Nocturnal emissions

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Dr. Partap Chauhan wrote that he has treated hundreds of such cases. It

seems to be a widespread syndrome. Why is that? Because of masturbation?

Because of ever present sexual stimulation (advertisements, women dressed to

and acting to attract men, etc.)? Most allopathic doctors say that an

occasional nocturnal emission is normal and nothing to worry about (not that

we have to accept such doctors as being correct).

 

I wrote in BIKC: "There are several Äyurvedic medicines... which are

specifically meant to enhance brahmacarya."

 

I'm surprised that in Dr. Partap Chauhan's analysis he didn't mention any

medicines.

 

According to a book on herbs that I have, cinnamon and cloves help to make

the semen strong, and raw camphor (not the stuff we use in arati, which is

chemically prepared) helps to reduce sex desire. Now don't all start to eat

kilos of camphor etc.

 

A devotee wrote saying that,

 

> We have often heard that it takes sixty drops of blood to make one

> drop of semen. Is this correct, according to Ayurveda? If so, how are we

> to understand it? That would mean that a full discharge of semen would be

> equivalent to losing a dangerously large quantity of blood.

 

Prahladanda Maharaja clarified this for me as follows.

 

> why should we consider this a dangerous amount of

> blood? Semen is an eventual product of subsequent transformations of

> blood, it is not that when we loose semen we are directly losing blood.

> From blood comes muscle dhatu, then fat dhatu, then bone dhatu, then

> marrow dhatu and then finally semen. So the blood has been transformed

> into so many other dhatus before some part of it has become semen. Of

> course, if semen is continuously lost, the functions which semen plays,

> which is apart from the function which blood plays in the body, will be

> weakened.

 

So actually it takes *the essence* of sixty drops of blood to make one drop

of semen.