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Question: There are many websites which recommend and sell 'mahArAJA GUGGUL' for cholesterol related problems and for reducing body fat. is it safe to use mahArAja guggul or yOgarAja guggul? Answer: My personal belief: Both the preparations contain mercury and sulphur. Some preparations claim that they contain gold also. All the three can generate side effects and auto immunity reactions. Guggulu as a pure plant extract may not be risky to try. But excess of guggulu can also have side effects. Simple logic: 1. Anything which can exert some influence on our body's processes can NEVER HAVE ONLY ONLY beneficial effects. Excess use is bound to have deleterious effects. The only question that then arises is whether beneficial effects are more or deleterious effects are more. 2. Moderation is the key. We have to avoid prolonged use. 3. Lowering cholesterol or body fat should not become an obsession by itself. Moderate physical la...

A Baba who has been making millions by selling Ayurvedic medicines manufactured by his Pharmaceutical Trusts has started cudgelling the Government with threats of fasts unto death, ended up in the Intensive Care Unit of a modern Hospital. Not that Government of India is not corrupt. Not that nobody should take up campaigns against corruption. What can irk thoughtful citizens is the fast-makers becoming enforcers of their sword-law. The whims and fancies of the fast-makers cannot replace the whims and fancies of the corrupt bureaucrats and politicians. The question which the Baba has a duty to explain satisfactorily by placing a reply on their websites is : How fast they could build their empires? How the donors went on showering millions of dollars and Euros on their Trusts? Even if we assume that there were no frauds, there is always place for misrepresentations. How a misrepresentation is different from a fraud ? Ans: In case of fraud: the person provides false information knowi...

The Deccan Chronicle, Vijayavada published a DC Kochi 26th May report, titled : "Elixir makes old young". It says that one Shri Yugal Saran Maharaj, 92 years aged, underwent kAyakalpa cikitsa (total body rejuvenation therapy/treatment of the ayurveda system at Ottappalem, in Palakkad District of Kerala. The news report claims the following results : 1. sprouting black strands in grey beard. 2. Feelings of youthful stirrings. 3. Achieving a haemoglobin count of 15.5 uncharacteristic for people of that old age. The newspaper published two photos of the patient. One-- said to be before the treatment. This has a long white beard. Second - After the treatment. Shows a scientist's beard, pruned. There are some black strands. Somehow, this news and the photo are not appearing in the electronic edition of the Deccan Chronicle. Hence, I am unable to furnish any link. I hope to give it, if D.C. publishes the news electronically. Please, meanwhile, care to read my observat...

INFO Distribution time : June every year. Likely to take place this year also. Advent of Mrigasira karte. (Astronomically: Time when Sun is in conjunction with Betelguese in Orion Constellation.) India will be midway through the hot summer, land will be parched with heat and the environment is ready to receive rains. Who distributes : A family known as Bathini Gowd Brothers. They claim hereditary succession of 160 years. Hereditary tradition may be true. Type of Medicine : Some traditional powders loaded in a live murrel fish. The patients are made to swallow the fish and its contents. Three more doses are also administered with fifteen days interval. Government recognition/support : Government of India or the Government of Andhra Pradesh should not provide support. But it is taking place under the pretext of providing security. Price Free. The price of the live fish is to be borne by the patient. Annual Controversy at hand Rationalists demand that the Bathini ...

I believe that people, basically wear gold chains on their necks, for ornamentation purposes. A materia medica published at Rajahmundry (Andhra Pradesh, India) in 1900 and reprinted many times, indicates that wearing gold chains improves health. Reduces vAta dOSha (problem of wind - intestinal gases and inflammations owing to accumulation of air in the system) and paitya dOSha (problem of bile, liver related ailments such as jaundice, gall bladder troubles, lack of hunger, skin rashes, excess talking etc.). It is not clear, how the writer came to such conclusion. He has included a similar notation in case of diamond jewels also. One problem with Indian AyurvEda is, it evolved through centuries old practices, procedures and processes of treating emperors, kings , landlords and rich merchants. They had plenty of gold at their disposal. They could afford diamonds. The vaids (physicians), naturally got obsessed with these peripheries unrelated to human suffering. The doctors...

This is not a medical advice. I am just writing from the information I collected from acquaintances, friends, and media. Readers must exercise caution. Vaartha.com, a Telugu daily newspaper published an article by Dr. Chittibhotla Madhusudana Sarma, Ayurvedic Physician, Nandyal. Date of the publication: 13th January 2010. The last paragraph of the article suggested some ayurvedic drugs to be used under medical supervision, following rules of diet, and adopting techniques like meditation. The following durgs prescribed therein, in my humble view, contain heavy metals like mercury and strong elements like sulphur :- 1. BhallAtaka vaTi. 2. ChanDa mAruta siMdhUram. 3. ArOgya vardhini vaTi. 4. rasa mANikya rasa. It is good, that the columnist suggested medical supervision. This type of insistence on medical supervision we can see in case of allopathic drugs also. We know that both in allopathy and the ayurveda some preparations are poisonous because they contain caustic an...

FOOD CHOICE is important for a healthy life. It is not just nutritious balanced diet, which the Western modern health routines projects as key to health. A diet in spite of being a storehouse of all the components like carbohydrates, proteins, fats, mineral salts and vitamins and being cooked in hygienic environment can yet cause ill health. On the other hand semi-starving and half-naked fakirs can live a long healthy life. Secret? Food controls our behavior (SLEEP AND SEXUAL LIFE) and consequently health even without our cognizance. I plan about 100 posts, which may take about 150 days. Every day I shall be writing about one or two foods. Their effects are discussed mostly from personal experiences and from ancient books. FROM 30 YEARS PERSONAL EXPERIENCE BRINJAL : Unnecessarily increases sexual desires. Though the desire increases, the erections or the staying powers do not increase. ONIONS exacerbate the problem. For a long time, I thought that my personal exper...