The Author : Ph.D.Jaiphet Klajon.
The nine approaches to find balanced health, or the nine “pills” of Buddhist medicine, if you
will, are as follows:
Pill no.1. Taking natural herbs to balance your health factors.
To address overheating symptoms, drink cooling herbs or chlorophyll beverages to help
to adjust the hot and cold balance.
Instructions: Select from the following “cooling” plants in fresh form the most
suitable ones for your treatment: yanang (Tiliacoratriandra Diels) 5-20
leaves, 1-3 pandanus leaves, buabok (Centellaasiatica Urban) from a half
to one handful, Bejing grass 3-5 stems, omsaeb or benjarong (Justicia Gangetica)
froma half to one handful, morning glory from a half to one handful, saled pangporn
(Clinacan thusnutans Lindau) from a half to one handful, 3-5 inches of
the inner core of the banana plant, and wan ka-ab hoy (Tradescantia spathacea
Stearn) 3-5 leaves. Pound, rub or grind everything together with a
couple of cups of water. Then strain the mixture through a sieve. You can
have a cup of this chlorophyll drink before meals one to three times a
day, or when thirsty - even if your stomach is empty. The suitable
quantity and concentration of the beverage to drink will depend on the amount
needed to make you to feel comfortable and energetic.
In the case when overheating and
overcooling happen at the same time,
There are 3 ways to heal this illness. First, you
prepare cold element herbs (see above) and then mix them with hot water. Or you
boil cool element herbs and drink the liquid. Or you may mix it with hot
element herbs such as: turmeric, ginger, galanga (khaa), lemon grass, holy
basil, sweet basil, garlic, rhizome, bael fruit or to control the mix it with
drinks made from plants with heating effects The quantity
how much to use these herbs depends on your feelings. The right balance you‘ll
find by sensing.
To treat overcooling symptoms, you can drink the heating type of beverage one to
four times a day, depending on your health situation.
Pill no.2. Gua Sha or skin detoxification.
Gua-Sha is a simple technique of rubbing and
scratching repeatedly the skin in different parts of the body.
Instructions: First, you should lubricate the skin with pure water, balms or oils
that are made of herbs with either heating or cooling effects depending on each
person’s condition. However, if any lubricant isn’t available, it’s not
necessary to apply anything on the skin. Next, use a small smooth-edged
object to rub or scratch, repeatedly applying pressure strokes to near of the
areas that are sore, painful, uncomfortable, or toxin outlets such as the back,
arms, legs, gaps between ribs and etc. You can rub directly on the skin or
through thin clothes. Avoid rubbing in areas that are sensitive or on
soft tissue, such as areas that have wounds or polyps, near eye balls, or sex
organs. Apply pressure strokes to the same area 10-50 times, less or more
depending on the health status of the person. During this treatment,
reddish rashes will develop, but don’t worry. They will usually disappear
within a few days. But don’t use excess force, which may rupture the skin.
Remarks: you should wait for 4-8 hours before
taking a bath after Gua-Sha to allow more time to release toxin out of the body
before the pores in the skin can close again.
Pill no.3. Detoxification of the large intestines.
Instructions: Prepare the detoxification solution by mixing herbs with either
heating or cooling effects, as the case may require, with pure water of room
temperature, or boil the herbs with water for 5-10 minutes and mix it with
enough water to make it warm enough to use, depending on your feelings. Next,
pour 0.5-1.5 liters of the solution into the detoxification kit. Remove
the air from the tube by running some solution through it and then close the
valve. Apply a lubricant (Vaseline, Aloe Vera gel, vegetable oil or the
detoxification solution) to the tip of the tube for a length of couple of
centimeters. Then insert the tube into the anus to 3-5 inches in depth,
hang the detoxification kit on the wall at about an arm’s length height, and
start releasing the solution into the intestine by opening the valve. Then rub
the stomach and hold your breath for a while, leaving the solution inside your
intestine for as long as you can keep it there. Then release everything out.
Repeat this as many times as it is required to consume the total amount in the
container. The detoxification may take some 10-20 minutes. Healthy people may
do detoxification 1-3 times a week, while severely ill patients should do it
once or twice a day, according to their health situation.
Pill no.4. Soaking hands and feet in a herbal concoction
Select the herbs which you expect to improve your
health condition, boil from a half to one handful of one or several kinds of
herbs of your choice with approximately 1-3 liters of water for 5-10 minutes.
Then, add room temperature water until it’s warm enough to soak hands and
feet (cover hands including the wrists and ankles). Do it for three
minutes at a time, with a one-minute gap in between, for a total of three
mini-sessions. If any person feels uncomfortable from using the warm
solution, then use pure water of room temperature containing fresh herbs of
your choice instead. Healthy people may do this detoxification
approximately 1-3 times a week, while severely ill patients should do it once
or twice a day according to their health situation.
Pill no.5. Use an herbal concoction as a poultice , to paint the
skin, as drops, compresses , with steam or in bathing ,
as desired.
Pill no.6. Choose the accurate and suitable forms of exercise,
acupressure , and yoga will make each individual feel
comtable and energetic.
Regarding techniques of exercise, Buddhist Medicine
has promoted exercise methods that combine body stretching, yoga and
acupressure along the meridian lines, which boost both strength and elasticity
of the bones and muscles, as well as one’s overall “chi/prana” energy. Choose the accurate and suitable forms of exercise, acupressure, and yoga will make
each individual feel comfortable and energetic.
Pill no.7. Balanced diet (adjusting the diet to balance your body
with the environment)
Eat protein from beans or grains instead of meat. Sick
people who still cannot stop eating animal protein should eat eggs or fish
instead. Add more fresh vegetable and less-sweet fruits to your meal.
Apply minimum amount of spices to your foods, as little as you can.
Try to use salt as the primary condiment when preparing the food.
Because it helps digestion of foods, eat them in the following sequence:
1. Start by
drinking fresh herbal beverages, for example chlorophyll drinks.
2. Eat more
“cooling” fruits and fewer “heating” fruits.
Cooling fruits are such as: cooking (saba) banana, dragon fruit, santol (kraton),
pineapple, pomelo, rose apple, mangosteen, watermelon, cantaloupe, raw mango,
raw tamarind, raw papaya, partially ripe papaya, monkey mango.
Heating fruits include durian, ripe jackfruit, ripe mango, Morinda citrifolia (noni),
lychee, rambutan, longan, Baccaurea motleyana (rambai), star fruit, Sweet Plum Mango (ma-prang), Bael fruit (matoom), Salacca (sala), tangerine, grape, guava,
custard apple, passion fruit, sapodilla, ripe papaya, sweet tamarind, preserved
or processed fruit.
3. Eat more
cooling vegetables and fewer heating vegetables.
Cooling vegetables are such as: Chinese Violet (om saeb), morning glory, cucumber, cabbage (napa), romaine lettuce, bean sprout, lotus stem, Centella asiastica
(bua bok), eggplant, gooseberry leaves.
Heating vegetables are such as: all kinds of spicy and redolent vegetables, all kinds of
seasoning herbs, chilies, ginger, lemon grass, galangal (khaa), turmeric,
pepper, chives (hom), sweet basil , Climbing wattle (cha-om), Chinese broccoli,
cabbage, carrot, beetroot, string bean, winged bean, bitter bean (sataw), water
mimosa, acacia, Chinese ginseng, Korean ginseng, Morinda citrifolia leaves
(bai yaw), spinach, pumpkin, bamboo shoot, seaweed, lotus root.
4. Eat
non-processed rice with various side dishes. Stop or reduce eating
highCarbohydrate foods, which include sticky rice, red rice, black rice, wheat,
barley rice, taro, potato. Moreover, avoid all kinds of desserts, bread,
flour snack, instant noodles, fermented rice flour noodles, etc.
The various side dishes should be prepared by using
more cooling vegetables, which include all cooling vegetables mentioned
above as well as zucchini, all kinds of squashes, inner core of banana plant,
banana flower, banana tip, raw banana, cauliflower, broccoli, radish, lettuce
head, young pumpkin, pumpkin flower and tip, corn, raw jackfruit, and moringa.
5. Eat soups that should be prepared by
using a variety of kinds of cooling beans or grains. Cooling beans or
grains are such as: white beans, green beans, soya beans, sweet peas,
chickpeas, pearl barley.
Stop or avoid eating high protein foods, such as: meat, milk, eggs, peanuts, red beans, black
beans, fried beans, shiitake mushrooms, ganoderma lucidum, chi mushroom as well
as fermented or preserved protein from vegetables and animals.
Stop or avoid eating high cholesterol foods, such as: vegetable and animal oil, rice bran oil,
sesame, coconut milk and meat, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, almonds, cashew
nuts.
Pill no.8.
Stopping wrong action, fulfilling meritorious action, purifying one’s mind, establishing good companion, social and environment
Do only meritorious acts, applying Dhamma to your
daily life to create a peaceful mind.
Pill no.9. Balance between work and rest.
This philosophy of Buddhist medicine aims at balancing
the state of one’s body and mind. An individual can use only one or
several kinds of techniques at the same time, as long as it helps one to feel
comfortable and energetic during the treatment. On the other hand, any
kind of techniques that makes the individual feel sick or lethargic should be
discontinued. This requires constant self-observation and creative
re-adjustment. In general, the simple premise is treating “overheating”
symptoms with cooling foods, and vice versa. In certain cases, one may
have to switch back and forth several times before arriving at the balanced
level of comfort.
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