Guest guest Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 > Hare Krsna, Dear Vaisnavas and Vaisnavis, > Please accept my humble dandavats. Jaya Srila Prabhupada! > > 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? That's what I would do. But it's hard to take only glucose water for 21 days. An easier way out is to just take the karmi medicine. It usually helps, but it has side effects. ys, jdd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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