High Blood Pressure: An Ayurvedic Look with Dr Teitelbaum; Plus: Navaratri is HERE – Join Us; And more! – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter Sept 22, 2022 – #35, Vol 11

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE 

 ~ a SV ayurvedic perspective ~

If you doctor finds you have high blood pressure, you will probably be put on blood pressure medicine and/or diuretics to bring the blood pressure down. These are important life-saving medications for sure, but we always want to make sure to treat the root cause(s) of the high blood pressure so that maybe we won’t need to resort to the use of these medications.

There are several reasons for high blood pressure, so once you know the causative factors, try to avoid these pitfalls and then we do have numerous remedies to help bring the blood pressure down. Let’s look at this problem from a deeper perspective:

The Physical Channels 

First, it is important to understand the idea of the physical channels. The arteries are considered one type of channel, the various vessels that the blood flows through. If these channels shrink down, get clogged or inflamed then the blood pressure will go up, much like a garden hose if you step on it, the pressure will go up inside the hose.

Therefore, avoid the foods that shrink the channels: the nightshade vegetables, such as eggplant, bell peppers, tomatoes and white potatoes. They contain nicotine which shrinks all the body’s physical channels including these delicate blood vessels, causing the pressure to go up.

Avoid the channel-clogging foods for the same reason: chocolate, cacao, unfermented soy (tofu, soy milk, edamame), hard aged cheeses, nut butters (peanut butter, sunflower seed butter, almond butter, etc.), winter squashes, bananas, mushrooms and the heavy meats (red meat, pork, sausage, bacon, pepperoni, bacon, for example).

And finally avoid the foods which burn the channels, such as onions, garlic and vinegar. If you desire a sour taste put fresh squeezed lime on the food as it turns alkaline quickly once ingested.

Magnesium

I have a one-hour free class on my website (under the subheading “Online Classes.” )  If you listen to this in-depth explanation of magnesium, you will quickly see why even mainstream medicine uses magnesium in the hospitals and emergency rooms to lower blood pressure.

Basically, the arteries have muscles in one of their three layers to pump the blood through, and there is another layer containing elastin. This elastic layer is like a rubber band, which allows the artery to expand and contract as the blood is pumped through.

Magnesium resides in both layers, allowing the arterial muscles to both relax and then to expand as the heart beats. So we always want to keep our magnesium levels up. Stress, pharmaceuticals and other negative influences can deplete our bodies of magnesium, then the arteries lose their elasticity allowing the blood pressure to go up.

Magnesium sits on the outside of every cell, preventing calcium from entering. Calcium belongs in our teeth and bones, but not on the insides of our arteries. Once the magnesium goes low, calcium takes advantage and begins to accumulate on the inside of the arteries, creating hardening of the arteries, which is very easy to feel in one’s pulse. As one uses magnesium, the arteries soften up, causing more elasticity — this is very easy to feel in the pulse and very rewarding as you see your older patients develop the very soft arteries commonly seen in the younger patients.

Of course, we recommend the use of transdermal magnesium, either through creams, rolls-ons or oil massages since the skin will absorb what it needs. When taken orally it can sometimes go through the digestive tract too quickly preventing its absorption.

Bad Oil Clogs the Arteries… 

Most of us grew up on vegetable and other poor quality processed cooking oils: sunflower, safflower, canola, peanut oil, corn oil, margarine, and other processed fats. When you heat these oils they form a plastic molecule which clogs the arteries. Then calcium deposits on top of the plastic, forming plaque, which also raises the blood pressure as the arteries get hardened.  

We have several remedies which can scrape this plaque out of the walls of the arteries but you should be under the care of one of Vaidya Mishra’s trained SVA doctors as you clean it out. We have had several patients reverse their clogged arteries (as seen on a CT scan of the arteries called a “calcium score” using these tremendously effective therapies.

Stress….

We all know how stress can elevate the blood pressure: when we’re stressed our adrenal glands secrete cortisol which shrinks down the channels, allowing the blood pressure to go up. This is why we use Ashwagandha, which prevents the release of too much cortisol when we’re under stress. 

Cortisol also dumps magnesium out of the body, causing the blood pressure to go up as the arteries lose their elasticity and harden.

Salt…

The highly processed salts we use are mainly composed of sodium and chloride, which increases the blood pressure over a lifetime. 

Our Soma Salt contains many other minerals, besides sodium and chloride, which also aid in keeping your blood pressure low throughout your life.

Vata-Pitta-Kapha’s Impact on the Arteries

Learn about vata, pitta and kapha as these three doshas also play a role in keeping our blood pressure down. High vata shrinks the channels, high pitta allows the blood to pound against the walls of the arteries as the blood gets hotter and hotter, and high kappa, if left unchecked can clog the arteries also causing high blood pressure. 

There are numerous ways to treat these doshas, including herbs, diet, daily routine and cleansing — listen to my one-hour lecture on my website which gives a thorough explanation on what these terms mean and how to keep them balanced.

Obesity

Learn good eating habits to keep your weight down as high body weight can cause high blood pressure. Many of my patients’ blood pressure came down just by losing weight, without having to use even herbs.

By following these guidelines you should be able to keep your blood pressure down your entire life, without the use of blood pressure medicines.

Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum

Cinnaminson, NJ

856-786-3330

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 

celebrate Navaratri by playing divine chants to Mother Divine at home

Daivi Shakti Chants

Vedic Devata Productions presents the first of its Vedic Mantra Therapy CDs performed by Westerners, featuring the ancient science and art of Vedic Classical Devotional Song. This CD is beyond entertainment as it has been found by listeners to be therapeutic and healing. It features the Ancient Vedic Sanskrit language that is the mother of all languages, and vibrates at a primordial level of life close to what Modern Quantum Physics has identified as the Unified Field of all the Laws of Nature, and what ancient Vedic Science identifies as the Veda, a field of Pure Self-interacting Consciousness. 

Consciousness is all that there is, and sits at the basis of every grain of manifest creation. All matter and energy emerge from this field that is

silently present fundamentally in all forms of manifest creation. Therefore, many listeners find their awareness enters a deep meditative experience while listening, that promotes inner harmony, nourishment, and peace. These

specific traditional ancient texts enliven attunement to the universal power of that Cosmic Administrator known as Mother Divine, the Divine Feminine that is naturally nourishing to life. In addition to its spiritually uplifting and therapeutic values, this Daivi Shakti CD also provides an excellent teaching supplemental tool with the PDF file of the Sanskrit texts and transliterations, allowing listeners to sing along and enjoy the enhanced bliss of Vedic

Devotional Songs. These delightful and divine melodies and texts

are derived from Vedic pujas and yagyas; they are chanted and sung in Sanskrit with English transliterations, so that you as a listener may sing along and learn them yourself with the lead singer/teacher. The songs are sung in the oral tradition known as guru-shishya- parampara, with teacher and student chorus alternating, so that listeners may easily learn and sing along. There is no substitute for a good teacher; however, this CD provides an excellent teaching supplemental tool to learning to pronounce, sing and enjoy the bliss of Vedic Devotional Songs. These divine songs have a remarkable power and ability to nourish and uplift the heart and consciousness toward a state of complete unity.They are always nourishing, but especially

fulfilling when sung during the Nine Days of Mother Divine according to the Vedic Calendar, which occur in the spring and fall of every year. Instrumentation has been limited to the customary use of drone and minimal percussion; using traditional acoustic instruments to encourage maximum purity of intonation along with perfection in pronunciation.

Testimonials 

“I have listened to the beautiful recording of the teacher and girls singing Sanskrit songs, and I found it enjoyable and very settling to listen to.

From the viewpoint of Sanskrit, it’s technically accurate, much like a recording that would emerge from some ashram high in the Himalayas. I recommend it, and I personally plan to listen to it again and again.”

—Tom Egenes, Ph.D, Professer of Sanskrit

“ There was a time when I lost both my mother and my fiancé to cancer and a car accident within a two week period. I sank into a deep depression. I listened to the Daivi Shakti Cd daily in my car while driving to work. It effectively uplifted me and nourished my mind- body-spirit. With its feminine nourishing power it healed my emotional heart, while helping to

neutralize the grief from the loss of the two important women in my life. I highly recommend it.”

— Robert Chalmers, DDS

About the artist

The songs are artistically and skillfully led and executed by award-winning vocalist and teacher, Graciella Zogbi, former professionally trained opera singer at the world-renowned Cleveland institute of Music, with over ten years additional training of her four octave voice in Vedic voice culture and the Classical Music of Northern Vedic India. She has studied and trained with numerous top musical artists of India including padma bushan sitarist, Debu

Chaudhuri, and vocalists, Pandit Mani Prasad, Anita Roy, and former president of the Lucknow School of Music, Dr. Awasthi. She has also integrated with her musical studies, training, and study of Sanskrit and Vedic recitation with numerous Sanskrit scholars. She has taught classes in Vedic Devotional Song at both the elementary and university levels. Tabla artist, Sankari Menon Wegman has a Ph.D. in Vedic Physiology and Ayurveda and enjoys

listening and playing Vedic music.

We had our third Home Detox online session yesterday – we practiced Samadhi Marma together followed by a review of the fundamentals of SVA detox during Spring and Autumn, followed by what to do when cravings hit during detox! With lots of delicious recipes!!! We also had a lovely sharing session exchanging a lot of knowledge and insights and most of all companionship during detox. We look forward to our upcoming sessions and to the experience of going through detox in a community from across the country and Canada.

Questions? 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: 

1. Website: https://www.HealthyIndoorConsultants.com
2. His email: Henry@HealthyIndoorConsultants.com
3. 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.

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