The Complete Ayurvedic Cookbook - The Eumundi Medicine Man

The art of knowing Individual, Quality, Time, Place, Variables and Circumstances
for a desired outcome is AYURVEDA! This philosophy shows the relativity of all
items and how to employ all items for benefit. Some years ago a young man was lost
in the icy Himalayan Mountains after many days he was given up for dead. His sister
however due
Becoming excessively alkaline or acidic are toxic conditions!
to some deep intuition knew he was still alive. She travelled a huge distance; hired
some Sherpa’s and headed for the snow dredged slopes. Sure enough in a cave after
almost 21 days she found her brother still living. He was a very intelligent man, he
knew that if he drank water he would live a long time without food, yet he knew if he
sucked ice he would freeze and die, so what did he do? In his wisdom he took ever so
tiny amounts of ice, dissolved it in his mouth and when warm swallowed the warmed
liquid. In this case the philosophy of Chinese medicine and its fine application saved
his life.
The Science of Tridosha-Balance
Ayurveda teaches the science of tridosha, how to balance the elements of nature,
whether they are acid or alkaline, pitta or kapha, heat or cold, water or fire, the result
of balance is life or vata. Water is essential to life; we have heard that we are more
water than any other element. Water is therefore nectar. Cold water gulped in cold
season by an elderly person is poison. Warm or hot water sipped in cold season is
nectar. On the other hand hot water in summer can be poisonous and cause disease
with overuse.
Where to measure Ph?
What is acidic or alkaline when it comes to the human body?
This is a difficult calculation. Saliva is slightly acidic at 6.8, while stomach acid
is very acidic at 1.6, as the food progresses along the GIT at the small intestines and
the pancreatic channel the Ph is 8.00 while more alkaline at the bile duct 8.2. And if
measured the skin of your big toe it would be slightly acidic!
Alkalinity is the most favourable situation for Bacterial growth!
On the other hand bacteria cannot survive in an acid tummy.
Dr Jarvis explains in his book Folk Medicine, the following table of bacteria and
favourable reactions for growth are slightly alkaline.
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