GARLIC: TOXIC SHOCK!

different strokes for different folks.

> > I have taken haritaki it -- it definitely had side effects :-) Rear
> > effects would be more accurate.
I suggest everyone see one book:

"eat right 4 your type" by ND peter d adamos. it does blood typing dietary
plans. a, b ab, O suggestions. this accounts for the reason that some people
don't respond to other herbs that help other prakritis.

> > Ginger has side effects -- it thins the blood and may cause a failure to
> > clot in certain situations. It should always be stopped before any
> > surgery.
> >
> > Just because something is natural doesn't mean it has no side effects.
> > Anything with real potency will have some. Even in Ayur Veda some herbs
> > that are good for one body type may be a negative for a different type.
right.
> > Medicine is very complicated.
> In Ayurveda medicine is not complex but very intelligient so we feel
> complex.
right.
> With any item as said above we have to consider prakruti (vata, pitta,
> kapha), at the same time it is matra (quantity) which is also very
> important.
right,
> As there is saying in Sanskrita "Ati sarvatra varjayeta" meaning
> overindulgence is always forbidden.
moderation.
> So what we call good herbs are good and have no detrimental side effects
> when taken in right quantity.
if they are prescribed for one;s bllod type= prakriti.
> But items like onion and garlic are having bad effects even in small
> quantities. That is the differrence.
right they are tamasic. in my 10th standard class my biology prof,
mentioned" the onion plant has no proper excretory system, so its waste
products remain in it's bulbouse tissues. that tangy taste the people like
is actually the stool of the onion plant!"

when I heard that, after class I immediately showed him the sloka from BG
17th chaper "yata yam yam gata rasam puti parusitam ca yat" and after
reading that sloka, the teacher bought the BG for $5 from me.

I also heard that when mohini murti cut off the head of Rahu, that his blood
spilled on the ground, mixed with some drops of nectar, and from that blood
drops sprung onions and garlic. this is why sometimes under limited
circumstances they (due) to the nectar- have very limited theraputic use,
but due to the tamasic blood of rahu, they increase tamasic desires in
people who use it.

does anyone know the sastric source of this puranic history?

TridaNDi BhikSu, Bhakti Visrambha MAdhava

> I have taken haritaki it -- it definitely had side effects :-) Rear
> effects would be more accurate.
>
> Ginger has side effects -- it thins the blood and may cause a failure to
> clot in certain situations. It should always be stopped before any
> surgery.
>
> Just because something is natural doesn't mean it has no side effects.
> Anything with real potency will have some. Even in Ayur Veda some herbs
> that are good for one body type may be a negative for a different type.
>
> Medicine is very complicated.

I still find it hard to believe that Prabhupada would tell anyone to take
such a tamasic thing as garlic, especially seen in the light that there are
far superior remedies with the same antiviral properties available in the
Ayurveda. Ginger is there called the king of all healing herbs.

Ginger draws out mucus from the body so taken in excess it can so to speak
dry out the body of its lubrication. Therefore, like other cooling drugs
like neem and triphala, if taken in great quantities, one has to drink milk
along side it.

ys, jdd

PS.
Regarding garlic and onions, here is an old text I found in my health
folder. Unfortunately I can't remember I got it from.

Regarding Onion and Garlic:

As per the story below (the scriptural source is not known) onion and garlic
came from the dead body of a murdered cow and therefore they are considered
like eating meat. They break the non-vegetarian principle from the sastric
point of view. Strict vegetarians don't eat onion nor garlic. Since meat is
tamasic, onions and garlic are also tamasic and rajasic food. They may have
some medicinal value like even wine is used in medicines sometimes. Thus
they are taboo for followers of Vedic culture.

"Once, in Satya Yuga the rishis were performing gomedha and asvamedha
sacrefices for the welfare of the whole universe. A cow or a horse would be
cut into pieces and placed in the fire. Afterwards the risis would utter
mantras and the same animal would come alive in a beautiful young body.

One time the risi who was about to perform a gomedha sacrefice, his wife was
pregnant. She had a very strong desire to eat and she had heard that if,
during pregnancy one has a desire to eat and does not fullfill this, then
the baby that will be born will always have saliva coming from its mouth.
Very strange, she desired strongly to eat meat, thus she decided to keep one
piece of meat of the cow's body that was offered in sacrefice. She hid it
and was making a plan to eat it very soon. At that time the risi was
finishing the sacrifice and uttered all the mantras for the new young cow to
come to life. However when he saw the new cow, he noticed that there was a
little part missing from her left side. He went into meditation and realized
that his wife had taken away a piece of meat during the sacrifice. Now his
wife also understood what happened and quickly threw the meat far away.

Due to the effect of the mantras uttered by the risi there was now life in
this piece of meat. Then the blood of this meat became red lentils, the
bones became garlic and the meat became onions. Thus these foods are never
taken by any Vaisnava because it is not vegetarian. Plus it is in the mode
of ignorance."

"It is not vegetarian to eat onions and garlic. They have discovered 21
different types (?) of slow poison in both. So they are not so innocent."
(Source unknown)