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INSTINCT WHAT is lost in the artificial life-style is the NATURAL INSTINCT. What is instinct? It is the most spontaneous feeling of alertness. Alertness to the principles of survival instincts. The common purpose of human existence upon the earth is to live a life of eternal youth. But today, the atmosphere is of unhealthiness and insecurity, why? Let us develop the habit to analyse our moment-to-moment living style. We feel hungry so we eat. We eat for the upkeep of the existing body structure plus for the new cells in the body, for the new growth. Now, as we know, our whole body is made of millions of living vibrating cells. Every individual cell, even if we do not know it has its own mind, sense and particular instinct. Are we conscious of the freedom and self-respect of our cells? Do we eat realistically, just as much as is actually needed in essence and substance, for the body to keep healthy and young? Do we consume natural food or food grown with chemicals? Do we consume food in proper concentration and stop eating abruptly the moment we feel that, yes, “I have taken just the quantity required for the body”, or do we continue to take more food, due to taste and addiction ? The real instinct is the ABRUPTNESS in any body system the silent abruptness, which has nothing to do with excitement. Now most of our sufferings are unnatural, due to our lack of communications with our instinct. Which we have lost because humanity has lost most of its natural ways of living. People are getting suddenly sick, to everybody’s surprise, and after diagnosis it is found, in many cases, that the diseases are at an advanced stage. It means that the body has not been able to activate it’s instinct to know that something was wrong, at the first place. All this because of our failure to live a natural way of life fresh air, in touch with nature, natural food, natural drinks etc. Page - 86 It is painful to realize that we are quite advanced in education, technology, science, space, intelligence etc, but we are suffering from terminal diseases and stand defeated before the disease and untimely miserable death. Everyone should have a few plants around to be in contact with nature. It is not necessary to have expensive hybrid plants . One can just keep a few pots; any inexpensive pot or even broken pot filled with soil and watering them sparingly, enjoy moments of relaxation.You can watch the tiny plants emerge with small leaves and flowers of minutely intricate design of shapes and colours, capable of stimulating the natural instinct in living beings. These tiny plants are called weeds, capable of curing many complications without expenditure and side effects. Page - 87 Cynodon dactylon (Linn.) Pers Of the family Poaceae This Indian dubghas popularly known as:
Barmuda or Bahama, Conch gramin English It grows in the back yard in the kitchen garden and at the both sides of the garden path of most of the houses in our country. Most fo the modern lawn grasses are the hybrid version of this grass, walking on bare feet on this grass gives the walker the benefit of the natural massage under the feet. It is perennial, widely branching and narrow leaved with roots at every node slender stemmed grass. There are few varieties of this species that differ slightly only in complexions which are distributed all over our country. Flowers are green and puplish with slender terminal spikes. The whole plant is comsumable which is sweet and astringent in taste and rich in the charactristics fo cooling constituents. It is said it taken on a regular basis it can prevent us from being sick with pitta, kapha, hyperdipesia, burning sensation, hemorrohoids, conjunctives, leprosy, dysentery, cephalalgia, stagury, erysipelas, diarrhoa, vomiting, abortion due to body heat and some other skin diseases. Page - 88
Cynodon dactylon poaceae Page - 89
Cyperus rotundus Cyperaceae Page - 90 Cyperaceae family This bitter, acrid, astringent and cooling weed grows all over India, in waste land, agri-horti land , upto the elevation of about 5,800 ft, known as:
An ever-growing glabrous herb with elongate thin runners bearing hard black/brown sweet smelling tubers, and triquetrous aerial stems; leaves numerous, narrowly linear, finely tapered pointed tips, flat single nerved; spikelets in compound expanded umbels, spikelets linear to lanceolate, overlapped cleaves; nut trigonus, broadly obovoid, grayish black/brown. The tubes of this sweet smelling weed can be used in a broadspectrum. Useful in vitiated conditions of kapha and pitta, intermittent and malarial fevers, hyperdipsia, epilepsy, strangury, wounds, anorexia, amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, ophthalmia, vomitting, all sorts of stomach problems, skin problems, worm infestations, vomitting and weaknesses etc. The grounded tubers can be mixed with honey and taken directly for the above-mentioned complications. The rustic population of India uses the weed to keep their children healthy, from a few days after their birth. Nobody should have any problem when using it at regular intervals, to remain disease free and naturally healthy. Page - 91 |
