Tip 21. Control and channel sexual desire with the neutral hipbath.
The quenching of unrequited sexual desire is accomplished through the neutral hipbath.
The neutral hipbath helps to relieve all acute and sub-acute inflammatory conditions such as
acute catarrh of the bladder and urethra and sub-acute inflammations in the uterus, ovaries
and tubes. It also relieves neuralgia of the fallopian tubes or testicles, painful spasms of the
vagina and prorates of the anus and vulva. Besides, it is a sedative treatment for erotomania in
both sexes.
The temperature of the water should be 32º C to 36º C. Here too, friction to the abdomen
should
be avoided. This bath is generally taken for 20 minutes to an hour.
Tip 22. Remove morbid matter from the surface of the skin with the hot steam bath.
The steam bath is helpful in all forms of chronic toxaemias. It relieves rheumatism, gout, uric
acid problems, and obesity. It also relieves neuralgias, chronic nephritis, infections, tetanus
and migraine.
Steam bath is one of the most important time-tested water treatments which induces
perspiration
in a most natural way. The patient, clad in minimum loin cloth or underwear, is made to sit on a
stool inside a specially designed cabinet. Before entering the cabinet, the patient should drink
one or two glasses of cold water and protect the head with a cold towel. The duration of the
steam bath is generally 10 to 20 minutes or until perspiration takes place. A cold shower
should
be taken immediately after the bath.
Very weak patients, pregnant women, cardiac patients and those suffering from high blood
pressure should avoid this bath. If the patient feels giddy or uneasy during the steam bath, he
or
she should be immediately taken out and given a glass of cold water and the face washed with
cold water.
Tip 23: Avoid medications for sleeplessness.
Sleeping pills are no remedy for sleeplessness. They are habit forming and become less
effective when taken continuously. They lower the I.Q., dull the brain and can prove fatal if
taken
in excess or before or after alcohol. The side-effects of sleeping pills include indigestion, skin
rashes, lowered resistance to infection, circulatory and respiratory problems, poor appetite,
high
blood pressure, kidney and liver problems and mental confusion.
To overcome the problem, one should adhere to a regular sleeping schedule, going to bed at a
fixed time each night and getting up at a fixed time each morning. Early to bed and early to rise
is a good rule. Two hours of sleep before midnight are more beneficial than four after. It is
sheer
folly for students, at examination times, to keep awake until long after midnight, drinking one
cup of tea after another, as that is only apt to cause blackness and inability to concentrate in
the examination hall.
Tip 24. Diet, not surgery, for kidney stones.
A majority of patients suffering from kidney stones can be treated successfully by proper
dietary
regulations. These regulations will also prevent a recurrence of the symptoms. Only a few
cases
require surgery.
The patient should avoid foods which irritate the kidneys, to control acidity or alkalinity of the
urine and to ensure adequate intake of fluids to prevent the urine from becoming concentrated.
The foods considered irritants to the kidneys are alcoholic beverages, condiments, pickles,
certain vegetables like cucumbers, radishes, tomatoes, spinach, rhubarb, water-cress and
those with strong aroma such as asparagus, onions, beans, cabbage and cauliflower, meat,
gravies, and carbonated waters.
Tip 25. To avoid headache, avoid eyestrain.
Eyestrain is a common cause of headache. In such cases, an eye specialist should be
consulted and proper treatment taken. Simple eye exercises such as moving the eyes up and
down and from side to side, palming, rotating the head, with neck outstretched, forward and
backwards three times, then three times clockwise and three times counter clockwise, can
relieve eyestrain.
A surprising way to relieve eyestrain is to give gentle massage to the neck. Bring the shoulders
together and release. Then take a few minutes to place a moist cool compress over the eyes to
give them rest and recuperation.
Tip 26. Take heed of headaches. Headaches may be a symptom of hypertension.
High blood pressure can cause pounding headaches. The headache usually starts at the back
of
the head on getting up in the morning. A safe method of treatment for this is to immerse your
legs to calf-level in a tub of hot water for 15 to 20 minutes. This draws the blood away from the
head and down to the feet, relieving the headache.
Also helpful is the yogic practice known as pranayama. Stand erect with the feet aligned
straight and touching each other. Lock the fingers together with the hands beneath the chin
and keep them there through the entire exercise.
Slowly raise the arms as you inhale, filling your lungs with air. Feel the action of the breathing
through your throat. Then raise your arms above your head as you lean back and exhale, all
the while keeping the hands at your chin. When you completely exhale, feeling the movement
of the air through your throat, lower your arms and repeat the exercise 20 times.
Tip 27. Hydrocele, The Common But Little-Known Condition of Men's Mature Years
Hydrocele is the painful swelling of the testes. It can be painlessly relieved.
Tapping (removing fluid with a long needle) is the method usually resorted to for removal of
the fluid in hydrocele. This, however, does not remove the cause of the trouble but only its
effects. The correct way in which the condition can be really dealt with successfully is through
constitutional treatment. Such a
treatment should aim at removing the underlying toxicity of the system which is at the root of
the
trouble.
The sufferer from hydrocele should begin with an exclusive fresh fruit diet for seven to ten
days.
In this regimen, he should have three meals a day of fresh juicy fruits, such as apples, pears,
grapes, grape-fruit, oranges, pineapple, peaches, melon or any other juicy fruit in season but
no
bananas or dried, stewed or tinned fruit, and no other foodstuff whatever. For drinks, lemon
water unsweetened or water either hot or cold may be taken.
If constipation is habitual, all steps should be taken for its eradication. During this period the
bowels should be cleansed daily with a warm water enema.
Tip 28. Indigestion may be caused by how you neat, not just what you eat.
The feelings of discomfort and distress in the abdomen are often caused by overeating, eating
too rapidly or not chewing properly. Overeating or eating frequently produces a feverish state in
the system and overtaxes the digestive organs. It produces excessive acid and causes the
gastric mucus membrane to become congested. Hyperacidity is usually the result.
Overeating makes the work of stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels harder. When this food
putrefies, its poisons are absorbed back into the blood and consequently, the whole system is
poisoned. Many people gulp their food due to stress or hurry. When food is swallowed in large
chunks, the stomach has to work harder and more hydrochloride is secreted.
Eating too fast also causes one to swallow air. These bad habits force some of the digestive
fluids into the oesophagus, causing burning, a stinging sensation or a sour taste, giving an
illusion of stomach acid.
Tip 29. Influenza is more than a viral infection.
Influenza, like all other acute diseases, is a natural attempt at self-cleansing and if rightly
treated in a natural way, immense good can ensue so far as the future health of the patient is
concerned. In the acute stage of influenza, a patient should abstain from all solid foods and
only
drink fruit and vegetable juices diluted with water, 50- 50 for first three to five days, depending
on the severity of the disease. The juice fast should be continued until the temperature comes
down to normal. The warm water enema should be taken daily during this period to cleanse the
bowels.
After fever subsides the patient may adopt an all-fruit diet for two or three days. In this regimen,
the patient should take three meals a day of fresh juicy fruits such as apples, pears, grapes,
oranges, pineapple, peaches and melons at five-hourly intervals. Bananas or dried, stewed or
tinned fruits however, should not be taken. No other food stuff should be added to the fruit
meals, otherwise the value of the treatment will be lost. This may be followed by a further two
or
three days on fruits and milk diet. Thereafter, the patient may adopt a well-balanced diet of
three
basic food groups namely, (i) seeds, nuts and grains, (ii) vegetables, and (iii) fruits.
Spices and condiments, and pickles, which make food more palatal and lead to overeating,
must be avoided. Lemon juice may be used in salad dressing. Alcohol, tobacco, strong tea and
coffee, highly seasoned meats, over-boiled milk, pulses, potato, rice, cheese, refined,
processed, stale, and tinned foods should all be avoided.
Tip 30. Low blood sugar is caused by too much sugar.
Hypoglycaemia is a condition of low blood sugars. Ironically, it is aggravated by consuming too
much sugar.
Hypoglycaemia is usually caused by an excessive intake of refined carbohydrates and sugar
foods. These substances cause the pancreas, the adrenal gland and the liver to lose their
ability
to handle the sugar properly. Other causes of low blood sugar are a tumour, disturbed
functioning of the liver, pituitary gland or adrenal glands. Stress intensifies this condition as it
weakens the adrenal glands and starts a faulty pattern of glucose intolerance.
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Tip 31. To avoid gout, avoid meat.
Gout was at one time considered the disease of the rich, when in the West only the rich ate
meat.
The gout patient should avoid all purine and uric acid producing foods such as all meats, eggs,
and fish. Glandular meats are especially harmful.
The one who has gout should also avoid all intoxicating liquors, tea, coffee, sugar, white flour
and its products and all canned and processed foods. Spices and salts should be used as little
as possible.
Tip 32. Meditate!
Meditation involves training the mind to remain fixed on a certain external or internal location.
All the mental faculties should be directed, without cessation, towards the object of meditation.
It
can be achieved by constant practice. It will be advisable to meditate on God or Atman as one
becomes imbued with the quality of the object on which one meditates.
Meditation will help create an amount of balance in the nervous system. This would enable the
glands to return to a correct state of hormonal balance and thereby overcome the feeling of
depression. Regularity of time, place and practice are very important in meditation. Regularity
of practice conditions the mind to slowing down its activities. The most effective times for
meditation are early dawn and dusk, when the atmosphere is serene and peaceful.
Tip 33. No drugs cure high blood pressure.
All drugs against hypertension without exception, are toxic and have distressing side effects.
The safest way to cure hypertension is to remove the real cause. The natural way of dealing
with it is to eliminate the poisons from the system which cause it. Persons with high blood
pressure should always follow a well-balanced routine of proper diet, exercise and rest.
Diet is of primary importance. Meat and eggs cause the blood pressure to rise more
than any other food. The pressure is lowered and blood clotting diminished by partaking of a
higher fruit content, lower protein and non-flesh diet. A natural diet consisting of fresh fruits and
vegetables, instead of a traditional diet, is helpful in getting rid of the poisons from the body. A
hypertension patient should start the process of healing by living on an exclusive fruit-diet for
at least a week, and take fruits at five-hourly intervals thrice in the day. Oranges, apples, pears,
mangoes, guava, pineapples, raspberry, water-melon are the best diet in such cases. Bananas
and jack fruit should not be taken. Milk may be taken after a week of "fruits only"' diet. The milk
should be fresh and should be boiled only once. The patient can be permitted cereals in his
food after two weeks.
Tip 34. Stress causes headaches.
Intense emotions often cause headaches. Many people who outwardly appear to have a
pleasant disposition may actually be simmering about a job, or may bear resentment towards a
person or something. This hidden hostility may manifest itself as headache. It is important,
therefore, that negative feelings should not be bottled up, but should find some safe means of
expressions.
How can you know your headache is due to stress? The answer is simple. Tight neck muscles
are a sign of stress. Pain across the forehead is a sign of stress.
What can you do to treat stress headaches. To relieve tension, add tension. Tighten the
muscles at the back of the neck as you count 10, and then release. If you repeat this exercise
several times, your headache will be relieved.
Tip 35. The Surprising Causes of Leucoderma
Many wrong beliefs are prevalent about the causes of leucoderma. It is not caused by eating
fish and drinking milk at the same time, as is generally believed because even vegetarians
suffer from this disorder. Other food combinations such as pumpkin and milk, onion and milk as
possible causes of leucoderma also have no basis.
Leucoderma is not caused by any germs; nor is it due bad blood. It is neither infectious nor
contagious. It cannot be transmitted from one person to another by physical contact.
The main causes of leucoderma are excessive mental worry, chronic or acute gastric disorder,
impaired hepatic function such as jaundice, worms or other parasites in the alimentary canal,
ailments like typhoid which affect the gastrointestinal tract, defective perspiration mechanism
and burn injuries. Often the hormone secreting glands are involved in this disorder. Heredity is
also a causative factor and about 30 per cent of patients have a family history of the disorder.
Tip 36. Tingling, burning, stabbing pains? The problem could be neuritis.
The main symptoms of neuritis are tingling, burning, and stabbing pains in the affected nerves.
In severe cases, there may be numbness and loss of sensation and paralysis of the nearby
muscles. Thus a temporary paralysis of the face may result from changes in the facial nerves
on the affected side. During the acute stage of this condition, the patient may not be able to
close the eyes due to loss of normal tone and strength by the muscles on the affected side of
the face.
The chief cause of neuritis is chronic acidosis, that is, excessive acid condition of the blood and
other body fluids. All the body fluids should be alkaline in their reaction, but when the acid
waste matter is continuously formed in the tissues over a long period due to a faulty diet, it
results in acidosis. Wrong habits of living, over work, etc., lower the tone of nervous system
and contribute towards neuritis. This disease can also result from a variety of nutritional
deficiencies and metabolic disturbances such as faulty calcium metabolism, deficiencies of
vitamins B1 (thiamine), B6 (pyridoxine), and B12.
Tip 37. The right fats fight the effects of the wrong fats.
The essential fatty acids which reduce serum cholesterol levels and minimise the risk of
arteriosclerosis can be obtained from sunflower seed oil, corn oil or safflower oil. Several
studies
have indicated that garlic can reduce the cholesterol level in persons whose body normally
cannot regulate the cholesterol fractions. Other important cholesterol lowering foods are alfalfa
and yoghurt. Lecithin helps prevent fatty deposits in arteries. Best food sources are unrefined,
raw, crude vegetable oils, seeds and grains.
Fruits and vegetables in general are highly beneficial in the treatment of heart disease.
Seasonal fruits are quite effective heart tonics. Apples especially contain heart stimulating
properties and the patients suffering from the weakness of heart should make liberal use of
apples and apple jams. Fresh grapes, pineapples, oranges, custard apples, pomegranates and
coconut water also tone up the heart. Grapes are effective in heart pain and palpitation of the
heart and the disease can be rapidly controlled if the patient adopts an exclusive grapes diet
for few days. Grape juice, especially will be valuable when one is actually suffering from a
heart attack.
Indian gooseberry or amla is considered an effective home remedy for heart disease. It tones
up the functions of all the organs of the body and builds up health by destroying the
heterogeneous elements and renewing lost energy.
Tip 38. To prevent baldness, eat the right foods.
Persons with a tendency to lose hair should thus take a well balanced and correct diet, made
up of foods which in combination should supply all the essential nutrients. It has been found
that a diet which contains liberal quantities of
(i) seeds, nuts and grains,
(ii) vegetables and
(iii) fruits
would provide adequate amounts of all the essential nutrients.
Each food group should roughly form the bulk of one of the three principal meals. These foods
should, however, be supplemented with certain special foods such as milk, vegetable oils,
honey, wheat germ, yeast and liver.
Tip 39. To cure a headache, eat something (as long as it is not sugar).
Low blood sugar is one of the causes of irritability and headache. Sugar is not a cure for low
blood sugar, though it may raise the blood sugar temporarily and make one feel better for a
while.
Low blood sugar is the result of an abused pancreas which over stimulates the production
of insulin in the body. It can be controlled by eating smaller meals at short intervals rather than
the standard three large meals daily. The intake of carbohydrates should be cut down to the
minimum. Coffee should be eliminated as it over stimulates the pancreas.
Tip 40. To fight depression, be active.
Overcome depression with activity.
The depressive mood can be overcome by activity. Those who are depressive will forget their
misery by doing something. They should turn away from themselves and consider others. At
home they can take to decorating, repairing or constructing something new. The pleasure of
achievement overcomes the distress of depression.
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