milk mixed with salt

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Any comments on the following? One point that comes to mind is that even a

good medicine may not necessarily be allowed for Vaisnavas. For example,

garlic is forbidden for devotees even though it apparently has good

therapeutic effects. Some Ayurvedic medicines contain meat and are also not

allowed for devotees.

 

As milk mixed with salt is described in the text below as equivalent to meat

(reference?), it is unfortunate that even some devotee cookbooks describe

salty preparations such as soups and mayonnaise made with milk. In such

preparations, could not yogurt should substituted instead?

 

About the ref to a bottle gourd prep given below: I wonder how authentic the

mentioned prep is. Is it offered in Visnu temples?

 

This may seem to be getting into hair-splitting, but the main point is: is

there any evidence for preps of milk mixed with salt being acceptable for

offering to Krsna?

 

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Letter COM:3043989 (28 lines)

Sumithra Krishna (das) JPS (Chennai - IN)

26-Feb-00 10:46

Bhakti Vikasa Swami [22720]

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Prasada Queries

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> I'm preparing an essay on the Cooking, Distributing and Honoring of Krsna

> Prasada and have some queries to place before the learned devotees, as

> follow.

 

Though I do not belong to the category of the "learned devotees", may I

submit the following that I read recently?

 

This is from an article in the "Hope this meets you in good health - the

Newsletter of the ISKCON Health and Welfare Ministry" by Padmanabha dasa

called "My favorite medicines".

 

"There's one very special combination that is extremely good for kapha

conditions. When your lungs are congested, add a little turmeric to about

100 ml of milk and boil it for a few seconds. Then take it off the fire and

add a little salt. Normally, we should never add salt to milk; it's

considred the same as meat. The body will reject this combination by

surrounding it with mucus. In this way, mucus will be pulled out of the

lungs and the stomach and be passed out in the stool. So drinking hot

turmeric-milk with salt is one of the fastest ways to get rid of mucus. It's

the best remedy if you feel a cold coming on, because it immeidately dries

out the body. The reuslts are practically instantaneous. But this is the

only time we should add salt to milk."

 

There's one South Indian traditional recipe where bottle gourd is cooked

with milk, salt and jeera.

 

Servant of your servant,

Tarini Radha dd.

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