some reasons why garlic & onion are medicine, yet tamasic

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SrI SrI Guru Gaurangau Jayatah

 

Camp: Kurdzhinovo, RF

DaNDavats Dear mahadyuti prabhu and others. Jaya Krishna BalarAma!

Please accept my respectful obeisances. All Glories to Sreela PrabhupAda..

 

Thank you for your letter.

 

maybe someone can verify this puranic story. I've heard that when Mohini

Murti cut off Rahu's head a few drops of blood fell from the trunk of his

head onto the ground and that garlic and onion sprung from it.

 

so that was why it had some medicinal values (because of the touch of

nectar) but was tamasic (due to being mixed with Rahu's blood).

 

also in 1973 my biology teacher told that the onion plant does not have a

proper excretory system. the "tangy" taste the public likes is the "stool"

of the plant. I then showed the teacher the gita verse from 17th chapter of

Gita, and He bought the Gita on that basis.

 

TridaNDi BhikSu, Bhakti Visrambha MAdhava

 

>

> > Also onion, garlic are considered "healthy" by certain medical

> > practices,

>

> When I was new to ISKCON in Honolulu in the early seventies, Govinda dasi,

> the president's wife, stunk up the whole building because she was eating

> garlic, which she said Srila Prabhupada himself had prescribed to her for

> some health problem she had.

>

> I've never had any reason to doubt what she said was true, though I've

> also never verified her story.

[Guest guest]

I knew a herbalist, whose mother and grandmother were both herbalists. She

was a proponent of garlic for thinning the blood, lowering blood pressure

and using as an antiviral. She cautioned tho, not to use it everyday, as she

said that it lowered alpha waves in the brain. Alpha waves are associated

with creative thought.

 

There are some studies that show garlic can increase white blood counts,

which is an issue for some with chronic viral conditions or have side

effects from certain medicines.