Healthy food practices. Kader Kochi.

‘‘Food is medicine, Medicine is not food’’

Food articles are primarily classified depending upon their chemical composition namely carbohydrate, protein, fat, minerals, vitamins and water. It can be classified also on basis of taste and biological properties.

The universe is composed of five elements- space, air, fire, water and earth. Everything in the universe possess six tastes- bitter (space and air), astringent (air and earth), pungent (air and fire), sour (fire and water), salt (fire and earth) and sweet (water and earth) either in visible or non visible form.

The whole body is composed about 13 types of channels of circulation through which basic tissue elements and waste products move from one place to another constantly and uninterruptedly. These are the channels of air, water, food ingredients, urine, feces, sweat, plasma and hemoglobin; and they carrying nutrients to the muscle tissues, fat tissues, bone tissues, bone marrows, and for sperms or ovum. If the movements of these channels are stopped due to some internal and external causes, the wastes accumulate and impair the activities of other channels.

The major causes of diseases are accumulation of wastes and toxins which are developed silently with over eating, improper cooking or unnatural dietary habits. Disease process can be reversed and cured by a simple change of diet. The quantity and quality of food to be taken depends upon the body constitution, individual’s power of digestion and metabolism.

Constitution predominates with basic elements air, space earth and fire

Prefer food of bitter, pungent and astringent; wine, fat, and hot items. 

Constitution predominates with basic elements fire, air, water and earth

Prefer food of pungent, salt and sour. 
Take ghee in summer. 
Visit garden. 
Use perfumes.

Constitution predominates with basic elements water, earth and fire

 Prefer food of sweet, salt and sour.

Light food articles are predominating with air and fire. They are stimulator of appetite and less harmful. 

Those dominated by water and earth are heavy. They are suppressors of appetite and also harmful if taken in excess.

Sufficient quantity of food taken in helps the individual to bring about strength, happiness and longevity without making disturbance in the equilibrium of various systems of body. 

There may be considerable variation in the body’s requirements for food in illness, age, activity and other factors affecting food absorption, utilization and excretion.

The average span of life of individual has gone up now due to improved nutritional practice.

“ 9/10 of food we are eaten is for our health 
while 1/10 is for our doctor’’  

Food   Harmful combinations
Meat	Mushroom
Beef	Jaggery, black gram, papadum, dosa, meat, castor oil, honey, milk.
Mutton	Fish, black gram, honey, milk and sesame.
Chicken	Curd, other meat.
Fish	Milk, meat.
Ghee	Water.
Honey	Hot water, warm constitution.
Milk	Fish, spices, horse gram, green gram, jackfruit, curd, mango, and vegetables.
curd	chicken, (hot curd at night),summer.
Butter milk	Horse gram, curd, ghee, horse gram, black gram.
Mushroom	Fish, meat, ghee, prawn, buttermilk.
Pineapple	Jaggery, honey, horse gram, black gram.
Coconut water	Spinach.
Wheat	Sesame.
Colocasia	Butter.
Alcohol	Hot  water.
Tobacco	Cold water.
Uric acid	Common salt, kali carbonate.

Food Harmful practice
Prawn	From the mud water.
Fish	Monsoon and winter season.
Honey	Boiled,  mixed in water.
Water intake	After tobacco chewing; after eating the ball cake made with rice and coconut; saline.
Coconut	Decayed.
Hot drinks	After ghee.
Spices	After milk.
Alcohol	With hot water.
Fruits	With vegetables, with unripe.
Citrus fruits	With starch.
Starch	With protein.
Coffee cold	After heating again.
Tea cold	After heating again.
Fried banana flakes moist	After heating again.
Ghee and oil	After heating again.
Tapioca	Dry.
Asafetida	Non fried.
Cereals	Different cereals cooking together.
Rice water	Monsoon.

Harmful practice for adults
Season	Tastes harmful
Spring	Astringent.
Summer	Pungent.
Monsoon	Sour.
Autumn	Salt.
Haemantum (early winter)	Sweet.
Sisirum (late winter)	Bitter.

Diseases  Harmful practice
Psychosis Pregnancy-Vomiting	Rice water.  Pepper.
Medicine intake	At night.
Lower backache	Pungent.
Muscular soreness	Meat.
Sweating & exercise	After eating ghee.
Heart disease	Sheep milk.
Indigestion	Fried items.
Atopic dermatitis	Apply oil.
Jaundice Haemolytic anemia	Apply oil. Beans(Fava).
Hyper acidity	Excess of salt, alcohol, spices; refined starch, and  sugar; emotional factors.
Dyspepsia	Ice water.
Arthritis of upper joints	Apply oil.

Digestion Good combination
Milk	Sugar.
Butter milk	Ginger.
Mutton	Cardamom.
Fish	Mango.
Honey	Sugar.
Ghee	Lime juice.
Pea	Chilly.
Horse gram	Sesame.
Bengal gram	Ginger.
Black gram	Ginger
Cereals	Ginger.
Rice	Curry leaf.
Sugar	Ginger.
Tuber	Ginger.
Colocasia	Ginger.
Mushroom	Turmeric.
Jackfruit	Ginger.
Banana	Ghee.
Mango	Salt.
Coconut	Rice.
Water	Coriander.

Digestion & Food article
Easy digestion	Meat of thigh, lower trunk, female, mature animal, running goat; boiled meat.
	Light items  Bread, kerala sambar, ada, ariyunda, Chicken, flesh of meat eating  animal; Bitter, astringent and pungent items.
Difficult digestion	Meat of upper trunk, limb lower part, young animal, cow, farm animal, ox, hen and fish eating birds; Organ meat especially testis.
	Heavy items  fat and starch; Fried rice, dal, leafy   vegetables; Steamed rice cake, vada, beriyani etc.

HOLISTIC TREATMENT

Vegetable & Mineral poison  Antidotes
Mango	Salt, coconut.
Chilly	Milk.
Pepper	Milk.
Pungent	Ghee.
Sinapis nigra	Ghee.
Areca nut	Milk, sugar.
Tobacco	Coconut milk, pepper.
Cannabis	Coconut milk.
Nux vomica	Tobacco, coffee.
Opium	Coffee.
Stramonium	Milk.
Castor oil	Lime juice.
Salt	Sugar.
Tea	Thuja.
Arsenic	Pepper.
Phosphorus	Magnesium sulphate.
Carbolic acid	Coconut oil.

Animal poisoning  Antidotes
Scorpion	Pepper.
Spider	Viscum alb.
Rat bite	Baptisia.
Leach	Turmeric, lime.
Bee bite	Soda powder, garlic.
Fish bite	Pepper.
Frog bite	Ginger, pepper.
Lizard	Turmeric.

Medicinal treatment General rules
Medicine	After defecation or before food.
Sweet medicine	Early morning, during ebb tide.
Bitter medicine	Quarter to half an hour before food, evening.
Anticholergic	During or before meals.
Gastric sedatives	Empty stomach.
Gastric irritants	After food.
Cod liver oil	After food.
Castor oil	Early morning.
Systemic alkalizer	Between meals.
Liver medicine	In powder form.
Nerve medicine	In milk.
Blood forming medicine	In water.

“In medicine we have diagnosis which is matter of faith,

prognosis which is question of hope, 

and treatment which is only too often an affair of charity”

Holistic medicine Therapeutics
Eye sight weak	Glycyrrhiza glabra.
Fatigue	Bath.
Anemia	Sugar cane, ferrum phos.
Unconsciousness	Fresh air.
Migraine	Barley.
Nerve degeneration	Allium cepa.
Dementia	Hydrocotyle.
Bell’s palsy	Butter with sugar.
Flatulence, reflux esophagitis	Asafoetida, rheum.
Sleeplessness	Buffalo milk.
Asthma	Solanum xanthocarpum.
Heart disease	Aurum met, Cactus grandiflorus.
Ascitis	Camel milk.
Indigestion	Astringent (Aegle marmelosa, Tinospora cordifoilia, Aconitum, Cyprus rotundus ); Zingiber, heat.
Faces less	Barley.
Intestinal worms	Embelia ribes.
Sprue	Butter milk, meat soup.
Dysentery	Hollarrhena antidysenterica.
Dysuria	Tribulus.
Impotence	Alkalis.
Aphrodisiac	Desmodium gangeticum.
Shivering fever	Heat, meat and rice.
Gout	Tinospora cordifolia.
Tuberculosis	Mutton, milk, wine.
Obesity	Cuprum met.
Splenomegaly	Piper longa.
Diabetes mellitus	Ginger, Curcuma longa and Embelica officinalis.
Cancer	Anacardium oreintalis.
Thrombocytopenia, bleeding	Adathoda vasika.
Mucus disorder, sinusitis	Keep awake at night.
Boils	Warm ointment (similar).
Insanity	Terrorizing (similar).
Diarrhea	Milk (similar).
Alcoholism	Alcohol (similar).
Spinal stiffness	Exercise like swimming (similar).
Vaccination ill effects	Thuja occidentals, Podophyllum, Mercury.
Panacea	Aconitum (similar),Thuja, Viscum album.  ,
Rejuvenation	Cow milk, cow ghee.

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“Medicines sometimes cures, often relieves, but always consoles” 
                       

Tastes & Treatment Food and drugs can be grouped on basis of tastes
Sweet
Sweet	Earth and water; cold and heavy, Promote fair complexion, growth, good voice, growth of hair, healing of wound and fracture, soothing to all senses, downward elimination, strengthen body.
Sweet excess	Promotes laziness, obesity, hypersomnia, aphonia,  anorexia, dysuria, coryza, constipation, cervical lymphadenitis, pharyngitis, elephantiasis, adhesion of vessels, bladder and throat.
Cure	Consumption, epilepsy, depression, thirst and burning sensation.
Salt
Salt	Fire and earth; neither too hot and nor light, Carminative, antispasmodic, laxative, Promote sweat, peristalsis, outward elimination, upward elimination, and moistness.
Salt excess	Produce burning sensation, thirst, erosion, cancerous ulcer,  dislodgment of teeth, premature graying and baldness, bleeding, hyperacidity, dermatitis, gout, alopecia, reduction of manhood, senility, ichthyosis and arthritis.
Cure	Rigidity, pain, obstruction of channels.
Sour
Sour	Fire and water; hot and light, Promotes appetite, strengthen mind and special sense, strengthen heart, salivation, swallowing, of food, downward elimination, thirst.
Sour excess	Promotes anemia, oedema, cachexia, suppuration of wounds, burning sensations, polydipsia, bleeding and weak vision.
Cure	Thrombosis
Pungent
Pungent	Fire and air; Hot and light, germicide, Promotes discharges, coryza, digestion, functions of  special sense, outward elimination of toxin; thrombolytic, blood purifier.
Pungent excess	Promotes unconsciousness, increase basal metabolic rate, burning sensation, asthenia, weight loss, neuralgia, stabbing and piercing pain, asthma, asthenia, and tremor.
Cure	Sinusitis, obesity, urticaria, and itching.
Bitter
Bitter	Air and space; Cold and light, Germicide, anti-toxic, promotes digestion, homeostasis, upward elimination, open orifices.
Bitter excess	Promotes emaciation, giddiness, dryness, dehydration and roughness in the circulating channels.
Cure	Blocks and obstruction.
Astringent
Astringent	Air and earth; cold and heavy,  Promotes dryness, close orifices, sedation.
Astringent excess	Promotes black complexion, stiffness, rigidity, aphonia, constipation, weak digestion, paralysis, hemiplegia, convulsion, reduce manhood, emaciation.
Cure	Bleeding, diarrhea, excess of sweat.

  

SEASON TREATMENT

We should take sufficient air, food and water according the season to maintain proper balance of these five elements in the body. Several foods useful in one season may be harmful in the next season. 

 Summer treatment

Summer noon	Element Fire increases, Sun force  increases, day period increases, body energy decreases in tropics
ITEMS FAVORABLE	Sweet, Bitter and Astringent. Fruits, gooseberry; polished rice, green gram, old rice, wheat, flakes, fried rice, snake gourd; water, cool drinks, old alcohol, camphorated water; honey, ghee, ice cream at night,  cow milk, meat; Curcuma, cucurbita pepo, cyprus, ficus, liquorice, luffa, neem, camphor, sandal, sarsaparilla, spinach, vasa; laxatives, vomiting, cold bath,  river bath; day sleep, moon watching, watching cinema, perfumes etc.
ITEMS UNFAVORABLE	Pungent, Salt and Sour; Coffee, curd, figs, ginger, prunes, spices; stress, hurry, jealousy, overwork, exercise, heat, sun bath etc.

Monsoon treatment

Monsoon  Evening Element Air increases. Sour increases. Moon force, night period, body energy etc increase in tropics. ITEMS FAVORABLE Sour, Salt and Sweet; Bengal gram, black gram, green gram, fenugreek, fresh cereals, wheat, sesame, dates; egg, honey, ghee, milk; old alcohol, hot water, rain water, rice water, laxatives; Acorus calamus, aegle mar, alpine, anacardium, bala, boerhavia diffusa, calotropis, nux vom, piper cubeba, rananculus scle, ricinus com, salix nigra, sarsaparilla, sinapis, thuja, tinospora cor, tribulus ter, vasa, viscum alb, withania somn; perfumes, and use of foot wear; Rain water in the periods of chyothi and vysagham in asyenum months (the period of  Star Alpha booties and Beta lobra in 7th month of saka calendar. ITEMS UNFAVORABLE Sour in old age; astringent and pungent; corn flakes, river water, day sleep.

 Winter treatment

Winter  Early morning	Element water and earth increase. Moon force, night period, body energy etc increase in tropics.
ITEMS FAVORABLE	Sweet, Salt, Sour and Bitter; Sufficient food; meat extract; fresh alcohol, hot water; , camphor, amlaki, capsicum, cardamom, cumin, gingiber, onions, thymol, sesame, turmeric; aconite, acorus calamus, allium cepa,  arjuna, achyranthes, kalmegh, luffa, piper cuba, saussurea lappa, sinapis,  solanum, terminalia chebula; exercise, foot wear, hot bath, oil massage etc
ITEMS UNFAVORABLE	Black gram, fresh cereals, potato, tuber, colocasia, dates, figs, oil; butter, ghee, egg, fat,  fish, meat, milk; ficus, Valerian; excess of chewing, tasty food;  ambition, fear, overwork, rest, sexual excess, starvation etc.

         

Rejuvenation 

Homeopathic tinctures

Aim of the rejuvenation is to maintain the health of the individual along with his long life and keeping the enzyme system in the tissues in their normal functioning conditions. 

Terminalia chebula Q.

 
Glycyrrhiza glabra Q.

Boerhavia diffusa Q.

Embelica officinalis Q.

Tinospora cordifolia Q.

Thuja occidentalis Q.

Hydrocotyle Q.

Ginseng Q.

Herbs contain Sulphur, met, and Mercury.

Triturated minerals like Calcium, Zinc and Magnesium. 

     

‘‘we are what we are eaten.”

                                     

                   

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