Volume 17, Issue 2

By Unknown Author - Jul 15, 2009

The gift of healing rests within everyone. It is not a gift given only to a few. It is your birthright as much as it is mine. Everyone can receive healing and everyone can learn to heal. Everyone can give healing to themselves and to others.

By Introduction - Jul 15, 2009

“All matter according to the Upanishad is food, and this is the formula of the material world that ‘the eater eating is himself eaten’. The life organised in the body is constantly exposed to the possibility of being broken up by the attack of the life external to it or, its devouring capacity being insufficient or not properly served or there being no right balance between the capacity of devouring and the capacity or necessity of providing food for the life outside, it is unable to protect itself and is devoured or is unable to renew itself and therefore wasted away or broken; it has to go through the process of death for a new construction or renewal.

By Unknown Author - Jul 15, 2009

1. Sugar can suppress your immune system and impair your defences against infectious disease. 2. Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in your body: it causes chromium and copper deficiencies and interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium. 3. Sugar can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline, hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty in concentrating, and crankiness in children. 4. Sugar can produce a significant rise in total cholesterol, triglycerides and bad cholesterol and a decrease in good cholesterol. 5. Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function. 6. Sugar feeds cancer cells and has been connected with the development of cancer of the breast, ovaries, prostate, rectum, pancreas, biliary tract, lung, gallbladder and stomach. 7. Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose and can cause reactive hypoglycemia. 8. Sugar can weaken eyesight. 9. Sugar can cause many problems with the gastrointestinal tract including: an acidic digestive tract, indigestion, malabsorption in patients with functional bowel disease, increased risk of Crohn’s disease, and ulcerative colitis. 10. Sugar can cause premature aging. 11. Sugar can lead to alcoholism. 12. Sugar can cause your saliva to become acidic; it leads to tooth decay and periodontal disease. 13. Sugar contributes to obesity. 14. Sugar can cause auto-immune diseases such as arthritis, asthma, multiple sclerosis. 15. Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida albicans (yeast infections). 16. Sugar can cause gallstones. 17. Sugar can cause appendicitis. 18. Sugar can cause hemorrhoids. 19. Sugar can cause varicose veins. 20. Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive users. 21. Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis. 22. Sugar can cause a decrease in your insulin sensitivity thereby causing an abnormally high insulin

By Sanjeev Rastogi - Jul 15, 2009

This article deals with some variables that are important for treatment of patients by Ayurveda. It may help view this disease from a different and new angle for doctors of other systems...

By James Anderson - Jul 15, 2009

Harmony is my aim and all that leads to harmony makes me happy(1).”