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SLEEPING Sleeping is the natural period of the for the body. Nothing could replace the benefit of sleeping. The sleeping period is the time for growth of mind and physique. Sleep should be self generated, not artificially activated. Sleep should generate happy dreams and should be conscious sleeping period not a period of unconscious slumber. An alert sleeping duration is most youth preserving. There is a great difference between the active sleep and the inert sleep. In active sleep one can follow the sequence of one’s dream manifestations more consciously than in the inert sleep. What happens during sleep should make oneself happy, comfortable, confident, alert and fearless, not unhappy, fearful and apprehensive. The state of sleep is meant for regrouping of thought sequences. The most organizational period of all the spread-out beings, into the self again, is the period of sleep. Sleep is naturally rejuvenating for the creation, human, animal, plant, insect and others. Sleeping is actually a state of active inertness but it becomes a state of inert inertness, when artificially stimulated. The silent period of perfect sleep keeps one’s intuition at its peak. To have sleep spontaneously, the body must have natural greens. Oils naturally extracted for the skin, Eye ointment (Kajal) and eyewash, teeth and mouth wash and mouth cleaner, and stomach stimulants of natural extracts. With itching skin, revolting stomach, tired eyes, one csn not expect to have normal or natural sleep. Any medicine taken to induce sleep would make one addicted to it’s use and in the long run the natural way of living and sleeping would be lost and so the instinct and self confidence. Page - 146 Self-confidence? Confidence of self….. confidence of ones natural self, nothing else. What is self? Unless one becomes one with the Universal nature….there is no chance for one to realize…..one’s self…….and without the feeling of the full self, how could one have self confidence…… Nature is always there around in abundance to be of service to us. Humanity will only have to be more receptive to the nature’s presence. There are numerous plants, around our habitations but are thrown and discarded as weeds. But they have the secrets of eternal youth hidden in their tiny and insignificant life forms; leaves, flowers, roots. If only humanity could be wise enough to recognize their presence and make them an integral part of it’s survival system…… Page - 147 Merremia tridentata (Linn.) Hallier f. ssp. tridentata (Ipomoea tridentata (Linn.) Roth) (Merremia Umbellata) Of the family Convolvulaceae Grows all over India, trailing on the ground on waste lands, and on the bunds of the cultivated fields and climbs on the hedges. This bitter, astringent, thermogenic and calegacient weed is known as:
A perennial wiry weedy root-stock with slender smooth angular elongated stems; leaves simple, alternate, variable, linearhastate or oblong-obovate, the linear leaves, tip ending in a blunt or roundish extremity forming obtuse angles, deeply terminal, usually three toothed; Flowers pale yellow, funnel shaped, 1-3 together on axillary peduncles; fruits globose capsules, seeds two four, trigonus, glabrous with a longitudinal ridge on the back. The whole of this plant is useful in complicated cases of Vata, uropathy, paralysis of one side of the body, bleeding piles, urinary tract disorder, lack of strength and impotency. The juice of this weed is used as hair tonic by rural Indians. Page - 148
Merremia tridentata Convolvulaceae Page - 149
Oxalis corniculata Oxalidaceae Page - 150 Oxalidaceae (Family) Known as :
This almost everywhere growning creeping tri-foliate small weed with sub-umbellate yellow flowers and loculicidal cylindrical fruits, bears numerous dark brown transversely striate seeds. The whole plant, which is sour, astringent, thermogenic, & cooling in its characteristic constituents, is useful in cases of DYSMENORRHOEA (Difficult or painful menstruation) and AMENORRHOEA (Failure of menstruation). If a person is physically normal, then she can uproot 3 or 4 plants and prepare a juice with all the parts and take it thrice daily, preferably on an empty stomach in the morning and in the evening and before going to bed in the night for three days. This is for menstration irregularities. If one wishes to prevent irregularities then one can use it as a vegetable with the normal diet about three days before the expected date. If she is a vegetarian then she can prepare a light gravy curry of this plant along with brinjal and drumstick. If one prefers to take it with non-vegetarian food, then one can add shelled prawn to the preparation. Page - 151 If all this is too much just put a few plants in the mouth, chew them, swallow the juices and throw away the residue. Consuming raw will be no problem as it tastes like raw tamarind and since by nature ladies like usually sour things. Other then the above complications, this plant is also useful in curing DYSPEPSIA (Indigestion), FEVER (Body temperature), DYSENTERY (Diarrhea in it’s severe form which includes blood), EXCRESCENCES OF THE SKIN (the abnormal out-growth of the skin), TOXICITY (poisonous substances inside the body through polluted air, contaminated drinking water, food stuff etc.), and STRANGURY (slow and painful drop by drop discharge of the urine) etc. Page - 152 |
