only facilitate healing but you act to help others
prevent future illness as well. I am convinced that you can indeed become an instrument of healing by
raising your ener gy field to the highest, most spiritual levels, which were
described in the first six chapters of this book. There I explained that God
does not heal disease, because disease is not accepted as a separate power. Rather, God is the one power of harmony. Be that power, live there, and you will yourself be bringing pardon to injury
in your life, and the lives of those you encounter who live in the illusion of
disease. Believe in this one power. This is not a miracle but simply the way
of things. As Saint Thomas Aquinas put it, “Miracles are signs not to them
that believe, but to them that disbelieve. ”
SUGGESTIONS FOR SOWING P ARDON WHERE THERE IS
INJUR Y
Use your thoughts to keep your ener gy on healing rather than disease. It is
pretty common to place ener gy on what is wrong and what you don’ t want. Thoughts such as “This cold is going to get worse,” “There is nothing you
can do, it’ s the flu season and it’ s going around,” “Y ou have to get worse
before it will get any better,” are all ideas that will help you to manifest
what you don’ t want. A brief reminder here: you act on your thoughts, andthis goes for your body and the bodies of those around you. If your thoughts
are on what you don’ t want (disease) you will act upon those thoughts and
manifest more of what you don’ t want. Anytime you enter an ener gy field of injury or disease remind yourself that
you are bringing the radiant ener gy of spirit to that space. Stay focused on
that faster ener gy, make an ef fort to radiate it outward and in a surrounding
fashion, never buying into the lower ener gy of disease. I visited a young man in a hospital in Canada who had been in a serious
motorcycle accident and was lying comatose. Several of his friends asked if
I would visit him since he was a big fan of my writing and tapes and had
been unable to attend my presentation in T oronto due to his near fatal
accident several days prior to my visit. On my way to the airport I went to
see Anthony in the intensive care unit of the hospital. The nurses said there
was very little chance that he would survive his wounds. He was
surrounded by the ener gy of injury. The other patients on the ward were in
various states of total disrepair. Anthony lay there, twenty-five years old,
unconscious, and in a place where little hope for healing was being of fered. I spent one hour with Anthony, making every ef fort to be a channel through
which healing might flow. I stayed in deep conscious contact (through
meditation) with God, and visualized white light surrounding this young
man. When I left I had a strong knowing that Anthony would recover. Sure
enough, eighteen months later I was speaking at a convention and Anthony
appeared. He looked and sounded fit, and told us he was almost totally
recovered. When he addressed the group, at my request, he described
coming out of the coma and being told by the nurses of my visit. They said
I had prayed and seemed almost lost in my own bliss as I walked around his
bed during my visit. As you know, it was not I, this ego or my body, that had anything to do with
Anthony’ s recovery. I merely brought spiritual consciousness to his injury,
and in the great scheme of things Anthony now uses his own healing
journey as a metaphor for teaching others. The only thing I was totally
committed to in my visit was to stay in the highest ener gy pattern I could
and to refuse to give credibility to a second power called injury. Appr oach any experience of injury, whether it be in yourself or others, with
a mind-set of high hopes and possibilities for r elease fr om that injury
(pardon). Your thoughts must be on wholeness in order to make this visible
in your body. I believe no one knows enough to be a pessimist, and anyone
can be healed, even those in the absolutely lowest frequencies. I recall receiving a letter from a woman who had fallen into prostitution,
was a crack-cocaine addict, had lost almost all her normal weight, and was
a walking skeleton. At this low point she wandered into a drugstore one
morning and stole a tape from the revolving rack of self-improvement
cassettes. It happened to be one of my tapes and for some reason she went
home and listened to it. When I met her in person she agreed to appear on a national television
show to share her story. She described how from that lowest point in her life
she began to think vigorous healing thoughts, the same kinds of thoughts I
had recorded on the tape. She listened every day and gradually those
thoughts became her own and they literally transformed her injury into
health. Now, I receive a Christmas card each year with a picture of her with
her husband and two children along with a note relating the continued
success of her new business. When you can transcend your malaise and thoughts of impossible or
incurable, and replace them with the ener gy of spirit where all things are
possible, the material world responds and wholeness replaces visions of
doom and separateness. Deliver this higher ener gy thinking to even the
worst of circumstances and a spiritual solution is revealed. In summary, always think yes, it’ s possible, I can, I will, I am trusting God
totally, because all that is not good can’ t possibly be real, even if it exists in
the material world. Be continuously awar e of the times when you ar e trapped in ego
consciousness.


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PERFECT
MEDICINE
by Martha M. Christy
The Incredible Proven  Natural Miracle Cure
That Medical Science has Never Revealed! Published by Wishland, Inc. Publishing P.O. Box 41504 Mesa, Arizona 85274
1TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER  1
An Amazing Untold Story............................................................7
CHAPTER  2
What Modem Science Knows About
A Miracle Medicine (And Isn't Telling) .....................................17
CHAPTER  3
Why Nobody Knows Anything About
The Most Researched Natural Substance in Medicine .............. 33
CHAPTER  4
The Research Evidence and Case Studies .................................. 67
CHAPTER  5
The History................................................................................ 161
CHAPTER  6
How To Use The Therapy At Home.......................................... 171
CHAPTER  7
Specific Disorders...................................................................... 195
Personal Testimonials
2Appendix  A
Alkaline and Acid Food List...................................................... 207
Appendix  B
Suggested Reading..................................................................... 211
Appendix  C
References....................................................................................215
index............................................................................................ 225
YOUR OWN PERFECT MEDICINE
by Martha M. Christy
ISBN 0-9632091-1-6
First Printing– May, 1994
Second Printing– August, 1994
Third Printing - October, 1994
Fourth Printing - May, 1996
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Copyright 1994 Martha M. Christy. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Catalog Card No: 94-071171
3The medical information and all procedures mentioned and contained in this book
are not intended to be used or construed as a substitute for professional medical
care and advice by your physician. People who read this book and make decisions
regarding  their  health  or  medical  care  which  they  believe  are  based  on  ideas
contained in this book, do so as their constitutional right. Please do not use this
book if you are unwilling to assume responsibility for results that arise from the
use of any of the suggestions, preparations or procedures in the book. The author
and publisher are not responsible for any adverse effects or consequences resulting
from the use of any of the suggestions or information contained in the book, but
offer this material as information which the public has a right to hear and utilize at
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transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,
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Martha Christy is a nutritional and natural health care consultant, medical research
writer and editor, and author of the international bestseller  Learn to Control Stress
With the Stress Test. Her other books include Reconstructing the Real You, Your
Body's Best Defense: How pH Balancing Conquers Aging and Disease, Simple
Diagnostic Tests  You Can Do At Home, Healing Yourself with Homeopathy,
Colloidal  Silver:  The  Natural  Alternative  to  Antibiotics,  Herbal  Grobust:  The
Natural Way To a Fuller, Firmer Bust Through Herbal Hormone Balancing, MSM:
The Super Supplement of the Decade and The Pacific Yew Story: How An Ancient
Tree Became a Modern Miracle. CHAPTER  1
4AN AMAZING UNTOLD STORY
There is an extraordinary natural healing substance PRODUCED  BY OUR OWN
BODIES that modern medical science has proven to be one of the most powerful
natural medicines known to man. Unlike many other natural medical therapies, this method requires  no monetary
investment a doctors' intervention and can be easily accessed and used at any time. The extensive medical research findings on this natural medicine have never been
compiled and released to the general public before now, but those who have been
fortunate enough to hear about this medicine and use it have found that it can
produce often astounding healing even when all other therapies have failed. This book  tells of  the  doctors,  medical  researchers  and  the  hundreds of  other
people who have used this extraordinary medicine throughout our century to cure a
huge variety of common illnesses and to combat even the most incurable diseases. This is the extraordinary untold story of a natural healing substance so remarkable
that it can only be called our own perfect medicine. My own experience with this little-known natural medicine began  as a result of my
search for an answer to many years of serious chronic illnesses that had begun very
early in life. Like thousands of people today, I had developed chronic, degenerative
disorders that couldn't be helped by conventional medicine and which threatened to
permanently destroy my ability to work, function and simply enjoy life. When I was young, I suffered through the same measles, mumps,  chicken pox and
colds that everyone else did. And like other children, I played hard, worked hard,
and dreamed of the day when I would become a vigorous, emancipated teenager,
just like everyone else. But, for me, that particular dream wasn't going to come
true. 5One beautiful July morning at the age of twelve, I awoke with a start. Suddenly,
surprised and frightened, I realized I was lying in a dark red pool of blood that was
so large it had soaked through even the thick layers of my mattress. Trembling and
weak, I pushed myself up out of bed and felt a horrible, wrenching pain tear
through my abdomen. My worried mother came running in answer to my screams, but after  assessing the
situation, said there really wasn't much she could do about the pain of my first
menstrual period. But what neither she nor I knew at the time, was that what
should have been a natural transition to adolescence and menstruating was, for me,
going to become a waking nightmare that lasted almost 30 years. At the onset of each one of my monthly menstrual periods, I would invariably end
up either in my doctor's office or at the emergency room of the hospital screaming
with pain, bleeding copiously and passing huge clots of blood. For several months after my 'periods from hell' began, my mother chauffeured me
around the city from doctor to doctor with no success until our family doctor
finally instituted a monthly regimen of pain killers such as Demerol or Darvon
injections  and  then  sent  me  home  with  a  big,  round  bottle  of  full-strength
prescription Codeine with which I proceeded to dope myself senseless for the next
eight to ten days. This same cycle was repeated every month for almost twenty
years. Throughout adolescence, the simple everyday functions of getting up and going to
school were an often monumental and utterly exhausting effort for me. Unlike the
rest of my family and friends, I had marked periods of extreme exhaustion. I
became extremely susceptible to colds and flu and felt bone-chillingly cold all the
time – even in the warmest summer weather. By the age of fourteen, the effort of combatting severe chronic pain and fatigue
while trying to keep up normal activities became impossible. I collapsed and had to
be hospitalized and removed from school for several months. But even after a huge
battery of medical tests and innumerable visits with doctors and specialists, no one
was able to diagnose what was causing my problems. 6After many weeks, I returned to school and struggled through the high school years
with the aid of generous amounts of codeine and other strong pain killers that my
doctor willingly prescribed. But by the time I left home for college, the symptoms
of bleeding, exhaustion, pain and digestive problems became so bad that I often
was unable to even leave my room or to take part in daily activities. I kept up the Demerol injections and codeine for many years and added several
other new painkillers and drugs which had been developed for menstrual problems
to my regimen. But the problems continued unabated and in the ensuing years I
developed a myriad of other serious health problems. During  the  years  from  age  eighteen  to  thirty,  I  was  diagnosed  with  pelvic
inflammatory  disease,  ulcerative  colitis,  Chron's  disease  or  ileitis  (a  chronic,
painful inflammation of the colon), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Hashimoto's
disease (a disorder of the thyroid gland) and mononucleosis. I had severe chronic kidney infections, two miscarriages, chronic cystitis, severe
candida and external yeast infections along with marked adrenal insufficiency and
serious chronic ear and sinus infections for which I was prescribed antibiotics on
an ongoing basis for several years. Food and chemical allergies also became a big
problem. And  even  though I ate  almost  nothing because  of my extreme  food
allergies, I actually kept gaining weight, which only added to the discomfort of all
the other health disorders I was dealing with. The bottles of drugs I had taken during this time could have filled a small landfill,
but none of my illnesses or disorders had been resolved, and in fact, were more
debilitating than ever - it seemed as though I had


 self and break through to the freedom for which we
long. This state of inner freedom and unalloyed happiness is our
“birthright,” he says. As we read, we draw encouragement and inspiration
from the real-life clinical examples that he shares from his decades of
psychiatric practice. In case after case, we see the power of surrender
applied to nearly every area of life: relationships, physical health, work
environments, recreational activities, spiritual process, family life,
sexuality, emotional healing, and addiction recovery. W e learn that the answer to the problems we face is within  us. By
letting go of the inner blocks to it, the truth of our inner Self shines forth
and the path to peace is revealed. Other spiritual teachers have emphasized
the cultivation of inner peace as the only real solution to personal
dif ficulties, as well as collective conflicts: “Inner disarmament first, then
outer disarmament” (The Dalai Lama); “Be the change you want to see in
the world” (Gandhi). The implication is clear. Because we are all part of the
whole, when we heal something in ourselves, we heal it for the world. Each
individual consciousness is connected to the collective consciousness at the
ener getic level; therefore, personal healing emer ges collective healing. Dr. Hawkins may be the first to attempt to understand this principle in light of
scientific and clinical applications. The crucial point is: by changing
ourselves, we change the world. As we become more loving on the inside,
healing occurs on the outside. Much like the rising of the sea level lifts all
ships, so the radiance of unconditional love within a human heart lifts all of
life. Dr. David R. Hawkins is a world-renowned author, psychiatrist, clinician,
spiritual teacher, and researcher of consciousness. Details of his
extraordinary life are given in the “About the Author” section at the back of
the book. His unique work ef fulges from a wellspring of universal
compassion and is dedicated to the alleviation of suf fering in all dimensions
of life. The gift of Dr. Hawkins’ work to human evolvement is beyond what
can be said about it.The state of Enlightenment is totally complete in its bliss, such that one
would never leave it except out of a total surrender of love to God and to
one’ s fellow human beings, to share the gift that was given. This book on
letting go, and all of his work in the world, is the result of that surrender. As
you will read in one of the chapters, there was a very deep surrender that
allowed the resumption of his personal consciousness in order to fulfill
certain commitments in the world. The state of oneness was not lost or left,
but extraordinary love had to be directed toward the challenge of
verbalizing the inef fable. Y ou will notice that some of his pronouns do not
fit grammatical convention—for example, “our life”—yet they are true to
the experience of a spiritual state that knows the impersonal oneness of all
life. That Dr. Hawkins would re-enter the world of logic and language in
order to share a “Map of Consciousness” with us—so that we might also
complete our destiny—speaks volumes of his selfless love for humanity. By
showing us the way to liberation, Dr. Hawkins gives us the chance of
reaching it. Thank you, Dr. Hawkins, for the gift of total surrender. Fran Grace, Ph.D., editor. Pr ofessor of Religious Studies and
Stewar d of the Meditation Room
University of Redlands, California
Founding Dir ector, Institute for
Contemplative Life
Sedona, Arizona
June 2012
P R E F A C E
During many years of clinical psychiatric practice, the primary aim was to
seek the most ef fective ways to relieve human suf fering in all of its many
forms. T o this end, numerous disciplines of medicine, psychology,
psychiatry, psychoanalysis, behavioral techniques, bio-feedback,
acupuncture, nutrition, and brain chemistry were explored. Beyond these
clinical modalities were philosophical systems, metaphysics, a multitude of
holistic health techniques, self-improvement courses, spiritual pathways,
meditative techniques, and other ways to expand one’ s awareness. In all of these explorations, the mechanism of surrender was found to
be of great practical benefit. Its importance necessitated the writing of this
book to share with others what was clinically observed and personally
experienced. The previous ten books focused on advanced states of awareness and
Enlightenment. Over the years, thousands of students at our lectures and
Satsangs have asked questions that reveal the everyday obstacles to
Enlightenment. It is pragmatic and helpful to share a technique that will
facilitate their success in overcoming such obstacles: How to handle the
vicissitudes of ordinary life, with its losses, disappointments, stresses, and
crises? How to be free of negative emotions and their impact on health,
relationships, and work? How to handle all of the unwanted feelings? The
present work describes a simple and ef fective means by which to let go of
negative feelings and become free. The letting go technique is a pragmatic system of eliminating obstacles
and attachments. It can also be called a mechanism of surrender. There is
scientific proof of its ef ficacy, an explanation of which is included in one of
the chapters. Research has shown the technique to be more ef fective than
many other approaches currently available in relieving the physiologic
responses to stress. After researching most of the various stress-reduction and
consciousness methods, this approach stands out for its sheer simplicity,
ef ficiency, clinical ef ficacy, absence of questionable concepts, and rapidity
of observable results. Its simplicity is deceptive and almost disguises thereal benefit of the technique. Simply stated, it sets us free from emotional
attachments. It verifies the observation made by every sage, that
attachments are the primary cause of suf fering. The mind, with its thoughts, is driven by feelings. Each feeling is the
cumulative derivative of many thousands of thoughts. Because most people
throughout their lives repress, suppress, and try to escape from their
feelings, the suppressed ener gy accumulates and seeks expression through
psychosomatic distress, bodily disorders, emotional illnesses, and
disordered behavior in interpersonal relationships. The accumulated
feelings block spiritual growth and awareness, as well as success in many
areas of life. The benefits of this technique can, therefore, be described on various
levels:
Physical:
The elimination of suppressed emotions has a positive health benefit. It
decreases the overflow of ener gy into the body’ s autonomic nervous
system, and it unblocks the acupuncture ener gy system (demonstrable by a
simple muscle test). Therefore, as a person constantly surrenders, physical
and psychosomatic disorders improve and frequently disappear altogether. There is a general reversal of pathologic processes in the body and a return
to optimal functioning. Behavioral:
Because there is a progressive decrease of anxiety and negative emotions,
there is less and less need for escapism via drugs, alcohol, entertainment,
and excessive sleep. Consequently, there is an increase in vitality, ener gy,
presence, and well-being, with more ef ficient and ef fortless functioning in
all areas. Interpersonal Relationships:
As negative feelings are surrendered, there is a progressive increase of
positive feelings that results in quickly observable improvement in all
relationships. There is an increase in the capacity to love. Conflicts with
others decrease progressively, so that job performance improves. The
elimination of negative blocks allows vocational goals to be more easily
accomplished, and self-sabotaging behavior based on guilt progressivelydiminishes. There is less and less dependence on intellectualism and a
greater use of intuitive knowingness. W ith the resumption of personality
growth and development, there is often the uncovering of previously
unsuspected creative and psychic abilities, which are thwarted in all people
by suppressed negative emotions. Of great importance is the progressive
diminution of dependency, the bane of all human relationships. Dependency
underlies so much pain and suf fering; it includes even violence and suicide
as its ultimate expression. As dependency diminishes, there is also a
diminution of aggressiveness and hostile behavior. These negative feelings
are replaced by feelings of acceptance and lovingness toward others. Consciousness/ A war eness/ Spirituality:
This is an area that opens up by continuous use of the mechanism of
surrender. The letting go of negative emotions means that the person
experiences ever -increasing happiness, contentment, peace, and joy. There
is an expansion of awareness, progressive realization, and experiencing of
the real inner Self. The teachings of the Great Masters unfold from within
as one’ s own personal experience. The progressive letting go of limitations
allows the realization at last of one’ s true identity. Letting go is one of the
most ef ficacious tools by which to reach spiritual goals. Anyone can accomplish all of these ends, with gentleness and subtlety,
as one silently surrenders throughout daily life. The progressive
disappearance of negativity and its replacement by positive feelings and
experiences is pleasurable both to watch and to experience. It is the purpose
of this information to assist the reader in having those rewarding
experiences. David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. Founding Pr esident,
Institute for Spiritual Resear ch
Sedona, Arizona
June 2012
CHAPTER
1


 yielded good results: The fact is, at the
beginning of my trip to India, I had begun massag-
6 Getting the Taste ing four-day old urine into my scalp and had main
tained this fairly consistently during my six-week
tour. I was curious to see if this would have any
effect, but to be honest, I did not believe too much
in this treatment. This experience, however, added
to my faith in the regenerative powers of urine. A little later, in the summer of 1992, I was ap
proached a number of times by the media, which
resulted in a few interviews on television, radio and
in the newspapers. More and more people asked me
for advice; others telephoned me to relate their own
experiences. I got in touch with Carmen Thomas, a
woman who worked on German radio (WDR); she
had done a programme four years earlier about urine
therapy. Since then, she had been receiving dozens
of letters every week with experiences, stories and
positive reactions. She also recently published a book
in Germany about the many applications of urine,
Ein ganz besonderer Saft-Urin ('A Very Special Juice
-Urine'), which in the meantime has become an
absolute bestseller. In her book, Carmen Thomas discusses the vari
ous ways urine was formerly used, specifically in
Germany, and is still used today. Just one example
is the use of urine as a remedy for illnesses. The
book contains dozens of personal stories from peo
ple in Germany who have somehow or other either
benefited from the use of urine or have been cured
of their illness or ailments. But that is not all. The
other possible uses of urine are also addressed. For
example, urine was often used in the manufactu
ring and care of textiles and as an aid in the paint
ing of fabrics. Urine was also used as a detergent in
ancient Rome, and much later in Germany, urine was collected for the village or city laundries by the
so-called 'Seck-Hannes', which literally translated
means 'Piss-Hans'. Urine was also used in a variety
of other branches: for hardening iron, baking bread,
making cheese and treating leather, to mention a
few. 1ST ALL INDIA CONFERENCE
ON lJRINE THERAPY
The invitation for the Shivambu Kalpa (Urine Therapy)
conference in Goa, India, in 1993. At one point I heard that a conference on urine
therapy would be held in India. : The First All India
Conference on Urine Therapy. I immediately felt that
I simply had to be there. In February 1993, I arrived
in India and travelled on to Goa, where the confer
ence would take place. The location turned out to
be a beautiful temple complex in the middle of an
exotic landscape. Some two hundred people from
India were present, including doctors, urine thera
pists who had been working with urine for more
than twenty years, people who were being or had
been treated, and those who simply wanted to
know more. At the conference a great deal of attention was
given to the experiences people had gained in treat
ing themselves or others. At the same time, how
ever, it seemed there was not enough documented
material on all these experiences, and that this
would be necessary in the future for more scienti
fic research. A number of people questioned the re
liability of the literature on urine therapy. After all,
the literature is full of'miraculous recoveries', but
cases in which urine therapy does not work seem
to be omitted. It is important to develop a more scientifically
grounded approach. Even though I am personally
convinced of the positive effects of urine therapy
and have seen very impressive results, I consider it
important to present an honest and complete sum
mary of what is presently known to those who have
not yet experienced it-certainly those in our mod
ern, scientific society who first need 'hard evidence'
before they are willing to risk trying something new. At any rate, the conference in Goa set things in
An Introduction to Urine Therapy 7 motion, and plans were made to organise an inter
national event. And it really seems that all around
the world interest in this simple and effective
therapy is rapidly growing. In the meantime, I will continue working enth
usiastically to promote and make this exceptional
therapy known. To be honest, I also see it as a gift
from God (or whatever you choose to call it) that I
am able to work with urine therapy. 1.2 A Brief Introduction to the
Principles of Urine Therapy
Before going on to the chapters which discuss the
history and application of urine therapy, I shall
briefly discuss the composition of urine, what urine
therapy is and how it works. So, what does urine consist of? 95% of urine is wa
ter, 2lh% consists of urea and the remaining 2lh%
is a mixture of minerals, salt, hormones and en
zymes. Only urea, the substance after which urine
is named, can be poisonous when present in very
large amounts in the blood. However, this is irrel
evant in the practice of drinking urine, as urine is
not immediately put back in the bloodstream. In
the small amounts urea gets back into the body, it
is purifying, clears up excess mucus and has a
number of specific, very useful effects which will
be discussed later in this book. Furthermore, urine
is entirely sterile after secretion and has an anti
septic effect. 8 Getting the Taste We are talking here about urine from the point
of view of somebody who follows a reasonably
healthy diet, and who does not use drugs or
allopathic medicines. Urine therapy is a method
based upon the principle of 'natural cycles'. As long
as we do not interfere chemically with the body's
natural cycle, the body produces urine which is per-'
fectly suitable for re-cycling. If you ingest a great
deal of chemical substances -and these days all
kinds of processed food contain chemicals- part Qf
this will end up in the urine, in which case the com
position of the urine changes. Normally, however,
urine is a healthy substance which contains healthy,
harmless components. Urine therapy is a natural medicine. Natural medi
cines work with natural and harmless therapies, and
focus on the whole person. Natural medicines also
focus on stimulating the self"regulating power of
the body and encouraging personal responsibility
for health and well-being. The ancient Greek doc
tor Hippocrates (circa 500 B.C. ), one of the found
ers of Western medicine, often referred to this
self-regulating power of the human organism. In the medical world, this power was later referred
to as vix medicatrix naturae ('the healing power of
nature'). In the past few decades, the medical world has
regularly been confronted with illnesses and
symptoms which are related to a failing defense or
immune system. The self-healing power and the
immune system are related. Nowadays many doc
tors acknowledge the importance of research on the
immune system and the mechanisms of self-heal-ing. This has led to new approaches within medi
cal science and urine therapy could provide very
interesting areas of research as far as this field is
concerned. Urine therapy is indeed natural and harmless and
can thus be regarded as belonging to the realms of
r:tatural medicine. Those who practice this therapy
Everything consists of natural cycles. Whatever leaves our
bodies, is taken in again in one way or the other. Urine
therapy is nothing but a health-promoting variety of this sys
tem of natural cycles. believe that it has an intensely positive effect on the
self-healing power of the human body. As said before, urine therapy is based upon the
existence of a natural cycle. Some cycles take place
more quickly than others, but the cycle in general
is the foundation of all life. If we let nature run her
course, there will be no waste, and a disturbed equi
librium will always come back into balance. Just as
we are capable of disturbing a natural equilibrium,
we can also do our part in helping nature recover
her balance. In order to support such a recovering
of balance, we are equipped with a wonderful, natu
ral 'house pharmacy': our own urine provides us
with a swift and safe method for using the powers
of the natural cycle. What exactly are the effects of urine therapy? We
come back to and comprehensively deal with this
question in Chapter 5, including the most recent
scientific information on urine therapy. Briefly, if
urine is ingested and rubbed into the skin, it puri
fies blood and tissues, provides useful nutrients and
sends the body a signal about what is in or out of
balance. The effects of intensive application of urine
therapy in which a person fasts exclusively on urine
and water are described by Armstrong in his book
The Water of Life as follows:
//Urine, on being taken into the body, is ft"lteredi it
becomes purer and purer even in the course of one
day's living upon it, plus tap-water, if required. First, it cleanses


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Foreword by Radhi Devlukia-Shetty
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Foundations of Ayurveda
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Conscious Conception
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Cultivating the Seed
4
Preparing for Birth
5
The Birth of Your Babe
6The Sacred W indow
7
Newborn Mama
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Nutrition and Recipes
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Beneficial Herbs and Essential Oils
Epilogue
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ver the past several years, Dhyana has been in my life in many
different ways: as a teacher, as an adviser, and as a friend. Now it
gives me much joy to know Dhyana as an author and recommend her book
Ayurveda Mama  for all mothers- and fathers-to-be. Her book is a must-read
Ayurvedic guide for conscious living and parenthood, full of helpful
insights into how your consciousness plays a role in your child’ s life even
before conception. As a certified Ayurvedic health counselor, an advanced yoga teacher,
and a practicing yogi, Dhyana infuses her life with conscious and
intentional living. Inspired by her parents, she has practiced the teachings of
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translating the ancient wisdom and vital knowledge of Ayurveda, making it
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seen firsthand how she weaves Ayurvedic principles into all aspects of her
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remember my mom telling me how much she wanted my sister and me. She and my dad prayed for us, and she told me that on the day we were
each conceived, they meditated on the names of the Divine for over ten
hours. I have always appreciated the deep intention that my parents brought
to the experience of inviting my sister and me into my mama’ s womb. More
than merely a physical act, the act of making love became spiritual; for
them, it became a deep service, an of fering to the world. The practices of Bhakti yoga and Ayurveda include an understanding
that the consciousness of the parents at the moment of conception invites in
a very specific soul. Modern science suggests that the sperm and the egg
gather information from both donors moments to hours before conception. Through this interaction, the emotions that both parents are experiencing
imprint upon the genes of the fetus as their first embodied experience. Understanding this, in most ancient cultures there would be a time of
preparation before conception, during which both parents would create a
very clear intention for what they wanted to contribute to their community
or tribe. They would prepare their bodies. They would look at emotions that
limited them: lust, confusion, greed, anger, envy, and the like, and do the
work necessary to heal. They would meditate on the qualities that they
wanted this soul to embody and try to see how they, themselves, could
embody them more. When couples consummated their love, they would do
so with the intention to propagate a species for evolution. In the Vedic
times, this was seen as pivotal to the maintenance of the earth and of the
future; to bring children into the world who, at the core of their being, felt
at-home, welcomed, and wanted. Ayurveda teaches that a person’ s core belief systems—beliefs that lay
the foundation for how the rest of their lives will be lived—begin to
develop at the moment of conception. By the time mama finds out she is
pregnant, the heart of the fetus is fully exposed. Whether she is excited,
scared, sad, or angry imprints deeply on the little one’ s sense of “self.”Humans are relational beings, and at this very early stage of life, babies
develop in response to those they are connected with. Every thought and
emotion that mama feels while pregnant is felt by her little one. The
mother ’s blood flow is in constant communication with her babe, and as the
mother is experiencing her environmental conditions, the hormones that she
is releasing begin to shape and mold even the physical structure of her baby. Babies that develop in the womb under severely stressful conditions—for
instance in an environment of acute fear, scarcity, or aggression—are born
with a smaller frontal lobe, lar ger adrenal glands, and a weakened immune
system. The thoughts, behaviors, and emotions that a mother experiences
are epigenetically passed along to a child in utero—as they


 as fibroid tumors, cysts, polyps, or reproductive
cancers. In this case, guduchi is a recommended replacement for shatavari,
as an herb that will strengthen the uterus during pregnancy without
affecting estrogen levels. Blue Lotus for New Mothers
Blue lotus ( Nymphaea caerulea ) has been known since
ancient Egyptian times as the “flower of intuition. ” It was
traditionally used for its meditative qualities that aid in Third
Eye intuition and lucid dreaming. Although there is no
reference to blue lotus that I am aware of in Ayurveda, it has
become one of my main herbal allies as a new mother. Blue lotus has the power to cool the nervous system and
relax the entire body. As a sedative and a nervine, it
provides a calming, euphoric feeling. It can be a wonderful
aid for sleep and stress (hello, motherhood. ). Some people
may experience it as deeply relaxing, while others
experience it as a mild stimulant. Blue lotus has the intelligence to provide what is needed
for a new mother. How we experience the ef fects of plants
often reflects the profile of the plant itself. In this case, the
plant that is used to enhance intuition in the recipient itself in
turn uses intuition to serve the one who takes it. Blue lotus is believed to bring insight, release of fear, and
connection with the cosmos. I love this herb for new mothers
because it provides a feeling of calm, centered, meditative
relaxation that is greatly needed throughout motherhood. It
can help to promote restful sleep, calm anxiety, strengthen
breast tissue, uncover the root of your depression, release
the worries in your mind, relieve pain and muscle spasms
(such as afterpains and cramping), connect to your
“motherly instincts,” and much more. Blue lotus is traditionally an aphrodisiac, used to support
fertility and conception. But its use is dangerous during
pregnancy; only use it prior to conception, during
postpartum, and throughout motherhood. See the pages that follow for two of my blue lotus milk
tea recipes, along with recipes for two ready-to-use herbal
tea blends to keep on the shelf. —Krsna Jivani, clinical herbalist
Mama’ s Mood T ea 1
You can drink this tea as your daily pick-me-up—it boosts dopamine
levels in the brain and gives sustainable energy. Omit the jasmine
green tea in the early postpartum period or when you are choosing
not to consume caf feine. I find jasmine green tea to have a gentle,
uplifting, energizing ef fect that keeps me in balance while still
providing the daily energy I need. Ingredients
1 teaspoon jasmine green tea
1 teaspoon rose petals
1 teaspoon mucuna powder
1 teaspoon brahmi
1 teaspoon blue lotus (omit during pregnancy)
1–3 tablespoons (to taste) honey
milk or nut milk
Moon Milk T ea
During the postpartum window, drink this tea before bed for a deep,
relaxing sleep. Note:  if you are co-sleeping with your babe, be
cautious of overdoing sleep aids. If you sleep too deeply, sharing abed can be dangerous for your newborn. Use your motherly intuition
to do what is best for you and your babe. Ingredients
1 teaspoon blue lotus (omit this ingredient during pregnancy)
1 teaspoon rose
1 teaspoon chamomile
1 teaspoon passionflower (use sparingly during pregnancy)
1–3 tablespoons (to taste) honey milk or nut milk to taste
Instructions for Both T eas
Bring a pot of water to almost boiling on the stove. Leaving out the rose, honey, and milk, steep all the other ingredients
in the near-boiling water for five to seven minutes. Remove the pot from the stove, add the rose petals, and steep for
three minutes. Strain out the tea leaves and petals. Once the tea is cooled enough to sip, add honey (as honey should
not be heated). Enjoy warm, adding milk to taste if you wish (if you are using cow’ s
milk, boil the milk with a pinch of cardamom before adding it). The following recipes suggest blends you can make to have ready-to-use
herbal elixirs on the shelf. Mama’ s Mood T ea 2
This variation on Mama’ s Mood Tea leaves out the blue lotus but
adds ginger, shatavari, and maca. Like the blue lotus version, itboosts dopamine levels in the brain and gives sustainable energy—it
can be taken as an aphrodisiac during preconception, to boost mood
during pregnancy, and to regulate mama’ s hormones postpartum. Ingredients (makes 7–8 servings)
1 tablespoon rose petals or powder
1 tablespoon mucuna powder
1 teaspoon dried jasmine flowers
1 tablespoon dried ginger or powder
1 tablespoon shatavari
1 tablespoon maca
1 tablespoon vanilla powder
Mood Milk T ea 2
This variation on Moon Milk Tea leaves out the blue lotus but adds
ginger and ashwaganda. It can be taken during pregnancy and
postpartum to ease anxiety and aid with sleep. Ingredients (makes 3–6 servings)
1 tablespoon rose petals or powder
1 tablespoon chamomile
1 tablespoon ginger powder
1 tablespoon passionflower (use sparingly during pregnancy)
1 tablespoon ashwagandha
Instructions (for Both T eas)
Mix the herbs and store these tea blends in a jar in your pantry. Use
1 tablespoon of the desired tea steeped in boiled water or simmeredin hot milk as desired. After steeping or simmering in your water or
milk, let the elixir cool down enough to sip and then add 1
tablespoon of honey, or to taste. (Do not add honey to boiling hot
water or milk, as honey becomes toxic when heated. ) Enjoy your
elixir or milk tonic while it’ s warm. These tea blends are made with potent herbs, so take them only one
to three times per week rather than daily. You can also alter the
recipes by omitting various herbs and picking and choosing others to
add, switching it up every time you make it. ESSENTIAL OILS FOR SUPPORT
AND HEALING
Mama earth has given us everything that we need to be healthy and to heal. Our world and our food are laden with chemicals. Over one hundred
thousand children in the United States get sick every year from the
chemicals in house cleaners alone. These are toxins that we consciously
invite into our homes. The smell after cleaning your bathroom that makes it
feel “clean”. Those are the chemical constituents of toxic cleaners entering
into your nose, and thus into your bloodstream, transferring into every
organ of your body within minutes. Essential oils work the same way,
though instead of having negative side ef fects, each and every oil carries
side benefits that will help your body heal. Essential oils can be used to make your own nontoxic house cleaners. They can be used to make your own natural bath salts, as well as hair and
skincare products, and they can treat chronic and acute health conditions. They are scientifically proven to heal tissues and or gans, they have
powerful ef fects on your mind and your mood, and they may even mend
broken hearts. Essential oils always seemed a little “woo-woo” to me. As far as I knew,
they were something you used for relaxation or to make your home smellpleasant. Little did I know, essential oils are mama earth’ s most potent form
of medicine. One drop of peppermint oil is equivalent to the medicinal
compounds found in 28 cups of peppermint tea. They are the volatile
compounds (meaning they evaporate quickly—and are absorbed into the
skin just as quickly) found in the bark, resin, seeds, stems, flowers, roots,
and leaves of plants, as well as in the skin of citrus fruits. Each plant, and thus each oil, has distinctive qualities and healing
properties. They are a secondary metabolite of the plant, meaning they are
not needed for the plant’ s survival but are there to fend of f predators and
other threatening influences. They support the entire plant’ s system,
enabling it to thrive. When humans use them, they support us in the same
way. QUALITY IS EVERYTHING
Because essential oil regulation is limited and standards are minimal, many
botanical oil companies can advertise that their oils are 100 percent pure
but, in fact, they may be full of chemical additives and fillers used in order
to save money and time. Unfortunately, when proper testing measures are
not taken, it is impossible to ensure that an essential oil is truly “pure. ” For
effective healing to take place, it is important to only use unprocessed oils
that are sourced directly from mama nature with nothing added— especially
when using these oils as a pregnant mama or for your babe. doTERRA  is a company that I have grown to love and feel completely
comfortable advocating for. They have trusted alliances with honest
growers and distillers. They have searched the world for the plants with the
most therapeutic compounds. They have strict standards that verify the
purity of each batch, along with third-party testing to guarantee
transparency. To ensure that each bottle of essential oil is pure and free from
contaminants or synthetic fillers, doTERRA  created the Certified Pure
Therapeutic Grade protocol. The oils and blends that I


 true Self is invisible and has no characteristics by which it can be
judged. It has no describable qualities, nor can it be the subject of any
adjectives at all. The Self merely is and is beyond verbs, adverbs, and
adjectives. It does not even “do” anything. Exceptional subjective experiences of truth, which are the province of the
mystic, affect all mankind by sending forth spiritual energy into the
collective consciousness. Realization is not a “gain” or an accomplishment, nor is it something that
is “given” as a reward for being good—these are all notions from
childhood. God is immutable and cannot be manipulated into granting
favors, or seduced by bargaining or adulation. Worship benefits the
worshipper by reinforcing commitment and inspiration. God is still, silent,
and unmoving. To know  that the Self is context and that, in contrast, the self is content is
already a huge leap forward. The naïve seeker merely keeps reshuffling the
content. The Self is beyond, yet innate in, all form—timeless, without beginning
or end, changeless, permanent, and immortal. Out of it arises awareness,
consciousness, and an infinite condition of “at home-ness. ” It is the ultimate
subjectivity from which everyone’ s sense of “I” arises. The Infinite Reality
does not even know itself as “I” but as the very substrate of the capacity for
such a statement. It is invisible and all-present. The Self is not conditional; it has no qualities and is not dependent or
explicable. The Self has no duration, beginnings or endings, location, form,
or limitations. It is the Radiance of the Self that illuminate s existence,
without which there would be no awareness. The Self is beyond process. All descriptions are inappropriate and inapplicable to the Self. The spontaneity of life is an expression of essences interacting
effortlessly. The miracle of Creation is continuous, and all life shares in the
Divinity of its Source, for nothing comes into existence excep t by Divine
ordinance. Once the sacredness of life is revealed, there follows the
knowingness of what is meant by the phrase, “Gloria in Excelsis Deo. ”
Enlightenment is not a condition to be obtained; it is merely a certainty to
be surrendered to, for the Self is already one’s Reality. It is the Self that is
attracting one to spiritual information. The source of the Self is the reality of Divinity. Although it is the source
of existence, it is not subject to it, nor is such a term applicable. Life itself is not subject to cessation but only to change of form. The
Source and essence of life is God, Who is not subject to demise. One cannot
lose one’s source. Death is the end of one chapter of a series of stories that
finally cease only when the ego-author surrenders to its source. The Self is like one’s inner grandmother who watches over a child so he
does not forget to take his raincoat or mail the rent check. God is not
ominous but loving; fear arises from the imagination. The Presence of the Self is comp lete, permanent, and totally fulfilling—it
has no needs. Everything occurs spontaneously as an expre ssion of its
intrinsic essence. There is nothing and no one to “cause” anything to
happen. In reality, the Love of God, like the sun, shines equally on all. The Presence as Self illuminat es the Allness of Reality. Ever ything is
equal by virtue of the Divinity of its existence as the Infinite Supreme, out
of which all existence and creation arise. There is no selectivity or division;
all is of equal value and importance. The Self knows, by virtue of its essence, all that exists beyond  time and
therefore beyond memory. The Presence of Self constitutes the classic purusha, or Radiance of Self
as Source. Self “knows” by virtue of identity with Divinity itself. It thereby
is its own Aware ness, and by its Presence, it thereby makes itself “known”
as the “Knower. ” Thus, it does not know “about,” but is the completion of
its own essence. The realization and knowingness of God is radically and purely
subjective. There is not even the hypothetical possibility that reason could
arrive at T ruth. T ruth is knowable only by virtue of the identity of being it. The Allness of Divinity is stron gly confirmed by the immense power of
Love as intrinsi c to Creation and Divinity. The Presence of Love is all-
pervasive and experienced as one’s intrinsic Self. It melts linearity into
Oneness, which  is simultaneously exquisitely gentle and—para doxically—
infinitely powerful. Love is the Ultimate Law of the Universe. Through inner observation, there is the realization of something that
remains constan t and the same, no matter what goes on in the external
world or with body, emotions, or mind. With this awareness comes a state
of total freedom. The inner Self has been discovered. The silent state of
Awareness that underlies all movement, activity, sound, feeling, and thought
is discovered to be a timeless dimension of peace. Divinity is the Source of all Existence, including one’ s own. Truth is autonomously self-evident by virtue of its existence as Allness. Life, like existen ce, has no oppo sites—just as truth has no opposite, self-
existent pseudo-reality such as falsehood. Truth is either present or not. Divinity, God, Allness, Oneness, and the Absolute are All That Is; no
opposite to God can exist. Only the truth is true; nothing else exists. All
fear, then, arises from attachment to form due to the illusion that form is a
necessary requirement for existence. With awareness  of Reality, all learning stops. The mind becom es silent. In peace and stillness, all that exists radiates forth its own meaning and
truth and reveals that the nature of existence is stunningly divine. Everything radia tes forth its Divine essence as Existence itself. That which
Is and that which is Divine are one and the same. Truth is the radical simplicity and obviousness of God. It is unity. The
word “unity” signifies the completeness of the Self-identity of existence. All is complete  by virtue of being itself. No descriptions or nominal
designations are required; they are all distractions. Even to just witness
requires no thought. There is no necessity to mentalize Reality;  it does not
enhance what is but instead detracts from it. Truth is actuality; nontruth is false because it never existed and therefore
was never recorded, which is why it exhibits a “false” (absence of truth)
response to consciousness-resea rch testing. Consciousness only responds to
what “is” or “has been” in Reality. The source of consciousness is the
Absolute Reality, classically called T ruth. The only energy that has more power than the strength of the collective
ego is that of Spiritual T ruth. The power of Truth itself is a quality of Divine Love that, in its infinite
mercy, dissolves positionalities back into the Reality of the Self. There is no separation between Creator and created, no subject or object;
they are one and the same. Such terms as “new” or “old” are only
nonexistent points of view, like “now” or “then. ” We are the constant
witness to Creation at the very moment of Creation itself. What we witness
is the Hand of God as experience. Awareness is the “Eye” or witness, and
Creation is the handiwork of the infinite Self. In the Presence of God, all suffering ceases. One has returned to one’s
Source, which is not different from one’s own Self. It is as though one had
forgotten, or is now awakened from, a dream. All fears are revealed to be
groundless; all worries are foolish imaginings. There is no future to fear,nor past to regret. There is no errant ego/self to admonish or correct. There
is nothing that needs changing or improving. There is nothing about which
to feel ashamed or guilty. There is no “other” from which one can be
separated. No loss is possible. Nothing needs to be done, no effort is
required, and one is free from the endless tug of desire and want. Begin by accepting the very important statement that all truth is
subjective. Do not waste lifetimes looking for an objective truth, because no
such thing exists. Even if it did, it could not be found except by the purely
subjective experience of it. All knowledge and wisdom are subjective. Nothing can be said to exist unless it is subjectively experienced. Even a
supposedly purely objective material world, if it existed, could  be said to
exist only because of one’s subjective sensory experience of it. Even the
most rabid mate rialist is stuck with the fact that in the end, it is only their
own subjective awareness that gives it the authority of believability. Awareness mere ly registers what is being experienced; it has no effect on
it. Awareness is the all-encom passing attractor field of unlimited power
identical with life itself. Falsity is not the opposite of truth but merely its absence. In reality, truth
has no opposite, just as cold is not the opposite of heat, nor is light the
opposite of darkness. The Ultimate is