cardiovascular -heart strengthening ideas?

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SrI SrI Guru Gaurangau Jayatah

 

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DaNDavats Dear madhava gosh prabhu and others here. Jaya Krishna BalarAma!

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

 

Thank you for your help in advance.

 

I'm with a senior sannyasi friend of mine, who's asking for some advice, if

anyone has some info about the below, kindly let me know and I'll pass it on

to him. thanks in advance!

 

any migraine, and cardiovasular strengthening teas? ideas?

 

how about hawthorn berries extract for heart? any info on this?

 

goji berries, soak in water and drink the juice only?

 

I wonder what's the hindi name of them?

 

they are also known as wolf berries, lycii (chinese) name

 

TridaNDi BhikSu, Bhakti Visrambha MAdhava

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Sorry for slow reply, (lame excuse, lame excuse, blah blah blah)

 

I think Jayo's answer was good.

 

Migraines are difficult to deal with. One thing is to try identify triggers.

These may be stress, or some foods. Keeping a log and refering to it to see

if some event is usually preceding the onset may be useful. Do a google

search on migraines and trigger foods and see if his diet includes any of

them. Off the top of my head the one I remember that devotees may eat is

hard cheeses. But an individual's trigger food may be something not found on

general lists, so sometimes it is recommended to go on a cleansing fast,

then very slowly add foods back into the diet and see if one is a trigger.

Allow for coincidence in such an approach and replicate the experiment but

eliminating triggers is important.

 

I went and googled and here is an excellent site with trigger foods and a

systematic approach to identifing them.

 

http://www.scienzavegetariana.it/nutrizione/pcrm/pcrm_migraine.html

 

For migraines, eating a fresh feverfew leaf daily would have been the only

herbal recommendation I could have made. Dried feverfew is useless - if

fresh not available, tincture would be required

 

For strengthening the heart - care should be taken that not too abrupt an

addition of rigorous activity be attempted. Best would be to have a

physician do some base line testing and then slowly add. What would be

appropriate for a young man in good health could be fatal for an elder man

with a family history of heart disease or a lifetime of poor diet and

sedentary lifestyle. Slow and easy.

 

The type of excercise is less important than doing it regularly and

incorporating into daily life. If someone attends arotik regularly, a

gradually increased physical participation would be good. (and I am too old

fashioned to approve much of some of the artless and vigorous dancing that

has replace the elegance of the Lord Chaitanya style). Even doing some

light dancing on the side if the main group of devotees is too much.

 

Walking to and from places one normally goes instead of taking a vehicle.

And yes, I have no objection if someone with a mind that is adverse to

physical activity needs to be involved in some sport to overcome the mind's

resistence to physical activity.

 

Oils and the heart. Good oils = good heart. Avoid transfat and oxygenized

fats as if they were poison. One to two tablespoons of a ghee a day (include

all sources - one cup whole milk = 2/3 tablespoon of ghee, one sweet ball =

one cup of milk, for example) is beneficial but in greater amounts the

advanage is lost and the reverse starts to be true. Even ghee, tho the

best of the heatable oils, if held at high temperatures for 20 minutes or

longer starts to oxidize and should be avoid. Which is to say, avoid deep

fried food in general, but even if fried in ghee. It can easily exceed your

daily quota and may be oxidized.

 

Best way to use ghee is in a jaunce added to veggies. Then it is only heated

for a short time.

 

Another oil proven to be excellent for the heart, joint flexibility, and

enhanced brain function is any oil containing omega 3s. I freshly grind a

tablespoon or 2 a day of the whole seeds and add it to oatmeal or soups.

Once it is ground, it begins to oxidize so if larger amounts are ground at

once, refrigerate and keep in the dark to slow the oxidization.

 

 

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Hare Krsna