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The eyes are an agneya organ… What does that mean?

Our bodies are made of Soma, Agni, Marut – nurturing building energy; transformative fiery energy; and space and air energy. These are the cosmic building blocks of the world as we know it. As the earth moves in relation to the sun, the seasons shift making more or less soma or agni available. As agni increases in the environment in the summertime, all agneya organs in our bodies can go out of balance, making us feel physically overheated but also mentally and emotionally irritable, and uncomfortable – no matter how much cold drinks or ice-cream we may consume! 

Here is how you can keep your body and mind cool and composed by following these quick and easy SVA Summer steps:

<![if !supportLists]>·     <![endif]>Snack on plenty of seasonal juicy fruits

<![if !supportLists]>·     <![endif]>Have fresh easy-to-digest protein for lunch

<![if !supportLists]>·     <![endif]>Don’t work too hard! Make time for down fun time

<![if !supportLists]>·     <![endif]>Make sure to get a daily dose of laughter

<![if !supportLists]>·     <![endif]>Avoid/minimize pungent, salty, sour food

<![if !supportLists]>·     <![endif]>Try to go to bed no later than 10 pm

Ayurvedically speaking, you can also keep things in check by adding: 

1 drop of DGL Herbal-Memory Nectar drop to your water

along with

1 drop Organic Rose Herbal-Memory Nectar drop

DGL is great for keeping the liver cool. Rose is great for soothing sadhak pitta, and keeping rakta cool as well. 

DGL Transdermal cream on the liver at night before bed will cool things off and make sure our greatest agneya organ, the liver, gets support to shield itself from the summer heat. 

Don’t forget, the Amla berry is your best friend – it pacifies and balances ALL 5 PITTA SUBDOSHAS! Vaidya’s signature Wild Amla or Maha Wild Amla comes in tablet or drops format. Add these to your daily regimen. Make sure not to take them after 4pm as they are known to increase energy and they make keep you up later than you want at night! 

As a woman, make the right choice NOT to use eyeliners and eye make-up that contains chemicals. You can still outline and highlight the beautify of your eyes by using Vaidya’s 100% natural ayurvedic plant based eyeliner.

Last but not least, remember that rose is your best in the hot long summer days. Add more roses to your life any way you can, you will only be happier for it! 

Vaidya Mishra was personally extremely pleased with his eyedrops! As almost every product he formulated has a story behind it, these drops were made for a dear friend who was having constant dry eyes and sties. Nothing he had tried was helping or giving him relief. He was desperate. He came to see Vaidya Mishra, and Vaidya formulated these drops for him and gave him a bottle. He had immediate relief! The drops were then sent out to other friends and colleagues and received hands-down positive feedback. Upon that, Vaidya decided to make these drops available to all his SVA followers. The drops help cool off and pacify alochaka pitta and instantly restore freshness to tired eyes. So what’s in these drops?

The main ingredient is a seed called “Chakchusya.”  Chakchu in Sanskrit means ‘eye’.  Ayusha means ‘healthy life span’. Thus, chakchusya (chakchu + ayusha) means ‘which enhances the health and longevity of the eyes.’ 

In addition, Vaidya’s drops contain distilled organic rose petals to support chakchusya. This synergy makes for an even more effective formula, because rose is the best ingredient to simultaneously pacify alochak pitta, vyana vata, sadhak pitta, and prana vata (read more about  Rose – The Queen of Flowers).

•       Cooling, nurturing, and lubricating for the eyes – immediate and long-term use

•       Delivers soma (lunar vibrations) to the eyes to counterbalance EMF and EMR

•       Immediately soothes and calms the eyes

•       Helps the eyes flush out accumulated environmental physical and vibrational toxins

•       Provides mental relaxation and inner bliss

Let us see what two lines from the Dhanvantari Nighanthu says about Chakchusya:

चाकसू

cākasū

चक्षुष्यादृक्प्रसादाचसैवप्रोक्ताकुलत्थिका।

हिमाप्रोक्ताकषायाचविषंस्थावरजंगमम्।

ध. नि.

cakṣuṣyā dṛkprasādā ca saiva proktā kulatthikā|

himā proktā kaṣāyā ca viṣaṁ sthāvarajaṁgamam|

dha. Ni

Cakṣuṣyā – ‘the seed’.  Drk- ‘vision or sight’. Prasādā – ‘gives clarity to the vision or sight’.

Himā – ‘cooling’. Kaṣāyā – ‘astringent’. Viṣaṁ – ‘toxins.’ Sthāvarajaṁgamam – ‘environmental toxins’.

To summarize the verse, it says that: this seed (cakṣuṣyā) cools the eyes, helps remove inner and outer toxins, and gives clarity to the vision.

Ingredients

Total Soma Netra Eye-Drops (Vaidya Mishra’s proprietary blend) with Chakchusya and Organic Rose – organically and pranically.

Caution: Do not use if you have an active infection in the eye, or any known medical condition. Check with your medical provider first. Do not use if/when wearing contact lenses. May use after removing lenses.

Children: do not use on children ages 11 and below.

Size

0.5 fl. oz.

How to use the Eyedrops – Directions

Place 1-2 drops of the liquid in each eye with the dropper. Keep the dropper away from the eyes. Keep it clean and sterile by avoiding contact with any surface. Repeat as needed one or more time during the day and once before going to sleep at night. (Do not use more than four times per day.) Keep in a cool dry place and avoid exposure to sunlight and extreme temperatures. You may refrigerate after opening, as we do not using any synthetic preservative which would destroy the pranic energy of the formula. Always store the bottle in a cool, dark place. 

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Are you poisoning yourself – daily transdermally – through the soap, shampoo, and body wash you use? Commercial soaps and cleaning products use chemical ingredients such as: synthetic scents and c0lors, additives, preservatives – that are extremely toxic, and even more so because we use them daily.

Our skin is the largest ORGAN of our body. It is a living, “breathing,” organic complex structure made up of different tissues that work together to perform specific functions. It not only covers the entire surface of the body, it also protects the body from external harm such as: UV and other radiation; injury; and infections. The skin regulates our body temperature and adapts it to the environment. It also enables the senses of touch and the experience of pleasure or pain, and pressure. We receive more environmental information through our skin than any other sense organ! But the reverse is also true! Did you know that a true and skilled vaidya – one who knows how to harness the laws of nature – can also tell A LOT about your overall health just by looking at your skin? Perhaps that is why Vaidya’s ancestors were renowned skin experts. They were experts in healing ALL conditions plus ALL skin conditions. That is why Lord Krishna invited their family over to India to cure his son Shambh’s leprosy. When they succeeded he asked them to stay.

What’s the most immediate thing that happens when you use chemical synthetic cleansers? You deplete the friendly bacteria of your skin. The first thing you may experience is dryness: toxic chemical products strip your skin of its natural oil balance, dry it out, depopulating the colonies of friendly bacteria. The product may contain synthetic oils and chemical elements to compensate for this but the bacteria still die off. After this initial damage, things go deeper. Chemical synthetic products loaded with colors, preservatives, and fragrances – are transdermally instantly absorbed into your blood stream and delivered and circulated to your entire physiology within seconds!

The majority of soaps on the market carry toxic foaming agents (SLS), or preservatives (Parabens), or many more coloring and aromatizing synthetic chemicals that deplete the natural layers of the skin with regular use.

Vaidya’s unique soaps are not only made with the best organic Shea Butter, packed with the goodness of flower and plant essences, to achieve optimal therapeutic benefits, but they are also aroma therapeutic! If you need to help slow down your physiology at night before bed, use the Soma Nidra Soap bar; if you are feeling sad and out of joints, use the Ashoka or Rose soap; if you need to detox, then use the Turmeric or Detox soap… There are so many wonderful soaps to discover here AND bath pouches that will cool you off inside-out and restore you to your calm and composed self despite the Summer heat!

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We are living in inordinately stressful times! Even when we have a good daily routine and diet, the environment around us is full of stress and impacts our bodies, hearts, and minds! Ayurveda offers us so many potent herbs and remedies to help remedy the deleterious effects of stress. Ashwagandha is one of such potent herbs, and very popular nowadays; however, there is a big problem: because many who take it orally come to experience an increase in their stress levels! How can that be? Here is the SVA understanding and explanation, and how Vaidya Mishra addressed the “side-effects” – namaste!

ASHWAGANDHA:

How

NOT

to Use It – & Why!

Let me first explain some facts about Ashwagandha and then I’ll show you some changes which need to be made regarding its use in this modern era.

Ashwagandha (Withania Somnifera) is considered an adaptogenic herb because it helps you to adapt to stress. One way of saying this is that when we’re under stress our adrenal glands dump a lot of cortisol into our bloodstream. Cortisol has so many side effects: it can decrease the thyroid gland function, it can flush magnesium out of your body increasing the risk of panic attacks and irregular heartbeats, it can make you gain weight in the face and abdomen, can cause high blood pressure, and can pretty much wreak havoc all around the body.

The good news is that Ashwagandha prevents the release of too much cortisol when we’re stressed, preventing all these side effects and helping us to remain balanced as we go through the stressful situations.

The word “Ashwagandha” means “which smells like a horse.” It is felt that the ancient doctors were implying here that Ashwagandha gives you some of the characteristic strength of the horse, and did not mean that you would walk around smelling like a horse. Horses are known to run in races, running faster and faster to win the race. Thus it makes you like a horse in terms of giving you more physical and mental stamina to perform your best in life. When you have this kind of strength and stability you will be more successful in winning your races throughout your life.

Many people might not know this but whenever we see patients with Vitiligo we usually see weakness of the thyroid gland at the same time. And Ashwagandha has a secondary use to treat vitiligo as well. Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease where the body’s immune system attacks the melanin or the pigment cells of the skin, leaving white patches around the body. Stress creates these autoimmune toxins and again Ashwagandha is the best herb for dealing with stress. As a sidetone here we of course use the primary herbs used to treat Vitiligo in my practice, but Ashwagandha is recommended as an adjunct herb as well.

But here’s the caveat: In Ayurveda we look at what happens after the herb comes into the body, which is different from here in the West where we just look at the action of the herb. It turns out that Ashwagandha pacifies Vata and Kapha, both of which create coldness in the body. Ashwagandha’s effects on the body are that it is ushna or hot. If you have more pitta in the body then this herb will aggravate the inherent heat that is already built up in your body. 

In addition, its virya or overall property is hot and acidic and its vipak or post digestive effect is pungent. So this herb then can generate significant amounts of heat in the body.

Now in this day and age, what the ancient doctors couldn’t have foreseen is that our liver and blood are holding on to many environmental toxins, pharmaceuticals, and toxins from processed foods, all of which create heat in the body. So nowadays we have to be very careful with herbs used in Ayurveda such as Ashwagandha which are very hot in nature and can heat up the stomach, the liver, the skin, all of which are areas governed by Pitta dosha.

But my teacher and mentor Vaidya Rama Kant Mishra figured out a way to get herbs like Ashwagandha into people who already have a lot of heat or Pitta aggravation in their bodies. He developed two methods of taking the herbs using just the intelligence of what the herb does leaving behind the physical crude herb. He made herbal memory nectar drops and transdermal creams, neither of which will heat up the body since the side effects of the hot herb will not be there — only what is known as the prabhava, or the effect of what that herb does remains and goes immediately into all the gaps and cellular system of the body without going through the digestive tract, heating up the liver and stomach along the way.

I mention this here as a cautionary note. Everything we swallow has to be processed by the liver and again, in modern times just about every patient I see has too much heat circulating in the liver due to all the hot toxins being filtered by the liver everyday. 

This means that in about 90% of the patients that I see who are taking the crude herb, which means the tablet or powder or tea of Ashwagandha, I usually take them off that and use our vibrational versions.

This is especially the case when treating autoimmune diseases since one of the many contributing factors we see with autoimmune diseases is overheating of the liver. 

So whenever I have a patient who has Hashimoto’s, an autoimmune disease of the thyroid gland, I immediately take them off the crude herb of Ashwagandha onto our transdermal creams or herbal memory nectar drops. Otherwise the crude herb will flare up the heat in their liver and actually work against their attempts to heal the autoimmune disease.

So please keep this in mind about Ashwagandha. Yes, sooner or later most of us will need it to help us run all the races we encounter in this modern life, but most of us will not be candidates for the tablets and teas of Ashwagandha which will definitely heat up the liver, stomach, blood and the other areas commonly affected by heat.

Thank you,

Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum

85-786-3330

drmteitelbaum.com

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