 are being forced to conduct yourself. This is the guts
of this erroneous zone, and it is akin to the approval-seeking dis-
cussed in Chapter III. If you want some kind of relationship, then it
is not unhealthy. But if you need it, or are forced into it, and sub-
sequently feel resentment, then you are in a self-defeating area. Thus,
it is the obligation that is the problem, rather than the relationship
itself. Obligation breeds guilt and dependency, while choice fosters
love and independence. There is no choice in a psychologically de-
pendent relationship, consequently there will always be indignation
and ill-feelings in any such alliance. Being psychologically independent involves not needing others. I didn’t say wanting others, I said needing. The moment you need,
you become vulnerable, a slave. If the one you need leaves, or
changes his mind, or dies, you are then forced into immobilization,
collapse, or even death. But society teaches us to be psychologically
dependent on a whole raft of folks from parents on, and you still
may be holding open your mouth waiting for the worms in many
significant relationships. As long as you feel that you have to do
anything because it is expected of you in a particular relationship,
and your doing it creates any resentment or your not doing it any
guilt, you can count yourself as having work to do in this erroneous
zone. Eliminating dependency starts with your family, with the way
your parents dealt with you as a child and the way you deal with
your own children today. How many psychologically dependent
sentences do you carry in your head today? How many of them do
you force on your children?190 / Your Erroneous ZonesThe Dependency Trap in Child Rearing and the Family
Walt Disney produced a superb film some years ago entitled Bear
Country. It traced a mother bear and her two babies through the first
few months of the cubs’ lives. Mama-bear taught the cubs how to
hunt, fish and climb trees. She taught them how to protect themselves
when they confronted danger. Then one day, Mama-bear, for her
own instinctive reasons, decided that it was time to leave. She forced
them to scamper up a tree, and without even looking back, she left. Forever! In her own bear mind, she had completed her parental re-
sponsibilities. She didn’t try to manipulate them into visiting her on
alternate Sundays. She did not accuse them of being ungrateful, or
threaten to have a nervous breakdown if they disappointed her. She
simply let them go. Throughout the animal kingdom, parenting
means to teach the offspring the skills necessary to be independent
and then to leave. With us humans, the instinct is still the same, that
is, to be independent, but the neurotic need to own and live one’s
life through one’s children seems to take over, and the goal of raising
a child to be independent is subverted into the idea of raising a child
to hold onto him. What do you want for your children? Would you like them to be
high in self-esteem and self-confidence, neurosis-free, fulfilled and
happy? Of course you would. But how can you help to ensure such
an outcome? Only by being that way yourself. Children learn from
the behavior of their models. If you are full of guilt and unfulfilled
in your life, but telling your children not to be, then you are selling
a tainted product. If you model low self-esteem, then you’ll teach
your children to adopt the same attitudes for themselves. Even more
significantly, if you make your children more important than your-
self, you are not helping them, you are merely teaching them to put
others ahead of themselves, and to take a back seat while remaining
unfulfilled. Such irony. You cannot hand your children self-confid-
ence;DECLARE YOUR INDEPENDENCE  / 191they must acquire it by seeing you living the same way yourself. Only by treating yourself as the most important person and not al-
ways sacrificing yourself for your children will you teach them to
have their own self-confidence and belief in themselves. If you are
a sacrificer, you are modeling sacrificing behavior. And what does
sacrificing behavior mean? Putting others before yourself, not liking
yourself, seeking approval and other erroneous behavior. While
doing for others is sometimes admirable, if it is at the expense of
yourself, you are merely teaching the others the same kind of resent-
ment-breeding behavior. From the very beginning children want to do things for them-
selves. “I can do it myself!” “Watch me, Mommy, I can do it without
any help.” “I’ll feed myself.” On and on the signals come. And while
there is a great deal of dependence in those early years, there is also
the distinctive push toward autonomy almost from the first day. As a four-year-old, little Roxanne will always come to Mommy
and Daddy when she is hurt or in need of an emotional support of
any sort. She pours out her soul when she is eight and ten years of
age. While she wants to be thought of as a big girl (I’ll button my
own coat!”), she also wants the support of a caring parent. (“Look
Mom, I scratched my knee and it’s bleeding.”) Her self-concept is
developing through the views of her parents and other significant
people in her life. Suddenly, Roxanne is fourteen. She comes home
crying because of a fight with her boyfriend, and she runs into her
bedroom, slamming the door behind her. Mamma comes up and
asks her to talk about it in her typically caring way. But now she is
told by Roxanne in no uncertain terms, “I don’t want to talk about
it. Leave me alone.” Instead of Mamma understanding that this little
scene is evidence that she has been an effective parent, and the little
Roxanne who always told all her problems to Mommy is now
working on them herself (emotional independence), Mamma is
distressed. She is not ready to let go, to let Roxanne192 / Your Erroneous Zoneswork it out in her own independent way. She still sees Roxanne as
the same nestling that she was only a short time ago. But if Mamma
persists, and forces the issue, she will be in for a huge dose of resent-
ment from Roxanne. The child’s desire to get out of the nest is strong, but when own-
ership and sacrifice have been the lubrication for the family machine,
the natural act of leaving turns into a crisis. Nest-leaving in a psy-
chologically sound atmosphere involves neither crisis nor turmoil;
it is the natural consequence of effective living. But when guilt and
fear of disappointment color the nest-leaving, they continue
throughout life, sometimes to the point that the marriage relationship
becomes one of parenting, rather than of two individuals sharing
on an equal footing. What then are your goals of parenting, and of working out an ef-
fective present relationship with your own parents? Certainly the
family is an important unit in the developmental process, but it
should not be a permanent unit. It should not be a vehicle of guilt
and neurosis when its various members make moves for emotional
independence. You may have heard parents say, “I have a right to
make my child into anything I choose.” But what is the payoff for
such a domineering attitude? Hate, resentment, anger and frustrating
guilt when the child grows up. As you examine effective parent-
child relationships which have no requirements or obligations at-
tached, you’ll discover parents who treat their children as friends. If a child spills the catsup on the table, it’s not a “Why don’t you
watch what you’re doing; you’re so clumsy” routine. Instead, you’ll
see the same kind of a response that would be given to a friend were
they to spill something. “Can I help you?” No abuse because they
are owned, but a respect for the child’s dignity. You’ll also discover
that effective parents foster independence rather than dependence,
and create no scenes about normal desires to be autonomous.DECLARE YOUR INDEPENDENCE  / 193Differences Between Dependent and Independent
Focused Families
In families that focus on independence, movement toward being
one’s own person is seen as normal, rather than as a challenge to
anyone’s authority. Clinging and needing are not emphasized. Similarly, there are no demands that a child have allegiance forever,
simply because of membership in a family. The result is family
members who want to be together, rather than feel obligated to be
together. There is also a respect for privacy rather than a demand
to share everything. In families like this, the woman has a life of her
own beyond being a mother and wife. She will model effective living
for her children, rather than live her life for and through them. The
parents feel that their own happiness is paramount, because without
it there can be no family harmony. Hence the parents can go off
alone occasionally, and not feel obliged to always be there for their
children. The mother isn’t a slave, because she doesn’t want her own
children (especially the girls) to become one. And she doesn’t want
to be one herself. She doesn’t feel that she must be there all the time
for her infant’s every need. She feels that she can appreciate her
children and vice versa all the more if she is fulfilling herself and
contributing to her family


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Ocean Grown is a company that provides concentrated ocean minerals for farmers and organic gardeners,
allowing them to produce mineral-rich crops and vegetables that support peak human health. In this
interview, Mike Adams talks with Ocean Grown president John Hartman, who discusses mineral
deficiencies in soils used for crops as well as the serious implications for human health. Mike : Hello, everyone. This is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, and today I’m joined by John Hartman,
the president and cofounder of Ocean Grown, a harvester and marketer of ocean minerals for enhanced
health that can be accessed online at OceanGrown.com. Thanks for joining me today, John. Hartman : It’s a pleasure to be here. Mike : You’re joining us from Florida today. Can you please tell us what your product does, what it’s
for, and how it might benefit people? Hartman : What we do is go out to sea on the east coast of Florida, because that’s where the clean water
is. We have a proprietary process, and what we do is extract the minerals out of seawater. Seawater
has all 90 natural minerals in a very particular proportion, and I’m sure that proportion will come up
several times in this chat—and it’s terribly important. That proportion is used by anything that grows,
whether it’s vegetables, flowering plants, trees or grass. Mike : So these are minerals that people can put on their home gardens? Hartman : That’s right. Mike : Are any commercial growers using the product as well? Hartman : Yes, we have quite a few commercial growers, because our intent and our mission at the
company is to reinvigorate the food supply, because it’s terribly lacking in minerals that are so important
for health. We’ve predominantly gone after commercial growers, because we really want to do that in a
quick fashion. However, we do have a loyal following of wheatgrass growers and home gardeners that
also use it. It can be used anywhere. Mike : What happens to people’s produce yield when they put this product on their garden? What kind
of results do they typically see? Hartman : Well, that brings up an interesting point. What we do, as a company, is promise equivalent
yields, although, generally, our yields are higher. The point is, when you sit down with an agronomist
and growers, the last thing they want to talk about—the last thing that crosses their mind—is the
quality of the food. All they talk about is yield and disease resistance. Are we going to be able to
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harvest in 90 or 91 days? These are the kinds of things that interest farmers. It’s what the commercial
marketplace has brought everything to, and people have forgotten why they grow food. Mike : So what’s in the food when it’s raised on Ocean Grown minerals is very different from what’s
in food that is conventionally grown. Is that what you’re saying? So, what can people expect? I mean,
how many more minerals are in a tomato grown in a garden with Ocean Grown minerals? How much
greater mineral density will it have, compared to a conventionally grown tomato? Hartman : Well, typically, if you go to a grocery store and buy a tomato, it looks lovely. It can be blemish
free, bright red and look so nutritious. But typically, those tomatoes—from a hothouse or even out of
the ground—have 12, 14 or 15 elements. Tomatoes are genetically disposed to pick up 56 elements,
and it’s always the same 56 in a certain proportion. That’s what tomatoes pick up. Every vegetable and
fruit is different, but that’s what tomatoes want. When people buy fruits and vegetables, and take them
home and taste them and they taste like cardboard, people say, “What happened?” What happened is
that they were completely depleted. They are like virtual food. Mike : It’s really just a shadow of the original tomato that people should be eating. Hartman : That’s right, and it brings up an interesting point made first by Dr. Murray, who was really
the discoverer of how to use ocean water and minerals to grow food. When you sit down and think
about what commercial agriculture has come to and what modern cultivation techniques have come
to, you’re not really looking at somebody growing food. What you’re really looking at is a strip-mining
operation, because when you grow a crop of corn or wheat or whatever it may be, and you ship that to
market, you ship some quantity of elements in a certain proportion and quality off to market. What
current practice calls for is that you put back three elements, even though you might have shipped 56
or 74 elements off to market. Mike : To be specific, when you say “elements” here, you’re using that in a sense of the table of
elements? Hartman : Yes. I’m using that in the chemical sense, but people use the word interchangeably with
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Commercial fertilizers provide only three elements to crops
Mike : When you say they put three back into the soil, these are the three common components of
every commercial fertilizer on the market, right? Hartman : That’s right: nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. Mike : So, farmers can grow something that looks like food, but they’re only putting three elements or
minerals back into the ground. Hartman : That’s right. Even if they were growing cattle for beef, the same thing would be going on. Cattle are fabulous foragers. They raze the grass and pick up the elements, and they become part of
their body. Then the cows get shipped to market. It’s a strip-mining operation with no easy solutions,
and putting back three elements is not going to do it. The health consequences of mineral depletion of crop soils
Hartman : One of the things that we quote from time to time is that the United Nations has come to
a realization that I give them a lot of credit for: Two billion people out of the six billion inhabitants
of the planet are suffering from micronutrient malnutrition. Personally, I would quarrel with them
slightly, but the fact that they recognize this is impressive. I believe that six billion people—all the
people on the planet—are suffering from micronutrient malnutrition, and many doctors have done
a lot of work with how DNA replicates itself. One of the things they’ve come to understand is that
many millions of replications happen every day, but every replication needs a mineral to catalyze it. On a given day, because minerals are not in our food, there’s something like 250,000 transactions that
can’t happen because there is a missing element—whether it be cobalt, selenium, gold, tin or platinum. They’re missing. Mike : The long-term result of the mass demineralization of the population is that we end up with
chronic disease acceleration, right? Hartman : Absolutely. You know, people think we’re living longer, but that’s not really true. We’re living
longer, but for the last 10 to 15 years of our lives, we’re completely debilitated, hooked to a machine
or some drip bottle, extending life because we have better insurance. But it’s not a better life. It’s not
a longer life. It’s just extension. seawater Minerals and the Coming Agricultural Revolution
Mike : Right. It’s a life with no clarity of mind and no physical stamina. I think the big question from
people, though, is, “Why do I need minerals in my food?” People think they can take a calcium pill and
solve the problem.


	world. When	these	internal	toxins	are	produced	excessively	or	cannot	be
properly	detoxified,	they	build	up	in	the	body	and	cause	disease. In	almost	any
chronically	ill	person,	internally	generated	toxins	play	a	major	role. When	toxins	are	generated	in	the	digestive	system	(intestinal	toxemia),	they
enter	our	bloodstream,	and	if	these	toxins	are	present	in	excess	of	the	liver’s
ability	to	detoxify	them,	they	damage	cells	all	over	the	body. Intestinal	toxemia
has	been	associated	with	AIDS,	allergies,	asthma,	cancer,	cardiac	arrhythmias,
arthritis,	eye	problems,	high	blood	pressure,	mental	problems,	headaches,
various	gastrointestinal	conditions,	senility,	skin	problems	and	other	diseases. In
my	own	disease	process,	the	internal	toxins	I	was	producing	were,	indeed,	a
major	contributor	to	my	own	physical	and	mental	debilitation. Intestinal	toxemia	was	the	“mysterious”	ailment	plaguing	Michael,	who	had
just	completed	his	junior	year	at	Harvard	and	had	gone	off	to	Europe	for	the
summer	with	friends. As	he	was	traveling	around,	he	began	to	feel	ill,	dizzy	and
fatigued. He	went	to	see	a	physician	in	London	who	prescribed	a	drug	that	did
not	help. Michael	saw	other	physicians	in	Germany	and	Switzerland,	but	he
finally	returned	home—too	sick	to	remain	abroad. A	strapping	twenty-one-year-old	college	student	should	be	at	the	peak	of
health. Instead,	Michael	was	suffering	from	debilitating	fatigue,	he	was
lightheaded	and	dizzy,	and	he	had	visual	disturbances,	not	to	mention	various
aches	and	pains. After	many	thousands	of	dollars	worth	of	testing	(including	a
brain	scan	to	check	for	a	brain	tumor),	Michael’s	physicians	were	at	a	loss	to
explain	his	condition	and	referred	him	to	a	psychiatrist. Desperately	concerned
for	her	son’s	future	and	furious	with	a	medical	system	that	was	obviously	not
working,	Michael’s	mother	looked	for	other	options;	at	that	point,	she	called	me. As	with	any	sick	person,	I	knew	exactly	what	was	wrong	with	Michael:	his
cells	were	malfunctioning	because	of	a	combination	of	deficiency	and	toxicity. The	question,	as	always:	How	to	restore	his	cells	to	healthy	function? I	used	the
six	pathways	as	a	guide	and	eventually	discovered	that	digestive	toxins—a
critical	aspect	of	the	toxin	pathway—were	the	source	of	Michael’s	problems. Digestive	toxins	are	produced	in	a	couple	of	ways,	notably	by	an	abnormal
growth	of	bacteria	or	yeast	in	the	intestines	and	by	improperly	digested	food,
which	putrefies	in	the	digestive	system. Intestinal	toxemia	creates	highly
poisonous	toxins	as	well	as	nutritional	deficiency. When	bad	bacteria	and	yeasts
overgrow,	they	displace	the	friendly	bacteria	necessary	for	producing	nutrients
such	as	the	B-complex	vitamins,	vitamin	B
12
and	vitamin	K.	Friendly	bacteria
also	help	to	obtain	the	nutrients	we	need	from	the	food	we	eat. Intestinal	toxemia
causes	deficiency	and	toxicity	in	most	of	us,	to	some	degree,	because	of	damagefrom	antibiotics. Michael	had	acne	as	a	teenager. His	dermatologist	had	prescribed	an	antibiotic
(tetracycline),	and	Michael	had	taken	this	drug	every	day	for	years. Antibiotics
were	developed	to	kill	bacteria. The	problem	is	that	helpful	bacteria	in	your
intestines	(normal	intestinal	flora)	are	needed	for	good	health. Years	of	taking
antibiotics	destroyed	these	helpful	bacteria	in	Michael’s	digestive	system. (Even
one	course	of	antibiotics	can	have	this	effect.) This	situation	allowed	the
overgrowth	of	abnormal	intestinal	flora	and	a	yeast	called
Candida	albicans. A	yeast	infection	can	produce	toxic	chemicals	that	absorb	into	the
bloodstream;	also,	yeast	can	physically	invade	and	damage	the	intestinal	tissue
in	a	way	that	allows	other	inappropriate	materials	(undigested	food	particles,
toxic	wastes	and	yeast	byproducts)	to	pass	directly	into	the	bloodstream. This
condition	floods	the	body	with	dangerous	toxins	and	allergens,	causing	food
allergies	and	disrupting	the	immune	system. Some	of	these	toxins	are	neurotoxic
(causing	damage	to	the	brain	and	the	nervous	system)	and	may	produce
symptoms	such	as	fatigue,	headaches,	apathy,	depression,	anxiety,	mood	swings
and	memory	lapses. Intestinal	yeast	infections	also	impair	the	absorption	of
nutrients,	which	is	a	separate	but	equally	serious	problem. Disrupting	the	normal
ecology	of	the	gut	also	invites	infection	by	parasites,	which	further	disrupt	gut
tissue. In	Michael’s	case,	I	suspected	problems	with	internally	generated	digestive
toxins,	but	to	know	for	certain	one	must	measure. I	suggested	to	Michael	that	he
ask	his	physician	to	be	tested	for	candida. (Convincing	the	physician	to	do	the
candida	test	was	not	easy. Physicians	do	not	generally	look	for	such	infections,
and	his	mother	had	to	put	considerable	pressure	on	the	doctor.) The	test	did
show	that	Michael	had	a	candida	infection,	which	he	was	able	to	get	rid	of
through	natural	methods	such	as	taking	high-quality	probiotics	and	grapefruit
seed	extract	and	by	reducing	dietary	sugar	(which	was	“feeding”	the	yeast
problem). Michael,	who	had	been	completely	disabled	by	his	disease	throughout
the	summer,	was	able	to	go	back	to	Harvard	in	the	fall,	complete	his	senior	year
and	graduate. Problems	such	as	Michael’s	are	common	in	America	because	of	the	excessive
antibiotics	that	our	physicians	prescribe. While	the	use	of	antibiotics	is	prudent
and	necessary	in	very	select	cases,	for	the	most	part	antibiotics	unnecessarily
damage	the	digestive	system	and	contribute	to	intestinal	toxemia. This	toxemia
often	subjects	us	to	far	more	toxicity	than	the	original	“germ”	that	the	antibiotic
was	supposed	to	kill. Unfortunately,	almost	everybody	in	America	has	taken
antibiotics	at	some	point;	these	drugs	are	a	major	cause	of	health	problems,including	fatigue	and	allergies. Intestinal	toxemia	can	be	provoked	in	other
ways,	by	medical	drugs	such	as	non-steroidal	anti-inflammatory	drugs	(NSAIDs,
including	aspirin,	ibuprofen,	naproxen,	ketoprofin,	etc.) and	oral	steroids
(cortisone	pills,	birth	control	pills,	etc.). Maldigestion	of	food	(exacerbated	by	medical	drugs	or	not)	produces	toxins
inside	your	body. A	mostly	cooked	and	processed	food	diet	lacking	critical
enzymes	is	a	common	contributor,	as	is	poor	chewing	of	food. Low-fiber	diets
are	also	problematic. Whatever	the	cause,	undigested	food	can	rot	and	poison
you	while	still	inside	you. Carbohydrates	ferment,	fats	turn	rancid	and	proteins
putrefy. The	most	common	symptoms	are


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. Pun-
gent, sour and salty tastes are Rajasic (stimulant-irritant)
because they activate the senses and make the mind extro-
verted. Bitter and astringent tastes are Tamasic in the long
term because their effect is to deplete the vital fluids. However, we need all six tastes to various degrees. The
right balance of tastes itself is Sattvic. This consists of food
that is pleasant, but not overly sweet, in taste like grains,
fruit and sweet vegetables, along with moderate use of
spices, salt and condiments, and taking only bitter and
astringent articles for necessary detoxification. Sattvic diet
is mild and even in qualities, not going to any extreme of
taste. Pungent taste irritates the nerves by its stimulating
and dispersing property. Sour and salty tastes aggravate
the emotions through heating the blood. Bitter and astrin-
gent tastes can make us ungrounded and dry out the ner-
vous system. However, a number of sweet spices, like gin-
ger, cinnamon and cardamom, are Sattvic and help clear
the mind and harmonize emotions. Some special bitter
herbs, like gotu kola, are Sattvic. Bitter taste helps open Outer Treatment Modalities 193
the mind because it is composed of the same basic ele-
ments of air and ether. Too much of any taste becomes Tamasic or dulling. This is particularly true of sweet taste, which is heavy in
nature. We have all experienced the dulling effect of eat-
ing too many sweets. Complex carbohydrates are better for
the mind than raw sugars. Pure sugars over stimulate the
pancreas. They require the pancreas to work hard to keep
blood sugar levels down when they enter the blood and,
when they leave the blood, make it work hard to keep the
blood sugar level up. This can cause mood swings and
emotional imbalances. Because sweet taste is Sattvic or
love-promoting, we indulge in it in order to compensate
for lack of love in our lives. Excessive eating is Tamasic, while light eating is
Sattvic, though light eating can be Rajasic if food intake is
not adequate to ground the mind. Overweight is a Tama-
sic state, causing dullness and heaviness in the mind, while
underweight is Rajasic, promoting hypersensitivity and
hyperactivity. Rajasic and Tamasic Diets
Rajasic and Tamasic foods disturb or dull the mind and
produce unrest and disease. We should understand them in
order to avoid them. Rajasic food is excessively spicy, salty
and sour: like chilies, garlic, onions, wines, pickles, excess
salt, mayonnaise, sour cream, and vinegar. Food too hot in
temperature is Rajasic. Rajasic food is usually taken with
stimulating (Rajasic) beverages like coffee or alcohol. It
may be eaten in Rajasic circumstances, as when we are hur-
ried, disturbed or agitated. Tamasic food is stale, old, recooked, rancid, artificial,
overly fried, greasy or heavy. It includes all "dead food, Ayurveda and the Mind
meat and fish, particularly pork, animal fats and animal
organ parts. Canned and artificial foods tend to be Tama-
sic. Excess intake of fats, oils, sugars and pastries is Tama-
sic. White sugar and white flour have a long-term Tama-
sic or clogging effect (though short term white sugar is
Rajasic). Food that is too cold is also Tamasic and weakens
the digestive fire. Rajasic foods cause hyperactivity and irritability,
increase toxins in the blood, and promote hypertension. They disturb the senses and cause the emotions to fluctu-
ate. Tamasic foods cause hypoactivity, lethargy, apathy,
excess sleep, accumulate phlegm and waste materials. They dull the senses and keep the emotions heavy and
resistant. Sattvic Diet with Diets for the Three Humors
Sattvic diet can be modified for best effect according to
the three biological humors of Vata, Pitta and Kapha. One
should follow the diet for one's constitutional type,
emphasizing those articles which are Sattvic and avoiding
those which are Rajasic or Tamasic. 57 By combining a diet
for increasing Sattva along with one for reducing one's bio-
logical humor, diet becomes a powerful tool for improving
health. For specific psychological problems, more special-
ized diets may be prescribed. For specific information on
Sattvic food types, note the appendix. Herbs
Herbs are Mother Nature's primary medicine and carry
her healing energies to keep our system in balance. Ayurveda is primarily an herbal medicine. Ayurvedic
books explain herbal qualities and energetics in detail. 5"
Here we will focus on how herbs can be used in a simple Outer Treatment Modalities
way relative to the mind. Herbs affect the mind more
directly than food, though they are milder and safer in
action than chemical drugs. They can be very important
tools for healing the mind. While all herbs have some
effect on the mind, certain herbs are nervines and possess a
special action on the brain and nervous system. Herbs work over a period of time, though shorter than
that of food. Up to one month may be necessary for the
effect of mild herbs to manifest, particularly those used for
their nutritive effect. The exception is strong stimulant
herbs (like cayenne or ma huang) which have an immedi-
ate effect. Herbs in Ayurvedic Psychology
Ayurveda's integral psychology stresses first of all
appropriate diet. On top of this, special herbs are helpful
if not indispensable. Diet has a general role and provides
the foundation on which herbs can work. Without the
proper diet, even the best herbs will be limited in what
they can do. Herbs are used for fine tuning diet and for
shorter, but stronger therapeutic actions. 9 To understand
the Ayurvedic view, it is necessary to understand the
effects of the six tastes on the mind. 6"
The Six Tastes and the Mind
Bitter Taste
Bitter taste is composed of air and ether elements,
which are the same elements as predominate in the mind. Bitter herbs open the mind, make consciousness more sen-
sitive, and increase its functional capacity. They have a
cooling, calming, detaching and expanding effect on the
mind. Ayurveda and the Mind
Those suffering from mental dullness, heaviness, heat
and toxicity should use more of the bitter taste. However,
bitter taste should not be used by those suffering from
hyperactivity, nervous exhaustion, debility or unground-
edness. It is more for short term usage or in small dosages. Typical Bitter Nervines include betony, chamomile, gotu
kola, hops, manduka pami, passion flower, and skullcap. Pungent Taste
Pungent or spicy taste is composed of fire and air ele-
ments and activates these in the mind. As the most fiery of
the tastes, pungent is best for increasing Tejas and intelli-
gence. Pungent herbs stimulate the mind and promote cir-
culation in the brain. They help develop clarity, perception
and reasoning ability. Pungent herbs are good for those suffering from men-
tal dullness, depression, congestion, and lack of motiva-
tion. They should generally be avoided by those suffering
from anger, insomnia, restlessness, or hyperactivity. They
often work better in combination with sweet tonics, which
ground and stabilize their effects. Most pungent herbs serve as nervine stimulants. Spicy
herbs open the mind and senses, clear the head and sinus-
es, relieve headache, muscle spasms and nerve pain. Some
are more specifically nervine than others, particularly
those that help clear the sinuses. Typical herbs of this type
include basil, bayberry, calamus, camphor, cardamom,
eucalyptus, hyssop, peppermint, pippali, rosemary, saffron,
sage, spearmint, thyme, and wintergreen. Though most pungent (spicy) herbs are stimulating, a
few are calming or sedative in nature. These are often
strong and earthy in taste. They are particularly good for
Vata. Such herbs are asafetida, garlic, jatamansi, nutmeg,
valerian, and lady's slipper. Outer Treatment Modalities 197
Classified within pungent taste are certain strong
nervine stimulants owing to the special alkaloids they con-
tain. These herbs help us stay awake and focused, but can
also irritate the nerves. They are useful in a limited way in
conditions of depression or dullness, but can aggravate
insomnia, restlessness and anxiety, or increase nervous
debility. Herbs in this category are coffee, damiana,
ephedra, ma huang, tea, and yohimbe. Sweet Taste
Sweet taste is composed of earth and water elements. It
is used for grounding, calming and nutritive purposes for
the mind and nerves, and can have rejuvenative effects. Such herbs are usually not strongly sweet in taste


 to present to all
doubt in your life. Affirm your faith not your doubt. Faith is the complete reliance on the
power and goodness of spirit and that you are always connected to this
goodness. When you af firm that things might not work out, that your
troubles continue to mount, that your problems are insoluble, that God has
not been listening, or that you are powerless in the face of so manystruggles, you are af firming doubt rather than faith. The ability to know
faith and af firm it allows it to manifest in your life. When Jesus spoke (John 14:27) he said, “My peace I give you.” This is an
affirmation of faith. He certainly wasn’ t suggesting that peace is very
difficult to have and you must struggle for it. Jesus brought peace to
everyone by af firming it. Likewise, in his healing work, he didn’ t imply that
we haven’ t been having a great deal of success lately with leprosy, but if
you listen to me you have a thirty percent chance of surviving over the next
five years. Instead, he declared, “Y ou are well,” af firming faith at the
highest spiritual level, and healing took place. You too must learn to af firm your faith in the face of doubt with thoughts
that things will work out, things will improve. Think, write, and say
affirmations like these. I intend to create prosperity, I’ll do what is
necessary to eradicate this problem, I know I am not alone and I have faith
that all is for good, I give no ener gy to “bad” or problems because I know
all is in divine order, I will consult with God and know that I will be guided
to do what is proper. These are all af firmations of faith, which, when
practiced, will give you an eventual spiritual solution to any problem. Refuse to dwell on thoughts about the pr oblems in your life. Make an ef fort
to refuse to keep any problem in your thoughts for more than a few
moments. Once you have become aware that you are languishing in a
problem, consider the various alternatives, and then silently go to God and
literally turn it over to this higher spiritual ener gy. By surrendering, you create an ener gy field of receptivity for the solution to
appear. When you continue to go back to the problem with your thoughts,
consider it, and then let go. It will be in just such a moment that the answer
will be abundantly clear. You will receive your solution along with the
knowledge of not only how to work it out, but the awareness that you have
the capacity to do so. Y ou may wonder why you hadn’ t seen it before, when
it is now so clear. That new clarity is the result of not cluttering your mind with thoughts of
your problem. Clarity is also the consequence of being willing to say toyourself, “I do not know what to do in this instance, but I am willing to let
go and turn this entire thing over in the knowledge that its solution rests in
the hands of the one, all-knowing power.”
As you read this, you may be thinking that this is easier to say than to do
because you believe you cannot turn of f your thoughts and stop dwelling on
something that is truly bothering you. I suggest that it is this kind of
thinking that you have very likely practiced for a lifetime that keeps you
rooted in a problem-plagued life. In fact, you can develop a new self-talk
regimen, which involves turning problems in your mind over to God. One
reason you may find it dif ficult is because you believe that you and your
little ego are all that is available for problem resolution, and that turning a
problem over to God is a cop-out. But remember, “As you think, so shall
you be,” and a mind that is focused exclusively on problems will act on
those problems, and continue to manifest more of them. By refusing to
dwell on a problem and turning it over to God, you are allowing the divine
consciousness of love and peace to flow into you. This spiritual awareness
brings the solution to the problems you are mulling over and over in your
mind. As you now know, the problems are illusions to begin with. When you
make up your mind that there is no use trying to solve any problem by
yourself, that you just aren’ t big enough, don’ t know enough, and can’ t
even comprehend the enormous forces at work in the universe over which
you do not have control, then you can cooperate with the universal source
to which you are always connected. Use the power of prayer to bring faith to a world of doubt for others who
may be suffering. What follows is a story I received in the mail concerning
one group of people’ s efforts to use collective prayer for the healing of a
woman diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. It is reproduced here
precisely as I received it. I have only changed names to protect the privacy
of those involved. I was attending my weekly boy scout meeting with my son and while
the parents were in the background visiting, Sarah shared with us that
she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and that the doctors gave herless than a year to live. She was already at stage four which is very
bad. They suggested chemo only to give her more months to live. This
was March 1999. She started to cry and I tried to comfort her. I never
knew Sarah other than seeing her at the meetings. W e bonded that
evening and I thought to myself that I had to do something. After meditating many times, I decided that a “Healing of the
Hands” was a perfect gift to give. I had only heard of this but never
experienced it and was not sure where to start. I contacted her husband
and he gave me a list of her family and relatives along with a list of
friends’ names. I or ganized a meeting with some close friends, family,
and three pastors at our church came forward to help. After several
meetings, we all agreed to a date, location, time, sent out mailings, etc. To make a long story short, we filled the church hall with many of her
friends, family, relatives, etc. and everyone pitched in with
refreshments, drinks, prayer, music, fellowship, etc. The evening went
perfectly. The power of prayer was obvious! After that evening, I
went home feeling very good about what we had done but I was not
hopeful. Her cancer was the worst. I visited with some of the doctors
that were treating her (they are friends of our family) and they told me
in so many words that most people die from this terrible type of cancer
and that they were doing their very best to help her be comfortable
during her treatments and time left. I did not talk to her much since
then. I received a holiday card from her and it sounded like she was
telling everyone good-bye. In January 2000, her chemo treatments
were finished and there was nothing else they could do. They did an
exploratory sur gery to determine the condition of her ovaries and to
find out how far the cancer had spread or if they were able to stop it
from growing. T o their amazement, all of the cancer was gone!! There
were no signs of cancer anywhere... this is a miracle! I am still in
shock. Is prayer powerful? What do you think?”
You know what I think. Prayer is ener gy. Spiritual ener gy. With God, all
things ar e possible. Just what does that leave out? As much as possible, keep your faith a private matter between you and God. The inclination to broadcast your views and convert others to your way of
thinking invites the ego into an area where only spirit is successful. Themoment that you attempt to persuade others of the rightness of your way of
thinking, you stop the process of faith and manifestation. Why? Because
you are now in a position of needing to explain and defend yourself. Y ou
have a need to be right and make others wrong. Y ou lower your ener gy
vibration to the frequencies of conflict, anger, resentment, fear and the like,
all of which crop up when you invite ego into your faith. It is “the spirit that
gives life, the flesh counts for nothing.” Stay in spirit and keep the flesh out
of it. By communing privately with God and sending love to those who have a
different point of view, you yourself are staying in faith. That ener gy alone
will keep you at peace, and simultaneously allow you to radiate that peace
outward as well. Keep your faith between you and God and you will do
more to remove doubt than is ever accomplished by ar guing and
proselytizing for converts to your way of being. Give God the cr edit. When people congratulate me about my books and
tapes and heap praise on me for my accomplishments I always give a polite
thank you, but in my heart, I know better. God writes all the books, creates
all the tapes, paints all the pictures, designs all the buildings, and builds all
the bridges. All things are done by this universal mind called here, God. I
am merely an instrument of this greater consciousness to which I am always
attached. When I let go of my vanity and mentally refuse to take the credit,
everything seems to flow. I tune into something that I


 New York State Journal of Medicine  in 1980 by Dr. John R.
Herman, Clinical Professor of Urology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in
New York City, points out the general misconceptions regarding urine and its
medical use:
"Autouropathy  (urine  therapy)  did flourish  in many parts of the world  and it
continues to flourish today...there is, unknown to most of us, a wide usage of
uropathy and a great volume of knowledge available showing the multitudinous
advantages of this modality...
Urine is only a derivative of the blood...If the blood should not be considered
‘unclean’, then the urine also should not be so considered. Normally excreted,
urine is a fluid of tremendous variations of composition...
Actually, the listed constituents of human urine can be carefully checked and no
items not found in human diet are found in it. Percentages differ, of course, but
urinary constituents are valuable to human metabolism… "
Look up urea in a medical dictionary. In Mosby's Medical and Nursing Dictionary
urea is defined, not as a useless body waste, but as a systemic diuretic and topical
skin treatment. It's also prescribed to reduce excess fluid pressure on the brain and
eyes. Uric acid, another ingredient of urine, is normally thought of as an undesirable
waste product of the body that causes gout. But even uric acid has recently been
found to have tremendous health-promoting and medical implications. Medical
researchers at the University of California at Berkeley reported in 1982 that they
have discovered that:
Uric acid could be a defense against cancer and aging. It also destroys body-damaging chemicals called free radicals that are present in
food, water and air and are considered to be a cause of cáncer and breakdowns in
immune function. Uric acid could be one of the things that enable human beings to live so much
longer than other mammals. — Omni Magazine, Oct. 1982
26Urine  is  a  critically  important  body  fluid  that  has  fascinated  medical  science
throughout the centuries. Medical scientists study urine with tremendous intensity
because,  unlike  the  public,  they  know  that  it  contains innumerable  vital  body
nutrients and thousands of natural elements that control and regulate every function
of the body
The research book on urine published in 1975, Urinalysis in Clinical Laboratory
Practice, stated that:
"The magnitude of the attention which urine receives is attested to by a  recent
study which dealt with only the low-molecular weight constituents of human urine. This publication revealed that more than 1,000 technical and  scientific papers,
related  only  to  low  molecular  weight  substances  in  urine,  appeared  in  the
medical and scientific literatura in one (1) single year... It is now recognized that the urine contains thousands of compounds, and as
new,  more  sensitive  analytical  tools  evolve,  it  is  quite  certain  that  new
constituents of urine will be recognized. " So,  whether  we  know  it  or  not,  urine  does  have  an  extremely  important  and
undisputed place in medicine – and not just as a diagnostic tool or as an ingredient
of various synthetic drugs. As the research studies presented in Chapter Four illustrate, natural _ urine and
simple urea have been used consistently and extensively by medical researchers
and scientists over the entire course of the twentieth century and have been proven
to be profoundly effective and comprehensive therapeutic medicines that even in
their natural or basic forms can produce outstanding and amazing healing results. Your first reaction once you've read the convincing research demonstrating urine's
often startling medical uses may be a willingness to use it as long as it's altered
enough to make it unrecognizable. Many people might consider a synthetic or
chemically altered form of urine, such as urokinase, the blood clot dissolver, as
preferable to using it as a natural medicine. 27But as we'll discuss throughout the book, there are many reasons for using urine in
its natural form, rather than as a synthetic drug or extract, not the least of which is
the fact that there is no synthetic equivalent for individual urine and never will be,
owing  to  the  tremendous  complexity  and  uniqueness  of  each  person's  urine
constituents. Just as nature produces no two people who are exactly the same, there are also no
two urine samples in the world that contain exactly the same components. Your
own  urine  contains  elements  that  are  specific  to  your  body  alone  which  are
medicinally valuable ingredients tailormade to your own health disorders. How  can  that be? Because  your urine contains  hundreds of elements  that are
manufactured by your body to deal with your personal, specific health conditions. Your  body  is  constantly  producing  a  huge  variety  of  antibodies,  hormones,
enzymes and other natural chemicals to regulate and control your body's functions
and to combat diseases that you may or may not know you have. Modem research and clinical studies have proven that the thousands of critical
body chemicals and nutrients that end up in your individual urine reflect your
individual  body  functions,  and  when  reutilized,  act  as  natural  vaccines,
antibacterial, antiviral, anti-cancer  agents, hormone balancers,  allergy relievers,
etc., (talk about the perfect preventive care treatment!). Many doctors have discovered and shown that it's extremely important to use our
own natural urine in healing because extracts or synthetic drug forms of urine don't
contain all of these individualized elements that address our personal, individual
health needs. Another reason that many doctors have emphasized the use of the natural form of
urine is that it does not produce side effects, whereas synthetic drugs and therapies
all produce side effects, many of which are extremely dangerous. As an example, the urine-extract drug called urokinase, which is used to dissolve
dangerous blood clots, can cause serious abnormal bleeding as a side effect; but
natural urine itself (which contains measurable amounts of urokinase) has been
used medicinally even in extremely large quantities without causing side effects. 28If you're not familiar with just how pervasive and extreme the risk of chemical
drug-taking is, go to the library and look up a copy of The Physician's Desk
Reference. This is the doctor's guide to every prescription and over-the-counter
drug on the market, and every one of them  is accompanied  by a long list of
ominous and frightening potential side effects. On the other hand, in almost 100 years of laboratory and clinical studies on the use
of the use of natural urine and simple urea in medicine, extraordinary results have
been obtained, but NO toxic or dangerous side effects to the user have ever been
observed or reported by either researchers or patients using the therapy. As we've learned, urea, which is the principal solid ingredient of urine, has been
synthesized and medically used with excellent results and with no side effects. But
again, as you'll read in the next chapter, research has shown that whole urine can
cure  many  disorders  that  urea  cannot,  because  urine  contains  thousands  of
therapeutic agents, such as important natural antibodies, enzymes and regulating
hormones that urea alone does not contain. Urine therapy not only has dozens of successful research trials supporting it, but
also thousands of success stories from people all over the world. As many people
today have discovered, conventional medicine held no answers for either their
chronic or acute illnesses and health disorders – but urine therapy did. Learning More About One of the Biggest Secrets in
Medical History
I realize that by now many of you are saying to yourselves, "All this  information
on the medical use of urine sounds fascinating, but can I really use this therapy at
home? How would I get started, and how can I possibly get past my first fears and
reluctance to try it for myself?" GETTING STARTED
29In reality, beginning the therapy is completely simple and painless. You're going to
be starting the internal therapy with extremely small amounts. 1 to 2 drops is all
that is needed as a first internal dose, and as medical research studies presented in
Chapter 4 show, (see Dr. C.E. Lewis and Dr N. Dunne), even a few drops can be
therapeutically very effective. Also, if you prefer, you can make an extremely
diluted form of urine called a homeopathic urine preparation, which gives excellent
results and contains no taste or color. Chapter 6 contains complete and detailed
instructions that will answer all your questions, including howto get started, how to
prepare homeopathic urine, etc., and will make it easy for you to learn how to take
advantage of this incomparable natural medicine in your everyday life. HOW TO USE THE BOOK
There  is  so  much  information  contained  in  this  book,  that  it  may  all  seem
somewhat overwhelming at first; more than 50 research reports by doctors and
medical scientists on the use of urine therapy are reviewed, and all are filled with
extensive case studies, as well as the doctor's comments and observations on their
studies. If you have a specific disorder and feel that


 are ener gy, emit
vibrations. These emotional vibrations impact the body’ s ener gy fields and
reveal ef fects that can be seen, felt, and measured. Motion pictures using
Kirlian photography, such as those done by Dr. Thelma Moss, show rapid
fluctuations of the color and size of the ener gy field with changes of
emotions (Krippner, 1974). The ener gy field has traditionally been called an
“aura” and can be seen by people who have been born with or learned the
ability to see vibrations of that frequency. The aura changes color and size
with emotions. Muscle-testing also demonstrates the ener gy changes that
accompany emotions, as our body’ s muscles instantly respond to positive
and negative stimuli. Thus, our basic emotional states transmit themselves
to the universe. The mind has no dimensions or size and is not limited in space;
therefore, the mind transmits its basic state via vibrational ener gy over an
unlimited distance. This means that we routinely and unwittingly af fect
others by our emotional state and thoughts. Emotional patterns and their
associated thought forms, for instance, can be picked up and received
consciously by psychics at a great distance. This can be demonstrated
experimentally, and the scientific basis for this has been a subject of great
interest in advanced quantum physics. Because emotions emit a vibrational ener gy field, they af fect and
determine the people who are in our lives. Life events become influenced
by our repressed and suppressed emotions on the psychic level. Thus anger
attracts angry thoughts. The basic rule of the psychic universe is that “like
attracts like.” Similarly, “love promotes love,” so that the person who has
let go of a lot of inner negativity is surrounded by loving thoughts, loving
events, loving people, and loving pets. This phenomenon explains many
scriptural quotations and common sayings that have puzzled the intellect,
such as, “The rich get richer and the poor get poorer,” and “Those who
have, get.” As a general rule, therefore, people who are carrying the
consciousness of apathy bring poverty circumstances into their lives, and
those with a prosperity consciousness bring abundance into their lives. Because all living things are connected on vibrational ener gy levels,
our basic emotional state is picked up and reacted to by all life forms
around us. It is well known that animals can instantly read a person’ s basic
emotional state. There are experiments demonstrating that even the growthof bacteria is af fected by human emotions, and that plants register
measurable reactions to our emotional state (Backster, 2003). The Mechanism of Letting Go
Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying
with it, and letting it run its course without wanting to make it dif ferent or
do anything about it. It means simply to let the feeling be there and to focus
on letting out the ener gy behind it. The first step is to allow yourself to have
the feeling without resisting it, venting it, fearing it, condemning it, or
moralizing about it. It means to drop judgment and to see that it is just  a
feeling. The technique is to be with the feeling and surrender all ef forts to
modify it in any way. Let go of wanting to resist the feeling. It is r esistance
that keeps the feeling going. When you give up resisting or trying to modify
the feeling, it will shift to the next feeling and be accompanied by a lighter
sensation. A feeling that is not resisted will disappear as the ener gy behind
it dissipates. As you begin the process, you will notice that you have fear and guilt
over having feelings; there will be resistance to feelings in general. T o let
feelings come up, it is easier to let go of the reaction to having the feelings
in the first place. A fear of fear itself is a prime example of this. Let go of
the fear or guilt that you have about the feeling first, and then get into the
feeling itself. When letting go, ignore all thoughts. Focus on the feeling itself, not on
the thoughts. Thoughts are endless and self-reinforcing, and they only breed
more thoughts. Thoughts are merely rationalizations of the mind to try and
explain the presence of the feeling. The real reason for the feeling is the
accumulated pressure behind the feeling that is forcing it to come up in the
moment. The thoughts or external events are only an excuse made up by the
mind. As we become more familiar with letting go, it will be noticed that all
negative feelings are associated with our basic fear related to survival and
that all feelings are merely survival programs that the mind believes are
necessary. The letting go technique undoes the programs progressively. Through that process, the underlying motive behind the feelings becomes
more and more apparent. T o be surrendered means to have no strong emotion about a thing: “It’ s
okay if it happens, and it’ s okay if it doesn’ t.” When we are free, there is aletting go of attachments. W e can enjoy a thing, but we don’ t need it for our
happiness. There is progressive diminishing of dependence on anything or
anyone outside of ourselves. These principles are in accord with the basic
teaching of the Buddha to avoid attachment to worldly phenomena, as well
as the basic teaching of Jesus Christ to “be in the world but not of it.”
Sometimes we surrender a feeling and we notice that it returns or
continues. This is because there is more of it yet to be surrendered. W e have
stuf fed these feelings all of our lives and there can be a lot of ener gy pushed
down that needs to come up and be acknowledged. When surrender occurs,
there is an immediate lighter, happier feeling, almost like a “high.”
By continuously letting go, it is possible to stay in that state of
freedom. Feelings come and go, and eventually you realize that you are not
your feelings, but that the real “you” is merely witnessing them. Y ou stop
identifying with them. The “you” that is observing and is aware of what is
happening always stays the same. As you become more and more aware of
the changeless witness within, you begin to identify with that level of
consciousness. Y ou become progressively primarily the witness rather than
the experiencer of phenomena. Y ou get closer and closer to the real Self and
begin to see that you had been duped by feelings all along. Y ou thought that
you were the victim of your feelings. Now you see that they are not the
truth about yourself; they are merely created by the ego, that collector of
programs which the mind has mistakenly believed are necessary for
survival. The results of letting go are deceptively quick and subtle, but the
ef fects are very powerful. Often we have let go but think that we haven’ t. It
will be our friends who make us aware of the change. One reason for this
phenomenon is that, when something is fully surrendered, it disappears
from consciousness. Now, because we never think of it, we don’ t realize
that it has gone. This is a common phenomenon among people who are
growing in consciousness. W e are not aware of all the coal that we have
shoveled; we are always looking at the shovelful we are handling right now. W e don’ t realize how much the pile has gone down. Often our friends and
family are the first ones to notice. T o keep track of progress, many people keep a chart of their gains. This
helps to overcome the resistance that usually takes the form, “This isn’ t
working.” It is common for people who have made enormous gains toclaim, “It just isn’ t working.” W e have to remind ourselves sometimes what
we were like before we started this process. Resistance to Letting Go
Letting go of negative feelings is the undoing of the ego, which will be
resistant at every turn. This may result in skepticism about the technique,
“for getting” to surrender, a sudden upsur ge of escapism, or venting feelings
by expressing and acting out. The solution is simply to keep on letting go of
the feelings you have about the whole process. Let the resistance be there
but don’ t resist the resistance. Y ou are free. Y ou don’ t have  to let go. Nobody is forcing you. Look at
the fear behind the resistance. What are you afraid of regarding this
process? Are you willing to let go of that? Keep letting go of every fear as it
arises, and the resistance will resolve. Let’ s not for get that we are letting go of all the programs that have
made us a slave and a victim for a long time. These programs have blinded
us to the truth of our real identity. The ego is losing ground and will try
tricks and bluf fs. Once we start letting go, its days are numbered and its
power is diminishing. One of its tricks is to go unconscious about the
technique itself, for instance, to decide suddenly that the mechanism of
surrender isn’ t working, things are still the same, it is confusing, and too
hard to remember and do. This is a sign of real progress! It means that the
ego knows we have a knife with which to cut ourselves free and it is losing
ground. The ego is not our friend. Like “master control” in T r on  (1982), it
wants


 book about
his own experiences and knowledge. This is the
previously mentioned and praised book The Water
of Life. This book was and continues to be a great
20 The Water of Life source of inspiration for everyone who works with
urine therapy, both in the West and in the East. As mentioned above, Armstrong realised all too
well that his message was not in keeping with the
prevailing scientific dogma. Unfortunately, his
worthwhile results did not stimulate othei: doctors
in England to delve into this subject. Nonetheless, in other countries several attempts
have been made by doctors to bring urine treat
ments to a scientific level. They worked with urine
injections which were first performed with the in
vention of the hypodermic needle and syringe. This
method was applied in Europe as well·as in the! United States, which is apparent from The Physi
ological Memoirs of Surgeon-General Hammond, US. Army (1863) in which reference is made to this
method. These days few doctors give urine injec-:
tions; only Heilpraktiker (natural doctors) in Ger-·
11
many use this method regularly. They specifically
consider urine injections to be a worthwhile method:
of treating illnesses related to allergies. This appli
cation of urine therapy was recently highlighted on
a German commercial television broadcasting sta
tion in which several people with allergies were
shown injecting themselves with urine. The medical interest in urine and its component
increased around the beginning of this century
particularly in Germany. Experiments were con
ducted on injecting urine, and the results were posi
tive. The German physician Dr. Herz was an enthusi
astic proponent of this method and, in 1930, h
wrote a book reporting his experiences (Di
Eigenharnbehandlung, 'Auto-Urine Treatment'). were fed almonds and apricot pips, they produced
a usable dose of laetrile in their urine. The follow
ing fragment states that human beings are also con
sidered capable of producing such doses of laetrile:
"Also we as human beings produce a small amount
of laetrile when consuming apricots pips and
(almond pits). For thousands of year~ in very old
traditions of medicine, cancer patients have been
treated with urine. For us it might be interesting to
see what happens when we would replace salted
and roasted peanut~ not at all a healthy source of
nutrition, with the pips from almonds and
apricots." "
(From: Pleidooi voor Biologische Kankerbestnj"ding,
P.H.WA.M. van de Veer, p. 60.) A short time ago it was discovered that foetuses in
the womb use their amniotic fluid in order to de
velop their lungs. The· foetus literally 'breathes' this
fluid into its lungs, and without this fluid the lungs
cannot develop properly. The foetus's urine is tpe
most important component of amniotic fluid. It has
also been discovered that surgery carried out m the
womb does not leave a scar. The amniotic fluid,
and specifically the urea in it, in which the foetus
floats ensures a perfect healing of every wound
within the womb. In the book The Heart of Healing, the author
William Poole describes how remarkably well the
scars of-foetuses which are operated upon are healed:
as if nothing had happened, whereas, after birth,
the same operations would have left big scars that
would never completely disappear. Doctors were
very surprised to· discover this and, according to
22 The Water of Life Urine therapy before we are born? A foetus floats in amniotic
fluid, which consists mainly of urine. The foetus drinks some
of this fluid every day, and urinates it out again: a cycle
which helps build up the body and internal organs. Poole, they are trying to find out the reason behind
it as they are looking for a method to help heal post
operative scars on adults. Hopefully, some time in
the future, they will discover the very simple
method of using the patients urine for this purpose! People who are familiar with urine therapy know
from their own experience how extremely effective
just a cloth soaked in urine and placed on a wound
can be in healing this wound. In spite of all these data, the medical world has
not as yet taken the step forward to research urine
and its effects as a complete entity, even though
the beneficial use of many of the components of
urine is already acknowledged and exploited. For example 'Enzymes of America', an American
company, has developed a special filter which col
lects the proteins found in male urine in the 10,000
portable toilets owned by its subsidiary firm, Porta
John. Urine contains small amounts of proteins
produced by the body, a number of which are medi
cally very important, such as growth hormones and
insulin. There is an annual market of 500 million
dollars for these types of substances, which are usu
ally produced by extremely complicated and expen
sive methods, such as cell cloning. The company is
working on bringing its first important product,
Urokinase, on the market. Urokinase is an enzyme
which dissolves blood clots and is used in treating
heart attack victims. The company has contracts
for supplying this enzyme to several prominent
pharmaceutical companies. This method was m;::~,. 0r less copied from the
Chinese. In Shanghai, urine is collected in large ba
sins in the public toilets. The city government then sells the urine to the pharmaceutical companies who
extract Urokinase, among other things, from this
urine. This is exported and sold as medidne all over
the world. Urine therapy and the pharmaceutical industry: two
different cycles. The History of Urine Therapy in the West 23 2.4 Recent Research, Practice and
Literature
In the past few years, some people from within the
medical world have shown an increased interest in
urine therapy, particularly doctors who specialize
in natural medicine and its principles. In 1991, Dr. Johann Abele wrote a revised ver
sion of the book previously written by Dr. Herz,
published under the same title (Die Eigenharn
behandlung: nach Dr. med. Kurt Herz; Erfahrungen und
Beobachtungen). Abele's book, however, contains
only part of the preface from the original book and
discusses in a scientific manner the various appli
cations of urine therapy, particularly in the form of
urine injections. Dr. Abele realises that there is no
scientific proof for the effects of urine therapy, but
still seriously recommends this therapy to the medi
cal world:
"Although a lot of research in the field of Auto
Urine therapy was done before the Second World
War and well known researchers were reported to
have excellent results with it, it will surprise any
unbiased observer that after 1945 this therapy
like rrtany other empirical systems of natural
medicine- disappeared and was no longer openly
subject to research and discussion. h has since only
been preserved and developed by those who work
outside the field of orthodox medicine. During this modern era when pure physics and
mathematics have entered into areas where science
and religion -once strong enemies- can meet each
24 The Water of Life other, it can no longer be tolerated that people
dismiss such an interesting method of folk medicine
by just saying that it must be a remain of the
magical, dirt practise used by uncivilised tribes. An ineffective therapy does not survive hundreds
of years in the consciousness of people! The
astounding results which therapists who work with
this auto-urine-method have over and over again
should bring them as well as others to use this
therapy for otherwise 'incurable diseases', even
though so far no explanation for its effectiveness
has been given. For the most important task of a
doctor should be, even when in opposition to public
opinion and customs, to use any therapy which
promises results, in accordance with an old saying:
WHO HEALS, IS RIGHT. II
(From: Die Eigenharnbehandlung: nach Dr. med. Kurt Herz; Erfahrungen und Beobachtungen, Dr.
med. Johann Abele, 8., verbesserte Auflage, Karl
F. Haug Verlag, Heidelberg, 1991, p. 71-72.) Besides the previously mentioned book by Carmen
Thomas, another book was published in 1993 in
Germany on urine therapy entitled Die Heilkraft der
Eigenharntherapie ('The Healing Power of Urine
Therapy'), written by Ingeborg AHmann, a former
pharmacist. As with many other people who started
to work with urine therapy, it was a personal health
crisis which brought her into contact with this
method of healing. Ingeborg AHmann suffered from
severe allergic asthma, and allopathic medicine of
fered little relief. After some time, she developed
an aversion to all chemical products, the former
source of her income. In a complete turnaround, she turned to natural medicine, including urine
therapy. Ultimately, AHmann wrote a book about
· her experiences in which she discusses


, you will feel colder. “Opposites balance” directs that if you feel cold and you
drink a hot beverage, you will move toward a state of more
internal symmetry. If you’re feeling heavy in your body and
mind, what can you do to bring in the quality of lightness? If
you’re feeling dry, what foods can you eat or what self-care
practices can you do that will support you in counteracting
that arid sensation? Ayurveda’ s equation encourages you to
step out of established habits and become aware of yourcurrent experience of balance or dis-ease, in order to make
the moment-to-moment choices that invite you to thrive. In chapter 3 we’ll talk more deeply about three major
qualities of nature, called the maha gunas  in the V edic
literature. Within those major gunas, Ayurveda recognizes
twenty minor gunas—ten qualities and their opposites, which
balance each other out—that exist everywhere in our
environment: in our bodies, our minds, our activities, our
food and drink, and anything else in material existence. The
following list of paired qualities is a foundational Ayurvedic
tool, and as you embark on your journey as an Ayurveda
mama, it can be useful to review the twenty gunas each
morning to notice what qualities you are feeling in your body
and mind—then invite the opposite quality through your
dietary and lifestyle choices to create a state of ease and
connection. Heavy ♦ Light
Dull ♦ Sharp
Cold ♦ Hot
Oily ♦ Dry
Smooth ♦ Rough
Solid ♦ Liquid
Soft ♦ Hard
Static ♦ Mobile
Big/Gross ♦ Subtle
Cloudy ♦ ClearVATA DOSHA: AIR + ETHER
Vata is the ener gy of air and ether. When you think of the air and ether
elements, do you think hot or cold? Heavy or light? Moist or dry? It is quite
intuitive, actually! Vata is cold, light, dry, mobile, subtle, and irregular. Vata
is responsible for your ener gy and movement as well as for nerve impulses,
breath, speech, circulation, and many aspects of digestion. When vata is balanced it brings with it creativity, spontaneity, and
enthusiasm. From an excess of these qualities—for example, too much cold
food, a cold and dry climate or environment, too much light food, excess
talking, too much fast-paced exercise or travel—an imbalance of vata is
born. This imbalance breeds fear, anxiety, and nervousness as well as
physical symptoms such as bloating, gas, constipation, nausea, and fatigue. The late fall and early winter months are governed by vata
dosha. When you observe nature during that time, you can
see that the leaves are starting to dry up; there is more
coolness, and more wind in the atmosphere. Because there
is more vata in the environment, you will also be af fected by
the predominance of the air and ether elements and the
qualities that come from them. Thus, take extra precautions
during the fall and winter months to balance vata dosha. In an article for Yoga Journal  titled “Intro to Ayurveda: Understanding
the Three Doshas,” Scott Blossom, a traditional Chinese medical
practitioner and Ayurvedic consultant, of fers this overview of vata dosha:
Vata types tend to be thin and lanky. They are very mentally and
physically active and enjoy creative endeavors, meeting new people,
and traveling to new places. When they are balanced, vatas areflexible, have lively imaginations, and are original thinkers. When
imbalanced they can get anxious, ungrounded, and can seem “flaky”
about fulfilling commitments, sticking to a routine, and completing
projects. They tend to run cold and dry and enjoy warm, humid
weather. It’s common for vata types to experience cold hands and feet,
constipation, dry skin, and cracking joints. The influence of the air
element in their constitution causes their ener gy, mood, and appetite
to fluctuate dramatically. For this reason, vata types often fail to eat
and sleep regularly, swinging from eating heavy foods to ground and
sedate themselves, or ingesting stimulants like cof fee and sugar to
sustain intense physical or mental activity. Insomnia and low
immunity are very common problems for the sensitive vata person. [*2]
Whether or not you are generally a vata type, vata is the most important
dosha to observe during pregnancy and postpartum. (Y ou should also pay
close attention to vata when you are preparing for pregnancy, as
preconception is a time where you want to feel nourished, stable, deeply
trusting, and supported—all things that you will experience when vata is
balanced.) Vata especially governs the first trimester, where there is rapid
cell separation and growth, though it is also responsible for the expansion
and intense transformation happening inside the mother ’s body throughout
pregnancy. During this time of constant internal movement and change,
vata tends to go out of balance quite easily. Excess vata dosha—too much
of dry, light, mobile, cool, or clear qualities—may lead to a pregnant mama
experiencing constipation, dry skin, nervousness or anxiety,
absentmindedness, or dif ficulty sleeping. An imbalance of vata is also one
of the potential causes of disruption in the embryo, early miscarriage,
ectopic pregnancy, hemorrhage, eclampsia, and a long, dif ficult labor. To
balance vata, try to bring in the opposite qualities—warm, heavy, moist,
stable, and regulated—when planning your meals, your self-care, your
workouts, and your daily rhythm. Watch for the following cues that your vata is out of balance:PHYSICAL  SIGNS
Dry, cracking skin and joints
Dry nails and hair
Gas and bloating (often from dryness in colon)
Constipation
Low back pain, nerve pain, twitches
Fatigue, exhaustion, depletion
MENT AL AND EMOTIONAL  SIGNS
Insomnia, restlessness
Inability to focus, scattered thinking
Rapid speech, lost train of thought
Fear, anxiety, nervousness
Feelings of ungroundedness
Feelings of loneliness, isolation
CAUSES OF VATA IMBALANCE
Excess vata dosha can be traced to specific qualities in diet and lifestyle. For instance, vata may go out of balance if a pregnant mama is eating foods
that are overly dry, light, cold, rough, or “mobile” (such as raw food,
crackers, rice cakes, caf feine, cooling foods such as coconut or cucumber). Having irregular meal times, skipping meals, or eating without full attention
on food can also cause excess vata. Living in a cold or dry climate or being
in the dryness of the fall or the chill of winter months, traveling too
frequently, engaging in excessive movement and talking (or excessive, fast,
intense exercise), or being overstimulated by the sensory environment (withlights that are too bright, sounds that are too loud, an overload of screen
time, and so on) can likewise send vata into imbalance. BRINGING VATA INTO BALANCE
The key words to keep in mind for bringing vata into balance are
nourishment, warmth, and rhythm. In your diet, these qualities can be
achieved in the following ways:
Favor sweet, sour, and salty flavors. Eat in a peaceful environment. Eat mindfully; dine quietly or silently. Avoid caf feine. Avoid dry, raw, cooling, and cold foods. Have most of your meals be warm, cooked, and grounding, made
from oily and nourishing foods that are easy to digest. Only eat when you’re actually hungry at regular times throughout the
day, without snacking (if you do need a snack, opt for a juicy fruit, a
few soaked nuts, or a blended soup with digestive spices like black
pepper, ginger, cumin, and fennel). You can also increase your experience of nourishment, warmth, and rhythm
by paying attention to self-care and exercise. When you notice signs of
excess vata dosha, slow your life down! And try the following activities and
lifestyle adaptations to bring vata back into balance:
Reduce sensory stimulation (lower lights, reduce volume, minimize
screen time). Create a quiet environment before bedtime.Find routine and rhythm with regular waking, eating, and sleeping
times. Do exercises such as belly breathing; long exhalations/sighs (to
activate the parasympathetic nervous system, allowing for
relaxation), or alternate-nostril breathing (see this page ). Perform abhyanga  (self-massage with sesame oil) in the mornings,
twenty minutes before your shower (see this page ). Take baths. Do slow, rhythmic, stabilizing, and grounding exercises, such as
hatha yoga, swimming, tai chi, or walking (especially in nature). Alternate-Nostril Breathing ( Nadi Shodhana )
Alternate-nostril breathing ( nadi shodhana ) is a stabilizing breathing
technique ( pranayama ) with the following benefits:
Improves ability to focus the mind
Supports lungs and respiratory functions
Restores balance in the left and right hemispheres of the brain
Clears the energetic channels
Rejuvenates the nervous system
Balances the hormones
Removes toxins


41–42
asteya, 39
brahmacharya, 39–41purpose of, 36–37
satya, 38–39
yams, 128, 279, 285
Steamed Veggies, 296
Warm Yam Smoothie, 292
yarrow, 181, 198, 199
Yasoda, 232
yeast infections
from kapha imbalance, 27
in newborns, 255, 256
ylang ylang oil, 151, 311, 315, 316, 319
yoga nidra, 104, 208
yoga practices
for apana vata, 102
and Ayurveda, relationship between, 8
gentle, 26, 42
hatha, 22
for kapha balance, 29
during pregnancy, 79, 84, 85, 87, 95–97
prenatal, 86
weight gain and, 112
Yoga Sutras (Patanjali), 36
Yoga tradition, 2
yogurt, 56, 99, 105, 250, 278, 282
in cookies, 297–98
Panchamrit, 274
yoni picchu, 87, 126
Z
zucchini, 270, 285, 296
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modalities that are of fered there and witnessed, firsthand, the profound
healing that happens when the principles of Ayurveda are applied in one’ s
daily life. She is a certified Ayurveda health counselor and educator, specialized in
guiding groups and individuals on transformative and healing journeys. Through her yoga and Ayurveda trainings as well as her online community,
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        See also  acid reflux/heartburn
induction, labor, 145, 314
inflammation, 24, 58, 65, 86, 181, 263, 318
informed consent, 133–34
intention, 91, 184
in childbearing, 1–2, 3–4
in conception, 32, 33, 67–68
early labor, setting, 146
in mothering, 228–29
in parenthood, 79
in sexual desire, 41
interventions, 116, 120, 121, 128, 134, 135
intuition, 194, 243, 305
iron anemia, 100
irritability, 16, 24, 62, 104–6, 202, 206–7, 256
J
jaggery, 56, 284
jasmine, 75, 207, 306, 307
jasmine oil, 126, 151, 198, 315
jatamamsi oil, 317, 318
Jivani, Krsna, 305
Journey W ithin, The  (Radhanath Swami), 81
Judith, Anodea, Eastern Body, Western Mind,  1
K
kalala, 84–85
Kali-Santarana Upanishad, 83
kanji, 153, 280, 283, 292–93
kapha
balancing, 28–29
constitutions, 94
diabetes and, 103–4
imbalances, 27–28, 62, 112
overview, 26–27
postpartum, 203, 281
during pregnancy, 86–87kirtan, 75, 78, 83, 89, 158
kitchari
in home cleanse, 55
instructions, 294–95
Kitzinger, Sheila, Experience of Childbirth, The, 115
Knost, L. R., 236
Krishna, 157–58, 159, 232
kumquat oil, 313
kustha (costus root), 153, 315
L
labor
active, 147–48
early, 146–47
essential oils for, 311, 315–16
herbs for, 304
in hospital birth, planning, 135
kapha during, 156
messages about baby during, 148
nourishment during, 152–53
pain reduction during, 125
pitta during, 155–56
placenta phase, 150
planning for, 129–30
preterm, 95, 314
pushing stage, 149
slowing or stopping, 120, 131
terms for, 143–45
transition stage, 148–49
vata during, 20, 154–55
visualizing, 124
lactation specialists, 249, 253, 254, 261
Lad, Vasant, 7
lavender, 198, 199, 200, 210
after C-section, 214
Diaper Rash Cream, 320
Edema Massage Oil, 313
essential oil, 252, 311, 312, 314, 316, 317, 318, 319
Stretch Mark Blend, 315
law of conservation of mass, 9
leavenings, avoiding, 283
Leboyer, Frédérick, Birth without V iolence,  124
leftovers, 278, 281, 282legs, restlessness of, 110
lemon balm, 208, 210
lemon oil, 107, 123, 311, 313, 314, 319
lemons, 55
licorice, 99, 124, 198, 199, 263
life, six symptoms of, 9–10, 31
lifestyle
for balancing pitta, 25–26
for balancing vata, 21–22
of father, preconception, 32
during pregnancy, recommendations, 93–95
role of, 14
sedentary, 28, 77
like increases like, opposites balance, 18, 60, 61, 100
limbic system, 309
limes, 65, 99, 275, 284, 285, 289, 294, 296
linden, 126, 151, 200
lochia, 174, 179, 200, 202, 285
love, 3, 229
ahimsa and, 37
in baby massage, 247
commitment and, 52
of God and mothers, 232–33
in mothering, 224, 228–29
for newborns, 173–74, 196
preconception, 35
responding from, 230–32
Sri Radha as embodiment of, 232
surrender and, 46
for unborn child, 137
unconditional, 4, 142, 174, 187–89
lunar cycles, 62
luteinizing hormone, 304
lymphatic system, 27, 66, 85, 103, 246, 262, 271, 312
M
maca, 207, 307
macro- and micronutrients, 269
magnesium, transdermal, 207, 209, 210
magnolia oil, 316
maha gunas, 18, 71, 73–78
maha mantra, 83–84, 158
Maharishi Ayurveda, 31majja dhatu, 86
mamsa dhatu, 85
mantra meditation, 42, 83–84
maple syrup, 56, 284, 291–92, 293–94, 298
Marginal Cord Insertion, 163
marjoram oil, 314, 316
marma therapy, 79, 110, 211, 214, 215
massage
for babies, 187, 247, 254
breast, 261, 262–63, 264
head and foot, 110
perineal, 124–25
scalp, 204
See also  abhyanga
matter, 8
as always changing, 41–