(April 29, 2013 at 2:43 pm)purplepurpose Wrote: then drink few cups of boiled simple water, wait 30 min till water cleans body from toxins and only then eat.

What is "simple water?" Like just tap water? Is this to kill off any impurities?

(April 29, 2013 at 6:57 pm)Tonus Wrote:

(April 29, 2013 at 2:43 pm)purplepurpose Wrote: then drink few cups of boiled simple water, wait 30 min till water cleans body from toxins and only then eat.

What is "simple water?" Like just tap water? Is this to kill off any impurities?

Just the Hydrogen. Hold off on the Oxygen.

The best cure is healthy lifestyle, nature. Check ajurvedic supplements on net. Dabur is good company.

(April 30, 2013 at 8:53 am)purplepurpose Wrote: The best cure is healthy lifestyle, nature.

Tell that to people e.g. pre penicillin..

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Ayurveda’s invaluable secret to perfect health, beauty and balance: Ushnodaka Therapy - the regular habit of drinking boiled, hot or slightly warm water throughout the day. It strengthens digestion, relieves heartburn, aids weight loss, eases symptoms of cold, cough, fevers and detoxes the body.

The stronger the digestive fire, the stronger the mental and physical stamina, the stronger the immune system, the stronger the health and the brighter the glow of the skin.

Ayurveda recommends that you drink your water warm as cold foods and fluids can weaken your digestive fire (agni). Cold water slows down the digestive process that has just started by diluting your digestive juices so they cannot do their job as effectively. Thus requiring the energy used for digestion to be used to bring the temperature of the resultant liquid in your stomach to body temperature.

The result is partly or undigested food that moves through the digestive system and that may or may not be eliminated properly. You may also feel heavy, tired and bloated. Proper elimination is important to prevent the build up of waste material in the intestine because such a build up creates toxins and stops nutrients from being assimilated into the body.

Deepanam paachanam kantyam laghushnam basthi shodhanam || Hidmaadmaanaanilashleshmasadyahashuddhinavajware | Kaasaampinasashwaasapaarshwarukshu cha shasyate |

Hot water kindles hunger, helps in good digestion, sooths throat, cleanses bladder, reduces hiccups, and alleviates increased vata and kapha. It eases symptoms of cold, cough, fevers and breathlessness. It removes and flushes ama, the metabolic toxin of body.

Caution: if suffering from GERD, hyper acidity, inflammations, gout, pitta fevers etc. one should not drink warm water. In such cases boiled and cooled water is best.

How It Works:

The `deepana' property of warm water causes expansion of strotas (microchannels) carrying digestive juices, thus increasing their flow, resulting in proper digestion of food. Boiling water, changes its nature, making it lighter and changes its potency (virya) from cold (sheeta) to warm (ushna).By boiling the drinking water for five minutes the intelligence of the element of fire is incorporated, which magnifies the properties of the water. This sharpness (sookshma). allows it to cleanse the channels and penetrate deeper levels of the physiology to hydrate the tissues, and thus it becomes easier for the body to flush out toxins and impurities.

Ancient texts state the difference in the rate of absorption of regular water vs. boiled water: • regular water - takes about 6 hours if every channel is clear • boiled and cooled water - takes about 3 hours to be absorbed, and helps open the channels • hot herbalized water - takes about 1 1/2 hours, due to sharpness of agni and herbs and spices

How much:

Ayurveda recommends sipping warm drinking water with a moderate mineral content. How much water you should drink depends on your age, how much physical work or exercise you do, the weather, your diet, your stress levels, your herbal food supplements, and your body type. The warm Pitta types usually are thirstier than the watery Kapha types. Vata types are often constipated or have dry skin and thus need to drink more water. Drinking six to eight large glasses of boiled water per day is a profound therapy for hydrating the skin and body and keeping toxins under control. Do remember, it is the frequency rather than the quantity that is important here.

At meals:

It is an Ayurvedic digestion rule that drinking cold water during and after a meal is not good for the body. Water at meals can be room temperature or hot, but should never be ice-cold, as that would douse the digestive fire. Forty-five minutes after the meal, you may drink a lot of water as the body needs it for digestion. The water can be sipped during and after meals, but not on an empty stomach.

How to boil:

Boil a sufficient amount of un-chlorinated tap water or (still) mineral water in an open saucepan, for at least ten minutes. Keep this water in a thermos flask and take a few sips (or more, if you are thirsty) every half-hour throughout the day. To increase the positive effect you can add 1-2 slices of fresh ginger (or a pinch of ginger powder) to the water when boiling it. Once this is done you have “ushnodaka”, or warm (boiled) water. You won’t need to re-heat the water after it cools as its nature is now warm.

Ayurveda prescribes three different temperatures for drinking boiled water, depending on the body type. • Kapha can sip the water hot. This reduces the toxic build-up to which kapha type skin is prone. • Pitta types should cool the boiled water to body temperature and drink with or after meals. Pitta types must be careful to avoid hot temperatures. • Vata types can drink the water warm, avoiding hot and cold. Their cool, dry skin needs warm-temperature water for hydration and to clear the channels and burn ama.

Boiled water can be used throughout the day but should not be saved overnight, since its therapeutic properties expire.

Allow me to provide the tl;dr translation:

"Woo!"

It's very irresponsible to recommend alternative medicine to someone with a serious chemical imbalance. It is potentially harmful. Chemicals do have side effects, but at least they do their job. Alternative medicine does nothing. That is reality.

(April 30, 2013 at 12:13 pm)futilethewinds Wrote: It's very irresponsible to recommend alternative medicine to someone with a serious chemical imbalance. It is potentially harmful. Chemicals do have side effects, but at least they do their job. Alternative medicine does nothing. That is reality.

Nature, sport. Natural ajurvedic supplements whit herbs, fruits,roots in them wont harm only heal.

(April 28, 2013 at 7:16 pm)Jextin Wrote: risperdal works amazing for my mind but god damn it the side effects are becoming unbearable, i get trembling and my appetite is like 99x increased and i've been on and off it for over a year but i can't take it anymore

I tried also abilify which did nothing, seroquel which kinda helped but also increased appetite, safris which made me puke, and geodon which made me go insane. As far as antidepressants and mood stabalizers, I see 0 effect with the several that I have tried.

I agree with the others. Getting a "recommendation regarding drug therapy online is silly and dangerous.

(April 28, 2013 at 7:16 pm)Jextin Wrote: Hoping i can get a Dr. Appointment this week, but its tough because I am guessing she isn't very experienced, she always asks me which med I want to try next so hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

Please help, can't take it anymore, thanks

Change your doctor. If you are not happy with her treatment then get a second opinion and go from there.

Looked up the drugs you are on and possible reason why you are taking them.... the side effects are horrendous.

Goodluck

(April 30, 2013 at 12:23 pm)purplepurpose Wrote:

(April 30, 2013 at 12:13 pm)futilethewinds Wrote: It's very irresponsible to recommend alternative medicine to someone with a serious chemical imbalance. It is potentially harmful. Chemicals do have side effects, but at least they do their job. Alternative medicine does nothing. That is reality.

Nature, sport. Natural ajurvedic supplements whit herbs, fruits,roots in them wont harm only heal.

Oh they won't, huh?

By the way it's Ayurveda, not ajurveda. wooooo~

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurvedic#Safety

Quote:Rasa shastra, the practice of adding metals, minerals or gems to herbs, may have toxic heavy metals such as lead, mercury and arsenic. Adverse reactions to herbs due to their pharmacology are described in traditional ayurvedic texts, but ayurvedic practitioners are reluctant to admit that herbs could be toxic and that reliable information on herbal toxicity is not readily available. And there is communication gap between modern medicine practitioners and Ayurvedic practitioners

According to a 1990 study on ayurvedic medicines in India, 41 percent of the products tested contained arsenic, and 64 percent contained lead and mercury. A 2004 study found toxic levels of heavy metals in 20 percent of ayurvedic preparations made in South Asia and sold in the Boston area, and concluded that ayurvedic products posed serious health risks and should be tested for heavy-metal contamination.

As far as healing goes...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurvedic#S..._appraisal

Quote:As a traditional medicine, many ayurveda products have not been tested in rigorous scientific studies and clinical trials. In India, research in ayurveda is undertaken by the statutory body of the Central Government, the Central Council for Research in Ayurveda and Siddha (CCRAS), through a national network of research institutes. A systematic review of ayurveda treatments for rheumatoid arthritis concluded that there was insufficient evidence, as most of the trials were not done properly, and the one high-quality trial showed no benefits. A review of ayurveda and cardiovascular disease concluded that the evidence for ayurveda was not convincing, though some herbs seemed promising.

Two varieties of Salvia have been tested in small trials; one trial provided evidence that Salvia lavandulifolia (Spanish sage) may improve word recall in young adults, and another provided evidence that Salvia officinalis (Common sage) may improve symptoms in Alzheimer's patients. Many plants used as rasayana (rejuvenation) medications are potent antioxidants. Neem appears to have beneficial pharmacological properties. Turmeric and curcumin have shown effectiveness in preventing and treating cancer.

Recently, there are some PubMed indexed journals being published in the field of Ayurveda.

There is no evidence that this stuff does anything at all to help with neurological conditions, and its benefits can just as easily be replicated by drinking a glass of V8. Stop selling us snake oil, nobody wants it.

I am so far beyond merely tired of people saying "NATURE WILL CURE YOU!"

Nature will murder the fuck out of you if you just traipse into it and start devouring random shit. Isn't the ratio of edible-to-toxic plants for humans like one in ten? Natural remedies can eat my asshole, I'm not trusting some uneducated dipshit who just plucks and grinds up random fucking plants and sells them to a bunch of dumb-shit white-bread yuppie fucks who think that horse-hair tampons will prevent ovarian cancer or some shit.