398 Nature Cure has utility but should not end up as fad प्रकृति चिकित्सा ప్రకృతి చికిత్స

398 प्रकृति चिकित्सा कितना शास्त्रीय है ?
398 ప్రకృతి చికిత్స కొంతమేరకు ఉపయోగకరమే, కానీ అది వ్యక్తుల జీవితాల్లో ఒక వేలంవెర్రిగా, కాళ్ళకు బందంగా తయారు కాకూడదు.



Photo courtesy outlookindia.com.

First I shall give a link to a very apt, beautiful, critical piece of article on the fad of Nature cure which is growing influenced by TV preachings.  This article is from Andhrajyothy.com, one of the the top three dailies of Andhra Pradesh.

पहले मैं, प्रकृति चिकित्सा के सनक झक पर, एक मुँहतोड, सुंदर, विवेचनात्मक व्यास के लिंक दे रहा हूँ।  यह तॆलुगु में है।  आंध्रज्योति तॆलुगु अखबार दिनांक २७.११.१४ में छपा हूआ है।  मैं आगे दिनों में इस के अनुवाद और इस पर एक सुदीर्घ टिप्पणि देने के लिये कोशिस करता हूँ।

http://www.andhrajyothy.com/Artical.aspx?SID=53597&SupID=25

The issues raised and answered in this article are worth pondering over everybody who is concerned about finding solutions to the problems of health and medication, amidst the ghastly system of modern medical industry.

इस व्यास में उठाया गया और जवाब दिया गया अंश, आधुनिक वैद्य और चिकित्साशालाओं से थका हूआ, और आल्टर्नेट चिकित्सा या आरोग्य पध्धतियों को खोजनेवाले को  बहुत चिंतना योग्य और महसूस है।

ఒక లోకోక్తి ఉంది.  యముడు ప్రాణాలను హరిస్తే, వైద్యుడు ప్రాణాలనే కాక, బ్రతుకుతెరువు మరియు ఉన్న ఇల్లు వాకిళ్ళను కూడ హరిస్తాడు.  ఆధునిక వైద్య మరియు వైద్యశాలా పరిశ్రమల విషయంలో ఇది అక్షరాలా నిజం.  ఆధునిక వైద్యంతో విసిగిపోయే, ఆధునికేతర వైద్య మరియు ఆరోగ్య రక్షణ పధ్ధతులను వెతుక్కునే వాళ్ళ కొరకు ఇది చాల చింతనీయమైన వ్యాసం.  ఇందులో లేవనెత్తి, జవాబిచ్చిన అంశాలపై ప్రతివారు ఆలోచించి, తామేమైనా వేలం వెర్రిలో ఇరుక్కొని తమ శరీరాన్ని, ఆరోగ్యాన్ని పెనం లోంచి పొయ్యిలో పడేసుకుంటున్నామా అనే విషయాన్ని గురించి ఆలోచించాలి.

నేను కూడ ఈ విషయం గురించి వ్రాయాల్సింది ఒక వేయి పేజీలు దాకా ఉంది.

Today I shall touch one item.  आज एक ऐटम को क्लुप्त रूप से अनुशीलन करता हुँ।  ఈరోజు ఒక అంశం గురించి సృశిస్తాను.

First a slide-show on  drinking water, courtesy: rediff.com.
http://www.rediff.com/money/slide-show/slide-show-1-special-thirst-for-water-images-from-around-the-world/20120323.htm#6

It has become a fad for some health-conscious persons to drink six litres of water per day, because a TV preacher is strongly urging his viewers to drink six litres water per day.  This seems to be unreasonable, because humans need to drink water on the basis of the constitution of their individual bodies.  This need may vary as per seasons, type of food consumed, condition of their skin pores, condition of their kidneys, their body fluids, etc.  Very often, body itself seeks water whenever it needs and sends us signals from brain, we feel thirsty, and drink water as per body's responses.  Unless there is a shortage of water or surfeit of water, the decision on how much water is input into the body, is not a conscious deliberated decision.  This is a part of our natural instinct.

We can say this body-instinct-dictated natural behavior in babies, and very young children.  Howsoever strongly a mother may impose her views on the baby/child it will not drink/eat more than what its body decides and dictates.

I recall my own personal experience when I was a around three years child.  At that time, I didn't allow my grandfather to feed me with dairy products such as yoghurt (curd), butter, cheese.   To deceive me he used to hide a small ball of butter in a morsel of jowar + hibiscus canabinus + clarified butter (ghee), or a small ball of curd in a cud of jowar + garlic-chillipowder + clarified butter (ghee) and thrust into my mouth.  The moment the taste of a dairy product touched the taste buds on my tongue, I used to protest and vomit the stuff.  This hatred for dairy products continued till I was ten.

Then, inexplicably, as a ten year boy, I started consuming dairy products without being pressed by anybody, but my body started repelling onion.  This time it was like a conflict of the Calvin (in the Calvin Hobbes Comic fame) against his baby-sitter and his parents, I too had to fight for my food without onions.  My parents liked onions very much and there were never curries or soups without onions, on any day in the home.  It was a hell for me.  My parents' dictum, it was reasonable for them, was to say:  For your sake, why should we forsake onions?  If you have an abhorrence for onions, you segregate them when you eat, and consume the remaining.   But the segregation work was not easy.  It will be like picking out corrupt employees in an Indian Government Office and segregating them to push them into innocuous seats.  Instead I preferred to segregate the vegetable pieces from the heap of onions.

Fortunately, this hatred for onions disappeared when I went to Hyderabad for livelihood, when I was 17.  May be, the maxims: Necessity is the mother of invention or,  sweet are the uses of adversity.

Suppose, if we persist with this type of choosiness in eliminating unwanted food items from the stuff sold in our hotels, in a plate of puri served with boiled potato curry (different varieties such as kUra, kurma, sAgu etc.), we can find only onions and no potatoes.  When onion prices go up in India, that too happens quite frequently, what we can find in these puri curries?

Incidentally, if a person has to drink six litres per day of clean drinking water (in Guntur tea stalls, its price is Rs. 4 per litre), we have to spend Rs. 24/- on water alone, or carry a big Milton Jug of 6 litres, to wherever we go on our job.  Gone were the days when street taps used to profusely ooze out or shower out water .  In fact, British Government made an Inns Act (equivalent present day Hotels), (still in force, but redundant in our current business-driven world), which says that Inns have to serve free water to one and all including wayfarers, and  cannot refuse if anybody tries to drink free water from its tables.  Mr. Modi's Govt. may repel it now treating it as an obsolete piece of legislation.

The remarks made in the above article, about the habit of drinking water while eating food.  Both Indian Nature cure and Ayurveda Systems discourage it on the ground that digestive juices get diluted when water is drunk with meal, and that meals will not be digested.  A thumb rule is made out that water should not be drunk within 2 1/2 hours prior to and after a meal.  The reasons given in the article to support the idea of drinking water intermittently with meal, against the dicta of the TV preachers not to drink water during meals, are worth considering.

My point of view is: Body knows best when and how much water to drink.  Our bodies are more analytical than our TV preachers.  Body may call for more water when hot foods are eaten (these are UshNa vIryam in Ayurvedic language, eg. pepper, chillies).  Consumption of oily stuff may also warrant drinking of more water.  Madhura rasa foods (sweet taste foods such as sugar, jaggery, honey) have a tendency to satiate thirst and body may not call for more water after consumption of Madhura rasa and tikta rasa (bitter taste).  On the other hand, lavaNa (salt), katu (hot) tasting foods may need more water.  They seem to have a tendency to dehydrate body.

The amount of physical exertion will also influence body's demand for water.   This is because when we do some physical labor, we sweat, and water gets excreted through sweat pores, and we need more water to replenish.   During summer, sweat glands work more and hence we may feel more thirsty.  In winter, kidneys takeover, if they work well, we may feel thirsty.

IMPORTANT AYURVEDIC DICTUM WORTH CONSIDERING AND ANALYSING

50% of body should be filled with solid food, 25% with water and the remaining should be left vacant.  This vacant space will be used by gases released in the digestive process.  Else, there will be no space for gases, if the entire stomach is loaded with food and water.


Water scarcity in Telugu Land

Photo courtesy Outlookindia.com.



To see a beautiful article at the above outlookindia.com, click: अवुटलुकइंडिया में मुद्रित एक सुंदर व्यास को देखने के लिये क्लिक.  పై బొమ్మ ఉన్న అవుట్ లుక్ ఆర్టికిల్ చదవాలనుకునే వారికి లింక్, క్లిక్.


http://www.outlookindia.com/printarticle.aspx?240637

Wherefrom we can get six litres of clean drinking water per day? हमारे को हर दिन छे लीटर पीने पानी कहाँ से मिलेगा? మనకు రోజుకి ఆరులీటర్ల శుభ్రమైన నీళ్ళు తాగటానికి ఎక్కడ నుండి వస్తాయి.
Summary:  We cannot make a hard and fast rule that a person should drink minimum six litres of water per day.  No max. or no min.

To continue सशेष సశేషం. 

397 Abhinava Sitayanam

397 अभिनव सीतायण
397 అభినవ సీతాయణం


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Our Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi's "dharmapatni" (Western Civilisation does not know this culture, or this term.  Hence there is no English word for this.  Hence I am unable to use it), Mrs. Jashoda Ben's travails, when we read in newspapers, our hearts get filled with anxiety, if not grief.

हमारे प्रियतम प्रधानी महोदय श्री नरेंद्र मोडी महाशय के धर्मपत्नी की चिंतांओं को हम अखबारों में पढने कॆ समय में,  हमारे दिल और मस्तिष्क दोनों व्याकुल होने का संभावना मुझे आ रहा है।


మన ప్రియతమ ప్రధాని శ్రీరామచంద్రతుల్యుడు శ్రీ నరేంద్రమోడీ గారి ధర్మపత్ని శ్రీమతి జశోదా బెన్ గారి బాధలు చూస్తుంటే, గుండెలు తరుక్కుపోతున్నాయి.

Links to read the news reports:

 http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/pm-wife-jashodaben-rti-application-security-cover/1/403560.html

Hindi: http://www.jagran.com/news/national-jashodaben-files-rti-about-her-security-cover-11806206.html

తెలుగు http://www.andhrajyothy.com/Artical.aspx?SID=54997&SupID=31

ybrao a donkey's humble opinion वैबीराव एक गधे के विनम्र राय వైబీరావు గాడిద యొక్క వినయపూర్వక అభిప్రాయం (నాతో మీరు ఏకీభవించనవసరం లేదు.  You need not agree with me.  मुझ से आप मुझ से सहमत होने का जरूरत नहीं है।).

1.  The problem of Mrs. Jashoda Ben appears more to be ethical, rather than legal.  Somebody seems to have misdirected her to RTI.  May be some legal-minded fellow.   Though, nobody can predict with cent percent exactitude what can happen to anybody in future, whether security is made available or not, I personally feel that her life is not endangered.  I may be wrong.  Reason:  She worked as a teacher in  remote Muslim dominated villages, and locals knew that she was wife of Mr. Narendra Modi, the then Chief Minister of Gujarat.  There were no security guard arrangements for her life which were openly known, as the wife of the CM, while there were bulletproof cars and Chambers for her husband, Mr. Narendra Modi.    She lived in a one room tenement without a toilet.  She shaped many poor young children into future fruitful citizens.  She was respected by villagers.  At no point of time, there was no threat to her life.

Her, reported doubt now expressed that, just as Ms. Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her own guards, she could have a life risk from her guards, seem to be not on sound lines.  Hence, approaching Supdt. of Police with RTI application does not appear to serve any meaningful purpose.

The only restriction on her seemed to be that she should not speak to Media.  She had got very very rare opportunities to speak to media.  Somebody was apparently preventing her from approaching Media to ventilate her miseries.

Her grievance that while her guards move on cars, while she has to use public transport despite being PM's wife, does not seem to help her case.  If she were (is?) really interested in cars and luxuries, she could have raised this question in 2002 itself, when her husband became the Chief Minister of Gujarat.  Already 12 years have elapsed, without any Chief Ministerial luxuries.  Now, there will be no logic craving for cars, as prime period of life was already past (we do not have a right to call it 'wasted').

I personally feel that there is a strong need for her to write her autobiography.  Nowadays, even if she does not have skills of an author, it does not really matter.  What skills does Mr. Sachin Tendulkar have to write his autobiography.  It will be suffice if she narrates, and co-author will write.  But she may have to study the draft thoroughly and prevent  the prospective co-author and the publishers from sensationalising the issue for making quick bucks.   She can at least start her own blog.

3.  Admirers of Mr. Narendra Modi say that his patriotism and commitment to the RSS was the reason for his keeping aloof from his wife.  Let us join them in admiration.   But one question, still lurks.

Freedom fighters of pre-1947 neglected their families in their anxiety to serve the Nation.  My own maternal grandfather did it and lost 60 acres of fertile land in the process.  He died before freedom.  My maternal grand mother fended their three daughters and three sons left by the husband, by working as a kitchen servant in the houses of rich persons, as she could not get a freedom-fighter's pension, as my grandfather did not go to jail.

When we come to the cases of those freedom fighters who were alive after freedom, if they and their wives survived in spite of deprivation and hardships, after the freedom, -- they lived happy family lives, whether as poor or as rich (depending on their financial position and Govt. support etc. etc.).   That means a conjugal reunion, rejuvenated  their joy.  A similar event should be possible even in case of Mr. Narendra Modi.  Now that he has become P.M., and is reportedly piloting this country into the cosmic trajectory of development, a reunion will definitely help both the case of Mr. Narendra Modi and the Indian Nation. 

4. Now, Mr. Modi has grown to a gigantic size, so patagonian and titanic, that nobody can dare to advise him, on delicate matters like this.  Even in the earlier avtars also, I am not sure, whether he had any personal advice or counseling from elders like RSS SarSanghchalak, or Mr. Vajpayee or Mr. Advani - the advice they might have given on their own volition or when sought by Mr. Narendra Modi.

Only AkASh VANi (Not All India Radio) should counsel him, just as the Voice from the sky guided Dushyanta, Shri Ramachandra et al making them to reconsider their decisions.


4. Supreme Court may have to suo motu  take up the task of issuing appropriate guidelines for the physical and emotional protection of Mrs. Jashoda Ben, as a part of protecting Indian women from perceived apprehensions and real fears.  This cannot be left to executive decisions at District, State and Central levels, because they have to decide on the security of a person of the 3rd highest level in the protocol (After President of India, Vice President, --PM and his family come third).   We cannot expect the Prime Minister himself to decide on this because there will be a conflict of interest.  Central Cabinet cannot decide on it because they are not independent in the true sense of the word 'independent authority', because the appointments of Cabinet Ministers are at the mercy and prerogative of the Prime Minister himself.

Supreme Court can take assistance from psychologists, psychiatrists, amicus curiae, Special Investigation Teams, CBI, etc.

5.  It will be reasonable for Indian Citizens to expect that Mr. Narendra Modi has to make a rethinking on the status of Mrs. Prime Minister and the third citizen of India (she is not just a retired Govt. teacher, and a woman abandoned by her husband to her fate and to the whims of bureaucrats).   It will be reasonable to expect that he will not treat her as an avoidable nuisance, howsoever busy he may be visiting great countries of the world and, meeting great leaders of the world, hosting and being hosted by them, meeting great industrialists, film stars, cricketers and who else not of this country.

This is just some loud wishful thinking.

(May need revision to checkup whether hurts sentiments of anybody.  Incomplete.  To continue.)