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I have known about the importance of Magnesium for decades and that the best way to increase it in our bloodstream is to get it through the skin  by Transdermal delivery of Magnesium Dr Dean is knowledgeable expert on Magnesium - here is a good start to increase your knowledge about Magnesium and its importance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZFa-yw3znE If you want to know how I increase my Magnesium levels, contact me and I will help you out.  The best form of Magnesium in my research is Magnesium chloride. I make a 10% solution in water and spray it on my calves and other big muscles - also along  the spine.  There are many companies now making Magnesium transdermal to prevent the laxative effect.  Epsom salts are Magnesium sulfate which then has to be converted to Magnesium chloride by the body. So it's best to just apply Magnesium chloride to the skin and let it be absorbed into the bloodstream.  But I must admit the most readily availa...

Modern day chemicals are everywhere. They get into our food and water as herbicides and pesticides. They are applied to our skin as cosmetics. Even most of the toothpaste and shampoo that you buy at the drug store has Sodium lauryl sulfate in it whose safety is questionable. Everything that is taken orally and passes from our mouth to the stomach and then the intestines is transferred from the intestinal tract by a bed of capillaries to the portal vein and then the liver.  The liver is the only organ that has two veins entering.  One vein from the general circulation and the other from the digestive tract.  The portal vein from the digestive tract is know as "First Pass Metabolism".  All the plasma coming the liver via the portal vein is then "metabolized" by the liver into intelligent blood that is then sent into the general metabolism. The "First Pass" through the liver is the body's way of protecting us from anything we ingest that might not be ...

Normally when we here the word Prana we think of "BREATHE' or maybe if you have taken yoga classes you think of  PRANAYAMA - or various breathing exercises.  Prana or life force is life itself.  We can't survive without breathing air only minutes.  However we can live for 2-7 days without water and for weeks without food before we succumb.  All of these are needed to maintain our vitality and keep our body/mind functioning efficiently. I will focus on water in this posting.  Good quality water is not as available as it was decades ago because of pollution and the vast amount of water being used for non-essentials.  Water that comes from deep within the ground from an aquifer or from a unpolluted mountain stream is full of PRANA. It is now known as "Spring Water" and is sold in plastic bottles as great expense. Most of us do not have access to "natural spring water" that comes from the ground that is pure and safe to drink.  This is water that ha...

Apple Mint Chutney (recipe from Vaidya Mishra's cook book) Grate 1-2 apples into a caste iron frying pan with 1 tsp or ghee 1/8 tsp Soma Salt and 1/2 tsp Mum's Masala ( available from Chandika.com) Cook for a few minutes until grated apples blend with spices and salt and ghee. In the mean time put about 1 cup loosely packed mint leaves in blender with juice of about 1/2 lime (depends on how juicy lime is and how sweet or sour your apples are - you have to try various blends) and 1 tablespoonful of olive oil. Once the apples are cooked and cooled down - blend everything together. Caution - mint with turn black if apples are not cooled. This is a delicious side dish making every meal magical.

Turmeric,  King of Spices Since it is powerful you have to know how to use it.   It is best to balance the heating and drying qualities of Turmeric by cooking it with unctuous and cooling foods - ghee and veggies or lentils, then you get the full benefit of the spice without the negative qualities that would cause imbalances in the Doshas. The drying qualities would aggravate Vata and the heating would aggravate Pitta. How best to use Turmeric: Because of it drying and heating qualities turmeric is best taken cooked with foods like veggies, lentils or chicken.   It give the yellow colour to curries.   Then ghee and oil and water can me added to counteract the drying affects and cooling herbs like coriander and fennel can be added to counteract the heating affects.   Another good way to take turmeric is to add it to milk.   This recipe is often seen online these days. The only precaution I would give is if you have not been usin...

The liver, a large organ on the right side of our body under the rib cage has a big task to perform.  Everything that we take in through our mouth passes through the portal vein to the liver where major transformation takes place.  All the "dumb food" we eat has to be transformed into intelligent blood.  What do I mean by "Dumb Food"?  It is food that has lost its life force. Food that has been poisoned by being grown with herbicides and pesticides.  Food that has been cooked, then frozen and then reheated in a microwave.  Food that has been cooked and then kept in the fridge for days and then reheated.  The best most vital food to nourish our body is the food that is freshly prepared and eaten within 4 hours.  Impossible you say!  Not really. It takes planning and determination. Look ahead for 1 week.  Breakfast can be simple and light and easy to digest.  Highly recommended is stewed apples of pears with 3-4 cloves.  These ...

Harsh detox protocols can be very dangerous and many modern day toxins are "hot" or can burn the delicate fine channels of elimination in the kidney and other tissues.  Shaka Vansiya Ayurved teaches that there are 4 categories of toxins. Ama or undigested food that is sticky and cold and we need hot spices to eliminate this type of toxin. So ginger and pepper and fenugreek and other heating spices would work well. However once that toxin has been sitting around for a long time it becomes hot.  We might call it a "free radical" in modern scientific terms. Shaka Vansiya Ayurved (now referred to as SVA) calls this Amavisha.  This type of toxin needs a different approach to detox. Before moving the toxins out of the body we need to bind them with mucilaginous food like barley, okra, tapioca, arrowroot, taro root and others.  I find zucchini and other summers squashes are most readily available, even though they are not extremely mucilaginous.  Then you can start mov...