A woman’s body is constantly evolving and progressing through distinct biological phases. These changes impact not only her reproductive capacity and identity, but also her personality – altered mental and emotional states, in addition to fluctuating physical stamina. By no means are these transitions meant to lessen or impair a woman’s professional and physical capacities in any way! Instead, they are just another phase of her creative experience in life – as a woman. 

In this sense, perimenopause is a great time of change when a woman’s body transitions to mark the end of biological reproductive years to allow her to expand her creative horizons in alternative ways. 

However, perimenopause can be a critical time that can impact her health for the remaining years of her life, if/when it is not well addressed. What happens during perimenopause? In a nutshell: the ovaries gradually produce less estrogen and progesterone, leading to fluctuating hormone levels. This may result in:

• Irregular periods: Periods may become heavier, lighter, or more or less frequent;
• Hot flashes: Sudden feelings of intense heat, often accompanied by sweating; 
• Night sweats: Sweating during sleep, often related to hot flashes;
• Mood changes: Irritability, anxiety, or depression; 
• Sleep problems: Difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep; 
• Vaginal dryness: Reduced lubrication, which can cause discomfort during intercourse; 
• Fatigue: Feeling tired or lacking energy; 
• Weight gain: Changes in metabolism can lead to weight gain;
• Other symptoms: Joint pain, headaches, and changes in libido.

While there are volumes in Ayurveda that detail treatment options for perimenopausal women, which include: lifestyle changes such as regular exercise; a healthy diet; etc, to manage specific symptoms; there are also many herbal preparations that Ayurveda offers to help alleviate symptoms and smoothen the transition. In contrast, modern medicine offers HRT – hormone replacement therapy to help address hormonal fluctuations and changes. Before you opt for HRT, do some research and scroll down to watch Dr Teitelbaum’s video below to find out more about hormones – whether as birth control pills, or as HRT supplements – and what they really do to your body… 

 Last week we featured a full article detailing ayurvedic tips and remedies that help synchronize women’s bodies withe lunar cycles – amongst other things – for optimal hormonal balance. This week, we would like to share a wondrous herbal blend that Vaidya Mishra formulated. It comes in different formats: as a lotion or a nectar drop. They both carry the same herbs in a different base to address preference and optimal delivery methods based on need. 

This SVA formulation is called “Kamini.” Kamini is a Pro-estrogenic formulations that supports a woman’s transition and helps balance her estrogen levels. 

Kamini, from the Sanskrit – कामिनी, translates to a “beautiful, desirable, and/or affectionate woman.”  

The “Kamini” formulations were made by Vaidya to help young and adult women maintain optimal estrogen levels. Let’s put it this way – when the hormones in a woman’s body are in optimal balance, then she is extremely beautiful because her mood aligns with her physical beauty!!! The formula carries the pro-estrogenic herbs and plants that support women going through pre-menopause, perimenopause and menopause. The prabhava (ultimate vibrational effect) of these herbs may also help women who are experiencing loss of libido; dryness and less sensitivity in the vaginal area. Please note: always consult with your medical physician if you experience any of these symptoms for full medical care and attention. 

Kamini Transmucosal Nectar

Pro-estrogenic Support for a Woman’s Transition

Kamini HMN drops carry the vibrational energy of pro-estrogenic herbs and spices that support women through perimenopause and menopause.  This product is also available in nectar form for rapid transmucosal absorption: Kamini Herbal-Memory Nectar.

For best results, use this nectar drop along with Kamini TD Cream.  This cream delivers the prabhavas of pro-estrogenic herbs and plants via the transdermal route (through the skin).

Kamini Transdermal Lotion

Transdermal Pro-estrogenic Support for a Woman’s Transition

A soft smooth water-based lotion that will readily absorb within seconds: apply 1/4 of a tsp of this cream along the pulse (radial artery) of both wrists morning and evening – massage in gently.  Also apply ½ tsp on the lower back – apply and rub in downward motion.  For Local vaginal application:  Before using internally, test a little bit of the cream on the external parts of the vaginal area.  If you do not experience any allergic reactions – itching or any discomfort, then you may apply inside the labia.  

  For best results, use both products – together, daily.

Ingredient-Wise Actions:

How Each Herb, Plant, or Flower Helps:

• Shatavari (Asparagus racemosus): supports and enhances estrogen levels in the body;
• Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare): an estrogenic spice great for digestion that also supplies estrogen to the body;
• Ashoka (Saraca asoca): emotional support to help regulate inflammation that can trigger hormonal imbalance;
• Alodhra (Symplocos racemose): a divine tree bark that supports and enhances the flow and better interaction of hormones with the organs and systems;
• Marshmallow root (Althaea officinalis) and Slippery Elm (Ulmus fulva): lubricate the mucous membranes;
• Turmeric (Curcuma longa): to ward off and pacify inflammation;
• Sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica): to support and enliven the intelligence of the nerve endings of the mucous membrane;
• Frankincense (Boswellia serrata): anti-inflammatory resin that helps balance the overall physiology;
• Sandalwood (Santalum album): cooling and bliss enhancing.

Your Body

on

Birth Control Pills

~ Dr Marianne Teitelbaum

Clinical experience counts for something. When you see over 100,000 patients over a 35-year span of a lifetime, many patterns start to emerge where you can see lots of causes and effects, even before research bares them out.

For example, it became apparent to me early on in my practice that people who cooked with vegetable oils like canola, sunflower oil and others usually developed a fatty liver, even without the use of alcohol. I never saw any research on this, but I saw it over and over in my patients, and when I told them to eliminate the use of these oils and switch over to olive oil and ghee and gave them various herbs to heal their liver, the fatty liver totally reversed.

I saw hundreds and hundreds of children develop food allergies and sensitivities from taking way too many antibiotics for recurring infections, and thankfully watched the allergies go away once we restored the friendly bacteria in the gut and settled down the hot and angry liver. 

I also noticed how my patients who had thyroid problems at the same time had problems with their gall bladder, which I described in great detail in my book Healing the Thyroid With Ayurveda.

When you have a very sick patient staring at you on the treatment table, desperate for help, you don’t have the luxury of waiting for research to discover what you have been seeing clinically for years. You just role up your sleeves and do what you instinctively know what you have to do, based on the experience you’ve gained from the hundreds of patients who presented before them with the same symptoms.

I remember many years ago I began seeing problems emerge in our menopausal patients who were taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT). It seemed that many of them were developing breast cancer. It was a very obvious cause and effect that I saw over and over and over again.

I started telling women to avoid it and showed them how nature gave us a bounty of herbs that could help them overcome their menopausal symptoms, without the side effects of the synthetic drugs.

Then, the Women’s Health Initiative study, sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute found out what I had been seeing clinically: they tested 161,000 women over a span of several years and discovered that indeed taking HRT did in fact increase the risk for not only breast cancer, but also for heart disease, stroke, blood clots and urinary incontinence. Not by a little, but a lot. So much so that they had to stop the study in its tracks because the women who were in the group who were taking the HRT were dropping like flies, developing high rates of all these problems.

Thankfully, an alarm was sent out and at least 50% of the women in the country stopped taking their HRT. And as predicted, the next year the rate of breast cancer dropped dramatically, lower than it had ever dropped before, despite all the breast cancer research which had been done hoping to find a way to decrease the epidemic.

I remember at the time thinking that if we could only take it one step further — if they could somehow get the young girls off the birth control pill, we would see the rate of breast cancer go down even more dramatically.

And again, I have come to this conclusion by seeing so many patients through the years who have developed breast cancer have one thing in common: a large majority of them have a history of taking birth control pills. The longer they have remained on them the more likely they are to develop it.This includes the patches, the vaginal rings and IUD’s all laced with these chemical hormones.

Let’s see why taking synthetic hormones might not be the way to go.

 First of all, the hormones that your body makes are highly intelligent. They are produced by the ovaries, and are targeted to certain areas to exert their influence. They are then removed from the body and then new hormones are made. All this happens through intelligent feedback loops originating in the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland. They sense when the hormones are low, signals are sent out to the ovaries to produce them, and they fluctuate up and down during a woman’s monthly cycle depending on this feedback loop.

All of these functions can be altered immensely by synthetic hormones with grave consequences to your health. Why? Because these are not natural hormones but instead the toxic synthetic versions of the hormones your body would produce. And your body has never seen anything like these at any time in the history of mankind. 

While yes, they might be able to do a few of the same things that hormones do, attaching to your body’s receptors like your natural hormones do, kind of like a key fitting into a lock. But they won’t necessarily open the door all the way. You will definitely get a different outcome from these drugs than the intelligent hormones your body produces.

In Ayurveda we stress the importance of taking in truly natural remedies to heal the body. Remedies such as food, herbs, and spices — all are grown outside, absorbing the intelligent rays of the sun and the moon, which we collectively call prana. It’s this vibration of prana that gets into these remedies which in turn impart an intelligent vibration and action in our cells, allowing the cells to perform all their hundreds of complex functions, and also giving the cells the capability of communicating with each other. Every action inside of your cells runs on vibration. Intelligent vibration, the healing vibration of nature.

This is why we try to avoid synthetic vitamins as much as we can. They too are lacking nature’s healing energy, so when we take them into our bodies, yes, we will get an effect, but over time we will start to see side effects develop as their unintelligent or dumb effects begin to surface.

Which is exactly what is wrong with these synthetic hormones, such as birth control pills. Not only are they not intelligent, but they also break a very important law of nature in that they stop the body’s natural processes. This also is a very bad idea. 

For example, they stop the inherent and necessary rhythms of a woman’s hormonal cycle, making her infertile by preventing the release of an egg during the monthly cycle. They do this by suppressing the release of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) from the pituitary gland. FSH and LH stimulate ovulation, which is the release of a mature egg from the female ovary. A woman cannot get pregnant if she doesn’t ovulate because there is no egg to be fertilized. I cringe when I think about someone stopping this basic law of nature inherent in all women and the havoc it must be wreaking on the delicately balanced endocrine system. The pill also thickens the mucus of the cervix. This thicker cervical mucus blocks sperm so they can’t swim to an egg. Yet another cringe-worthy thought. 

With the “For Her” cream you can modulate both estrogen AND progesterone: re-awaken the intelligence of your hormonal system, gently but effectively…

I always tell my patients — don’t stop any of the body’s natural cycles so your body can run smoothly and intelligently, with all the hundreds of functions happily taking place within the trillions of cells in your body. It’s almost like you get a slap from Mother Nature when you break these basic laws of nature. This is because every cell is physically and energetically connected to each other. So a breakdown in communication in one area usually will initiate a cascade of events which will eventually affect the entire body. We can’t expect to harm one area and think things will be OK everywhere else.

This is especially true with synthetic hormone use. You don’t want to remove the elegant hormones your body produces and replace them with chemical toxins — if you do then you must accept the reality of what might happen inside. 

They have been known to cause life threatening blood clots, strokes, depression and suicidal thoughts; some women develop high blood pressure, some develop osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, hardening of the arteries, heart disease, diabetes and insulin resistance, kidney disease and even dementia.

I make it a point to ask every new patient if they have ever taken birth control pills, or worse, the morning after pill which is even higher doses than the pill and wreaks even more havoc. And if they have taken the birth control pill I ask for how long and how many morning after pills were taken. That way, I know the amount of toxicity I’m dealing with.

Always keep this in mind: estrogen makes things grow. The intelligent estrogen your body produces made your hips and breasts grow at puberty, for example. The unintelligent or dumb estrogen found in HRT and birth control pills creates “dumb” growth — growths such as cancerous breast tumors.

Another pattern I have seen through the years is that the birth control pill destroys the friendly bacteria in the gut, just like antibiotics do. Once these are destroyed you can develop food allergies, yeast infections, irritable bowel and autoimmune diseases. It’s important to understand that the friendly bacteria in the gut prevent infection, they also help the digestion of food and they keep the immune system stable so it doesn’t spiral out of control and start reacting to foods or attacking your body which will wind up in an autoimmune disease as your immune system starts attacking you.

And birth control pills also wipe out the strains of the friendly bacteria in the bladder and vaginal tract, causing recurring bladder infections and/or bacterial vaginosis. These infections don’t occur out of the blue — they happen once the friendly bacteria are depleted. Since these beneficial bacteria prevent infections from growing once they are depleted you become prone to any one of these types of infections.

Hormonal Balance For Him TOO!

If you have been on the pill for any length of time you must regrow the friendly bacteria in the gut, the vaginal tract and the bladder using targeted types of probiotics for each specific area. You then have to undergo an intense regimen of cleansing. Cleansing the liver, the fat cells, the bone marrow, and the blood, all the places where these fatty hormones deposit and stay forever. 

Since these hormones are made out of cholesterol, there is a very good chance you need to thin out the bile in the gall bladder, as the gall bladder has to process these fatty hormones out and continually dumping this much fat and cholesterol into your bile can overwhelm it, causing a condition known as bile sludge. Normally the bile is thin and flows like a liquid. But when too much fat is introduced into it, it becomes thick, like a toothpaste. You need to thin out the bile using various herbs, foods and teas before it becomes too thick and begins congealing into gall stones. This is why so many women on the pill develop gall bladder disease. Nip it in the bud before it’s too late. Thin out the sludge before stones begin to form, and get off the pill as quickly as you can.

And finally, another pattern you’ll see develop is that many women who have been on the birth control pill will develop problems with their thyroid gland. This can happen for several reasons. First, the birth control pill depletes both selenium and zinc, two nutrients that your thyroid needs to both make the hormones and convert them to their active form. 

The pill also depletes the B vitamins. I remember very early on in my practice taking the pulse of women who were on the pill — I felt so sorry for them because I could feel their hand trembling and shaking as I took their pulse, a result of low B vitamins. And without B vitamins you cannot synthesize thyroid hormones. 

And another huge reason the birth control pill upsets the thyroid function is because it increases thyroid binding globulin or TBG. TBG, as it name implies, binds the thyroid hormone, making it unavailable to your cells, which isn’t a great thing since your thyroid hormones affect every single cell in your body. 

Here’s the way it works: you make the thyroid hormone, but it just circulates around in your body, kind of like it’s sitting in a taxicab just cruising around your body until it’s needed. The taxicab is the thyroid binding globulin. When the body sends signals that it needs more thyroid hormone, the thyroid hormone has to get out of the taxicab and go into the cells where it’s needed. This means it has to become unbound to the TBG so it is free to go into the cell. When there’s too much TBG it’s kind of like the thyroid hormone can’t get out of the cab, causing your body to suffer from lack of thyroid hormone.

Don’t pollute your body like this for just a few days out of the month that you are fertile. Use barrier methods of contraception such as condoms (both internal and external), diaphragms, cervical caps, and sponges. Or you can learn when you are ovulating and refrain from sexual activity a few days before and a few days after ovulation, since the sperm can live a few days.

Many women are put on the birth control pill not to prevent a pregnancy but to treat acne or irregular menstrual cycles. Let me warn you about this as well. The only reason the birth control pill helps acne is because it stops the natural detox process of the skin. This is also not a very good idea. Your skin is the largest organ in the body whose primary function is to let toxins out through the pores all day every day. If you block this very important detox process the toxins turn around and go deeper into the physiology, causing worse problems in the future.

And if your menstrual cycles are irregular, if you skip them or they come too frequently, then you should fix all the reasons that this is happening. Just taking the birth control pill gives you a false sense of security because now your period is coming on time every month. But the real truth is that none of the underlying causes for the irregular cycles were addressed. The only reason you appear to be having a regular cycle is because you get breakthrough bleeding every month when you stop the pill for that week. If you don’t address all the underlying reasons for the irregular cycles then these imbalances continue to fester within the body causing a bigger problem in the future, especially when you decide to start a family of your own.

So, I hope you will think twice before you decide to go on the birth control pill. Yes, it may be easy to just pop a pill each day to prevent a pregnancy, but the amount of toxicity it creates and the health problems associated with it aren’t worth it. And if you are using it to prevent acne or balance out your irregular cycle keep in mind that they are actually doing nothing to fix the underlying imbalances — all you’re doing is sweeping the problem under the rug, creating much bigger health problems in the not too distant future.

I hope this information keeps you away from the pill. I’ve seen way too many victims of the birth control pill through the years. Please. Your health is the most important thing in your life. Don’t throw it away so easily…

Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum

856-786-3330

drmteitelbaum.com

ONLINE COURSES

& WORKSHOPS

We offer many courses and workshops from the SV Ayurveda perspective. Find out more on www.svayurveda.com or scroll down to sign up for current offerings.

~ a free workshop ~

with & for

LUMINARY WOMEN

… other course offerings …

 As new findings surface, scientists revisit their conclusions. Vaidya Mishra said it best, he used to chuckle and say: there have been no recalls in Ayurveda for the past several thousand years! Because the knowledge was not gathered through limited sensory exploration and limited devices – but that’s an altogether different topic. In SV Ayurveda, we know that EMF can cause a wide panoply of health imbalances – Vaidya Mishra explained and demonstrated how too much electricity and overexposure to electric devices can cause more harm than good, specially if we do not counterbalance with remedial ayurvedic protocols. With SV Ayurveda, you can understand what EMF actually is, from the ayurvedic perspective, and what you can do about it – in terms of shielding yourself through different options, but also increasing prana through diet, lifestyle, and additional balancing measures. Find out the full protocol.

 Take the full SVA course with Vaidya Mishra online by clicking here or the banner below

NEED HELP MEASURING & NAVIGATING THE EFFECTS OF EMF?

WORK WITH THE EXPERT!

Here is what Henry has to say about the current EMF scene!

“We Are Electrical Beings!

Billions of electrical functions are running every second throughout our body. Our cells have an electrical potential (voltage) with measurable current flow within the fibers of our nerves.

* Electrocardiograms measure the electrical processes of the heart in the millivolt range.

* Electro-encephalograms measure the brain processes in the even more sensitive microvolt range.

* Cardiac pacemakers generate, with one millivolt, electricity which assists in the stimulation of the heart muscle.

* Medicine has defined the time of death by the end of electrical energy in the brain.

* There is no life without electric voltages. All our billions of cells are producing more than 100,000 biophysical and biochemical functions per second.

* It is now believed that low frequency electromagnetic exposure disrupts the subtle electrical communication systems within our cells, while higher frequencies disrupt cellular structural bonds.

* Individual levels of sensitivity to these fields vary, but human health problems fall into two equally concerning categories:

1) Neurological (behavioral abnormalities, learning disabilities, altered biological cycles and stress responses)

2) The production and proliferation of cells (embryos, healing, and cancer).

* Thousands of Scientific peer-reviewed studies show that even low level EMR exposures affect not only the health of our brains but also the integrity of our genomes and our ability to produce healthy offspring. –> https://bioinitiative.org

“ Read the Effects of Electromagnetic Fields Exposure on the Antioxidant Defense System,” PubMed Central (PMC), last modified October 2017 –> https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6025786/

Click here to schedule a free mini-consult where I can hear your EMF issues and offer a few tips –> http://bit.ly/3EGU4Jp

Follow me on LinkedIn: bit.ly/3EzPiNC

Email: Henry@HealthyIndoorConsultants.com

Phone: (303) 306-8793

Website: https://healthyindoorconsultants.com/

Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/henry.eckstein.18/

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henryeckstein/

Building Biology Institute Profile: https://buildingbiologyinstitute.org/find-an-expert/certified-consultants/electromagnetic-radiation-specialists/henry-eckstein-msee-emrs-bbec/

 Ayurvedic Psychology to

Heal Your Heart & Mind Sattvavijaya

A Path to Peace

in Chaotic Times

~ Free Introductory Class ~

Saturday March 22nd, 2025, 10:00 am CST

A course to help you bring a broadened understanding of yourself and all of life from a Vedic perspective as well as an experience deepening of inner expansion. It’s for anyone who is interested in personal growth and specially for those needing support in this age of uncertainty. It’s also for counselors, therapists, and holistic practitioners wanting to deepen their understanding of psychology and Sattvavijaya as way to support others.



When: Introductory Class Part 1: Saturday, March 22^nd from 10:00am to 11:15 am Central Time USA

Course fee – Introductory Class is free . The 25 lesson class after is $595 (payment plans available)

Where: Zoom (email rosecarolayurveda@gmail.com to receive the link) – Recordings will be available upon request.

This course brings a broadened understanding of oneself and all of life from a Vedic point of view as well as an experience of deepening connection to Self.  It’s for anyone who is interested in personal growth and those needing support in an age of uncertainty.  It’s also for counselors, therapists, and holistic practitioners wanting to deepen their understanding of Vedic Psychology and Sattva Vijaya as a way to support others. Join long time SV Ayurveda Educator and Licensed Psychotherapist, Rose Carol on this experiential and knowledge filled course.

Module 1 Understand The Cause of Human Suffering and Overcoming Darkness into Light

Lesson 1  Introduction to Vedic Psychology

Lesson 2: Self Referral Consciousness vs External Driven Consciousness. 

Lesson 3: introduction to Nadi Vigyan – Ayurveda Pulse Taking

Lesson 4: Sattva Vijaya – Light of Consciousness is Victorious over darkness, instruction in SV Samadhi Set, practice together – connection with Self 

Lesson 5: Vedic Understanding of Turiya State of Consciousness 

Module 2: Ayurveda Approaches to Mental Health – Getting to the Root Cause

Lesson 6. Identifying 7 Red flags of mental health, Staying within Scope of Practice

Lesson 7. Ayurveda and Its Approach to Anxiety – rooting out the basis 

Lesson 8: SV Ayurveda and Its Approach to Depression

Lesson 9: SV Ayurveda and It’s Approach to Sleep

Lesson 10: PTSD, Trauma and the Brain

Lesson 12: Addiction 

Lesson 12: ADHD

Lesson 13: Memory and Cognitive Functioning

Lesson 14: Relationship Problems

Module 3 – Goal of Ayurveda – Full Blossoming of Human Development

Lesson 13^:  The Amazing Brain – Neural Pathways to greater mental health

Lesson 14: Ancient Vedic Knowledge – Introduction to Upanishads

Lesson 15: Enlightening the Intellect

Module 4 – Overview of Practical Applications of Ayurveda

Lesson 16: Connection with Self via pulse taking and SV Samadhi Marma 

Lesson 17: Sound Therapy (mantras)

Lesson 18: The Role of Nutrition in Mood States and Thinking

Lesson 19: Herbal Medicine

Lesson 20: Body Therapies

Lesson 21: Yoga and Pranayama

Lesson 22: Relationship Health to Self, Others and World – We

Lesson 23: Role of Counseling 

Lesson 24: Seeing yourself through the lens of the universe with Vedic Astrology - Who are you in the big picture of the Galaxies?

Module 5: Conclusion

Lesson 25: Overview of Course, group practice of SVA Samadhi Marma

FYI, No part of this course was created by a robot. All material in the course was inspired by a variety of teachers, in particular Vaidya Ramakant Mishra, and Rose’s personal and professional experience. 

About Rose, Rose has been professionally practicing Ayurveda since 1989 and was a long time student of the late Vaidya Ramakant Mishra. She is also a licensed psychotherapist who integrates Vedic and Western Psychology methods for seekers and those wanting to expand out of limitations. www.ayurvedahealthcoach.com 

Rose Carol – MA, LPC, Certified SVAyurveda Educator, had the great fortune of studying not only Ayurveda but also the fundamentals of Sattva Vijaya with Vaidya Mishra one-on-one. She sat down with him during patient consultations and also attended many of his courses. Her primordial interest was to help people heal from trauma. A licensed graduate in Psychology, she combines her modern studies with the ancient vedic teachings that Vaidya Mishra made available to her.

Stay in the Knowledge, Here, There, & Everywhere!

if you ever had the opportunity to meet Vaidya Mishra in person, or have encountered him via his many youtube videos or online courses, then you know what we mean! We all want to have him travel with us in this earthly journey, to help us in our decisions along the way, through the timeless wisdom and knowledge of SV Ayurved. And now we can! If you have not discovered our podcast channel yet, we invite you to look it up and explore the timeless teachings of SVAyurveda, as well as fabulous talks by other SVAyurveda doctors and educators. We update and add new episodes every month. Tune in and listen. And leave us a comment about how you like things!

We want to help you protect your purchase – there’s been an increase in lost/stolen packages.

To protect your shipment – in case your shipping address is not secure – we have now added the “signature delivery” option upon check-out on www.chandika.com and we highly recommend you select it to ensure your package is guaranteed to reach you after it leaves our warehouse. Kindly note we are unable to replace stolen/misplaced packages once they are confirmed delivered by the carrier of your choice.