Antiinflammatory Ayurvedic Nutrition Reduces Risk of Chronic Dis-ease
Chronic disease is related to inflammation
So it stands to reason that the treatment for such a chronic disease would be antiinflammatory There are a wide host of natural occurring antiinflammatories For example, tumeric is a commonly used antiinflammatory which when used with black pepper is potentiated even further
Now the well respected National Institutes of Health(NIH) published a year ago(October of 2011) a review article on antiinflammatory therapies using the energy science Ayurvedic formulary This article essentially says what I have been advocating for the last 5 years: that we need to marry the matter science discipline of the West(so called matter science healing) with the energy sciences such as Ayurveda and the traditional Oriental Medicine(TOM) An East meets West in healing traditions
Importance of the Study
This may not seem like a big deal to a casual observer but as an interested clinician involved in the treatment of such chronic diseases as IC this type of article is landmark The event metaphorically states that even a conservative government agency such as the NIH is willing to review, endorse, and support the use of natural therapies of the energy science of Ayurveda, recognizing them as not only safe but efficacious
In the health arena it is very normal and expected that the consumer with a painful bladder is timid about trying "new therapies" that can potentially help them because nobody in the medical establishment has condoned their value Further the allopathic(matter science clinicians) tradition are reticent to support the use of such therapies since they are not "tried and true" and supported by evidence based medical(EBM)review
Because of this there is a tendency in the current matter science medical profession to stonewall articles that speak to the use of natural remedies to help with medical conditions because they are not consistent with the status quo and EBM
The AIF Nutritional Format
But what about just regular food? Hippocrates, said to be the father of Western medicine, wrote that "Food is medicine and medicine is food" We have been so ingrained traditionally to believe that food is just something we put in our mouths and it takes care of our appetites that it doesn't really have a medicinal effect to help a painful bladder
But let's rethink this If you take in 3T of salt you know that there will direct and distinct physiologic consequences You'll pee more, require lots of water, maybe get acid indigestion, have tight feeling skin, have excess hot sensation in the body All because you took in some food in this case salt
The energy science perspective is that foods can be inflammatory and that's why they lead to symptoms of pain So a well delineated energy science nutritional format can be AIF with no grey areas It won't lead you astray Coupled with the incompatible food combination list which is basically a group of foods that when joined together produce inflammation you have a way of using nutrition in a AIF way
If you go to foodsheal.com you'll find nutritional formats that you can use based on your energetic makeup Find this out by taking the questionnaire at the same site
There are 3 things you can do to reduce nutritional inflammation right now:
1 Eat according to your mindbody energy makeup
2 Avoid incompatable food combinations(this is at the website above)
3 Liberal use of AIF herbs: cumin, coriander, fennel seeds, mint, cardamom, neem leaves, and rosewater
Until next week To Health as a Skill Love DrBill
