Body Types, was Panther Piss

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Body types are a huge consideration. I found the basic Ayurvedic principles

to be the most useful information. What i want to do now is to correlate

that with the blood type work, but that has to wait because the book isn't

available in the local library and i currently have no funds for books.

(Oddly enough they have 4 copies of the cookbook!)

 

The big problem with Ayurvedic principles is that they get mixed up with

Hindu doctrines. And these doctrines can be very confusing, contradictory,

mystical (meaning by definition that you can't know the answer), and

basically useless to healing practice. This partly comes about because

Hinduism itself is an amalgamation of some 20 different Pagan religions

dating from various periods and stemming from diverse cultures. So this

information has to be moderated somehow. What needs to be done, is research

on the physical basis of these types. I have seen a few attempts in that

direction, but unfortunately most of those had too much psychology in them

are were thus still fundamentally useless.

 

There has to be some physical basis for Ayurvedic body types, and based on

my observations so far it is not necessarily genetic, although it can be at

times. That's the state of the art, unless someone has a more firm basis

for classification that is physically verifiable and does not rely on

psychology or religious doctrine.

 

At 02:04 PM 3/1/02 -0700, you wrote:

>Yes, I think there is a lot of truth to his research, but I think the

>area in which he falls down is in the omission of " BODY TYPES " . I have

>not done a comprehensive study of his work so I may be wrong here, but

>what I have seen so far indicates to me that this omission is an

>essential piece of the puzzle.

>

>Example: You're gonna get an Eskimo who may be any one of the various

> " Blood " Types (A thru O), and yet his " Blood Type " recommendations would

>tend to fall down with this particular " Body Type " . Eskimos have been

>living on whale blubber for the last 14,000 years (or more), and for an

>A Type Eskimo to suddenly switch to a ton of raw green vegetables could

>be detrimental to his health. I'm sure you see my point here.

>

>Also, not all naturopaths are equal (one of the beauties, but also one

>of the drawbacks to the profession). Thusly, sometimes there are as

>many different opinions on a certain subject as there are naturopaths.

>Don't get me wrong on this one, I'd still go to any naturopath before

>going to any Medico ;o)

>

>Love,

>

>Doc

>

>Ian " Doc " Shillington N.D.

>505-772-5889

>Dr.IanShillington