Potato juice for Arthritis

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One of the top natural remedies for arthritis is using potato juice to help rheumatoid arthritis, as well as all other types of arthritis. Individuals have been using potato juice to cure this condition for centuries, and throughout this time millions of individuals have found relief by utilizing the juice of this vegetable. What you will want to do is take a potato that is medium-sized and cut it into small slices. Make sure that you do not remove the skin prior to cutting the slices. After you have completed this you will want to put the potato slices into a glass of water and let it sit there overnight. In the morning you will want to drink the glass of water which has now been filled with the juices of the potato. If you have a juicer, you can also extract the juice by putting the potato into the machine. Either way you will want to consume the drink on an empty stomach to ensure your body absorbs all of the healing qualities. You can also drink juices from many other green leafy vegetables, as long as they are mixed with celery, red beets and carrots. The reason why raw juices help so much is because they literally help remove the deposits around your joints that cause your arthritis pain.

Fig -Fruit

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-05-28/diet/29816860_1_dried-figs-potassium-dried-form

- Pectin, a soluble fibre found in figs is beneficial for the digestive system. This soluble fibre helps in clearing out the accumulating cholesterol in the body.

- Hypertension may arise when there's more intake if sodium and low potassium levels in the body. Figs however, are low in sodium and high in potassium and hence, helps in prevention of hypertension.

- Dried figs are said to contain omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids along with phenol. These are useful in preventing coronary heart diseases.

- Figs are also a source of calcium, which is good for strengthening of the bones.

- Because figs are rich in potassium, it helps in regulating blood sugar. This is beneficial for people who are diabetics. Also, people whose diet is sodium may suffer form urinary calcium loss. The high potassium content in figs, helps in prevention of this.

- Eating figs are said to be an effective cure for treating sore throat because of their high mucilage content.

- Traditionally, figs have also been used for treating sexual weakness. The remedy requires one to soak about two to three figs in milk overnight and eat the same next morning.

- Because figs contain iron, they are useful in treating anaemia.

- Mash about fresh figs and them on your face and leave for 10 to 15 minutes. This is useful for treating acne and pimples.

- It is said that eating figs can relieve fatigue and boost brain power too.

- As one grows older, one tends to suffer from macular degeneration i.e. weakness of the vision. Eating figs can hep prevent this.

Tips - Health

1. If we want all the nutrients, we should buy, fresh vegetables and fruits once in two or three days. Only natural way of life can save people.
2. eat groundnuts, coconut, sesame etc., as they are, it doesn’t do any harm
3. The sweet item that doesn’t cause you any harm 1. Honey. 2. Sugar Cane Juice
4. Lemon is available throughout the year. It can be used as a replacement to salt.
5. Carrot has  Potassium - 1081mg and  Sodium 36mg.
6. All fruits, vegetable, seeds, milk contain more of potassium and less of sodium content.
7. Eat Pomegranate,Mango,Water melon,Papayya 

When you heat any food, the potassium content in it gets destroyed.
When you add salt for taste it increases the sodium content from 2 to 236 mg.
The cooked food becomes harmful because it increases the salt content and decreases the potassium content.

(From Christmas to New year it is only one week! But from New year to Christmas it is almost one whole year! So if the ratio is reversed it causes enormous harm).

Cooking food is harmful; adding salt to it is more harmful.
Adding oil, chili powder or spice to green peas is not causing harm to the cell or to the ratio of the two elements.

A mere addition of salt is greatly disturbing the ratio.

Eating food sitting on the floor

Let’s examine how the modern culture has changed our eating style. Our elders used to wash their feet before eating. Then they sat on the floor with their legs folded. Those two actions have two benefits. First, washing of feet with cold water enables a quick flow of blood upwards. The second, sitting with folded legs prevents the flow of blood downwards. So the extra blood gathers at the intestines. That means the blood that has to reach the feet moves to the stomach. Since more blood is supplied to the stomach, food is digested easily and quickly. There is yet another benefit. When you eat food sitting on the floor you are forced to bend forward. In the process a part of the stomach gets closed. So even if you eat your stomach full, once you finish eating and get up, one third of your stomach is still empty. To eat only up to two thirds of your stomach and leave one third is always good for your health. This is involuntarily done for those who sit down and eat.

Routine Required

To begin with, try to get up early in the morning.


Take up a decision that not to eat breakfast until and unless we drink as
much water as possible, urinate and do exercise until sweat.

As far as possible do pranayama exercises outside, in the open air, if possible.

Have head bath everyday with cold water.

Drink fresh fruit juice on an empty stomach.

Eat sprouts and raw vegetables compulsorily as food (other items can be had after eating these).

Eat lunch before 12 noon or 1 p.m.

Lunch could be plenty of curry, curds and unpolished rice.

Eat it pleasantly.

Eat fruits and raw vegetables in the afternoon.

Drink plenty of water in the evening to have a free motion again.

Have dinner before sunset.

Eat light food in the evening that can be digested easily.

Spend nighttime in good discussions, reading good books, which would fill our mind with peace.

Sleep once the food gets digested.

Such a routine as detailed above is good for health.

Taste vs Food

Taste is different from food. Food is for protection. Taste is for destruction

Salt -Taste for Mind or Body?

Everybody agrees it is required for the mind.

A woman fought with her husband thus,

Monday -prepared eggplant curry -you said it was wonderful,
Tuesday -prepared eggplant you said it was very tasty,
Wednesday - it was good.
Thursday - you ate silently,
Friday -you grumbled,
Saturday, today you threw it on my face!
Why what’s wrong with you? Why are you so angry?

Poor man’s mind, how long will it bear the same old curry
So we understand clearly that taste is for the mind and automatically the taste ‘salt’ is for the mind and not for the body.

You don’t mind having a little less of salt, but not a little more of salt.
Your body is used to a certain amount of salt.
Lesser quantity makes it feel light, but a greater quantity makes you spit it at once.

Why?

You put a pinch of salt in the mouth of a month old baby whose food is only milk.
At once his smiling face becomes irritable and he spits it out.
Who taught him not to eat it?
We too repeat the same spitting,
Why? We do like salt! Why then should we spit out?
It is because it is the duty of the body to protect itself from the enemies.from the entry of harmful things into the body.


Smoke
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The first time you smoke a cigarette you cough terribly.
Your throat and nose burn due to the smoke.But if you persist for some days the cough disappears.

brandy
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when you drink brandy for the first time, you may even vomit due to its bitter taste.
But once you become alcoholic, you love its taste.
Just ten days’ friendship turned bad into good for the body.

So also salt becomes good to the body.

Arthritis - My favourite

Arthritis: The excess of salt in the body affects the joints.

Cobwebs gather more in corners, so also salt in joints.

If you ask a beggar for his life ambition, he will promptly say, ‘one day I should beg in America’.

It means even if he is given a chance, he can’t come out of his begging instinct.

The same way, the salt, which is harmful, can’t keep quiet without decaying or spoiling the part of the body in which it is!

The salt stagnated between the joints eats away the gummy substance and joints.

Don’t think that your arthritis is because of your age.

It is because of the salt that is in joints. Simple remedy to cure arthritis is - giving up salt.

Honey reduces arthritis because of the malic acid in it

Taken from Food and Thought

Miss Chili – The Tongue-teaser

Miss Chili – The Tongue-teaser


I am Miss Chili. I can reduce saltlessness to some extent.
My specialty is, I provide taste to your food without causing any harm to you. My other friends spoil your body, but not me!
You know my other specialty?
Only I can tease the tongue, which teases everybody! So people call me a tongue – teaser!
People treat me as a villain carried away by my color and taste. I can’t understand why they are so scared of poor me! I look frightening but in fact I am so lovable!
I make fun of only Mr. Tongue but I don’t hate anybody.
People think I cause ‘Ulcers’ in the stomach and so blame me unnecessarily!
I am in a way responsible for that!
You do get ulcers due to the tea, coffee you drink, the fats you eat and the anger and tension you undergo, but definitely not because of me.
I may cause a little inconvenience to you during ulcer, but I am not the cause of ulcer.
Let me reveal one secret about me!
If you use more of me, I make you jump about while eating and even while shitting.
So don’t take me for granted.
No offence, no defense!
If you irritate me, I irritate you!
But that’s all! I am far better than the other tastes you enjoy!
I don’t remain in your internal parts like salt, oil and sugar and I don’t harm you.
I was given due respect in the olden days but nowadays people are passing the buck on me!
Come what may they are blaming me and are doing away with me.
They are boasting themselves that they are eating without me.
They are showing undue respect to salt, oil ghee, sugar and spices thereby causing harm to their internal parts!
They in turn they have to be treated in hospitals.

I have a twin sister- Red chili.
The more she is dried, the hotter she becomes.
Those who eat salt less food can eat me-the green chili to some extent.
Red chili has to go with salt and tamarind.

We are born to die! Of course, we shouldn’t be scared of death which is inevitable.

We are sent to the world with a life purpose.
We should be grateful for creating us on this earth, for providing us the natural sources of air, water and sunlight to lead our life.

We can reciprocate our love and gratitude to the creators by providing a fellow being joy and happiness in our limited way!

My life purpose is fulfilled since as a chili. I am able to provide you happiness and taste.

I have done my duty properly.

My last moments in your hands only fill me with pleasure.

So I, Miss Chili, am happily going towards my deathbed, the knife! Every drop of my chili blood is spent in serving you people!

Good-bye!

Taken from Food and Thought.

Medicine

1.Medicine for appetite(Appetite is the desire to eat food, felt as hunger)-

Drink - 4 days -early in the morning -  juice (made out of ginger and coriander seeds, plus honey)- natural juice raises your appetite.

Taken from food and Thought.

Cooked Food - Disadvantages

Cooked food itself is bad. And adding tastes to that food is harmful.
Cooked food is easy to eat and we tend to eat it more than needed. That itself becomes harmful to the body. It is a wrong notion that we should eat only cooked food.

Vitamin ‘C’ is lost not only while cooking, but also by preserving the food for a long time and by heating it again

Harmful effects of Refrigeration

The harm caused due to eating refrigerated food:


1.Cold food cannot be chewed properly. We try to gulp them at once. Saliva is not produced enough as a result food is not digested properly.

2.Enamel on the teeth gets spoiled due to the coldness.

3.The tonsils in the throat get infected frequently. As a result they can’t stop theentry of bacteria and virus into the body along with food. The tonsils lose their energy.

4.The phlegm in the throat gets obstructed and doesn’t come out easily. It results in an increase in cough.

5. Just as we contract our selves in cold weather, so do the parts in our body. The stomach which is at 99° come down to 20° when we eat cold food. Due to thecoldness, the digestive action stops at once. It doesn’t start, till the heat comes backto 99° again. The digestive juices don’t get secreted at all. For nearly 30 minutesdigestive action comes to a standstill. The resistance power also doesn’t function properly.

6.You can’t drink the required quantity of water due to the coldness.   7.The milk taken out of fridge takes a longer time to boil than the milk kept outside.The same theory applies for the digestion too.
If we want all the nutrients we should buy, fresh vegetables and fruits once in two or three days. Only natural way of life can save human beings.

Taken from a book Food and Thought