Vaidya Mishra

GUILT-FREE Summer Treat; Plus SVA Community News – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter Sept 15, 2022 – #34, Vol 11

October 5, 2022 by Vaidya Mishra Leave a Comment

It’s the end of summer and temperatures are running high, so are our temperaments! Not to mention thirst, and lack of appetite. This is all part of the season: increased heat in the environment reflects changes in our metabolism and mood. Our pitta dosha goes off, we may feel emotional and cranky, our eyes feel dry, our skin feel scorched, our stomach seems unable to digest anything except water (and ice cream!). It’s normal to reach out for sweet treats. The sweet taste as we learn from Ayurveda, is cold/cooling, and heavy. So it balances pitta and vata. But can aggravate kapha. Not to mention bring other imbalances if it is not well-processed sugar etc. So if you are experiencing summer heat like we are, we have the most delicious “remedy” for you! A ½ tsp of Vaidya’s Rose Petal Preserve – eat it as is OR add 1 tsp to 10 oz of water and stir and enjoy as a delicious drink. Rose is the Queen of Flowers because not only is it gorgeous to look at and opens our hearts with its smell, but it helps pacify acidic stomach, hot skin, dry eyes, and so much more! Rediscover your cool-ness with Vaidya’s Rose Preserve – we promise you will fall in love with Summer again…

Here’s another all-time favorite that will just surprise out with its goodness: you won’t be able to contain the joy of how well mango and orange marry! Is it possible to have a sweet fruit spread that’s delectably perfect to balance your pitta and vata doshas without aggravating kapha? With Vaidya’s Sweet Orange and Mango Chutney that’s exactly what you get – this new chutney is not just free from chemical and toxic additives, colors, and flavors, but it is formulated according to the most ancient ayurvedic principles that help balance the body and the mind through a healthy treat. It’s a delicious chutney that is great to use daily with your meals or eat alone at snack-time with some crackers!

According to the basic principles of ayurvedic pharmacology – known as dravyaguna, the natural taste of a food item is very important because it gives you information about what it is going to do in your body, what actions it is going to perform once you ingest it. This is why, in Ayurveda, plants and herbs are first and foremost categorized and evaluated according to their taste. In total, Ayurveda says there are 6 tastes: madhur (sweet); amla (sour); lavan (salty); katu (pungent); tikt (bitter); kashai (astringent).

The first three tastes are known to be vata pacifying (the sutra says: “Tatradia marutam granthi” – the first 3 tastes pacify marut/vata or the air principle). The Sweet Orange and Mango chutney contains a balance of both the sweet (madhur) and sour (amla) tastes, therefore, it pacifies all vata aspects right away – body and mind. But does this not aggravate kapha dosha – since only the bitter, pungent, and astringent tastes pacify kapha while the sweet, sour, and salty aggravate it?

Vaidya’s chutney is made of raw sweet mangos that are known to be astringent, and in this recipe, the astringent taste or “kashai rasa” counter-balances the sweet and sour properties of the chutney keeping kapha in balance. Enjoy this most delectable preserve GUILT-FREE!

Wonderful Source of Dietary Fiber and Pre-biotic Colon Support

Prunes have a storied history and a big reputation as ‘nature’s remedy’ for constipation. And no wonder! Prunes are rich in insoluble fiber, as well as the natural laxative sorbitol.

But that’s not the end of the story. Prunes are a great addition to any diet, as they have a long list of other health benefits with the least or zero side-effects. Despite not being part of the Ayurvedic tradition, we should fully adopt them into our daily diet.

Dietary Fiber and Pre-biotics

This tri-doshic (balanced for all body types) prune preserve helps normalize apana agni. This agni (metabolic fire) governing the colon must be sama (balanced) to do its job of selecting what materials to absorb and what materials to reject in the process of digestion.

Organic Prune Preserve works on apana agni by lending a rich source of dietary fiber that both helps remove the malas (waste products) from the colon and provides pre-biotic support for the yoginis (friendly bacteria) that line the colon wall. Yoginis increase our immunity and the intelligence of the colon. So, prunes don’t merely help relieve constipation, they can also help with the absorption of minerals and other essential nutrients we require.

If you are concerned that this preserve may not taste good, put your worries aside. This preserve also carries the delicious taste of sweet orange and organic raw sugar. So, it tastes as good as it is good for you.

Cranberries are oft forgotten but for that one day when placed alongside other traditional Thanksgiving fare. But there are many reasons we should eat cranberries more often. And that’s why now you don’t have to wait for Thanksgiving to enjoy them. With Vaidya Mishra’s Organic Cranberry Preserve you can enjoy the health benefits of cranberries year-round.

Cranberries are a power fruit – great for the eyes, cardiovascular health, and the urinary tract. According to the Cranberry Marketing Committee, this disease-fighting fruit is also one of the highest ranked regularly consumed foods for antioxidant content per serving. Antioxidants protect cells from damage by oxidative stress and free radicals, damage that can lead to serious conditions like cancer and heart disease. Some of the antioxidants found in cranberries include anthocyanins, ellagic acid, quercetin, resveratrol, selenium, and vitamins A, C and E.

Awaken your taste-buds with the flavor of exotic fruits and spices in Vaidya’s SVA Tamarind Wild Amla Preserve. Connect your brain centers with your stomach, support your appetite, enhance your digestion, absorption, and metabolism of nutrients, feel energized instead of fatigued after your meals. The Wild Amla berry is ideal for protein synthesis, and for enhancing the dhatu-agnis (metabolic process in all the tissues). Wild Amla is a powerhouse of Vitamin C, and is highly alkalizing. It pacifies all doshas and subdoshas. Sweet Thai Tamarind is a delicious exotic fruit ideal for metabolism, and for maintaining cool and healthy skin conditions. Tamarind also supports the colon’s friendly bacteria and balances all doshas and subdoshas. This ketchup-substitute condiment will help you catch-up with your health resolutions and keep you two steps ahead of the old habits you are trying to kick off!

SVA COMMUNITY NEWS

… NEAR & FAR …

This year, we offer the options of attending 1, 2, or 3 days. The yagya will be held in the afternoons after 1pm, and will last 4-5 hours. You may also sponsor the yagya for 1 or 3 days. Suggested donation (not required for attendance) for 1 day sponsorship is $108. Your sponsorship will help pay for offerings to conduct the fire ceremony.

For more information or to sign up, please email us at:

info@prana-center.com

We had our second Home Detox online session yesterday – we practiced Samadhi Marma together followed by a review of how and what to set up for our first detox run. We also had a lovely sharing session. We look forward to our upcoming sessions and to the experience of going through detox in a community from across the country and Canada.

If you are still considering signing up:

Email us at: info@prana-center.com.

Namaste.

Ready to shift gears? Autumn detox is a must! So you can ease into a busier more active season with a cooler heart and mind. It is necessary to offload all the heat generated by summer before your srotas (physical channels) shrink down trapping the heat all over the place, leading you to crave sweets, and yes, you guessed it, bringing on that seasonal flu and body aches and sniffles! Join us for SVA Home-Detox. If you’ve done it already, you can still join us for the companionship at a nominal fee – PLUS detox is more fun together! Here is our schedule for this year’s Autumn Detox:

Sept 6: by midnight. Last chance to register for early bird specials. Registration after this date the course is full price, but still well worth attending!
Sept 7: 3 pm PST, live webinar – What is Samadhi Marma
Sept 8: 3 pm PST, live webinar – Introduction to SVA Detox. Detox Begins.
Sept 15: 3 pm PST, live webinar – receive new information, share your detox experiences and ask questions.
Sept 22: 3 pm PST, live webinar – receive new information, share your detox experiences and ask questions.
Sept 29: Self-study -no live webinar. You can still reach out to others in the group or your SVA councilor.
Oct 06: Self-study -no live webinar. You can still reach out to others in the group or your SVA councilor.
Oct 13: 3 pm PST, resume live webinar session, receive new information, share your detox experiences and ask questions.
Oct 20: 3 pm PST, live webinar, receive new information, share your detox experiences and ask questions.
Oct 27: 3 pm PST, live webinar. Final meeting to share your experiences and ask questions.

If you have already detoxed with us before, you will be charged a nominal fee PLUS receive 15% discount on all detox products for the duration of the course. If this is your first time, you can catch the early bird of $1188 (otherwise $1440) by September 6. This rate includes ALL detox products needed for 8 (or more) weeks (image below). For more information call or email us:

info@prana-center.com

(818)709-1005

REPLAY OF EMF VS PRANA COURSE

What a fabulous session we had yesterday, filled with so much knowledge, empowering us against this overwhelming modern health phenomenon – EMF toxicity. The good news is there is SO MUCH we can do, through Vaidya Mishra’s SVA teachings, as well as through all the information Henry Eckstein shared with us. Understanding the ayurvedic fundamentals of what EMF is, is the first most important step to be able to address it; however, having a strong handle on all the recent measuring devices, as well as the different categories of radiation and frequencies that we need to address is also so crucial. We thank Henry Eckstein for generously sharing his knowledge and expertise with us. Here again are some important details and ways you can reach him if you want to assess your home or workspace:

Website: https://www.HealthyIndoorConsultants.com
His email: Henry@HealthyIndoorConsultants.com
Business phone: (303) 306-8793

On the website you can book a free discovery call where you can discuss if Henry can help you. You can also buy meters at a discount. Here is the page: https://healthyindoorconsultants.com/favorite-products

Henry also offer zoom calls to help people get aquainted with and learn how to use their meters.

WANT TO SIGN UP?

CLICK HERE

email us: info@prana-center.com

or: 818-709-1005

Still not sure whether the EMF course is for you? Find out more…

Explore our full line of SVA formulations. Visit www.chandika.com

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.

More SVA Knowledge for Self-Care or Advanced Professional Certification Click Here

Calendar of Upcoming Events

looking for a live SVA event in your area or online?

Check out our Calendar page for upcoming courses and community events & for full contact and registration details:

https://www.svayurveda.com/upcoming-events/

Upcoming new SVA events across the US & Canada coming soooooon

stay connected….

a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips – thousands of articles and questions answered by Vaidya Mishra and his team of experts; and so much more…

home to Vaidya Mishra’s unique pranic exquisite formulations – with weekly specials and give-aways. Learn Ayurveda as you shop!

Filed Under: Newsletters

SIBO – with Dr T; Plus SVA Community News – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter Sept 8, 2022 – #33, Vol 11

October 5, 2022 by Vaidya Mishra Leave a Comment

After moving to the United States in the mid-1990s, and taking the pulse of countless “westerners,” Vaidya Mishra realized that he had to delve deeper into Ayurveda to bring more remedies for the “western physiology” – by this he was referring to all those who had grown up on a diet that lacked turmeric and all the other essential spices that support digestions, absorption, and elimination. All the clients who came to seek his help were suffering from one aspect or another of digestive issues, and almost all carried a “cranky liver.” The liver is such an important organ in Ayurveda. It not only literally produces our blood from what we eat, but also serves as a filtering lab, protecting us against harmful chemicals. It is highly essential for detox but also ongoing health. In the sense that any ayurvedic oral remedies and herbs become either useless or harmful if the liver is unable to process them. The catch is that without first helping to balance and rejuvenate the liver, it would be quasi-impossible to address any other health issues. And if the liver cannot process the herbs, then how can these herbs be administered? This is one of the reasons Vaidya Mishra developed a full line of transdermal herbal remedies that bypass the digestive tract – transdermal creams applied on the skin are readily available in the blood stream and are thus safe and effective. After launching his transdermal creams, Vaidya also developed his trans-mucosal delivery system. Both the transdermal and the trans-mucosal are part and parcel of the ancient ayurvedic system, however, they have never been available the way Vaidya Mishra made them to be, to address our modern needs. The trans-mucosal system works, as its name indicates, trans-mucosally. What does this mean? It means that it also, like the transdermal system, bypasses the digestive system (which is what we want) and gets taken in to the blood stream and circulated to the target areas to help restore that area’s natural “intelligence.” These trans-mucosal drops are called “herbal-memory nectar” not because they support our memory power, but because they carry the herbal memory of that plant. They act within our bodies the way the plant’s molecules would, yet the drops do not have any physical herbal molecules, that’s why they can be absorbed and delivered immediately within seconds. And that’s also why the body can work with them – they do not create any reactions because they are very subtle. In addition, these drops are concentrated like nectar is. One drop gets absorbed by the mucosal membrane in our oral cavity the minute we ingest it. These herbs are thus very gentle, yet very potent. They are, as you might have guessed, much like homeopathic drops; however, unlike homeopathy they contain ZERO alcohol.

Ultimately, the best gift these herbal nectar drops bring is their healing power specially when the digestive system and tract is compromised and ultra sensitive and unable to digest, and process food and thus herbs. These drops are safe and effect. They work silently to restore cellular intelligence. Dr Marianne Teitelbaum has learnt how to administer them for countless conditions, specially in acute cases such as SIBO. Read more in this week’s article by her.

You can discover the full line of Vaidya’s nectar drops on www.chandika.com . You can combine up to 8 different drops in a container of 16oz high pH spring water.

SIBO

What It Is & What You Can Do About It

with Dr Teitelbaum

Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) occurs when there is an increase in the bacteria population in the small intestine. Let’s examine for a minute what this actually means.

Once you swallow the food and it’s done digesting in the stomach, it enters the small intestine. This is the area sometimes referred to as the “Kitchen” area, where the food you ate is now being absorbed into the bloodstream, to be taken all throughout the body. From the small intestine it then enters the large intestine, also known as the “Garbage” area where lots of bacteria work on it to break it down into our stool, to then be eliminated by the body.

Now, this is very important — you’re not supposed to have a lot of bacteria in the small intestines. This area has to be very clean since this is the area where you are absorbing the nutrients into the bloodstream. So it must remain fairly sterile.

And this is also both important and very interesting: the small intestine is 20 feet long. The large intestine is 5 feet long. Yet the food remains in the small intestines for only 2 hours, compared to the large intestine where the food stays there for 2 days. You must keep the food moving fairly rapidly in the small intestine so no pathogenic bacteria begins to grow.

The small intestines have very few bacteria — only 10,000 bacteria per ml of fluid. Yet the large intestine has 1 trillion live bacteria per ml of fluid.

So nature made it where we have relatively very few bacteria in the small intestine.

So let’s think how our small intestines could develop an overgrowth of bacteria. As I always state in all my videos, the causes are usually numerous and they are different in each particular person.

Today I’d like to discuss 4 main causes of SIBO, although there are probably several other contributing factors that could either cause it or add to the severity of the condition.

The first cause, which is fairly obvious, is lack of friendly bacteria residing in the intestines. They perform many functions, such as the absorption of nutrients, prevention of food allergies and autoimmune diseases, but they also prevent the growth of the pathogenic bacteria, or the bad bacteria which could harm us. These friendly bacteria are depleted by many types of pharmaceuticals, such as antibiotics, birth control pills, steroids, vaccines and acid reflux medicines.

Once they are depleted the pathogenic bacteria can start to overgrow. So in this case we want to make sure we always address our gut micro biome whenever we have to take any of these types of medications, which will prevent SIBO and other types of infections. That’s why it’s good to learn about the best probiotics, and how to make home-made yogurt, lassi, buttermilk and takra with the best yogurt starter cultures to ensure a good balance of friendly bacteria in the gut.

The second cause of SIBO is the use of acid reflux medicines. Now think about this: nature made it so once we swallow the food after chewing it, the first place it goes is the stomach. The hydrochloric acid found in the stomach not only breaks down the food into a liquid acid, but it also kills any infection coming in from the outside world.

So taking acid reflux medicines which take away the stomach acid can set the stage for infection to continue to thrive in the stomach which is then squirted into the small intestines, the kitchen area, causing many people to develop SIBO.

Listen to both my gall bladder video and my video on acid reflux, where I indicate how the better way to treat acid reflux is by stimulating the flow of bile out of the gall bladder. The bile coming out of the gall bladder moves the food downward through the gut and also alkalizes the acids coming out of the stomach. So if the bile becomes thick like a sludge it might not squirt out when the stomach pours acid into the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine, causing the acids to turn around and move upwards into the stomach and esophagus, causing acid reflux. So in these cases we have to give all the herbs, foods and spices to thin out the bile and encourage it to move out of the gall bladder, which prevents acid reflux. This is much more effective and less risky than taking away the stomach acid.

The third reason for SIBO is lack of movement through the gut. Again, the food has to move quickly through the small intestines so infection doesn’t begin to breed in there. It is the job of the gall bladder to create two types of movement in the small intestines so the food doesn’t sit there which could cause SIBO.

Once you swallow the food the bile flows out of the gall bladder creating one type of movement called peristalsis, which are gentle muscular contractions that push the food through.

The second type of movement caused by bile flow is called the Migrating Motor Complex, or the MMC. Our gut is working 24/7, even when we’re not eating. What goes on when you’re not eating is crucial for gut health. The migrating motor complex is a wave of electrical activity whose sole purpose is to clean your gut. It’s different from regular motility in the gut because it isn’t stimulated by the presence of food in the gut. In fact, it happens 3 hours after your last meal. When you feel your stomach growling, that is the migrating motor complex. It is known as the “housekeeping wave.”

And it turns out that it is primarily the action of the gall bladder emptying the bile that stimulates the Migrating Motor Complex. So if the bile doesn’t squirt out the way it should then the food could just sit in the gut too long, developing the pathogenic bacteria.

Again, listen to my gall bladder video to make sure you always address the flow of bile since there are many instances in one’s lifetime where it may not flow correctly. And this is true even in children and babies! So the first step here is to get the bile flowing again so it can stimulate the MMC which in turn will prevent SIBO.

Before moving on to the next reason for SIBO, I would like to add here that in Ayurveda, we recognize that when we swallow the food it has to flow downwards and eventually exit out of the body in our bowel movements. But if Vata is too high and the person is nervous, anxious, worried, rushing too much during the day, stressed, going to bed late, then in all these cases the apana, which is the subdosha of Vata which is responsible for making sure that the food always moves downwards, might flow upwards, creating lack of motility in the gut, which also causes SIBO. So here you have to make sure you always address the Vata imbalances, which could be fueling the SIBO symptoms.

The fourth cause of SIBO is that food might regurgitate from the large intestine into the small intestine, or from the “garbage area” with all the bacteria, into the sterile “kitchen area.”

Again, this could happen partly due to the apana flowing upwards. It could also happen if there are some problems with digestion anywhere higher up, in the pancreas, stomach, gall bladder, or liver. If the food doesn’t digest well, the valve which separates the small intestine from the large intestine, known as the ilieo-cecal valve, could remain open, allowing the contents of the large intestine to flow back into the small intestine causing a painful situation in the right lower quadrant and causing subsequent infection to grow in the small intestine, or SIBO.

The answer to this problem lies in fixing all the problems with digestion so that the oleo-cecal valve can work the way nature intended, sealing off the kitchen area from the garbage area.

So now you can see why just taking an antibiotic to kill the SIBO infections in the small intestine may not always work. Initially you might have some relief because you just killed the infection, but if you don’t address all these other root causes, it could grow back, which it does in the large majority of the SIBO cases.

But rest assured that Ayurveda provides us with all the remedies and treatment modalities to address all the underlying conditions mentioned here, to get the gut back the way nature intended, where it automatically knows how to prevent these types of infections from growing.

Thank you,

Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum

Cinnaminson, NJ

856-786-3330

drmteitelbaum.com

SVA COMMUNITY NEWS

… NEAR & FAR …

We had our first Home Detox online session yesterday – we talked about all the elements that make SVA Home Detox distinct from and yet so effective in relation to other detox protocols. The secret lies in the details! The presentation was followed by a sharing session. We met new friends and old. We look forward to our upcoming sessions and to the experience of going through detox in a community from across the country and Canada.

If you are still considering signing up:

Email us at: info@prana-center.com.

Namaste.

Sept 6: by midnight. Last chance to register for early bird specials. Registration after this date the course is full price, but still well worth attending!
Sept 7: 3 pm PST, live webinar – What is Samadhi Marma
Sept 8: 3 pm PST, live webinar – Introduction to SVA Detox. Detox Begins.
Sept 15: 3 pm PST, live webinar – receive new information, share your detox experiences and ask questions.
Sept 22: 3 pm PST, live webinar – receive new information, share your detox experiences and ask questions.
Sept 29: Self-study -no live webinar. You can still reach out to others in the group or your SVA councilor.
Oct 06: Self-study -no live webinar. You can still reach out to others in the group or your SVA councilor.
Oct 13: 3 pm PST, resume live webinar session, receive new information, share your detox experiences and ask questions.
Oct 20: 3 pm PST, live webinar, receive new information, share your detox experiences and ask questions.
Oct 27: 3 pm PST, live webinar. Final meeting to share your experiences and ask questions.

info@prana-center.com

(818)709-1005

Delve Deeper into Ayurveda

with

Rose Carol

I created Ayurveda Amritanam Learning Center to share a wealth of knowledge that I gained during my time learning from my dear friend and teacher, Ayurvedic physician, the late Vaidya Ramakant Mishra who was a master herbalist and formulator, healer, and founder of Chandika Herbal Synergies.

My experience showed me that the study and practice of Ayurveda can help anchor you through unfamiliar territory in life and keep your heart nurtured in uncertain times. The design of my course through weekly classes for nine months will give birth to not only knowledge of an ancient healing tradition of medicine but a potent tool for personal growth. Ayurveda connects you to your very own source of non-changing silent consciousness which forms the basis of good physical and mental health. If you are yearning for a program not just for intellectual knowledge but desire personal transformation and interconnectedness, then this program is for you. If you are an empath, that desires skills to help others while healing yourself, then consider this opportunity either as a structured class or self paced personal study guided by an experienced teacher and practitioner.

Our Foundational Course: Ayurveda Amritanam’s curriculum is a foundational course as well as a course for those already familiar with Ayurveda but want to deepen their knowledge and experience with an option to audit. It’s also for those who simply want better health and spiritual growth. It’s for counselors, coaches, busy mothers, massage therapists, coaches, teachers, yoga enthusiasts, or anyone wanting to offer simple and effective tools to aid their self, family member or client’s progress and evolution.

Ayurveda Health Coach Certificate: After the 9-month study and required practicum, you will receive a certificate of completion as an Ayurveda Health Coach. This will give you the knowledge to understand unique mind/body types, educate others in nutrition and lifestyle and support others with sleep problems, inflammatory conditions, emotional balance, digestive and elimination problems, weight balance, protection from colds and flu, skin issues, stress reduction, as well as learn to apply over 25 Ayurvedic herbal formulas. For more information please email me at rose.carol.zivin@gmail.com or text/call 847 636 2744. Please ask me for a more detailed week by week curriculum. The month by month general curriculum can be found at www.ayurvedalearningcenter.com

This 225-hour training includes:

Ancient Ayurveda tools for self-care
Ancient art of pulse diagnosis (Nadivigyan)
Over 35 relevant Ayurveda Herbs and how to use them
Learn Ayurveda Body Mind Assessment
Food as medicine with online cooking lessons
Coaching skills (how to work with clients)
Ethical and legal Issues of an Ayurveda practice
Seasonal Cleanse and Detox for self and others
A comprehensive study on Ayurvedic cosmology, theory and practice
Pranic Healing

REPLAY OF EMF VS PRANA COURSE

Website: https://www.HealthyIndoorConsultants.com
His email: Henry@HealthyIndoorConsultants.com
Business phone: (303) 306-8793

Henry also offer zoom calls to help people get aquainted with and learn how to use their meters.

WANT TO SIGN UP?

CLICK HERE

email us: info@prana-center.com

or: 818-709-1005

Still not sure whether the EMF course is for you? Find out more…

Explore our full line of SVA formulations. Visit www.chandika.com

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

More SVA Knowledge for Self-Care or Advanced Professional Certification Click Here

Calendar of Upcoming Events

looking for a live SVA event in your area or online?

Check out our Calendar page for upcoming courses and community events & for full contact and registration details:

https://www.svayurveda.com/upcoming-events/

Upcoming new SVA events across the US & Canada coming soooooon

stay connected….

a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips – thousands of articles and questions answered by Vaidya Mishra and his team of experts; and so much more…

home to Vaidya Mishra’s unique pranic exquisite formulations – with weekly specials and give-aways. Learn Ayurveda as you shop!

Filed Under: Newsletters

End Summer on a COOL NOTE! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter Sept 1, 2022 – #32, Vol 11

October 5, 2022 by Vaidya Mishra Leave a Comment

Our Customer Service Center will be closed on Monday September 5, 2022 in observance of Labor Day Weekend. We resume regular hours Tuesday Morning 8:30am PST.

It’s hot outside… and inside too! So much so that distending your belly with watermelon slices, or eating dollops of ice-cream in air-conditioned rooms not only doesn’t help but it only makes things worse. You’ll go from feeling hot and bothered to creating raging fires and thundering volcanoes within – in your blood, stomach, liver, mind and heart! Putting out agni and aggravating pitta… IT’S ALL CONNECTED as you know… The food/mood thing…. Gratefully, Vaidya Mishra taught us so many delightful floral and herbal recipes to coooooool things off from the inside-out. Here are just a couple of them. BEST PART? You don’t even need to do a thing, just add a few drops to your glass of water, stir, sit back, and experience waves of cool bliss reset your whole being… life CAN BE cool and beautiful again with SV Ayurveda…. Have a blissful long weekend – namaste!

Ayurveda for our Furry Friends

Dear SVA community: here is a question we received from one of our readers, and we are putting it out there for any/all who might know of ayurvedic healers for our furry friends – small and big.

“Hello!

I am a current patient of Dr. Teitelbaum and buy all of your Ayurvedic supplies… We are so thankful for Vaidya Mishra and his work!!!!! I am reaching out to ask if you know of any Ayurvedic Veterinary practitioners in the USA that have knowledge of horses? We have come to deeply trust and believe Ayurveda for our personal health, and are desperate to find counsel for the health of our horses. We are a Rocky Mountain breeding farm in KY. I know this is an unusual question, but I am hoping you have a connection! Thanks and Blessings, Reisha”

Sept 6: by midnight. Last chance to register for early bird specials. Registration after this date the course is full price, but still well worth attending!
Sept 7: 3 pm PST, live webinar – What is Samadhi Marma
Sept 8: 3 pm PST, live webinar – Introduction to SVA Detox. Detox Begins.
Sept 15: 3 pm PST, live webinar – receive new information, share your detox experiences and ask questions.
Sept 22: 3 pm PST, live webinar – receive new information, share your detox experiences and ask questions.
Sept 29: Self-study -no live webinar. You can still reach out to others in the group or your SVA councilor.
Oct 06: Self-study -no live webinar. You can still reach out to others in the group or your SVA councilor.
Oct 13: 3 pm PST, resume live webinar session, receive new information, share your detox experiences and ask questions.
Oct 20: 3 pm PST, live webinar, receive new information, share your detox experiences and ask questions.
Oct 27: 3 pm PST, live webinar. Final meeting to share your experiences and ask questions.

info@prana-center.com

(818)709-1005

Delve Deeper into Ayurveda

with

Rose Carol

This 225-hour training includes:

Ancient Ayurveda tools for self-care
Ancient art of pulse diagnosis (Nadivigyan)
Over 35 relevant Ayurveda Herbs and how to use them
Learn Ayurveda Body Mind Assessment
Food as medicine with online cooking lessons
Coaching skills (how to work with clients)
Ethical and legal Issues of an Ayurveda practice
Seasonal Cleanse and Detox for self and others
A comprehensive study on Ayurvedic cosmology, theory and practice
Pranic Healing

REPLAY OF EMF VS PRANA COURSE

Website: https://www.HealthyIndoorConsultants.com
His email: Henry@HealthyIndoorConsultants.com
Business phone: (303) 306-8793

Henry also offer zoom calls to help people get aquainted with and learn how to use their meters.

WANT TO SIGN UP?

CLICK HERE

email us: info@prana-center.com

or: 818-709-1005

Still not sure whether the EMF course is for you? Find out more…

Explore our full line of SVA formulations. Visit www.chandika.com

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

More SVA Knowledge for Self-Care or Advanced Professional Certification Click Here

Calendar of Upcoming Events

looking for a live SVA event in your area or online?

Check out our Calendar page for upcoming courses and community events & for full contact and registration details:

https://www.svayurveda.com/upcoming-events/

Upcoming new SVA events across the US & Canada coming soooooon

stay connected….

a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips – thousands of articles and questions answered by Vaidya Mishra and his team of experts; and so much more…

home to Vaidya Mishra’s unique pranic exquisite formulations – with weekly specials and give-aways. Learn Ayurveda as you shop!

Filed Under: Newsletters

Depression… with Dr T; PLUS: Autumn Detox Anyone? And: Study Ayurveda with Rose; Also: Replay of Prana vs EMF Class! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter August 25, 2022 – #31, Vol 11

October 5, 2022 by Vaidya Mishra Leave a Comment

…depression…

in ayurvedic terms

Depression affects 1 in 15 adults in any given year. And one in six people will experience depression at some time in their life. Depression can occur at any time, but on average it first appears during the late teens to the mid-20’s. Women are more likely than men to experience depression and about one-third of women will experience a major depressive episode in their lifetime. Symptoms of depression can vary from mild to severe and can include: feeling sad or having a depressed mood, loss of interest in activities once enjoyed, changes in appetite including weight loss or gain, trouble sleeping or sleeping too much, loss of energy, feeling worthless or guilty, difficulty concentrating or making decisions, thoughts of death or suicide.

It has been said that genetics may play a role, and while this may be true for all diseases and not just with depression, the real truth is that the genes we’ve inherited are actually lying dormant, but they need some triggers which we create through mistakes in diet and daily routine in order for them to wake up and allow them to manifest. So as with all diseases that we see, always remember that the underlying causes need to be addressed, and these underlying causes are usually numerous and different in each person. It’s always important to identify the mistakes you might be making which are causing your sleeping genes to wake up and start expressing themselves. This is especially true for depression.

Many of the common treatments for depression revolve around modifying one’s brain chemistry. Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are usually the first choice of medication for treating depression. They work by slowing up the reabsorption of the neurotransmitter serotonin, a chemical which helps regulate mood and anxiety. This way the serotonin can remain in the blood stream longer, easing up the depression. It is important to know that there are numerous other medications besides the SSRIs to help alleviate symptoms of depression. These medications could be life-saving if you or your loved one is threatening suicide. But we should also take a look at the underlying causes of depression and learn how to address them so that we can either prevent the depression from coming in the first place, or if you are already on an anti-depressant, perhaps over time, with the help of your doctor, you could slowly wean off it.

As with everything else we treat in Ayurveda we always want to trace any and all imbalances first to improper digestion. Here’s the way it works: once you swallow food and it goes through the digestive tract, it has to be broken down into smaller and smaller particles until it then enters the bloodstream. From there the food spends 3-5 days in each tissue before moving on to the next tissue until all 7 tissues are nourished. The tissues are blood plasma, blood, muscle, fat, bone, bone marrow and reproductive fluids. Now this is very important: at the end of the 7th tissue you then make a compound called Ojas. Ojas is the neurotransmitters and the hormones and gives you great stamina, strength and immunity to disease. Keep this in mind: your neurotransmitters and hormones dictate the way you feel, if you are happy or depressed, lethargic or energetic, hyper or calm. So, in order to have good Ojas or balanced hormones and neurotransmitters, first your digestion of food must be complete and the food itself must be nourishing, wholesome and freshly prepared.

Many of the teenagers I see have poor digestion due to the high amounts of pharmaceuticals they are given from the time they are born. This is because the vaccines and antibiotics they take destroy the friendly bacteria in the gut and make the liver very hot, reactive and toxic.

And to make matters worse, the diets of our children are quite deficient, especially if the child turns towards processed foods.

And to add insult to injury, the friendly bacteria in the gut make 90% of the neurotransmitters that the brain needs to function properly. No wonder so many of our teenagers are depressed! Between their poor gut microbiome, combined with their inadequate diets.

As just stated, when there are too many hot chemical toxins circulating through the liver it overheats the liver, which in turn makes you angry. Just ask any woman who suffers from PMS — the liver overheats right before the menstrual cycle is due, which is what makes them so angry during that time. Then once the menstrual cycle is over and the liver cools down, the emotions also cool back down to normal. As a result, many of the kids we see today are walking around with hot angry livers — no wonder they are angry and can’t control their emotions.

Then on top of all this, if the child goes to bed late — many other imbalances begin. Going to bed past 10:00 PM makes the liver even hotter and it weakens the endocrine glands — the system of glands that make hormones, such as the thyroid, the adrenals and the ovaries or testes. These glands are very delicately balanced and they need the hours of rest before midnight to rejuvenate them. The ancient doctors of India said that it is a fundamental law of nature that human beings should be asleep when the sun goes down and awake before or as the sun comes up. Breaking this very basic law exhausts the glands, you feel tired, lethargic and depressed the next day as the glands are now struggling to make their happy hormones.

In fact, walking outside as the sun comes up helps to establish one’s circadian rhythms.This allows us to get sleepy at night as more melatonin is automatically released once the sunlight enters the pupils early in the morning. And just being in the sunlight increases serotonin by 800%!!! Serotonin is what the SSRI’s are trying to keep in circulation. Just getting out in the sun everyday will help this…and without the toxicity and the side effects of the SSRI’s.

Remember the old adage: early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. So many of our patients feel so much better once they fix their digestion, go to bed by 10:00 pm, eat a wholesome, healthy diet and get out in the early morning sun everyday.

Many of our patients are vegetarian and do not consume any milk or milk products. The ancient doctors of India stated that you need some animal protein every day in your diet. So if you are a vegetarian then your animal protein would come from milk and milk products.

But if there are no milk products in your diet you run the risk of losing your stores of Vitamin B12 which could also cause depression.

And don’t forget: your adrenal and sex hormones are made out of cholesterol and cholesterol comes from an animal. And your thyroid gland makes its hormones out of animal protein as well. So if there are no milk products in the diet there won’t be enough raw materials to make these hormones, which could potentially result in depression. So many of our patients who present with depression have a weakness in the thyroid and adrenals since the hormones produced by these glands make us feel very upbeat and enthusiastic about life.

Many people are giving up animal milk, such as cow’s or goat’s milk in favor of plant-based milks. While this might be OK if you are allergic to these animal’s milks, you might be interested to know that animal milk is the only food which can make Ojas the same day it is taken, in fact almost immediately when it is consumed. Any other food you can think of takes about a month to make Ojas as it slowly makes its way through each of the 7 tissues.

Always keep up your stores of Ojas. It gets depleted with over-exercise, over-work, burning the candle at both ends, stress, too much sexual activity, too much bleeding or diarrhea, lack of absorption of nutrients and a deficient diet.

So if you keep overworking without rejuvenating your body with proper rest you’ll run the risk of depleting your Ojas and weakening your endocrine glands, which could ultimately result in depression. If you have to work long hours during the week try to spend one whole day on the weekend just resting, eating healthy foods, sitting in the sun, taking naps and allowing your body to rejuvenate and reinvigorate itself after pushing it so hard all week.

But here’s the good news: we have a huge arsenal of herbs in Ayurveda which can strengthen the weak endocrine glands, remedies to restore the friendly bacteria in the gut, and many herbs to cool down the heat in the liver. We also have a wide variety of antidepressant herbs which have been used for thousands of years before the use of the pharmaceutical SSRI’s. We even have herbal formulas to build up your Ojas!

So hopefully by following these guidelines you or your loved ones will never have to suffer depression which can decrease your quality of life tremendously.

Thank you,

Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum

Cinnaminson, New Jersey

856-786-3330

drmteitelbaum.com

Sept 6: by midnight. Last chance to register for early bird specials. Registration after this date the course is full price, but still well worth attending!
Sept 7: 3 pm PST, live webinar – What is Samadhi Marma
Sept 8: 3 pm PST, live webinar – Introduction to SVA Detox. Detox Begins.
Sept 15: 3 pm PST, live webinar – receive new information, share your detox experiences and ask questions.
Sept 22: 3 pm PST, live webinar – receive new information, share your detox experiences and ask questions.
Sept 29: Self-study -no live webinar. You can still reach out to others in the group or your SVA councilor.
Oct 06: Self-study -no live webinar. You can still reach out to others in the group or your SVA councilor.
Oct 13: 3 pm PST, resume live webinar session, receive new information, share your detox experiences and ask questions.
Oct 20: 3 pm PST, live webinar, receive new information, share your detox experiences and ask questions.
Oct 27: 3 pm PST, live webinar. Final meeting to share your experiences and ask questions.

info@prana-center.com

(818)709-1005

Delve Deeper into Ayurveda

with

Rose Carol

This 225-hour training includes:

Ancient Ayurveda tools for self-care
Ancient art of pulse diagnosis (Nadivigyan)
Over 35 relevant Ayurveda Herbs and how to use them
Learn Ayurveda Body Mind Assessment
Food as medicine with online cooking lessons
Coaching skills (how to work with clients)
Ethical and legal Issues of an Ayurveda practice
Seasonal Cleanse and Detox for self and others
A comprehensive study on Ayurvedic cosmology, theory and practice
Pranic Healing

REPLAY OF EMF VS PRANA COURSE

Website: https://www.HealthyIndoorConsultants.com
His email: Henry@HealthyIndoorConsultants.com
Business phone: (303) 306-8793

Henry also offer zoom calls to help people get aquainted with and learn how to use their meters.

WANT TO SIGN UP?

CLICK HERE

email us: info@prana-center.com

or: 818-709-1005

Still not sure whether the EMF course is for you? Find out more…

Explore our full line of SVA formulations. Visit www.chandika.com

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

More SVA Knowledge for Self-Care or Advanced Professional Certification Click Here

Calendar of Upcoming Events

looking for a live SVA event in your area or online?

Check out our Calendar page for upcoming courses and community events & for full contact and registration details:

https://www.svayurveda.com/upcoming-events/

Upcoming new SVA events across the US & Canada coming soooooon

stay connected….

a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips – thousands of articles and questions answered by Vaidya Mishra and his team of experts; and so much more…

home to Vaidya Mishra’s unique pranic exquisite formulations – with weekly specials and give-aways. Learn Ayurveda as you shop!

Filed Under: Newsletters

Fwd: Cool Off Your Eyes; PLUS: Autumn Detox Anyone? And: Study Ayurveda with Rose; Also: Replay of Prana vs EMF Class! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter August 18, 2022 – #30, Vol 11

October 5, 2022 by Vaidya Mishra Leave a Comment

3 Best-Selling Unique Ayurvedic Remedies for Cool Lustrous Eyes

Is it already “back-to-school”? Is Summer already over?! Culturally we are already gearing up for cold weather. But seasonally, Mother Nature is is only just reaching her Summer peak – soaring temperatures, dryness, and beautiful luminous summer evenings are still here for several more weeks. You will find yourself still craving more sweet, more cold, more juicy treats and meals to beat the heat and stay hydrated. In SVA terms, when the Summer season heightens before giving way to Autumn, the increased and accumulated heat in the environment and our bodies maintains our channels wide open and our physiology gets to release a lot of toxins. Many times these toxins themselves are "hot" in nature, and may get lodged in any area, further drying and aggraving pitta. The eyes are governed by Pitta subdosha (alochak pitta), and you may have experienced that your vision gets a little tired or even blurry during hotter days. Or you experience dryness or itchiness. While rinsing your face and eyes with cool water can really help, you may find you need more. Much more! Experience immediate coolness with Vaidya's eyedrops. You can use them as many times as you need during the day or night.

Love the eyedrops but still need more? Try Vaidya's Triphala ghee (with rosa centifolia). It will soothe, detox, cool off and replenish. It's an eye cream the way Mother Nature intented it. Use anytime of day or night. Wipe off or keep on.

Your eyes still feel inflamed, hot, tired? Try the ALA lotion – perfect for addressing long-term inflammation. Apply on the orb of the eyes and the temples and gently massage in . Do it mornings after washing your face and eyes for sustained effect during the day. At night cap off with Triphala ghee. And a couple of Soma Netra drops. Your eyes will love you for it!

Explore more products for eye health, including edibles with Wild HERE

Ready to shift gears? Autumn detox is a must! So you can ease into a busier more active season with a cooler heart and mind. It is necessary to offload all the heat generated by summer before your srotas (physical channels) shrink down trapping the heat all over the place, leading you to crave sweets, and yes, you guessed it, bringing on that seasonal flu and body aches and sniffles! Join us for SVA Home-Detox. If you've done it already, you can still join us for the companionship at a nominal fee – PLUS detox is more fun together! Here is our schedule for this year's Autumn Detox:

Sept 6: by midnight. Last chance to register for early bird specials. Registration after this date the course is full price, but still well worth attending!
Sept 7: 3 pm PST, live webinar – What is Samadhi Marma
Sept 8: 3 pm PST, live webinar – Introduction to SVA Detox. Detox Begins.
Sept 15: 3 pm PST, live webinar – receive new information, share your detox experiences and ask questions.
Sept 22: 3 pm PST, live webinar – receive new information, share your detox experiences and ask questions.
Sept 29: Self-study -no live webinar. You can still reach out to others in the group or your SVA councilor.
Oct 06: Self-study -no live webinar. You can still reach out to others in the group or your SVA councilor.
Oct 13: 3 pm PST, resume live webinar session, receive new information, share your detox experiences and ask questions.
Oct 20: 3 pm PST, live webinar, receive new information, share your detox experiences and ask questions.
Oct 27: 3 pm PST, live webinar. Final meeting to share your experiences and ask questions.

info@prana-center.com

(818)709-1005

Delve Deeper into Ayurveda

with

Rose Carol

This 225-hour training includes:

Ancient Ayurveda tools for self-care
Ancient art of pulse diagnosis (Nadivigyan)
Over 35 relevant Ayurveda Herbs and how to use them
Learn Ayurveda Body Mind Assessment
Food as medicine with online cooking lessons
Coaching skills (how to work with clients)
Ethical and legal Issues of an Ayurveda practice
Seasonal Cleanse and Detox for self and others
A comprehensive study on Ayurvedic cosmology, theory and practice
Pranic Healing

REPLAY OF EMF VS PRANA COURSE

What a fabulous session we had yesterday, filled with so much knowledge, empowering us against this overwhelming modern health phenomenon – EMF toxicity. The good news is there is SO MUCH we can do, through Vaidya Mishra's SVA teachings, as well as through all the information Henry Eckstein shared with us. Understanding the ayurvedic fundamentals of what EMF is, is the first most important step to be able to address it; however, having a strong handle on all the recent measuring devices, as well as the different categories of radiation and frequencies that we need to address is also so crucial. We thank Henry Eckstein for generously sharing his knowledge and expertise with us. Here again are some important details and ways you can reach him if you want to assess your home or workspace:

Website: https://www.HealthyIndoorConsultants.com
His email: Henry@HealthyIndoorConsultants.com
Business phone: (303) 306-8793

Henry also offer zoom calls to help people get aquainted with and learn how to use their meters.

WANT TO SIGN UP?

CLICK HERE

email us: info@prana-center.com

or: 818-709-1005

Still not sure whether the EMF course is for you? Find out more…

Explore our full line of SVA formulations. Visit www.chandika.com

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.

More SVA Knowledge for Self-Care or Advanced Professional Certification Click Here

Calendar of Upcoming Events

looking for a live SVA event in your area or online?

Check out our Calendar page for upcoming courses and community events & for full contact and registration details:

https://www.svayurveda.com/upcoming-events/

Upcoming new SVA events across the US & Canada coming soooooon

stay connected….

a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips – thousands of articles and questions answered by Vaidya Mishra and his team of experts; and so much more…

home to Vaidya Mishra's unique pranic exquisite formulations – with weekly specials and give-aways. Learn Ayurveda as you shop!

Filed Under: Newsletters

Fwd: Uterine Fibroids with Dr Teitelbaum – PLUS: Autumn Detox Anyone? Also: Replay of Prana vs EMF Class! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter August 11, 2022 – #29, Vol 11

October 5, 2022 by Vaidya Mishra Leave a Comment

Treating

Uterine Fibroids

by Understanding the underlying causes

with

Dr Marianne Teitelbaum

Uterine fibroids are noncancerous growths of the uterus that often appear during the childbearing years. They’re not associated with an increased uterine cancer risk and almost never turn into cancer. They range in size from barely perceptible to the human eye to very large masses that can distort and enlarge the uterus. Many women have uterine fibroids sometime during their lives but luckily they don’t usually cause symptoms. However, in some women they might cause heavy menstrual bleeding, menstrual periods lasting more than a week, pelvic pain or pressure, frequent urination, difficulty emptying the bladder, constipation and back or leg pains.

Many women seek out Ayurvedic care for their fibroids. As with all the health problems we treat, we must first get to the root of the problem. And as usual, the root causes are usually more than one and they are different in each patient. But I’ll attempt to show you how we address the problem.

First, I always teach our patients how to think about their health problem using perspective on their condition, always leading back to the root cause.

Here is an example of how I do this, using fibroids as a good example.

First, we have to learn how to retrace our steps backwards as I tell the patient. For example, we first want to see what is causing the fibroid. Well, we know that it comes from an imbalance where the estrogen is high and the progesterone is low. So what would cause that to happen?

Well, the gall bladder! And yes, this is how it usually goes: the root of the problem is usually far removed from where the symptoms are occurring. The way it works is that the liver breaks down the estrogen everyday and dumps it into the bile to be then dumped into the bowel for removal from the body through the bowel movement. Our bodies are smart to get rid of estrogen everyday because while estrogen may cause growth, such as growth of the breasts and hips in puberty, we don’t want too much estrogen hanging around causing too much growth, such as a fibroid tumor.

So now that we know it is coming from the gall bladder, we next have to think of all the reasons why the bile is not flowing out of the gall bladder the way it should. It should be a liquid but at times it becomes thick like a sludge. And when it becomes sludge-like, kind of like a toothpaste, it can’t flow out of the gall bladder too well. Then the estrogen that’s just sitting and stagnating in the gall bladder reabsorbs back into the blood stream resulting in a situation of high estrogen/low progesterone.

Unique ayurvedic hormonal modulators for her and for him

So next we have to think of all the things that might have caused the bile to become thick: it could be if the person is drinking ice cold beverages or eating iced cold foods such as ice cream or frozen yogurt. The cold congeals the fats which are sitting in the bile. Remember, all the fats you eat in the diet have to go to the gall bladder to be emulsified into tiny globules to be absorbed into the bloodstream.

So if this is the case then the person has to stop doing that in order to thin out the bile again. We have numerous foods, herbs and spices which can also thin the bile.

Some people have bile sludge because their thyroid gland is weak. I wrote a whole chapter on this in my book called Healing the Thyroid With Ayurveda. So then one needs to see what is weakening the thyroid gland: the fluoride in the drinking water, the mercury in the flu shots, going to bed late, or eating a diet low in animal protein: don’t forget, the thyroid hormone is made from animal protein. Birth control pills can also depress thyroid function. And rushing and multitasking through the day REALLY weakens the thyroid gland.

In this case we must need to make sure the person stops doing all those things and then work on strengthening the thyroid gland again using various herbal formulas.

Sometimes the patient is in a state of fight or flight, which we call high Vata in Ayurveda, which stops the digestive tract from functioning properly, causing the gall bladder to become weak. So in this case we need to teach them how to get out of fight or flight or how to lower the Vata, by meditation, rest, going to bed early, resisting the temptation to multitask and rush through the day to allow their digestive tracts and gall bladder in particular to work properly again.

And too much stress contributes to the release of cortisol from the adrenal glands, which in the long run depletes progesterone, again resulting in a high estrogen/low progesterone ratio which leads to the formation of fibroids.

Once we have figured out all the specific imbalances going on in that particular patient we next have to give the herbs to prevent the release of cortisol when under stress and also herbs to recalibrate the ratio between estrogen and progesterone.

We then give the herbs to help prevent and shrink the fibroid. Notice that we give the herbs to shrink the fibroid as the last thing we do. We don’t want to make the mistake to just resort to those herbs without addressing all the underlying root causes which are feeding the growth of the fibroids in the first place. This is why the ancient doctors of Ayurveda said before any prescription is written, you have to first identify what that patient is doing wrong and tell them to stop doing it, otherwise the herbs won’t be able to be as effective in treating the problem.

Sometimes if the fibroid is too large, like the size of an orange or a grapefruit, it might be impossible to shrink it back down. It’s always worth a try, but if not, see if you can find a surgeon who will just remove the fibroid and leave the uterus intact, if at all possible.

But in any case, you should still fix all the underlying reasons that caused the fibroid to grow in the first place, because if you don’t then other problems could arise or you could start growing more fibroids or other growths such as uterine polyps, nodules on the thyroid or cysts on the breasts or ovaries. All of these are basically caused from the same underlying problems discussed here. I see many women having their fibroids removed yet no attempt was made to get at the root cause of the problem.

And one more thing! You must avoid unfermented soy, such as tofu, edamame and soy milk, as well as fennel seeds, whether used in a tea or chewed on after meals as both are highly estrogenic and will feed the fibroid. I’ve seen many women through the years who did not know this and were eating lots of tofu and drinking fennel tea everyday unaware that they were making their fibroid grow larger and larger each week.

I hope this information helps you in your efforts to prevent and shrink fibroid tumors.

Thank you,

Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum

Cinnaminson, New Jersey

856-786-3330

drmteitelbaum.com

Delve Deeper into Ayurveda

with

Rose Carol

This 225-hour training includes:

Ancient Ayurveda tools for self-care
Ancient art of pulse diagnosis (Nadivigyan)
Over 35 relevant Ayurveda Herbs and how to use them
Learn Ayurveda Body Mind Assessment
Food as medicine with online cooking lessons
Coaching skills (how to work with clients)
Ethical and legal Issues of an Ayurveda practice
Seasonal Cleanse and Detox for self and others
A comprehensive study on Ayurvedic cosmology, theory and practice
Pranic Healing

REPLAY OF EMF VS PRANA COURSE

What a fabulous session we had yesterday, filled with so much knowledge, empowering us against this overwhelming modern health phenomenon – EMF toxicity. The good news is there is SO MUCH we can do, through Vaidya Mishra's SVA teachings, as well as through all the information Henry Eckstein shared with us. Understanding the ayurvedic fundamentals of what EMF is, is the first most important step to be able to address it; however, having a strong handle on all the recent measuring devices, as well as the different categories of radiation and frequencies that we need to address is also so crucial. We thank Henry Eckstein for generously sharing his knowledge and expertise with us. Here again are some important details and ways you can reach him if you want to assess your home or workspace:

Website: https://www.HealthyIndoorConsultants.com
His email: Henry@HealthyIndoorConsultants.com
Business phone: (303) 306-8793

Henry also offer zoom calls to help people get aquainted with and learn how to use their meters.

WANT TO SIGN UP?

CLICK HERE

email us: info@prana-center.com

or: 818-709-1005

Still not sure whether the EMF course is for you? Find out more…

Explore our full line of SVA formulations. Visit www.chandika.com

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

More SVA Knowledge for Self-Care or Advanced Professional Certification Click Here

Calendar of Upcoming Events

looking for a live SVA event in your area or online?

Check out our Calendar page for upcoming courses and community events & for full contact and registration details:

https://www.svayurveda.com/upcoming-events/

Upcoming new SVA events across the US & Canada coming soooooon

stay connected….

a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips – thousands of articles and questions answered by Vaidya Mishra and his team of experts; and so much more…

home to Vaidya Mishra's unique pranic exquisite formulations – with weekly specials and give-aways. Learn Ayurveda as you shop!

Filed Under: Newsletters

Fwd: REPLAY of PRANA VS EMF in case you missed it! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter August 4, 2022 – #28, Vol 11

October 5, 2022 by Vaidya Mishra Leave a Comment

REPLAY OF OUR EMF SESSION

Fwd: GARDENS OF SOMA! Plus: PRANA VS EMF: WATCH THE TRAILER! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter July 28, 2022 – #27, Vol 11

October 5, 2022 by Vaidya Mishra Leave a Comment

WHAT DOES AYURVEDA SAY ABOUT EMF?

PUT YOUR COMPUTER VOLUME UP & WATCH THE TRAILER!

THURSDAY AUGUST 4, 2022, 3PM (PST)

or for the online full course

(scroll down for more info)

email us: info@prana-center.com

or: 818-709-1005

stay

COOL & COMPOSED

this

summer

Feeling hot and bothered? Have you considered any of Vaidya Mishra's ayurvedic floral and herbal lotions, oils, and creams to help keep you cool and composed externally? This is an important detail. Summer is a blissful time when Nature is in full swing with flowers, fruits, and life buzzing on all planes. It's a time for outward expression, and joy! But summertime is also a time where things heat up inside-out, and lead to inside-out pitta aggravation too and crankiness! Your eyes can feel dry and tired; your skin will feel hot and dry or sticky and sweaty; your stomach acidic or you will lack appetite; you may be easily irritable and/or sad; hot and bothered despite keeping your AC unit on 24/7! In the summer time, it's important to cool things off from the INSIDE-OUT: internally through foods and drinks, externally through transdermal applications. In this newsletter issue, we showcase unique pranic formulations for external application that are loved by thousands of people around the globe. Next week we will feature some recipes and SVA tips for internal cooling.

Questions? Comments? If you love Vaidya Mishra's unique products, leave us a testimonial on the product's page. Namaste! –

Here's a most delightful massage oil to help balance bhrajak and sadhaka pitta.

Garden of Soma cooling Massage oil contains: "Garden of Soma Herbal Synergy" (proprietary blend) with lavender, lime, sweet orange, himalayan cedar wood in a base of organic coconut oil.

This is our most pitta pacifying massage oil as its name indicates. It is not only great for calming the bhrajaka pitta (metabolic functions of the skin), it is also overall cooling and soothing for all pitta subdoshas. Formulated to balance and cool the skin, without aggravating shleshaka kapha, the lubricating factor, of the skin. It is a coconut oil based mixture that has additional cooling and soothing properties deriving from added florar essences.

Ingredient-wise benefits:

Lavender: calms and soothes the mind, even as it cools off heat-aggravated skin.

Lime: Alkalizing, and a natural preservative

Sweet orange: Enhances absorption of oil and other nutrients through the skin. Vitamin C (in sweet orange and lime) carries a nurturing action that protects the skin from hyper pigmentation resulting from overexposure to sunlight.

Himalayan Cedar: enhances the intelligence of the skin organ by dilating the physical and vibrational channels

Coconut oil: naturally soothing and cooling, calms bhrajaka pitta and supports skin health, particularly in hot climates. Soothing relief for many pitta related skin problems caused or aggravated by extreme heat or overexposure to sunlight.

Pitta Massage Oil : Made with a blend of sandalwood, vetiver, and cyperus in a soothing coconut base, this oil cools the body and emotions, while also giving the balancing effects of abhyanga (Ayurvedic massage).

Pitta Massage Oil with Magnesium: Pitta Oil with Magnesium: Magnesium may sometimes be a little heating for people with high Pitta, particularly for the Bhrajak Pitta, or the pitta of the skin. Given that Magnesium is an important ingredient that can benefit all, here is a special oil that makes it safe and effective to use by high pitta or pitta body types.

In addition to Magnesium, this Pitta oil contains the active molecules of Turmeric (Curcuma longa) as well as Tree Turmeric (Berberis aristata). Turmeric is well known for its anti-inflammatory and anti-allergenic properties. In addition, it is an excellent complexion enhancer. The next ingredient, Tree Turmeric (Berberis aristata), also known as Daru haridra, is very good for pacifying Bhrajak pitta when used topically. These ingredients are added to a base of coconut oil – the best oil for cooling and pacifying pitta. This formula is a unique combination that helps pacify bhrajak pitta, as it detoxifies and nurtures the skin at the same time for individuals with high pitta or sensitive skin. The aromatic molecules of Grapefruit and Sweet orange act as carriers. This is a totally non-clogging, light, fragrant oil

that you can use on the whole body, morning and evening, before showers, to cool, detoxify and nourish.

Surya Shanti Cream can be used whenever your skin is hot and burning. The Sanskrit word, surya, mean "sun." And shanti means "pacification." Surya Shanti Cream pacifies the heat generated by too much exposure to the sun.

This cream was designed to be an Ayurvedic sunscreen substitute, but it has not been tested by the FDA. Use it at your own risk.

It balances brajaka pitta, the pitta located in the skin. It helps reduce hot burning sensations on the skin, whether caused by internal toxins, like amavisha, or by sunburn, or by touching hot objects. Because it cools brajaka pitta so deeply, it can be a good preparation for exposure to the sun's hot rays.

Surya Shanti Cream has not been tested by the FDA as a sunscreen, and should be used with caution. However, some people are reporting that it is very helpful for preventing sunburn.

We suggest that you test it for yourself in a way that will not endanger your skin if it doesn't work for you. Try it on a section of skin for a moderate exposure time. If you replace your regular sunscreen with this product be warned that you do so at your own risk. You may need to keep applying during the day. It is not waterproof.

Sunlight heats the skin dramatically. If your skin is cooled by this cream prior to sun exposure, your skin's own natural resistance to sunburn is strenghthened. It is also great to apply after sun exposure. Many people are reporting that it can remove the redness caused by sunburn in just a few minutes. We invite you to test it for yourself.

The formula contains no chemicals or preservatives and delivers lots of cooling soma to the skin. It not only cools the skin, but opens the skin's reception to soma in the environment.

This cream will not block the good things you need from sunlight. Your skin will recieve what it needs to make Vitamin D from sunlight without getting imbalanced by the sun's burning quality. Get Vaidya Mishra's three hour course on Vitamin D to learn more about the importance of how you treat your skin if you want to get maximum Vitamin D from the sun.

If you are a high pitta type, you may experience burning sensations anytime for no apparent reason. This cream can be useful for restoring balance quickly. You may want to apply it on the neck or even the scalp whenever it starts to burn. It can also be helpful for cooling the body before sleep.

This product comes in two variations: regular coolness (Surya Shanti) and strong cooling (Surya Maha Shanti)

Aloe Vetiver Summer Lotion: Vetiver & Aloe Vera combine in this lotion to refresh, calm and pacify the dehagni (cellular agni) and pacify bhrajaka (governing skin) and sadhak pitta (governing emotions.) Apply liberally. Before Air Conditioning devices were introduced in remote Indian villages, and even nowadays, Indian homes in North India used vetiver grass mats hanging on their windows to cool off from stifling summer heat. Freshly woven Vetiver grass mats not only infuse a delightful cooling aroma to the entire house, but the scented molecules actually carry cooling properties. Ayurveda teaches us that, property-wise, vetiver is: sheeta (cooling); snigdha (unctuous or anti-drying); and sugandha (highly aromatic.) Vetiver nurtures the first layer of the skin called udakdhara (water-holding), and penetrates even deeper to the raktadhara (blood layer.) In summer, the increased agni in the environment increases the heat in the blood. That’s why we experience more heat in the body and brain. Vetiver aromatically cools off the blood and with regular use can even cool the muscle and fat tissues.

Aloe Vera is famous world-wide to soothe topical burns. Water soluble, aloe offers refreshing coolness to the first layer of the skin udakdhara (water holding) and enhances the skin’s luster and complexion Aloe is very famous to cool the raktadhara (blood holding layer) of the skin as well. Transdermally, aloe quickly reaches the liver and spleen and detoxifies the liver by its cooling effect.

A very active form of Aloe and Vetiver combine in this lotion to refresh, calm and pacify the dehagni (cellular agni) and pacify bhrajaka (governing skin) and sadhak pitta (governing emotions.) Apply liberally.

Ingredients

“Total Aloe Vetiver Lotion” (Vaidya Mishra’s proprietary herbal blend) with Vetiver (Chrysopogon zizanioides), Aloe vera, Jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis), Saffron (Crocus sativus), Flame of forest (Delonix regia), Devil’s Apple (Solanum linnaeanum),Punarnava (Boerhaavia diffusa), Manjistha (Rubia cordifolia), Turmeric (Curcuma longa), Gotu kola (Centella asiatica), Brahmi (Bacopa moniera), Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans), Mucuna (Mucuna pruriens), Green tea (Camellia sinensis), Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera), Lemon (Citrus limon), Indian Sarsaparilla (Hemidesmus indicus), Asoka (Saraca asoca), Shirish bark (Albizzia lebbeck), Sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica), White grapefruit (Citrus paradisi), in a base of organic coconut (Cocos nucifera), Grapeseed oil (Vitis vinifera), Vegetable stearic acid, Organic aloe juice, Neem (Azadirachta indica), Kosher vegetable glycerin, Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis), Emulsifying wax (NF).

Aloe Vera Gel: Calms and soothes the skin by its deep cooling effect on rasa (plasma) and rakta (blood.) Highly active form.

Vetiver: Sheeta (cooling); Snigdha (unctuous); and Sugandha (cooling aromatic.) Highly active form.

Jojoba: Cooling skin lubricant

Saffron: Best varnya (skin complexion) enhancer. Helps preserve skin color

Flame of Forest: Enhances intelligence of the skin to fight against sunlight and a varnya (complexion enhancer.)

Devil’s Apple: Increases the cellular intelligence of skin

Punarnava: Mobilizes and evacuates toxins from the udakdhara layer (water layer) of the skin.

Manjishta: Maintains skin intelligence & pacifies bhrajaka pitta – governing factor of skin easily aggravated by overexposure to sun.

Turmeric: Fights against inflammation of the skin created by sunlight exposure

Gotu Kola: Supports collagen synthesis

Brahmi: Maintains intelligence of the skin

Nutmeg: Maintains normal skin pigmentation

Mucuna: Supports dopamine production to maintain coordination between mind and skin (prana and vyana)

Green Tea: Great anti-oxidant for the skin. Prevents free-radicals (amavisha) from sunlight exposure

Ashwagandha: Supports tactile nerves of the skin

Lemon: Checks against excess pigmentation caused by sun exposure

Indian Sarsaparilla: Acidic toxins (amavisha) released from sweat irritates skin. Cleans sweat and the sweat glands.

Ashoka: Maintains the bliss of skin

Shirish bark: Provides long-term skin detoxification

Sensitive Plant: Nourishes and repairs the tactile nerves from the damage arising from excess sun exposure

Neem: Supports the immunity of skin

Rosemary: Opens the channels of the skin without heating

Synergistic Base: White grapefruit (preservation); Organic Coconut (cooling, nurturing, and lubricating); Organic Aloe Juice; Grapeseed oil; Emulsifying wax; Kosher vegetable glycerin.

One of our very best favorites and a best seller is Vaidya Mishra's Aromatic Facial Mist to Refresh, Inspire, and Uplift!

Blissful Awakening is a facial mist that can be used any time of day not only to instantly refresh your face, but also clear the mind and uplift the heart. How? It’s a synergistic blend of 21 herbs and spices artfully combined to restore prana and soma and help cool and nourish the skin. It also helps delay biological, chronological, and psychological aging.

Neutralize EMF Vibrational Pollution

This facial mist can also be used as part of your SVA EMF (electro-magnetic field) management protocol. It contains several drops of pure chandanam (sandalwood oil). Sandalwood is highly somagenic thus cooling and grounding. Spraying this mist on your face while using your computer to help absorb and negate the ‘buzzy’ corrupt marut (etheric energy). The sacred herbs and spices in this formula will thus prevent synthetic pranic EMF energy from disturbing your nadis (vibrational channels). To cleanse the environment around your work space, use the SVA Vayu Shudhi air-freshener.

Did you know that Vaidya’s Blissful Awakening Age-Defying Facial Mist also makes a great complement to the SVA Marma for Facelift protocols? Simply spray this mist on the face prior or after the marma session. Doing it prior sets the stage to marma activation for the ultimate experience of inner, outer, and lasting beauty. Doing it as the final step concludes the pranic session on a high blissful note.

Ingredient-Wise Actions & Properties

Saffron (Crocus sativus) is a super-antioxidant for the skin, potent up to the 5th dermal layer.
Flame of forest (Butea monosperma) supports the skin’s intelligence and shields against ultraviolet sunlight rays.
Devil’s apple (Solanum Linnaeanum) bolsters the skin cells’ intelligence to detox by releasing amavisha and garavisha.
Punarnava (Boerhavia diffusa) rejuvenates the skin by supporting integral detox of the skin by releasing toxins through sweat.
Manjistha (Rubia cordifolia) is a hypo-allergenic herb that pacifies hyperactivity of the immune system by addressing amavisha.
Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is an anti-inflammatory that enhances dermal intelligence and protects against inflammation.
Gotu kola (Centella asiatica) enhances collagen synthesis, preserves the skin’s elasticity and maintains its youthfulness.
Brahmi (Bacopa monnieri) enhances the connection and communication between prana vata, the subdosha that governs the mind, and vyana vata, the subdosha that governs the skin. This is a unique SVA approach to skin health through the pacification and balancing of psychological stress.
Nutmeg (Myristica) enhances the complexion by clearing and balancing the micro-channels of the mind.
Mucuna (Mucuna Pruriens) lubricates and hydrates internally, modulates hormonal flow and lubrication.
Green tea is a reputed antioxidant that defies psychological aging and supplies tone and elasticity.
Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) supports mind/body coordination, nourishes the tactile nerves, thus supporting the skin’s resistance against internal and external stressors.
Lemon (Citrus limon) enhances the skin’s resistance to sunlight, reducing sensitivity.
Indian sarsaparilla (Hemidesmus indicus) cleans the sebaceous glands of the skin.
Ashoka (Saraca asoca) means ‘no grief’. It supports the skin’s health by enhancing bliss and balancing sadhaka pitta subdosha.
Shirish bark (Albizia lebbeck) provides sustained deep skin layer detox.
Sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica) nourishes and supports the regeneration of the tactile nerves, helping to maintain the sensitivity of the facial skin.
Sandalwood gives a deep cooling effect and promotes a blissful state of mind.
Rose helps hydrate the skin as well as uplifts the emotions by balancing sadhak pitta.
Sambac Jasmine is abliss enhancer with a sandhaniya (unifying) and purifying effect on the skin.
White grapefruit (natural preservative)

Navratna Celestial Radiance

For total support of the three levels of beauty (Rupam, Gunam, Vayastyag) the Lalita’s Celestial Radiance cream is infused with the vibrational intelligence of the 9 gems that represent the 9 planets. Jyotish, or the ancient vedic "science of light," explains that our individualities are the result of our past karmic actions, and the map that shows the benefits and set-backs dictated by our karmic past is found in the alignment of the planets at our birth. Lalita’s Celestial Radiance cream is formulated to give you a balanced tonic that can support the weaker planets that you may have in your chart, while it pacifies the malefic planets that may be aggravated in your chart. In this way, through the use of the Celestial Radiance cream, you can boost the “guna” pillar of beauty by strengthening or neutralizing things from within. The Veda-s clearly state that while we have freedom of choice as human individuals to make the right ethical decisions, the planets can sometimes cast their shadows on our mind to distract and divert us from the right decisions. Shielding ourselves from vibrational negativity through the use of gems and other remedial measures is an ancient science, and Lalita’s Celestial Radiance makes that science available for all those who want to apply the cream, especially on the marma points, to make for a more powerful delivery!

Why Navratna Celestial Radiance with Rose?

Do you know why emotional stress directly impacts the glow and health of your skin? When your emotions are on the rocks, your sadhak pitta and sadhak agni go off. This impacts all your other pitta subdoshas, stripping your skin of its luster, and slowing down its healthy metabolism. If you are under constant emotional stress, and your skin looks dull and flaky, no external application will help unless it address the heart of the matter, your emotions. Unless, that is, you use a prana-infused cream that contains Rose! Transdermal Rose can uplift the emotions by balancing sadhak pitta and sadhak agni right away– the sub- doshas and the flame that govern the emotional heart. Rose strengthens the emotional heart so it can better handle emotional challenges. Not only does rose pacify sadhak pitta – even as it balances sadhak agni – it also carries a "somnasya jana" or bliss-enhancing property. All sub-doshas are inter-connected. Any of Vaidya’s creams can be custom-ordered containing 100% pure and organic Rose Absolute. If you are experiencing emotional challenges right now, then you should go with the Rose Aroma.

But Rose also carries additional amazing properties confirming it as the Queen of flowers in the plant kingdom! Did you know that Rose is also known for its “vajikarna” properties? It supports the hormones and is a wonderful additional to any romantic setting – making it a Valentine Day’s favorite. But rose is also beneficial for individuals who experience heat or burning sensations in their limbs or their body overall. Regular transdermal use of rose cleans the sweat inside-out, neutralizing its pH, so that when it is released through the skin, it does not cause irritation. Rose in your facial cream can be especially beneficial if you are a vata or pitta or a mixture of both in terms of your overall constitution and particularly in terms of your skin type.

Discover the full line of Lalita's Facial creams and products online here

IS EMF TOXICITY REAL?

Did you know that current scientific research on EMF toxicity is inconclusive? A quick wikipedia search states that consensus amongst “experts” is that “despite extensive research, to date there is no evidence to conclude that exposure to low level electromagnetic fields is harmful to human health”… Surprised? Not convinced? Then read what the World Health Organization website says: “Based on a recent in-depth review of the scientific literature, the WHO concluded that current evidence does not confirm the existence of any health consequences from exposure to low level electromagnetic fields. However, some gaps in knowledge about biological effects exist and need further research.” Let's put aside the "some gaps in knowledge" for a moment and ponder what might those so-called "biological effects" be? Here's what they add: "Reported symptoms include headaches, anxiety, suicide and depression, nausea, fatigue and loss of libido. To date, scientific evidence does not support a link between these symptoms and exposure to electromagnetic fields. At least some of these health problems may be caused by noise or other factors in the environment, or by anxiety related to the presence of new technologies.” The claim of "anxiety related to the presence of new technologies" is actually the latest way of categorizing things, and it is referred to as EHS: "Electromagnetic Hyper Sensitivity (EHS) is a condition defined by the attribution of non-specific symptoms to electromagnetic fields (EMF) of anthropogenic origin. Despite its repercussions on the lives of its sufferers, and its potential to become a significant public health issue, it remains of a contested nature."

But we should know by now that recalls and recanting are matter of fact in science – that’s why it’s called re-search! As new findings surface, scientists revisit their conclusions and many a times completely contradict themselves. Vaidya Mishra said it best, he used to chuckle and add: "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 overexposure to 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, how it relates to Prana, and what you can do about it – in terms of diet, lifestyle, and additional balancing measures. Find out the full protocol in our upcoming events.

Join us on August 4 for an introductory FREE session, then take the full course online at your own leisure.

(See below for more details).

On August 4, we will welcome guest speaker

Henry Eckstein, electrical engineer by training with specialized degrees in Biology and Electromagnetic Radiation. As a certified expert consultant, he will talk about how you can clean up your indoor home/office environment to help you live free of fear, stress, and pain, and start living the peaceful healthy life you deserve. His special focus will be on:

Latest Health Research on EMF & Health issues
4 types of man-made EMF and how to measure for them – Instruments for Homeowners
Free or low-cost measures we can take to eliminate or mitigate EMF in our homes.

(See his website below)

The session on August 4 is free and open to all.

FULL EMF COURSE ONLINE

Explore our full line of SVA formulations. Visit www.chandika.com

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

More SVA Knowledge for Self-Care or Advanced Professional Certification Click Here

Calendar of Upcoming Events

looking for a live SVA event in your area or online?

Check out our Calendar page for upcoming courses and community events & for full contact and registration details:

https://www.svayurveda.com/upcoming-events/

Upcoming new SVA events across the US & Canada coming soooooon

stay connected….

a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips – thousands of articles and questions answered by Vaidya Mishra and his team of experts; and so much more…

home to Vaidya Mishra's unique pranic exquisite formulations – with weekly specials and give-aways. Learn Ayurveda as you shop!

Filed Under: Newsletters

Fwd: Here Comes the Sun! With Dr Teitelbaum; Plus: PRANA VS EMF: What You Can and Should Do! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter July 21, 2022 – #26, Vol 11

October 5, 2022 by Vaidya Mishra Leave a Comment

No sunshine? No problem! With Vaidya Mishra's transdermal application creams and lotions, you can get all the benefits – minus side-effects… Transdermal creams and formulations are safe as "bhrajak pitta" in the skin knows how much to absorb and deliver to rakta dhatu and circulate into the body. Specially when you apply something that's fully of prana and live. When chemicals are applied they literally force their way in, may burn and rupture channels, and disrupt the body's innate intelligence. With pranic ayurvedic formulations you get the best of all possible worlds! Find out more about Vaidya Mishra's full line of SVA Vit D formulations, and how they may help you.

Here Comes The Sun!

Discover All the Health Benefits It Offers Us Beyond Vit D!

My teacher and mentor Vaidya Rama Kant Mishra came from a 5,000 year old lineage of Ayurveda whose specialty was Dermatology. They originally came from what is believe to be the modern island of Madagascar and were known for their “worship” of the sun since it gave life to us and contributed to our emotional and physical well-being and health.

I remember Vaidya told me one day that the sunlight hitting the skin did more than just manufacture Vitamin D, but we hadn’t yet discovered most of the things it could do.

Remembering his words, I always made it a point to try to follow up on any research that might reveal more information about the sunlight’s amazing health benefits than just its role in producing Vitamin D through the various layers of the skin.

Following is a lot of the information I have gathered through the years on the role the sunlight plays in giving us good mental, emotional and physical health. I’m sure research will produce even more benefits in future years. So here is what we know so far:

The human skin is the largest organ, accounting for around 12% to 15% of a person’s total weight. The skin has several layers that help protect the muscles, ligaments, internal organs and bones from outside threats.

The epidermis is the visible layer of the skin — it is waterproof and prevents infections.The invisible portion of the sun’s radiation is called ultraviolet radiation, also known as UV light. UV light is available year-round in the tropics and during part of the year farther north and south. There are three main varieties of ultraviolet light: UVA, UVB and UVC.

UVA does not stimulate Vitamin D production, but it does stimulate the production of nitric oxide, which is vital for human health.

UVB stimulates the epidermis to produce Vitamin D.

UVC radiation is the highest energy portion of the UV radiation spectrum. UVC radiation from the sun does not reach the earth’s surface because it is filtered by the earth’s outer atmosphere and the ozone layer.

All tissues in the body have Vitamin D receptors, and the brain and central nervous system must have Vitamin D to function properly. Sun exposure is the direct, natural way to obtain significant amounts of Vitamin D.

Exposure to the sun provides 90% of the Vitamin D for humans. Vitamin D from sunlight can be synthesized in the skin mostly around midday, from 10 am to 2 pm. The more skin that is exposed the greater the amount of Vitamin D is produced. A good rule of thumb is that the shadow of an object should be shorter than its height — this is the best type of sunlight for you to produce Vitamin D, again, around 10 am to 2 pm. As much as 20,000 IU of Vitamin D can be produced with whole body exposure at midday.

Vitamin D produced in the skin from sunlight exposure does not lead to Vitamin D toxicity and is considered safe, as the body limits its own production This is not true for Vitamin D supplementation which you can overdose on if you take too much orally.

In the North American winter, due to the low angle of the sun, Vitamin D cannot be produced through UVB sun exposure north of 35 degree latitude. The reason is that UVB rays are at an angle and are filtered out through the atmosphere. This is the same for the Southern winter, south of 35 degree latitude. But don’t think that just because Vitamin D cannot be synthesized by the skin during winters, or during early morning or late afternoon, one should not try to obtain sunlight during these periods. The sun has numerous other benefits at all times of the day and at all seasons and you should take advantage of it whenever it is available.

The time required to make sufficient Vitamin D varies according to a number of environmental, physical and personal factors, but is typically short and less than the amount of time needed for skin to redden and burn. Full body UV exposure or the equivalent of being slightly pink 24 hours after exposure will provide between 10,000 and 25,000 IU of Vitamin D. The surface area of the skin exposed will influence the amount of Vitamin D made after UVB sun exposure, and lying down exposes more skin than standing up. A key to being safe is to leave the sun at the first sign of pinkness. Tanning acclimates the skin to reduce the risk of overexposure, but the inability to tan is a risk factor for skin cancer.

I think that most people aren’t aware of the fact that the skin makes more than just Vitamin D from sun exposure: it makes nitric oxide, dopamine, serotonin, endorphins and BDNF (a neuron growth factor and preventer of nerve death), and photoproducts that may reduce the risk of MS, heart disease and cancer, as well as many other diseases.

Exposure to morning sunlight improves sleep! Your body creates a hormone called melatonin which helps you sleep. Sunshine regulates your circadian rhythm by telling your body when to increase and decrease your melatonin levels. So, the more daylight exposure you can get, the better your body will produce melatonin when it’s time to go to sleep. Any parent will tell you how well their children sleep at night after playing outside all day in the sunshine.

In fact, studies show that a lack of daylight disrupts some hormonal processes in our bodies causing our circadian rhythms to shift which might cause some people go to sleep later and later in the evenings resulting in an increased risk of depression. Many of the teenagers I see who suffer from depression go to bed very late, past the bedtime recommended by the ancient Ayurvedic doctors, which is 10:00 PM.

The earliest morning sun is responsible for resetting the circadian rhythm. Try to be outside for a half hour when the sun rises each morning. A 2019 study found that exposure to morning sunlight results in greater alertness. A 2017 study published in the journal Sleep Health demonstrated how people who are exposed to sunlight in the morning sleep better at night and feel less stressed and depressed than people who don’t get access to morning sunlight. Research from Denmark has shown that morning light relieves anxiety by reducing the activity of the brain’s fear center.

The ancient doctors predicted this as well stating that we should wake up at the crack of dawn and if in fact we woke up once the sun was already up, known as the kapha time of day, we would have a dense heavy feeling of lethargy and depression would last the rest of the day. The kapha time of day is from 6 am to 10 am, so we should always wake up no later than 6 am if at all possible in order to feel the most energetic during the day.

Waking up early and exposing yourself to morning light is one way to lock the body into a good 24 hour schedule which means better sleep at night and more alert, energetic mornings. When those rhythms are off, you might have trouble getting out of bed in the morning and then have trouble falling asleep at night.

Our brains produce a protein called BDNF which promotes growth of neurons and prevents nerve cell death. Researchers have shown that BDNF has an effect on behavior, mood (depression), brain adaptation (plasticity). BDNF levels increase in spring and summer and decrease in fall and winter. BDNF levels increase significantly after bright light exposure. Research has shown that bright sunlight increases new nerve cell growth in the adult rat brain. To quote from the study: “We are actually seeing new brain cells being built by bright sunlight exposure combined with exercise.”

How does sunlight help depression? Well, for one thing, the sunshine boosts your body’s production of serotonin, which is a neurotransmitter that improves your mood and helps you stay calm and focused.This neurotransmitter serotonin is a natural “upper,” working in synchronization with the natural “downer,” melatonin. When we wake up to sunshine the light enters the eye and stimulates serotonin production. We then quickly become awake and invigorated and melatonin is suppressed. At the end of the day, however, the bright light disappears, melatonin levels rise and serotonin levels diminish. We begin to feel sleepy and ideally retire for a good night’s rest.

Sunlight dramatically increases serotonin levels in the brain. Researchers in Australia measured serotonin levels in response to varying degrees of bright light. They withdrew blood samples from 101 men during varying weather conditions and seasons. The results were remarkable: Men who were measured on a very bright day produced eight times more serotonin than those who were measured on a cloudy, dismal day.

Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRI) such as Prozac work by keeping serotonin in circulation since lack of serotonin may cause depression. Sun exposure can increase the amount of serotonin in the circulation by 800% in one day, without the toxic side effects of the SSRI’s.

They also observed that the effect of bright light was immediate and that there was no holdover from day to day. Serotonin levels were also seven times higher in summer than winter. This is why people develop seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a form of mood disorder occurring especially in winter, and characterized by depression, irritability, aggression, weight gain, fatigue and inability to concentrate.

It has also been shown that depressed psychiatric patients residing in sunny rooms stayed in the hospital 2.6 fewer days on average than those who had darker rooms. The sunny rooms had windows, so it is likely that endorphins created by the sun’s rays entering through the windows were responsible for making the patient feel better. It could not have been from Vitamin D as was previously thought because the UVB light necessary to produce Vitamin D is filtered out by window glass.

Another study showed that the more TV teenagers watch, the more likely they are to be depressed as adults. For each hour of TV watched, the rate of depression increased significantly. Sitting in dark rooms with TV on with less sunlight create insufficient levels of Vitamin D, endorphins, and serotonin, leading to long-term mood disorders. Add to this a sedentary lifestyle, and junk food causing obesity creating a perfect recipe for depression.

The brain also produces endorphins by the skin in response to sun exposure. Endorphins elevate the mood while producing a sense of well being.

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that is responsible for making us feel bliss, euphoria and gives us enhanced motivation and satisfaction.This “upper” as it is sometimes called, also increases with exposure to sunlight.

So serotonin, endorphins and dopamine, famously known as the “happy hormones” which promote feelings like pleasure, happiness and even love are all produced from exposure to sunlight.

Nitric oxide (NO) is produced by the skin after exposure to the UVA from preformed stores of NO in the skin. NO reduces blood pressure since it is a potent vasodilator, which means it opens up the blood vessels, and when released into the arteries by UVA stimulation, it causes increased blood flow in the blood vessels, which lowers blood pressure. It gets produced even if filtered through window glass (unlike Vitamin D which needs direct sunshine on the skin to be made).

Seasonal cold and flu outbreaks are related to lower solar UVB doses. In the northern hemisphere, influenza occurs in December through March. In the southern hemisphere, outbreaks occur June through September- almost exclusively in winter in both hemispheres. The outbreaks in each case occur in times of lowest sun exposure.

Relatively new and very important research shows that sunlight boosts the effectiveness of T-cells. T cells are a huge part of the immune system, they are a type of lymphocyte which recognizes and binds to foreign invaders, rendering them harmless.

The UV spectrum of sunlight stimulates the production of hydrogen peroxide which causes the T-cells to move to the site of infection to kill noxious bacteria. T cells, whether they are helpers or killers need to move to get to the site of infection to do their work. This study shows how sunlight directly activates these key immune cells by increasing their movement.

It turns out that the skin has a large share of the total T-cells in humans, about twice the number circulating in the blood. So the sun exposure activates the T-cells to move quickly to areas of the body where they are needed to fight infection. This is why there is less influenza, pneumonia, colds and flus in the winter.

Vitamin D has a direct influence on MS patients. MS is found in the northern part of the northern hemisphere and is virtually non-existent in sunny countries around the equator. The risk of MS in far northern areas is more than 100 times greater than it is in areas around the equator, where sunlight is intense, and the rate of MS approaches zero.

A sudden worsening of MS symptoms is known as a relapse or exacerbation and research shows that these events are profoundly related to serum Vitamin D levels. One study shows a correlation between Vitamin D levels and the rate of relapse in that for every increase in serum Vitamin D levels of 10 units, there is a 34% decrease in the risk of relapse in young people.

Remember, 90% of serum Vitamin D is derived from sun exposure and the sun has even more protective effects on MS beyond Vitamin D. One study concluded that Vitamin D supplementation alone may not replace the ability of the sun’s UV rays to reduce MS susceptibility. What they found is that UV light inhibits spinal cord inflammation and demyelination by inhibiting a chemical known as a cytokine. Inflammatory cytokines are the cause of inflammation and autoimmune attacks resulting in MS.

And another study proved that sun exposure independent of Vitamin D has a direct effect on neurodegeneration where they found that greater summer sun exposure predicted greater grey matter volume and whole brain volume. It was also found that exposure to UV radiation help prevent the body from attacking itself by increasing the T and B cells which modulate and suppress the immune system. MS is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks and destroys the myelin sheath of the body’s own nervous system. The myelin sheath is the protective covering to the nerve cells. The regulatory or T suppressor cells suppress these attacks preventing the disease. And the B regulatory cells are also a part of the immune system and can through their suppressive functions decrease inflammation through the production of anti-inflammatory cytokines.

This research is important because it shows how sun exposure works against MS in several different ways, only one of which may be the stimulation of Vitamin D production

The UVB light found in sunlight suppresses inflammation in the skin and thus has been used to successfully treat skin diseases such as psoriasis and eczema. Many patients report to me that their skin conditions clear up in the summer months with more exposure to the sun.

So, as you can see, the sunlight is extremely important for our health. That’s why, after the end of the long, cold winter most of us can hardly wait to feel the sun on our skin again and we breathe a sigh of relief as we feel the sun’s rays penetrating every fiber of our being, causing an immediate increase in our mood and at the same time helping your entire body to heal from the inside out.

I hope you found this information useful as you strive to live a healthy life.

Thank you,

Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum

Cinnaminson, New Jersey

856-786-3330

drmteitelbaum.com

IS EMF TOXICITY REAL?

Join us on August 4 for an introductory FREE session, then take the full course online at your own leisure.

(See below for more details).

On August 4, we will welcome guest speaker

Latest Health Research on EMF & Health issues
4 types of man-made EMF and how to measure for them – Instruments for Homeowners
Free or low-cost measures we can take to eliminate or mitigate EMF in our homes.

(See his website below)

The session on August 4 is free and open to all.

FULL EMF COURSE ONLINE

Explore our full line of SVA formulations. Visit www.chandika.com

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

More SVA Knowledge for Self-Care or Advanced Professional Certification Click Here

Calendar of Upcoming Events

looking for a live SVA event in your area or online?

Check out our Calendar page for upcoming courses and community events & for full contact and registration details:

https://www.svayurveda.com/upcoming-events/

Upcoming new SVA events across the US & Canada coming soooooon

stay connected….

a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips – thousands of articles and questions answered by Vaidya Mishra and his team of experts; and so much more…

home to Vaidya Mishra's unique pranic exquisite formulations – with weekly specials and give-aways. Learn Ayurveda as you shop!

Filed Under: Newsletters

Fwd: Is EMF Toxicity Real? Plus: Upcoming Course: PRANA VS EMF in Ayurveda: – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter July 14, 2022 – #25, Vol 11

October 5, 2022 by Vaidya Mishra Leave a Comment

IS EMF TOXICITY REAL?

Join us on August 4 for an introductory FREE session, then take the full course online at your own leisure.

(See below for more details).

On August 4, we will welcome guest speaker

Latest Health Research on EMF & Health issues
4 types of man-made EMF and how to measure for them – Instruments for Homeowners
Free or low-cost measures we can take to eliminate or mitigate EMF in our homes.

(See his website below)

The session on August 4 is free and open to all.

FULL EMF COURSE ONLINE

Explore our full line of SVA formulations. Visit www.chandika.com

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

More SVA Knowledge for Self-Care or Advanced Professional Certification Click Here

Calendar of Upcoming Events

looking for a live SVA event in your area or online?

Check out our Calendar page for upcoming courses and community events & for full contact and registration details:

https://www.svayurveda.com/upcoming-events/

Upcoming new SVA events across the US & Canada coming soooooon

stay connected….

a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips – thousands of articles and questions answered by Vaidya Mishra and his team of experts; and so much more…

home to Vaidya Mishra's unique pranic exquisite formulations – with weekly specials and give-aways. Learn Ayurveda as you shop!

Filed Under: Newsletters

GUILT-FREE Summer Treat; Plus SVA Community News – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter Sept 15, 2022 – #34, Vol 11

SIBO – with Dr T; Plus SVA Community News – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter Sept 8, 2022 – #33, Vol 11

End Summer on a COOL NOTE! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter Sept 1, 2022 – #32, Vol 11

Depression… with Dr T; PLUS: Autumn Detox Anyone? And: Study Ayurveda with Rose; Also: Replay of Prana vs EMF Class! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter August 25, 2022 – #31, Vol 11

Fwd: Cool Off Your Eyes; PLUS: Autumn Detox Anyone? And: Study Ayurveda with Rose; Also: Replay of Prana vs EMF Class! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter August 18, 2022 – #30, Vol 11

Fwd: Uterine Fibroids with Dr Teitelbaum – PLUS: Autumn Detox Anyone? Also: Replay of Prana vs EMF Class! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter August 11, 2022 – #29, Vol 11

Fwd: REPLAY of PRANA VS EMF in case you missed it! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter August 4, 2022 – #28, Vol 11

Fwd: GARDENS OF SOMA! Plus: PRANA VS EMF: WATCH THE TRAILER! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter July 28, 2022 – #27, Vol 11

Garden of Soma cooling Massage oil contains: "Garden of Soma Herbal Synergy" (proprietary blend) with lavender, lime, sweet orange, himalayan cedar wood in a base of organic coconut oil.

Fwd: Here Comes the Sun! With Dr Teitelbaum; Plus: PRANA VS EMF: What You Can and Should Do! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter July 21, 2022 – #26, Vol 11

Fwd: Is EMF Toxicity Real? Plus: Upcoming Course: PRANA VS EMF in Ayurveda: – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter July 14, 2022 – #25, Vol 11

About SVA

latest blog posts