**Know your local vegetable : Ridge gourd**

This is must vegetables for people with

- pre diabetes and diabetes
- cholesterol
- strained liver and gland functions
- Improves eye vision

Know Your Local Herb : Cardiospermum Halicacabum /Kapalphodi/ Mudakaruthan Keerai/ Indravalli /Balloon Plant Leaves

- Must green of every household garden

- Proven Cure in
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Relives Joint pains of any sort
- Hair Growth & Dandruff

Per Ayurveda this green is used as

- Anti Arthritic
- Anti Inflammatory
- Anti Fungal
- Anti Pyretic in its medicinal formulations

This climber is easy to grow at everyone gardens and it is undergoing research for other lifestyle ailments too

Studies are underway to asses the

- Anti hyperglycaemic effect to treat diabetes
- Herbal analgesic and vasodepressive properties of this herb

- Phytoconstituent cardiospermin is used as natural herbal source in most of modern fertility improvement drugs beneficial both for men & women

- Consumption of this herb gradually will relive menstrual cramps & dysmenorrhea suffered by women with irregular menstrual rhythm

-This has ability to nourish & strengthen the hair root to great extent after hibiscus

-Applying the leaf powder over the scalp with coconut oil will cure dandruff and itchy scalp experienced by working women by constant use of chemical synthetic shampoos

Why should we refrain from refined edible oils:

- Major factor of cardiovascular risk is caused by refined oils
- Study found,Even rats which were constantly fed food made out of refined oils have shown symptoms of hypertension & ischemic heart causing cardiovascular disability

Traditional Indian consumed oils made from locally available seeds like sesame, gingelly, groundnut and coconut oil

The dynamics of edible oil industry got disrupted after we adopted mass production / import of refined oils at lower cost to our wallet( costing our heart health)

Oils are essential dietary fat which were implicitly included In our food culture

Age old days,Oils were extracted at home and given the complexity of extraction it was used mindfully

Oils are excellent supplement if we know how much is too much

Refined oils are trade ploy to make you sick or reduce your life span early due to high chemical treatment and food processing

Refined oils are gateway for

- Obesity
- Hypertension
- Abnormal cholesterol/ Lipid profile
-Ischemic heart disease
-Cardio vascular risk / disability

Refined oil mafia are quite influential to fund a favourable study that refined oils aka healthy oils were meant to do good to your than trad cold pressed oils

As health is subjective to individual so does oils were subjective to region person lived (Tropical bio diversity)

My ninety year old client called me for a clarification.. He is a upsaka of Shri Karthikeya ..

Sharing his prayer advice to me if you believe in divine intervention / support - Small thread

Subramanya bhujangam :

Set of Sanskrit Shlokas resembling serpent shape was written and composed by Shri adhi Shankara acharya by praying to Bhagavan Karthikeya at a place called tiruchendur in tamilnadu

- Shri Adi Sankara composed this hymn of 33 verses, in the peculiar Bhujanga metre, noted for its sinuous movement like that of a serpent.

-The Shloka is full of piety, spiritual exaltation and sung when Shri adishankara himself was undergoing life threatening illness

Shloka verses include the disease name itself in it

"When all my senses have calmed down, When I have lost my intelligence,
When I am not capable of any movement, When my throat is full of phlegm..."

"When my body is shivering due to fear, And when my soul is preparing to depart,
Without any one to help me, Oh Lord of mercy, please come fast,
For I want to be in thine presence, Lord Guha"

Mosquito Coils & Vapouriser : Passive poison

- Monsoon season do remind about mosquito menace an awful biting army

- Most sought method to repell them are mosquito Coils, Vapouriser and areosol based spray

- These are nothing but scented slow poison !

- Most of chemical based mosquito repellent are loosely regulated and classified as household insecticide

- The major chemical ingredient is allethrin a harmful type of pyrethroid and it's present inalmost all brands

-Inhaling one mosquito Coil = smoking one cigarette

Manufacturers trick the government regulations by enhancing the percentage of composition of it's derivatives as law has loop hole for
composition of allethrin only Not it's derivatives

So called extra strong, plus, jumbo etc should be read as more harmful than normal

Another way to trick the regulation is classifying the not permitted additives as other ingredients

Until there is a madrush for powerful insecticide these folks would keep surviving with innovative jargons

Repellent are heavily scented to obfuscate the excessive amount of additive in place plus tricking the users mind using soothing aroma

Is it that harmful to ingest , Yes studies says so

Rats exposed to 12-15 hours of insecticide exhibited symptoms similar to TB

Why we should avoid eating Morris /G9 banana :

Ever thought hought the following while buying bananas ?
☑️Banana in markets are so shining and evenly shaped
☑️ No mosquito or flies bothering fresh bananas
☑️ No ripened fragrance emanating from these banana

☑️ Tasting raw than it appears outside
☑️ No dots ever appeared on the banana
☑️ Neck of banana is so stiff so that banana pulp never withered off from the neck

☑️Neck of banana is never black or ripened

☑️Honest answer for above is these are genetically engineered banana features

☑️These are bananas grown from tissue culture saplings and does involve special engineering for texture, yield and even ripening time

☑️These are farmers friendly as these high yield

☑️ In my opinion these are just bananas by appearance and taste never in terms of nutrition as these are genetically engineered right from growing to ripening

☑️Cytogenetically engineered for high yield, short-term, disease resistance

☑️ These bananas can never match nutrients

My major concerns are below

☑️These banana trees can't bear offshoot by themselves would require tissue culture processed saplings from banana seeds (Monsanto greed)
☑️Pesticide are mostly injected on the plant
☑️Yield is thrice of normal and in half of time

A staple of anti-lockdown conspiracism in yoga/wellness is that public health measures are oppressive, authoritarian, and stifling what it means to be human. Masks suppress identity and speech. Vaccines assault the sovereign body. Influencers must rise up against tyranny! /1

Ironically, pandemic management in economies where yoga/wellness is lucrative has been a neoliberal, choose-your-own-adventure mess in which centre-right governments barter with public health to enact a patchwork of half-measures that punish the poor and marginalized. /2

The goal is not universal health rights, or protecting medical systems, or saving as many lives as possible. The goal is to return to business-as-usual, using public health as a pit stop on a productivity race off a cliff. The ice caps aren’t melting fast enough, I guess. /3

Right-leaning governments, like influencers, have assessed the COVID threat with the magical bias of limitless optimism. Then they work to normalize COVID casualties as a new cost of doing business. *This* is what alt-healthers and Qamoms call “socialist”, or “communist”. /4

Centre-right governments and wellness influencers share a goal: get back to the optimism of making productivity heroic and consumption virtuous, without any reflection on structural issues of injustice, or what universal health care funding and standards would look like. /5

Ashtangha Yoga or the eight limbs of Yoga-

Many people think Yoga is just an Indian physical exercise but that's wrong. Yoga is a way to connect with the Supreme in Hinduism and attain Moksha(liberation).
The proper yoga as described in Hindu scriptures consists of 8 limbs:

1) Yamas- They are the 5 ethical rules of Hinduism. The 5 Yamas are:
i) Ahimsa: Nonviolence (this also includes not eating meat)
ii) Satya: truthfulness
iii) Asteya: non-stealing
iv) Brahmacharya: chastity, sexual restraint
v) Aparigraha: non-avarice, non-possessiveness

2) Niyamas- They are the 5 "do's". The five Niyamas are:
i) Shaucha: purity of mind, speech and body
ii) Santosha: contentment
iii) Tapas: austerity, self-discipline
iv) Svadhyaya: study of Vedas(Holy books of Hindus)
v) Ishvarapranidhana: contemplation of the Ishvara (God)

3) Aasana or the physical yoga-
Asana is a posture that one can hold for a period of time, staying relaxed, steady, comfortable and motionless. The aasana postures are believed to have been given by Mahadeva (Hindu God) himself. Hatha Yoga Pradipika mentions 84 aasanas.

I know some people who seem (to me) more concerned with receiving VALIDATION for their mental health issues than solving them.

They seem to care most about other people BELIEVING their problems are real.

I'm curious about this.

Like, it's more important to them that people know how debilitating their anxiety is, than to overcome the anxiety.

Or it's important to them that others believe that they're actually depressed, not "just sad."

Or they want people buy into the narrative that they've been traumatized, and might be something like offended if someone minimizes that.

What do we make of this?

1. One possibility is that if solving the problems seems hopeless or even just really hard, you need external support to be able to cope.

If no one cuts you slack because of your mental health stuff, maybe you're in a really bad place, so you need people to believe you.

8 superfoods that will 10x your body mass:

1. Red Meat

Red meat is an excellent source of protein that aids in weight gain and muscular development.

It has leucine and creatine, which are substances important for increasing muscle building.

Protein and fat found in steak and other red meats contribute to weight gain.

2. Starchy Foods

Potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, whole grain bread, oatmeal, whole wheat pasta, and brown rice are high-carbohydrate foods.

Carbohydrates, which have a protein-sparing effect, are essential for muscle growth along with proteins.

3. Eggs

Eggs are a powerhouse of protein, zinc, vitamins A, D, B 12, phosphorus, and folate.

Egg protein has a high biological value, which makes it the ideal post-workout snack.

There are 90 calories, 6.7 grams of fat, and 6.1 grams of protein in one large scrambled egg.

4. Fatty Fish

Essential fatty acids and proteins are abundant in fatty fish like salmon.

They aid in weight gain and immune boosting.

The finest source of omega-3 which is important for weight gain is found in these fish.