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BACH FLOWER REMEDIES: VINE REMEDY

admin — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:39:48 +0000

Ambitious, dominator, Ruthless, Dictator. Vine relates to the soul quality of authority. In the positive state the person is very capable, sure of himself, able to carry conviction, has all the qualities of a good leader – a very strong willpower and an unfailing presence of mind in any ticklish situation. He is ambitious and wants to get to the top and to hold the reins. But with all these qualities of head, the positive Vervain type person remains humane at heart. He remains the wise, loving leader of the people, who understands their problems and guides them to solve them. He uses his position and his leadership qualities in the service of the people and in return gets their cooperation automatically.

But in the negative VINE state the person is obsessed with only one idea – to dominate others. In his quest for power, he throws to winds all ideas of fairness and foulness, ” Everything is fair in love and war’ becomes his motto. In the pursuit of his ambition, he proceeds ruthlessly removing any obstructions in the way. He rides roughshod over the feelings of others. He wants power to dominate others, and to secure this power he will use any means. When he tastes power, he wants to have more and still more power. He cannot stand any opposition, and would crush it by any means. He is like a dictator or a tyrant who wants to subjugate others by force, into obedience. Persuasion or reasoning has no meaning for him. He is over-confident of his righteousness. It hurts his ego, if somebody dares to express a different opinion. With such a closed mind and an intensely selfish approach to life which is totally cut-off from his higher self, the power that he holds makes him cruel and insensate to the aspirations or feelings of others. Such a person is always surrounded by power-brokers, yes-men and flatterers and seldom can claim a true friend who could give him sincere advice in time of need.

Whether it is a parent who rules his children with an iron rod or a school master who is over-strict to maintain discipline in School or a dictator who over-runs other countries in his mad rush for power, they have one thing in common – rigidity and inflexibility of mind and will, and ruthless approach to opposition bordering on cruelty,

A direct reflection of this mental state on the physical side is painful rigidity and stiffness of the muscles and joints, high blood-pressure and a score of other tensions and disabilities.

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BACH FLOWER REMEDIES: SCLERANTHUS

admin — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:33:04 +0000

Indecision, double mindedness, uncertainly, postponing. Scleranthus relates to the soul quality of stability and balance.

In the positive Scleranthus state, the person has poise and a balance of mind which is not disturbed under any circumstances. He takes his own decisions and sticks to them and is not influenced by others’ opinions. People respect him as a reliable person. In the negative Scleranthus state the person does not know his own mind which is always vacillating between two options. He cannot make a decision, he takes long to come to a decision, goes on postponing it till the last, and when ultimately he speaks of his decision, nobody believes that he would stick to that decision. In his inner most heart he himself is not sure of the finality of his decision—he may still change it at the last moment. He has what they call’ a grasshopper mind’. The worst part is that he does not take anybody’s help to arrive at a decision. He is incapable of taking a quick decision. So he goes on postponing it, thereby wasting much useful time. Sometimes he may come to grief and suffer irretrievable loss because of his indecisiveness. He may fail to make a quick decision whether an emergent case should be shifted to a nursing home, which is expensive but reliable, or a doctor should be called in to attend to the patient.

The patient may die due to delay in giving treatment, while crossing a busy road, he may find himself stranded in the middle of the road undecided whether to put a step forward or backward, and may be over-run by a fast moving vehicle. According to an anecdote S. Pratap Singh Kairon, the late Chief-Minister of Punjab, witnessed a squirrel being crushed under the wheel of his car, inspite of the best efforts of his driver to save it. Mr. Kairon asked the other 2 gentlemen sitting on his side in the car, why the squirrel died. One said it was its fate to die as she did. The other man replied, perhaps the driver was not adept in making a save in such emergencies.

“No” replied Mr. Kairon very firmly. “The squirrel lost its life because of its indecisiveness. It could not decide whether to go to the right or go to the left’. Similar is the fate of the people who have a vacillating mind”.

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BACH FLOWER REMEDIES: RED CHESTNUT – MRS. KAPUR’S CASE

admin — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:29:58 +0000

Mrs. Kapur begot a son after two daughters, and she had great love for the son. Any trouble, however small, to the child upset the whole system of the mother, and raised her blood pressure.

Once the child got simple fever and was given homoeopathic medicine. But when the temperature rose to 102°, she got panicky, would not give time to the homoeopathic medicine to act, gave the child crosene to bring down the fever immediately. Her own blood pressure which was being kept under control by regular allopathic treatment suddenly rose to 120/200.

A few doses of Red Chestnut brought her blood pressure to normal.

She was given Red Chestnut in a phial to use whenever she felt anxiety or worry about her son or some body else.

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TELEVISION AND HEALTH – IT IS EDUCATION’S TURN TO SPEAK (PART 2)

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:25:57 +0000

Yet, today, obedience is more necessary than ever before if a child’s desires are to be curbed and not become too demanding. A child who has learned to be obedient and comply with his parents’ wishes will only have to train himself in the practice of moderation, whereas badly brought up children who always get their own way succumb hopelessly to the gripping power of television. This is much more dangerous than many parents may think, because a growing child who is allowed to absorb anything he likes, without restrictions, is left to the mercy of bad influences. So, if parents do not set a good example in all they do and say, they can hardly expect self-control from their children. Where self-discipline is lacking it would be much better not to have a television at all.

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MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS – CHEMICAL SPRAYS ARE A HEALTH HAZARD

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:12:20 +0000

Only recently I heard from a mother whose child came down with an extremely dangerous form of poisoning after eating sprayed grapes.

Another report came from a woman in her sixties who loves the grapes from the Ticino canton in Switzerland. Although she should have known better, she would eat the grapes that obviously still had traces of pesticide on them and then, without fail, would suffer from digestive upsets accompanied by strong fermentation in the bowels. At first she thought that the problem was caused by eating too much raw sauerkraut, but as soon as the grape season came to an end so did her intestinal trouble, even though she continued to enjoy eating sauerkraut regularly. Moreover, she only consumed sauerkraut obtained from a reliable source, which was prepared in a natural way and not detrimental to health. These facts pointed directly to the sprayed grapes from Ticino as the cause of her upset.

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OILS AND FATS – A TOPICAL QUESTION (INTRODUCTION)

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:59:28 +0000

Which of all the oils and fats provided by nature is the best for our consumption? This question is a difficult one to answer. To start with, the criteria for judging or evaluating an oil or fat must be clear in our mind.

Today, oils and fats are primarily rated according to their content of unsaturated fatty acids. It has been found that these are necessary to guarantee the normal growth of many body cells and also to keep them healthy. Furthermore, we know that premature aging of the vascular walls, above all, the arteries, can be caused by a lack of unsaturated fatty acids. Even a cancerous degeneration of the cells has been attributed to this deficiency. Unsaturated fatty acids are therefore a vital factor, and we cannot remain healthy without them.

But it has not yet been proved that an oil or fat should be judged only by the amount of unsaturated fatty acids in it. It almost goes without saying that when a vital substance is discovered, it is at first highly overrated, such as once was the case with vitamins and the great fuss that was made over them. While this fanfare was going on, it was all but forgotten that minerals, the nutritive salts, are just as vital as vitamins. For example, olive oil has only a modest content of unsaturated fatty acids and therefore tends to be unjustly downgraded.

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RAW JUICES, MEDICINAL JUICES – A SPECIAL DIET

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:44:58 +0000

Before breakfast, on an empty stomach, take half a glass of raw potato juice diluted with a little warm water. The breakfast itself should consist of whole wheat that has been soaked in water for a day or two. It can be made more palatable with the addition of a good vegetable stock or fresh butter. If the bowels need special attention, add psyllium seed or freshly ground linseed to the wheat. Crispbread with butter and wheat germ will complete your breakfast. If the liver is not functioning properly, drink a glass of raw carrot juice. Chew all the food well and insalivate it thoroughly.

Midday Meal: Eat a good, hearty vegetable soup with a cup of raw cabbage juice, which is added after the soup has been taken off the heat. Then have a dish of natural brown rice, steamed vegetables and a salad. Never use vinegar to make your salad dressing; use lemon juice, or sour milk or whey concentrate (Mol-kosan) if you cannot tolerate lemon. For variety, in place of the brown rice you can use whole wheat, buckwheat or millet. If you feel nervous and tired out, beat a raw egg and mix it in with your food every other day. On no account should the eggs be cooked because this would destroy most of their vitamins and, in addition, produce too much uric acid. Only when eggs are eaten raw do they have a place in a therapeutic diet, if it is at all advisable to include them. Thus, raw eggs can be used, as indicated, in a diet for stomach ulcers, but those who suffer from rheumatism should avoid eggs altogether.

Evening meal: This can be along similar lines to the breakfast. The wholewheat dish can be varied by taking oat flake porridge or, even better, raw, soaked oat grains, put through the mincer.

Keep off fruit on this special diet, only use vegetable juices.

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QUESTIONS OF NUTRITION – WHAT ABOUT THE WHEAT GRAIN? (USING)

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:31:03 +0000

What I said about the rice grain also applies to the wheat kernel. Its valuable constituents are to be found, not in the inner part, but in the outer one, the bran. Like rice, the wheat grain should be used in its entirety, ground coarsely as wholewheat flour or flakes. Groats, coarse meal, are especially suitable for soups, rissole mixes, bread and biscuits. If you have no rough-grinding mill to make you own wholewheat flour, soak the wheat overnight and then put the soft, swollen kernels through the mincer.

This flaky wheat can be added to your muesli. Of course, you can use Vogel’s Wheat Bran and Germ instead. According to taste, sweeten the muesli with raisins or sultanas, putting these through the mincer together with the soaked wheat. The raisins will give you natural sugar. You see how easy it is to prepare a delicious muesli! Add some honey, perhaps some finely ground almonds or almond puree and a variety of fruit according to what is in season. Berries are an ideal addition. If you tend to suffer from constipation, mix some soaked linseed into the muesli to encourage the bowel function.

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