some ANC guidelines

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Hi again,

 

There is extensive guidance in ayurveda about diet during pregnancy.

Since growth of the baby depends on what kind of food you eat, you

should be very careful. According to ayurveda different body parts

of the baby are manifested in different months. Thus, monthwise diet

is suggested to facilitate proper growth of the baby. But there are

four foods that are common to all months, they are - shali rice (this

rice is produced within 6 months), ghee, pure butter, and milk.

These four should be taken during all 9 months of pregnancy.

 

I will try to shortly summarize the monthwise diet. (Please correct

me if I am wrong somewhere.) You will find lot of repetition in the

diet regimens, but in fact there is a slight difference in each

recipe, and this must be followed as accurately as possible, because

this is taken from the original text sushrut samhita. The milk

mentioned here should be cow milk.

 

All the below-mentioned recipes may be taken in addition to your

usual diet. Details of the patient's current diet (and available

options) along with prakruti is taken into consideration before

suggesting modifications/additions to that.

 

During first month, cold milk and light diet is advised to purify

rasa dhatu. Some special herbs for first month are also useful.

 

During second month, herbs with sweet taste should be used, e.g.

licorice, etc.

 

During third month milk with honey and ghee, and shali rice with milk

is advised with some herbs.

 

During fourth month heart of the baby is manifested and it is advised

to have milk cream (cream extracted directly from milk), curd rice, a

kind of meat called jangala meat (goat, sheep, etc.). It is also

advised to increase the portion of milk and butter.

 

During fifth month, cream, milk and rice, and to increase portion of

milk and ghee.

 

During sixth month, ghee from milk cream, milk itself, and rice, and

milk prepared with a herb called gokhru are advised. (This herb is

advised possibly because kidneys are manifested in the sixth month).

 

During seventh month, sweet and anti-vata herbs, with less fat and

less salt, ghee prepared with a herb called prishniparni, and milk

prepared with decoction of a herb called badara.

 

During eighth month, a recipe called yavagu is advised, this consists

of rice boiled with special herbs. Soups of jangala meat (as

mentioned above), and anuvasan and asthapan basti.

 

During ninth month, oil prepared with some herbs for ninth month,

anuvasan and asthapan basti, and rice boiled with special herbs.

 

We have seen very good results of this regimen in many patients. As

you know, in addition to this, there are some herb formulations that

can be used to avoid miscarriage/abortion, healthy growth of the

baby, easy delivery, and better recovery of the mother after delivery.

 

You must take milk and ghee during all months of pregnancy. This

sometimes leads to truncal obesity. The weight gain and obesity

after delivery can be avoided with use of anti-meda herbs and I have

seen excellent results with these.

 

Also, take a look at my website: www.ayurvedicrx.com. Your

suggestions are most welcome.

 

Regards..

Dr. Thite

 

ayurveda , " cm thite " <cmthite

wrote:

>

> Dear Ms Ysha,

>

> I have gone through few previous posts in this group and I am quite

> impressed with it. You really have a great discussion going on and

I hope it continues. Yes, I know about Vaidya Lad and his wife, but

unfortunately I never had an opportunity to meet him.

>

> It seems that some terms, especially abbreviations, we frequently

use here are different from those used in USA. ANC means antenatal

care. There is extensive guidance in ayurveda about diet and

behavior during 9 months of pregnancy. According to ayurveda there

is specific guidance about different body parts of the baby that are

manifested in different months. Thus, monthwise diet and herbs

formulations are suggested to facilitate proper growth of each body

part the baby and even subtler things like mind and intellect. Thus

with this ANC program basically we suggest monthwise diet and

behavior modifications according to prakruti of mother.

>

> Ayurveda is slowly gaining popularity in my part and people are

inclined to trust more in ayurveda. Of course, they sometimes seek

allopathic care rather hastily, but I think that is understandable.

>

> Best,

> Dr. Thite

>

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________________

> Dear Dr. Thite;

>

> We always have to give credit to a few very special teachers who

have come before us, and the power of the work and Ayurvedic theory

to serve in specific situations so well in my experience. Then it

becomes easy to translate for the individual situations with wisdom.

>

> It is time to honor

> 1) the vaidyas Subedar and Kastori who were given to work with two

western women, an infant masseuse Clara Berno and RN/CBE Margaret

Mulleins, to translate the best they could from gifts of Ayurveda

into a program for good postpartum care for western women; this was

my initial 2 week training! It came blessed by the support of

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to bring Ayurveda out for us.

>

> 2) Saraswati Buhrman, PhD and Clinical Ayurvedic Practitioner,

trained by her teacher she met in India, Vaidya Divedi. At one point

he just said, practice and teach, and she was on her own, but her

gifts founded the Rocky MOuntain INstitute of Yoga and Ayurveda and

have served many clients with her excellent skills with Ayurveda and

Ayurvedic herbal formulary, where I was fortunate to study and take

some of their advanced classes, including also the 4 day intensive on

Womens' Health Care and Ayurveda. RMIYA's classes take the northern

Indian approach to jump right into herbal use, rather than the more

conservative approach generally taught in most places in the US also.

>

> 3) Sarita Shrestha, BAMS and OBGyn, first woman vaidya/OBGyn in

Nepal and honored as the representative of all the vaidyas there, her

master's level work was in postpartum and she trains and guides

midwives as well as ayurvedic physicians for her Devi Kunti clinic

there as well as many in the US where she travels annually

(www.saritashrestha.org).

>

> 4) Dr. Vasant Lad, founder of the Ayurvedic Institute in New

Mexico, and a new Ganesha INstitute almost completed I believe in his

home town of Pune, where he spends half of his time already also

taking on many clients from the area and referrals from his friends

at the allopathic hospital where they have given up on them (!). He

is soon to be spending more time there again. Even a little time

with him is a great blessing; he is such a master teacher, a delight

of sattva and humor, clarity and abundant clinical knowledge. It is

interesting that he seems to be deferring to the few women in the US

who have any background in Ayurveda care for women, waiting for us to

teach more on the subject, and his students currently all seem to

remark on this missing piece.

>

> This November in his US hometown of Albuquerque, NM, there is a

national Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) annual conference to

which I've been asked to speak on Perinatal Nutrition. As my

training and career has focused mostly on postpartum needs and care,

a big black hole in health care in this country, the ANC (yes, it is

a term used here, just not used much in my circles) this piece is

short in my training.

>

> Would you be so kind as to share this valuable information in

summary as you have described? It would be my delight to give credit

to you and your wife for sharing this with the NAMA audience. We

have just 1.5 hours to present and though there is more than enough

to fill the time just on postpartum nutrition, they have requested

also ANC guidance for nutrition. Dr. Shrestha and I have been

playing phone tag during her visit to take this on together, but now

she is about to return to Nepal! Your post was answer to my unasked

request.

>

> It is encouraging to hear that Ayurveda is gaining in

popularity/respect in its homeland.

>

> Namaste;

> Ysha

>