typhoid

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Dear Sriman Mahadyuti Prabhu,

Please accept my humble dandavats. Jaya Srila Prabhupada!

 

Thank you very much.

 

As far I am in India, Karnataka, so the local nonayurvedic doctor diagnosed:

I am suffering from typhoid.

 

She gave some medicines, but didn't prohibit the solid food.

 

But according to Prabhupada:

 

"Of course, in your country I know that there is no such disease as typhoid,

but India there is a fever called typhoid. Here it is called typhosis, or

something like, medical term. That typhoid is disease of intestine. Now, in

that disease, any solid food is strictly forbidden. First time is twenty or

fourteen days, then twenty-one days, then forty-one days, up to sixty days.

He is to live only on glucose water. That's all. Other things is dangerous

for him. Now, if that typhoid patient desires to eat some solid food and if

somebody, out of compassion, gives him some solid food, then it is death for

him because in that condition he cannot enjoy".

 

Should I just follow to Srila Prabhupada's advise?

 

 

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> > I have a constant splitting headache.

>

> The following is from Srila Prabhupada Nectar, Volume 5:

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> 13. Prabhupada Said: Prescriptions for Ailments

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> While living as a brahmacari in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Tosana Krsna dasa

> developed a very bad headache. The headache continued day and night for

> over a month. Tosana Krsna saw three different doctors, but not one of

> them could stop his headache. Finally, Tosana Krsna wrote to Prabhupada

> asking for advice. Prabhupada answered him as follows:

>

> "Regarding your headaches, your bowels are not clear. This is the cause of

> the problem. So you should take more milk and fruits, and eat less wheats

> and rice. If sandalwood oil is available, you try to massage on your

> shaved head. Let me know how this trouble is improving. A brahmacari

> should not have any complaint of bodily disease."

> -- Letter dated February 17, 1969

>

> Tosana Krsna followed Prabhupada's remedy, and within four days the

> headache went away.

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> My own considerable experience with severe headaches has indicated the

> following causes:

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> 1. As Srila Prabhupada indicates in the anecdote above, clogged bowels;

> i.e., bodily "plumbing" not flowing smoothly.

>

> 2. Insufficient intake of water (which contributes to the previous point).

> Western experts recommend a MINIMUM of two liters a day. I try to drink

> three. When I exercise heavily, four.

>

> 3. Insufficient sleep, especially if it's over a period of a few days or

> more.

>

> 4. Stress, especially from management difficulties (most especially of the

> financial or legal varieties) or relationship problems that seem

> irresolvable.

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> 5. Prolonged engagement contrary to one's nature (especially if that

> engagement is management).

>

> Let me know if any of this helps.

 

Your servant,

Radheshyama dasa