Rajen's Easytips: November 2019

OZONE THERAPY FOR DAMAGED CELLS

Ozone is oxygen with three atoms.
In nature, the ozone layer is created by the action of ultraviolet rays on atmospheric oxygen 20 to 30 km from the earth’s surface.
It is also generated by action of high voltage thunder (lightening) on atmospheric oxygen near the earth and from the action of sea waves on oxygen at the sea shore.
In the upper atmosphere, the ozone layer protects earth from the harmful effects of ultraviolet rays.

In the lower atmosphere, ozone protects us from pollution by hydrocarbons by reacting with them to form non-toxic carbon dioxide and water.

1. Ozone’s effect on health

It inactivates viruses, parasites, bacteria, yeast, fungi, parasites and protozoa.
It stimulates the immune system and speeds healing of the body.
It cleans arteries and veins to improve blood circulation.
It oxidizes toxins and facilitates their excretion.
It normalizes hormone and enzyme production.
It reduces inflammation and pain.
It scavenges free radicals.
It stimulates production of protective enzymes.

2. Medical usage of ozone

As ozone works on the cellular level, it can be effectively used for healing.
When a cell is stressed by physical or chemical shock, or by viral, bacterial or fungal attack, its energy levels are reduced by the outflow of electrons and it becomes electropositive.
Ozone possesses the third atom of oxygen which is electrophillic.
The third atom’s free radical electrical charge seeks to balance itself electrically with material that has a corresponding unbalanced charge.
Diseased cells, viruses, harmful bacteria and pathogens that carry such a charge attract ozone and its by-products.
Ozone in the blood reacts with these oxidisable substrates killing viruses, bacteria and fungi.
The metabolic waste products of these organisms are also oxidized and an oxygen-rich environment is provided in which healthy cells thrive.
Healthy cells possess a balanced electrical charge and don’t react with ozone.

3. Methods of ozone application

Through direct injection into a muscle, joint or a tumour.
Through insufflations in the ear, vagina, rectum and urethra.
Through ingestion of ozonated water.
Through steam and sauna.

FRUIT BEAUTY TIPS

1. Orange

Mix orange juice with a bit of freshly brewed tea and apply on the face with a cotton swab to clear impurities.

2. Banana

Mash an over ripe banana with a little milk and honey to protect your skin from environmental pollution.

3. Grape

Grapes help maintain the youthfulness of skin with a line free face.

4. Apple

Munch an apple a day to improve your teeth and get rid of yellow stains.

FACIAL ICE CUBE CARE

Applying ice is an instant way to give your face a fresh and dewy look without wearing makeup.
If you are in a hurry, just rub a cube of ice on your face and you are good to go.
It improves blood circulation and gives your face a healthy glow.
Ice also prevents premature ageing and wrinkles.
Ice reduces large pores and minimizes the production of excess oil.
Tie 2 cubes of ice in a cloth and massage it on your face every night before going to bed.
To treat tanning, apply ice on the affected areas and get instant relief.
During a sudden break-out of acne, place an ice cube on it for instant reduction in redness and swelling.
Rubbing an ice cube on your face before makeup will make it last longer.
Instead of applying an under-ey gel to reduce dark circles, try using an ice pack before you go off to sleep.

PERSONALITY TYPES (PRAKRITI)

According to Ayurveda, air, fire and water are the three principle factors that are essential for the human body, and an imbalance in these causes diseases.
Traditional medicinal systems view the individual as a whole – constitution, susceptibility to disease, mental status, lifestyle and other factors – before prescribing treatment.
This has been refined in Ayurveda with its concept of prakriti.
The prakriti (personality) of a person is determined at conception and is unique to each person’ like the DNA or fingerprints.
Pra is the beginning and kriti is form.
Prakriti is therefore the natural constitution of the person according to nature.
There are 3 types of individual personalities prescribed by Ayurveda

Vatta prakriti or the Air type (anxious personality)
Pitta prakriti or the Fiery type (emotional personality
Kapha prakriti or the Water type (best personality)

Traits of an Anxious Type (Vata dosha) individual personality are:

Appears thin and frail but has flab around the stomach, and has small eyes.
Such people are prone to anxiety, fear and tension.
They frequently suffer from gastric problems and body pain.
Slim body with dry skin and long and slender muscles.
The hair, nails, teeth and eyes appear dry.
The voice is weak, low, crackling and hoarse.
Walk is fast, talk is fast, with quick absorption of new information.
Their memory is weak, but their grasp is quick.
Lively, airy and enthusiastic nature.
These people require little sleep and are hyperactive.
Their movements are quick and unsteady.
Due to quick action, they show early initiative in work, but because of the dry quality, soon lose strength and become tired.
Become extremely anxious when stressed, full of fears and anxiety
Sleeping and eating patterns go haywire, filled with negative thoughts due to anxiety.
When stressed, some of the physical dysfunctions include menstrual cramps.
Over a long period of stressful living, osteo-arthritis also develops.
Stressed out Vata-dominated people should have more of sweet food like potato, (not sugar), salty and sour foods with their meals.
Iced cold drinks are not advised.
A typical Vata breakfast can include the sweet taste such as rich, creamy grains with an occasional spicy touch of an idli or sambar.
They should avoid eating fried foods and drinking or bathing with cold water.
They should go for morning walks, take oil bath, eat light and fresh food and have fruits at least 3-4 times a day.

Traits of an Type-A (Emotional) (Pitta dosha) individual personality are:

They are usually fair but suffer from excessive pigmentation.
They usually have a strong body odour and are occasionally troubled by bouts of fever and nausea.
Have more muscle than the Vata-dominated person.
Have a high metabolic rate.
Tendency to eat and drink more and are often thirsty.
They develop moles and skin eruptions.
They possess soft and scanty hair and turn prematurely grey and bald.
They are unable to bear even minimum heat.
They are brave and courageous but cannot tolerate exertion.
Due to their sharp and quick actions, they have a very good intellect, grasping power, memory and have moderate strength.
They take initiative and are often mistaken as wanting to be in control of situations.
They are visual, i.e., reading is easier to absorb than just listening.
Fire and water govern their body.
They are self-disciplined where time is concerned, and hate their time being wasted.
When that happens, they get easily provoked, upset and stressed out.
They are naturally stubborn and short-tempered.
They eat spicy food, consume excessive caffeine, smoke or drink, andusually suffer from severe physical problems ranging from hairfall to hypertension.
They need more than 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep to refresh themselves.
They are punctual, and respect punctuality in others.
Responding to their seemingly unreasonable anger with gentleness, love and kindness, instead of getting critical or angry with them, is advocated because their irritation is a purely biological reaction with no personal animosity.
They also get stressed if they don’t get their meals on time.
As long as they are not stressed out, they are lovely people otherwise.
For balancing their stress, foods that are sweet, bitter and astringent are advocated.
Sweet is all types of meat too.
Green leafy vegetables are bitter and cooling foods.
Astringent includes lentils and beans.
A typical Pitta breakfast can include the sweet taste such as a sweet porridge of grains or tapioca or sweet vegetables or fruits and even a touch of bitter as in karela.
They should also eat a lot of fruits such as litchi, oranges and pomegranate.
They should include lime juice in their diet and have yoghurt regularly.
They should also avoid exposure to the sun, and too much exercise may not be good for them.

Traits of a Type-K (Kapha dosha) individual personality are:

Proportionate well-built body exuding health.
They also have flab and look heavy.
They have big eyes and wheatish complexion.
Aura of endurance, strength and stability about their physicality, and gain weight easily.
Walk is stable and steady like their personality.
Likely to have a pleasant voice with a deep pitch.
Eyes are large, shiny and reveal happiness.
Skin is oily, soft, smooth, supple and particularly greasy and glowing.
Hair texture is slightly greasy but thick, may be curly and distinctively dark-coloured.
Tend to be slow and calm eaters and digestion is apparently slow.
Normally stay clear of digestive afflictions.
Calm, steady and serious by nature, and don’t get excited or irritated easily.
Don’t get angry or grieve easily, but also tend to hold on to grief and anguish.
Intelligence levels are well-developed but generally take more time in conclusions.
Think about pros and cons before performing any action, by making wise decisions.
Good capacity to tolerate pain and fatigue, and do not complain easily.
Dreams are typically of waterfalls, large lakes, swans, clouds, flowers and birds.
Hold high morals of respect, trust, equality, and have a giving nature.
Tend to be pious, prudish, truthful and grateful by nature, with a fine moral character, and take an interest in others.
Enjoy a long and stable life with less incidence of illness.
Likely to be possessive and attached.
Makes them sedentary, inert and sluggish.
Have a strong streak of perseverance and are emotionally mild.
Tend to withdraw when they are stressed, holding on to relationships and incidents.
Introspect to identify their invalid beliefs.
They like sweets, aerated drinks and this is not good for their health.
Tend to gain weight when stressed, due to water and fat retention.
They should follow a strict diet routine, drink boiled water, exercise and stay active all the time.
Pacifying foods are bitter (karela), stringent (leafy vegetables and spinach), and pungent (pepper, mustard and capsicum).
A typical Kapha breakfast can be light and dry with a pungent taste, such as rye crisp or roasted grains with a mint masala condiment.

Disease occurs when there is a change in the original natural form at the psychological or physiological level.
Knowledge of our prakriti helps us to know and prevent potential health problems.
We can also eat the foods recommended for our prakriti to become healthier.

THYROID CANCER

1. What is thyroid cancer?

The thyroid gland, located in the lower part of the neck, secretes hormones that deliver energy to body cells and controls metabolism.
Thyroid diseases such as hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, goiter, benign lumps, thyroiditis, auto-immune thyroid disease and thyroid cancer have become common globally.
Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy.

2. What are the symptoms of thyroid cancer?

Its symptoms may include lump in the neck, pain in the lower front part of the neck, swollen lymph nodes in the neck, hoarseness of voice, and trouble in breathing and swallowing.

3. Exams and Tests

Physical examination, blood tests, thyroid and other scans, thyroid ultrasound, fine-needle aspiration biopsy and surgical biopsy can be done to detect thyroid cancer in a patient.
With early diagnosis and treatment, most of the cases of thyroid cancer are completely curable.

4. Surgery

For most thyroid cancer cases, the entire thyroid is removed and the patients need to take thyroid replacement hormone throughout their lives.
Lymph nodes in the neck that contain cancer are also removed.

5. Follow-up

With Radioactive Iodine Therapy (RIT) post surgery, any thyroid tissue remaining in the body takes up the iodine which kills cancer cells.
Radioactive Iodine Therapy (RIT) requires a special set up, including isolation rooms and separate drainage system.
Administering a dosage of radioactive iodine post operatively can save a person’s life by killing the microscopic cancer cells and even help patients whose thyroid cancer reappears after surgery
After radioactive iodine treatment, patients are kept under observation in isolation wards to check the radiation levels.
Lutetium therapy is another upcoming treatment option for thyroid cancer.

AYURVEDIC FASTING

FAULTY EATING HABITS

We eat

Food packed with preservatives or which is chemically grown, thus increasing the chances of unnatural cell division within the body.
More than necessary if the food is tasty, and less than our nutritional requirements if it is not.
A wide variety of food confusing our limited number of digestive enzymes.

We also have wrong food combinations like

Non-vegetarian food with milk products
Sour foods with milk products
Heavy junk foods with cold beverages.

We eat when we have time, although our digestive enzymes are released according to our body clock, making digestion difficult in the absence of these enzymes.

CONSEQUENCES

When food is not digested properly, only some of it becomes rasa and gets absorbed by the body.
The rest is either excreted, or it stagnates and starts rotting in the body after a certain time.
It is this aamras that is responsible for diseases.
It works as an antigen, triggering our auto immune system, leading to diseases with unknown etymology such as psoriasis, allergies, and rheumatoid arthritis.

AYURVEDIC TREATMENT

Ayurveda prescribes langhan or fasting to get rid of this toxic aamras.
You can fast once in 6 days by consuming only an eighth of your normal diet, or by going on a liquid diet for a day.
During this time, your enzymes will be able to act on the food left stagnating in your body for the past five days.
Breaking the fast is as important as keeping the fast.
Your first meal should be chawal ka maand or rice water.
The second meal should be watery kichhdi made with dal and very little rice.
The third meal should be light kichhdi with equal amounts of dal and rice.
The fourth meal should be a thicker version of the same.
Your normal daily food should be your fifth meal.

ADVANTAGES

Your energy does not depend on how much or what you eat, but on how you are digesting your food.
Fasting is a good way to strengthen your sluggish digestive system and boost your metabolism.

DEPRESSION & ANXIETY CURE BY AYURVEDA

DEPRESSION & ANXIETY - CURE BY AYURVEDA

1. DEPRESSION

Depression is a major mental health problem, and sufferers experience high and low moods.
According to WHO, depression and suicide will become the 3rd most common cause of death after cancer and coronary heart disease in the coming years.
Depression usually manifests in the late 20s, although children and old people may suffer too.
Risk of depression is higher in patients with a family history of depression.
It could occur because of an early childhood trauma or because of the loss of a parent.
Adults could experience depression because of negative events such as loss of a job, financial stress, marital disharmony, and divorce.

SYMPTOMS

Diminished interest or pleasure in almost all pleasurable activities.
Insomnia or early morning awakening.
Fatigue, loss of energy, loss of appetite leading to weight loss.
Diminished ability to think or concentrate.
Feelings of worthlessness and recurrent thoughts of death.
Loss of libido, changes in the menstrual cycle.
Crying and persistent feelings of guilt.

AYURVEDIC TREATMENT

Panchkarma procedures like shirodhara and shirobasti are useful.
Aphrodisiacs help to elevate the mood.
Ashwagandha and kaucha powder are useful.
Brahmi vati should be taken with milk.
Nasya of jyotishmati tailsa is beneficial.

2. ANXIETY

Anxiety too has a lasting influence on a person.
It can influence the functioning of his body.
There are several psychosomatic disorders which are caused by anxiety and stress.
Some people might feel the need to use the toilet all the time.
Others may complain of tiredness, and still have trouble falling asleep.

SYMPTOMS

Excessive worry about many of the simple things in daily life.
Restlessness, irritability, muscle tension, headache, sweating.
Difficulty in concentration and nausea.

AYURVEDIC TREATMENT

Taking Snehan or medicated oil message is also important.
Sitting peacefully, focusing and doing pranayama in the early morning is recommended.
Stick to a sattvik diet.