Mental health without medicines

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An inexpensive and effective anti-depressant: "sea salt"

 

Anti-depressants is multi billion dollar industry world over.

Ayurveda and yoga offer several inexpensive techniques to "manage"

and also to "cure" depression of all types. In message No. 2719,

Sarika gives an example how simple home remedies and a bhasma along

with diet, could "cure" bipolar depression.

 

Author thanks Dr Mankikar for presenting the "modern" knowledge

describing Central nervous system(CNS) including spinal connections

to various important organs. If he keeps posting in this manner,

author would request him to "dominates" the list. Author would also

like to note here that ayurvedic acharyas did not coin many terms,

but they knew some of the facts. Nose being the door to cranium,

containing "shringatak marma" is already mentioned in Msg# 1825,

2286. The Nasya therapies and spinal and other massage techniques are

direct consequences of this CNS knowledge. For instance, some of the

menstrual/incontinence problems were treated by massaging lumbar and/

or sacral area with Mahanarayan oil by this author.

 

While iodized salt has been judged for its capabilities to suppres

thyroid gland problem, the lack of essential minerals in it has never

been given much importance. Homeopaths treat insomnia, depression,

anxiety etc as mineral deficiency problem and accordingly give

various medicines containing those minerals.

 

Author experimented with Neti and nasya for a long time, and found

some interesting experiences:

 

While Jal-Neti has has been mainly used for decongesting nose, and

has been advised to be done say once or twice a week, as the need

demands. However, doing it daily with warm water with sea salt

dissolved, gave the advantage that thickness of mucosal lining

reduced and more air could be breathed. The wet passages offer less

resistance to air, reducing load on lungs. 1 table spoon of salt per

litre was used, but at least three table spoons was needed for

saturation. Increasing the quantity to saturation was not needed.

Small quantity of salt water which goes to sinuses cleansing them. It

is well known that brain breathes a little though these passages, a

result of very thin membranes in between.

 

When salt is absorbed, brain also gets some quantity of minerals,

essential in Cerebro Spinal Fluid(CSF). We all know how CSF is tapped

and tested for deficiency and excess of certain components for

diagnosing several CNS diseases. Modern science also tells us that

deficiency of minerals can cause osteoporosis, fibromyalgia, auto-

immune diseases, and dys-functioning of entire endocrine system.

 

On this backfrop, author carried out Neti daily with salt water and

breathing exercises therafter. The kind of calm, lack of anxiety,

lack of anger, improvement in digestion, bowel habits, sleep etc

convinced him that CNS was absorbing minerals through Neti. Extra

oxygen in blood by hyperventilation was driving out accumulated

toxins in CNS or subconscious. If it can absorb nicotine in smoke,

why not minerals? One day, as sea salt stock was over, he used

iodized one and ended up with inflammation of nasal passages, sinuses

etc, which can be attributed to iodine. It took another half hour and

several neti applications to subside the inflammation.blood oxygen,

 

Encouraged by this idea, author tried it on a patient taking SSRI

drugs, but had to use date crush and milk also as serotonin

balancers. Today, after eight months, patient is free of those

addictive drugs, and free of depression.

 

A blind boy aged 20, who lost sight by steroid injections, is

doing this sea salt neti daily. He is cured of brain tumor. He is

able to listen to breathing sound of a person about 6-7 feets away.

And he is able to sense the presence of someone in proximity, and

knows who he/she is, if familiar. What he says, he detects the person

by body odour. Perhaps loss of sight is adding to energy supplied to

other nerves. This case is not pure Neti treatment, but PanchGavya

medicines also. But what is remarkable is that the progress rate

increased very much after he was given daily Neti and breathing

exercises.

 

Conclusions:

One way of treating depression is through balancing minerals by

feeding sea salt water to brain by simple Neti technique.

Pranayama followed by Hyperventilation increases blood oxygen and

balances nadis.

 

In the next post, author would address issues such as effect of air-

conditioning and fan on health.