Healthy PrasÍda from Pujya Bapuji
For problems of VÍta or flatulence
If someone has flatulence, he should eat 1-2 seeds of black or white pepper, 5-7 tulsi (holy basil) leaves, and 1 table spoonful of ghee. Any type of flatulence will be cured. Aggravated VÍta can also be pacified by pressing the terminal joints of the little finger of both hands between the teeth simultaneously. If you have a sudden problem in the heart (heartburn) or gaseous abdominal distension, then on doing this, you will feel relieved or it will be controlled.
One should avoid potatoes, rice and chickpeas in frequent VÍta problems and gaseous distension. These foods increase VÍta. If a person suffering from VÍta problems drinks milk, he should add 1-2 seeds of black pepper to it.
What lesson and hint does the illness give?
Whatever disease comes, it gives a hint to keep restraint on food and drink intake. Fast once a week or observe the Vrata on Ekadashi which falls once a fortnight, if you have a protuberant belly. Do not eat anything or just drink plain lukewarm or lemon water. bL²>KZ§ na_m¡fY_² &... Langhnam paramaushadham….. (Fasting is the best medicine.) AY©amoJh[a {ZÐm gd©amoJh[a jwYm & ardhrog hari nidra sarvarog hari kshudha (Half of the disease is alleviated by sound sleep and the disease is completely cured by appetite.) Fast and rest devours diseases. Medicine does not cure a person as quickly as fasting does.
One should eat 15-25 gm raisins after washing them if one feels weak while fasting, and that is enough. All illnesses just vanish. People take raisins or currants without washing them. Insecticides or preservatives are sprayed on them which are poisonous and harmful. One should wash them three or four times before eating. You may also wash them by using water with a few drops of gau-mutra (cow’s urine) or gau-mutra ark in it.
Do prÍnÍyÍmas, offer arghya (libations of water) to the Sun god and visualise the Sun god on your navel and meditate. By doing this, a disease free state will be attained.
Couplets for Health
Eat anise and cinnamon in the summer; cloves in the winter.
Triphala in all seasons, disease is always removed.
Whenever VÍta-Pitta increases, and causes affliction, upon eating dried ginger and Indian gooseberry with grapes, the pain vanishes.
This month is known for increasing VÍta and Pitta. One should take the decoction prepared from a mixture of dried ginger, Indian gooseberry and grapes or take the mixture without boiling and it will alleviate all types of ailments caused by aggravation of VÍta and Pitta.
Whenever a cough makes you restless, Get relief by taking roasted asafetida and cloves¹.
Take milk at the end of the day²,
Drink water at the end of the night.
Take buttermilk at the end of a meal, Remember God each and every second.
1. A cough is relieved if roasted cloves or asafetida, fried in ghee, are kept in the mouth and sucked continuously. 2. at night.