green leafy vegetables and infections

[Guest guest]

I have been advised by my vaidya to eat green leafy vegetables. am

supposed to drink green juice once a day and have semi-boiled green

leafy vegetable for dinner.am following this routine for almost six

months now with good results. However, many of my close relatives are

worried about me. Their argument is, most of these leafy vegetables

are grown on drain water ( sewage), those which are grown in better

farms, carry residues of the fertilizers and insecticides used.

Consuming raw vegetables might result into bacterial infections. Some

are saying that I should totally discontinue this practice during

monsoon as there is every chance of infection during this period. I

trust in Ayurveda. So would want to know what is the take of this

community.

[Guest guest]

The chlorophyl in the green juices is " green blood " , having stored

energy of sunlight. The importance of sunlight is that a yogi can

live on sunlight alone, without eating any food!

 

This has been discussed at length in:

http://health.ayurveda/message/6890

 

We live on energy supplied by sun through veggies and cereals:

http://health.ayurveda/message/3441

 

Due to these reasons, fruits and veggies are very useful to restore

our bio-energy levels (and thus strengthen immune system) when

depleted by chronic diseases.

 

However, if your immune system is good, the microbes in the monsoon

season vegetables may cause fevers, diarrhea, which is simply immune

response of your body. Why worry? it will give a fighting rehearsal

to immune system. But immune system should not be overtaxed. Hence a

combination of green juice and soup (1 whistle in pressure cooker) is

an optimum compromise. You get vitamins+enzymes from green juice and

minerals+remaining vitamins from soup. Reduce juice to 50% if you

get immune response.

 

Regarding pesticides, fertiliser residues, an indirect reasoning

should satisfy you. In a recent study

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070328073237.htm

 

decreased fertility of progency was associated with beef in pregnant

womans diet. The problem may be due to anabolic steroids used to

fatten the cattle and pesticides and other environmental

contaminants, as reported in the current issue of the journal of Human

Reproduction. It is widely reported that pesticides and hormones

negatively affect fertility and sexual characteristics. Pesticides

are an bigger problem in devloping countries, where to achieve

green revolution (?) environment has been spoiled. Why should it be

a surprise that they are actually more concentrated in meat and

dairy than in the plants themselves? What do people think happens to

the pesticides in the thousands of pounds of pesticide-laced-feed

that cattle eat during their lifetime? Quite simply, it concentrates

in their flesh, fat, and dairy output so that when we eat or drink

it, we get a concentrated dose – as much as 3 to 6 times higher than

what we might find in the feed itself.

 

What cattle eat as feed, similar material we eat in green veggie

form. The pesticides, sewerage chemicals, we too store those toxins

in the skin, giving rise to blemishes/erruptions wherever body dumps them in the

skin. Skins at outside of joints are the sites body loves as a dumping

ground. But maximum used dumping ground is armpits and groin. While

pesticides give rise to blemishes, the hormones and waste out of fats

and proteins give rise to unpleasant odor at armpits and groin! see

some of links:

 

Detecting cancer by odour

http://health.ayurveda/message/7392

 

Body odour reveals your health

http://www.newstarget.com/019777.html

 

Bad odor as a health problem was resolved when many stopped dairy and

meat. If you wish to stop pesticides through veggies, you will have to stop

breathing also, since equally dangerous pollutants are in todays air also,

especially in industrial towns and metros.

 

Local food, natural food and what is availble plenty in the season is

what should be taken according to a general conclusion one gets if

one studies Rutucharya of Ayurveda. Drink boiled water/Copper water.

In monsoon we get vegetables in plenty, but they are infected. Note

the difference in lemon fruits in summer and in monsoon. Monsoon ones

are bigger, contain more juice, but they get rotten faster in

monsoon. This is a new phenomenon not noticed by author in his

childhood, perhaps the result of genetic modification by scinetists

in every plant and tree which gives commercially important output.

 

Lastly, most of your questions and additional tips for care during

monsoon is answered by a good post from another practitioner, please read it

fully.

 

http://health.ayurveda/message/7230

 

Perhaps drain water, if it contains only human and animal waste, is

healthier than chemical refuse of petro-chemcial plants. drain water is natures

recycling scheme. In many gardens in India, sewerage water is recycled to plants

after some processing. And best quality flowers, vegetables grow there! This

manure is termed " Sonkhat " , meaning golden manure.

 

Unless your immune system is totally down, you may safely continue the practice

of green juice, or reduce it in proportion in case your body tells you to do

so..Listen to your body. Check color, odor consistency of urine, stools, sweat

and body tells a lot in this simple way!

 

ayurveda , " rajubhaee " <rajphadke

wrote:

>

> I have been advised by my vaidya to eat green leafy vegetables. am

> supposed to drink green juice once a day and have semi-boiled green

> leafy vegetable for dinner.am following this routine for almost six

> months now with good results. However, many of my close relatives

are

> worried about me. Their argument is, most of these leafy vegetables

> are grown on drain water ( sewage), those which are grown in better

> farms, carry residues of the fertilizers and insecticides used.

> Consuming raw vegetables might result into bacterial infections.

Some

> are saying that I should totally discontinue this practice during

> monsoon as there is every chance of infection during this period. I

> trust in Ayurveda. So would want to know what is the take of this

> community.

>