“Namaste Mishra ji,
I am a 36 year old woman and have two kids. My mom from India told me to give kids sulfur chloride (chuna). She said it’s good for me too. That it helps for bones and calcium. Please let me know the right way to use this or if not than reason behind it. Thank you very much. Om shanty, Ripal D.”
Dear Ripal: this is a popular but crude way of supporting the body’s
calcium. I do not recommend it, because it can be heating. Heating for the circulatory micro and macro channels. With long term use, it can also be irritating for the liver. For calcium support, I rather recommend good quality coral calcium in addition to dietary intake of calcium. You may want to use my SVA Soma Cal Herbal-Memory Nectar drops; or the SVA Soma Cal capsules. You can add ¼ capsule of Soma Cal to a glass of milk or a meal. Or add 3 drops of Soma Cal to 16 oz of water and calcium rich food such as: cooked baby spinach, toasted and ground sesame seeds, good (organic non-homogenized) milk, home-made yogurt, etc.
Hi,
I am listening Rajiv Dixit, and he is suggesting Chuna – saying its excellent for health.
Sir, this is confusing as two respected leader having difference in opinion.
Please advice,
Miral Patel
In rural areas of India, where there is no way to get good safe calcium, Chuna is used. In my personal opinion, and based on my practical experience, there are better and safer ways of taking calcium. I grew up in rural India as well and in my experience there I have found that Chuna is very heating to our micro and macro channels of the body, specifically the liver. I do not want to contradict anybody, but what I know and suggest is based on my practical experience. Hope this helps.
Sir,
I have too much hair fall and an unhealthy scalp ever since I shifted to dubai after marriage. White deposits on my scalp don’t go with any dandruff shampoo and hair fall out in bunches now whenever I do head wash. Please suggest some remedy.
Thanks
Vaidya Replies:
Dear Neha: your condition may depend on many different factors, and in Ayurveda, once you identify the root cause, then you can correct things fully. Having a an ayurvedic assessment is usually the first step towards identifying the root cause of any imbalance. You can have an ayurvedic assessment over the phone with SVA expert Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum in New Jersey: 1.856.786.3300). However, here are also some suggestions that may help improves things.
First thing: try to follow the SVA diet. If you are not familiar with this, you can email us and we will give you more details, but here are the basic guidelines:
avoid nightshade vegetables (tomato, potato, eggplant, bell pepper) – these increase inflammation and clog the channels. It is ok to have them once in a blue moon, but not on a daily regular basis. Replace tomato as a base sauce for your cooking with fresh thai tamarind.
Avoid left-overs: try not to consume anything after 4 hours of its being cooked. Do not eat leftovers from the previous day by reheating etc. Left-over food is inflammatory and generates free radicals.
Try to reduce/eliminate: coffee, vinegar, or other acidic ingredients. Favor lime over lemon.
Reduce/eliminate: onion/garlic – these contain a lot of sulfur and will not help in pitta imbalanced conditions such as hair-loss.
reduce eliminate soy and soy bi-products – tofu, soy sauce, etc
Hair fall is connected to stress. If you have a stressful daily life, try to correct things by incorporating some gentle breathing yogic techniques, or meditation. Yoga always helps.
Try to get at least 7 1/2 to 8 hours of sleep at night, ideally from 9:45pm to 5:45am.
Topically, there are a few things you can do to help support the skin on the scalp, balance it, so it nourishes the hair follicles and shafts. Every other day: apply the SVA HerbRich Hair oil. Warm the bottle in your sink, apply a few drops on the scalp, gently massage in with the tips of your fingers. Make sure you cover the entire scalp. Cover your head and rest for 20 minutes. Then wash off with SVA HerbRich Shampoo. Dry and style your hair then finish off with the Actifoll Plus scalp spray. After applying the Actifoll spray, expose your scalp to 10 minutes of sunlight to help support the regrowth of new hair and keep the existing hair healthy and in place.
The HerbRich Scalp oil (you can read up more on this on http://www.chandika.com) will lubricate the scalp, nourishing and nurturing it, and removing any dryness that can cause starving and flaking of the hair follicles.
The HerbRich Shampoo has so many ayurvedic herbs put together in a synergy, so they support each other’s properties and work together to nurture, nourish, and balance the scalp, as they clean it of unwanted toxic residues. It allows the healthy friendly bacteria environment of the skin on your scalp to thrive – normal shampoos just deplete it. You can read about the ingredients on http://www.chandika.com.
The Actifoll Plus formula contains an herb called Psoralea corylifolia which carries the unique property of attracting and using up UV light that the scalp and follicles are exposed to; this helps activate the hair follicles so they are not dormant and new hair sprouts. In addition, this formula contains Gymnema Sylvestra, an ayurvedic plant that is used in many ways in my SVA lineage with great results. It will help with the flake residues of your scalp.
Use the Actifoll Plus every other day for a month. Let us know your results.
In general, please note that hair loss can be caused due to external and/or internal factors. Externally, you can make sure the water you are washing your hair in is of good quality, with a balanced pH. Otherwise, since you indicate that you moved to Dubai after marriage, you may want to minimize changes in your diet and lifestyle that you have recently adopted that may be causing imbalances in your physiology. Internally, hair loss is connected to toxins that get evacuated through the scalp and carry hair follicles with them as they exit through the skin of the scalp, so you want to make sure you minimize toxin intake through diet as well. Hope this helps.
Sir,
I have androgenetic alopescia ( hereditary hair loss). I got it from my mother.
I am 42 years old and had tried hundreds of things but nothing helped. Now my daughter is loosing her hairs too. Please help.
“Dear Meenakshi: as you indicate, this is a hereditary condition – in other terms, it is quasi inevitable. In ayurvedic terms, we refer to such conditions a “beej dosh” conditions.”Beej dosh” conditions are transmitted trans-generationally, but as the name indicates, they are in seed form. As you know, seeds may or may not sprout, depending on the conditions they find themselves in – if the environment they fall into supports their sprouting or not.
In practical terms, this means that one may inherit genetic traits, but one may also suppress or allow them to develop. The thing to consider is that usually in a family, we perpetuate genetic traits (good or bad) because we not only inherit genes but we also pass down dietary and behavioral patterns that create or perpetuate those genetic tendencies.
So when you look at it this way, there are many more things you can/may do in terms of diet, behavior and lifestyle, in addition to herbs and supplements, that can help slow down or reverse even a “beej dosh” condition.
So first I would suggest is to examine your daughter’s diet: is it too acidic? is it toxic in any way? Make sure she is on an alkaline diet, and that she consumes light easy to digest protein on a regular almost daily basis. Help her stay away from processed foods.
Then, does she eat and sleep on time? Usually hair loss is associated with aggravated pitta dosha, specifically bhrajak pitta that resides in the skin. Your daughter needs to make sure she keeps her pitta dosha under balance to minimize or eliminate this hair problem. She should follow pitta pacifying diet and guidelines.
Introduce her to the SVA diet and SVA protocols for hair care: SVA shampoo, Lustrous hair capsules, Herb Rich conditioner and Herb Rich Massage oil. These things may or may not help her, but in the big picture, the first objective is to give the “beej dosh” an alkaline environment in which it cannot thrive but will rather become dormant. Please note that stress is also a big factor that causes inflammatory conditions and results in excessive hair loss. Youngsters these days do carry more stress then we used to when we were their age. See if she can adopt a calming stress releasing sport, or creative activity, or do some yoga/meditation, etc.
Let us know how this helps. Thank you. “
Sir,
I am 29 and have lipoma on my hands, though not big and not harmfull at the moment, I want to get rid of it. Does ayurveda talk about Lipoma? Is kanchanar and triphala helpful
Respected Valid JI
Myself Raj Kumar residing nearby Delhi is a govt servant. Since last 2-3 months, I am having pain in my knees only while climbing stairs. Someone has suggested me to use chuna in order to find relief. I am not sure whether it should be taken or not.
Kindly suggest appropriate ways for resolving the problem.
Pranam
Sir , can u please suggest me the name and adress of genuine Vaidya in Bihar .I reside in Purnia (Bihar ). As per your website i think you live in New Jersey .If u are about to come India ,plz let me inform .it wil be a lifetome chance to visit you.
With regards
Pranam
Namaskar mishra ji
I m gurmeet 41 yrs old. I hv been diagnosed for medullary thyroid cancer and my thyroid and parathyroids along with lymph nodes of left neck side have been removed. Please suggest me what diet shud i take. Can i take home made pickles and tea or i shud stop these things
Namaskar noce again
Misra ji my husband is 41 years old and he is having lots of knee pain. Some doctors recommended him knee replacepent while few recommednded some ki.d of injections. Please suggest if through aurveda or diet changes v can heal his knees.
Gurmeet
respected vidya mishra ji,
i am 26 age guy.i am suffering from stammering . please sugggest me any ayurvedic medicine for it.
Dear Sandeep: there could be a vast array of reasons for your stammer. To find out the root cause you will need to have an ayurvedic consultation. You can do so over the phone. Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum, my student and SVA expert in New Jersey, offers over-the-phone consultations. Kindly contact her at 1.856.786.3300 to set up an appointment. Thank you.
Dear Sandeep: there could be a vast array of reasons for your stammer. To find out the root cause you will need to have an ayurvedic consultation. You can do so over the phone. Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum, my student and SVA expert in New Jersey, offers over-the-phone consultations. Kindly
contact her at 1.856.786.3300 to set up an appointment. Thank you.
After second child I hv started joint problem .knee pain .what should I take
Please provide medicine for eye floaters. I am 27 years old and I am facing this problem since last 6months. It seems that there are many transparent strings floating in both the eyes.Shape of the floaters are like dark specks, tiny spots or like snakes, which float through the field of vision, and are most easily seen when I look against a light back ground like a blue sky or a white wall, computer screen. Thank you.
Respected sir, I am 63yr with RA from last 18 yrs. I am non diabetic, non hypertensive no thyroid problem, but having vericose veins problem which are in the form of spiderweb. ALso having low backach as well as cervical problem. Doctors have advised for knee replacement 8yrs ago,but not decided yet. Needs your advise.
Dear Vaidya ji, my grandmorther is suffering from Herpes, the first attack was about 2 yrars ago which took 4 minths to heal, after homeopathic medicine. Now there are no lisions on the surface but she says it still burns inside the skin. Please suggest some ayurvedic medicines which we have acceass to in India.
My age is 24,and weight is 53 and height 6ft. I tried to gain my weight but not success whenever i eat i get a digestion problem my throat got heat and also i have a pimple acne proble more in forehead,near nose and chicks and chest.whenever i eat khajoor .peanut chawanprash and other foods supplement which has a sugar or heat tasir i got a pimlple acne .it has been a 5-6 year With this problem.please give me a solution i will be very thankfull to u pls pls
I am suffering from anklosying spondilities please tell me I can use chunna for this for reduice pain in my body if not then what is the treatment of anklosying spondilities please tell me
Please consider scheduling a consultation with Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum: http://drmteitelbaum.com – SVA Customer Service Team
Please consider scheduling a consultation with Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum: http://drmteitelbaum.com – SVA Customer Service Team
Please consider scheduling a consultation with Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum: http://drmteitelbaum.com – SVA Customer Service Team
Please consider scheduling a consultation with Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum: http://drmteitelbaum.com – SVA Customer Service Team
Please consider scheduling a consultation with Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum: http://drmteitelbaum.com – SVA Customer Service Team
Please consider scheduling a phone consultation with Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum: http://drmteitelbaum.com – SVA Customer Service Team
Please consider scheduling a phone consultation with Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum: http://drmteitelbaum.com – SVA Customer Service Team
Please consider scheduling a consultation with Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum: http://drmteitelbaum.com – SVA Customer Service Team
Please consider scheduling a consultation with Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum: http://drmteitelbaum.com – SVA Customer Service Team
Please consider scheduling a consultation with Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum: http://drmteitelbaum.com – SVA Customer Service Team
You may find this article and video helpful: https://www.svayurveda.com/sva-remedy-eye-floaters/ … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fviMomJ4PE&t=82s