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The Best Way to Eat Brewer's Yeast

2 quarts milk

6 ounces brewer's yeast

2 ounces dried mint leaves '

2 ounces cinnamon

Bring all ingredients to a boil; cool; make a homemade yogurt from the mixture. Serve it for breakfast, with honey to taste.

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This recipe applies to men and women alike.

Make a pakora of the the eggplant: Slice an eggplant into thick slices, and dredge it in garbanzo flour. Then deep fry them for about two or three minutes.

Then take 40 pistachio nuts, 40 peeled almonds and 20 figs and blend them together until it becomes like a jam. This jam is put on the pakoras. Eat this dish with one perfectly ripe banana. The banana is essential for potassium.

Potent Potatoes

This recipe has its roots in the tradition of yogic cooking. The spices help to purify the blood, stimulate digestion, and increase energy. You may decrease the amounts of pepper and cayenne to suit your taste.

Nut Paste

Steam onions, ginger and garlic in the ratio of 3:1:2 and saffron, in a ratio to the ginger of 1:8 but no more than 15 grains. Blend this with a maximum of 50 pistachios and 40 almonds and a little honey. Eat this mixture on toast. The saffron and the nuts are soaked overnight in a little milk.

Q: Do you blend the milk with it also?

Yogi Bhajan: Instead of water Use a little bit of the milk.

Q: Sir, what do you mean, it's a sex food?

Yogi Bhajan: It will keep you going. It will give you substance and endurance. It gives you good nerves, good semen.

Q: How often should this food be eaten?

Yogi Bhajan: I recommend eating it no'more than once a week. It's quite hot stuff. I recommend that you eat it on Sundays, or a day that you can play, run around, or go to the beach. Exercise so that this food is digested and is excreted in your sweat. You should have milk with this meal.

Q: It is made with three onions?

Yogi Bhajan: No, that is the ratio of the ingredients by weight.

Khoa

On low heat, bring milk to a boil, until it reduces and becomes thick, which is called khoa, saturated milk. Add 10-15 grains of saffron to that milk, just enough to give it a golden color. Then add crushed pistachio nuts, VA the weight of the milk and continue cooking. As the mixture cools, add honey, 1/8 the weight of the mixture. Spread it in a pan. It makes a kind of milk candy. It's very heavy, you can't eat it all at once. At this point you may add gold leaf or silver leaf to it. When you eat this, you need to exercise a lot.

Dried Honey Carrot

A poor man's diet is made from carrots. You'll need one or more carrots (or apples), honey, glass jar, and cheesecloth. Steam a carrot ,(or an apple), peel the skin off and soak it in a glass jar filledwith honey. Cover it with cheesecloth and leave it in the sun for 40 days to dry out. Serve it with gold or silver leaf. It is good for the heart.

Potato Peel and Pistachio Nuts

Here is another pure and simple poor man's food. The potato peels are steamed. Put the pistachio nuts with it. Blend the steamed skins with pistachio nuts and as little honey as you need.

Wheat Berry Day

Wheat berries prevent stomach cancer, intestinal tract cancer, or colorectal cancer. With them you will avoid pancreatic or kidney problems. Wheat berries are wonderful. You should eat wheat berries one day each week. Wheat berries are man's food and you guys make jokes about it because it is cheap, takes a long time to cook and doesn't taste good.

Q: Do you eat it plain?

Yogi Bhajan: You may add a little bit of honey. I don't take it with anything else, it is better that way. Train your children so that if there is any kind of difficulty in the world, your system has already adapted to eating wheat berries.

Q: We've been putting a little milk and honey on them, is that OK?

Yogi Bhajan: That is desirable. I don't want you to live poor and miserable lives. I cannot tolerate you doing things which in the long run make you old, senile and neurotic.

Q: Do you get the same effect by eating wheat berries with your other food every day?

Yogi Bhajan: No. No. No. Wheat Berry Day is wheat berry day. Your system has to be made accustomed to it.

Wheat Milk Powder Prasad Balls

Make wheat milk powder by boiling wheat berries until soft, grinding them and put it through a sieve. The liquid is wheat milk. Then evaporate the water and what is left is the wheat milk powder. Fry this in ghee. If you wish you may add pistachio nuts and raisins. Make it into a prasad ball and when it dries add raw brown sugar to your taste. Eat one prasad ball early in the morning with hot milk. It is very good for backache and for sexual stimulation. It is very good for feeling sexy, especially if you are feeling older and colder.

Or How often should we eat it?

Yogi Bhajan: Once a day. It's very hot. If you have too much, ft can bring blood out of your kidneys. You can have it every day, but just one ball, a muffin-sized ball.

Q: You let the milk evaporate?

Yogi Bhajan: No, you take the milk out, let it settle. The water evaporates; it dries up and becomes like a powder. It is called nakasta. Nakasta is a very old word. It is very good for you when you are over 54. It keeps you going. The best way to eat it is to soak it in milk at night, and early in the morning, eat it and go for a long walk, play football or hockey, or whatever physical exercise you want—very good. It keeps you going. It's the best use of wheat.

Q: How long do you boil the wheat?

Yogi Bhajan: Just boil it long enough that the skin becomes soft and the milk may be taken out. The best way is to just soak it for a few days, don't boil it at all. Just put it in water for four or five days, and then wash it out, grind the softened berries, etc.

Hypoglycemic Diet

People with hypoglycemia can take four spoons of mung beans and rice with yogurt every two hours.

Two Great Ways to Use Sesame Seeds

1.Use one or two pounds sesame butter (homemade preferred). Mix with a very sour sourdough bread. Make your bread adding apples or whatever appeals to you and bake. One toasted piece per serving.

2.Make a chapati dough using one-fourth whole sesame seeds and three-fourths dough. Use the dough to make stuffed chapatis.

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ingredients, and blend them together in a food processor until you have a fine mixture.

The pistachio nuts are the main ingredient in this stuffing mixture; use a smaller amount of cauliflower than you do pistachio nuts. All of the other ingredients can be used in any amount you wish as seasonings.

To prepare the parantha: Once you have the dough made and you have kneaded it for a while, place about a golf-ball sized ball in your hand. On a floured surface, roll the dough out with a rolling pin until you have it flattened to about 6 inches in diameter. Next take about 14 of the stuffing mixture, place it in the middle of the flattened dough. Next bring the sides of the dough up, and pinch them together at the top, completely sealing the stuffing mixture inside. Now roll it out again into a flattened 6" diameter. Inachapati pan orafrying pan, over a lowmedium flame, place your stuffed parantha. Cook it on one side for about 10 to 15 minutes on this dry pan. After 10-15 minutes, turn it over and then take a lot of ghee, and pour it on top of the parantha. It will go through the bread to the other side. Cookthis side for about 5 minutes on the same low-medium flame. Take a spoon and keep pressing down on it, until it is done. It is very delicious. It can be eaten with yogurt. It is avery pure food.

Pistachio Paranthas

This food can help take care of arthritis as well as help a man with building his potency. One day a week eat two paranthas; live on those two paranthas that day. In this way

soak it over night in milk. In the morning take all the above

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This is a very expensive diet because pistachio nuts and saffron are so costly. You don't need to eat any other food with it, since it is such a delicious and precious food.

This food was given to one person who had a very bad case of arthritis and was in a lot of pain. This person lived solely on it for about one month and was healed of this condition within this time period.

Theseparanthashelptoremedyaparticularsituationwhichoccurs in men. Most men, due to masturbation and overindulgence in sex, havebentorgans. Andabout 50% ofthe men getacondition where their organs will not catch up from the base and then do not shrink back properly. The moment intercourse is finished, it just slumps down like a broken tree branch. This causes a very great irritation to the system. Its reaction comes back to you in 72 hours, at which time you will wake up feeling very heavyheaded, heavy-bodied, and you will have a feeling of sin. This pistachio parantha can putyou back into gear.

Parsley Pilau

1 cup basmati rice (uncooked)

1 cup parsley leaves, dried

2 cups of unskinned chopped potatoes

2 chopped onions

2 teaspoons oregano or ajwan seeds

1 teaspoon ground red pepper or to taste

1Tablespoon turmeric

1teaspoon black pepper 2 bay leaves

% cup ghee (clarified butter)

Saute onions in ghee, adding spices to create a masala. Then add rice to that sauteed onion dish, add potatoes and parsley and then stir for a while. Add water to the dish (to steam the rice). Cook everything for 10-15 minutes.

Benefits: This is a very male, human food. It is good for when you get headaches and heaviness in the head, and you feel very dozy. It is very good for the brain.

Sometimes your skin feels very small and you feel very big. Youfeel you are out of your skin, likeyouare being suffocated and stitched in your skin. It is a combined irritation to the capillaries; the capillaries cannot hold their function of blood going through them. This happens to a lot of people who feel handicapped or inadequate. At this time, take this food as a monodiet, but be sure not to overeat it.

Try it sometime as a solo-food. It is very light when it is solely done. If you are a hard working fellow, you can use yogurt with it.

Herbs for Men

1.Embellic Myrobolaus

2.Beleric Myrobolaus

3.Chebuic Myrobolaus

These three herbs provide a general tonic for the man. All three should be mixed together and powdered and a tablespoon taken in the morning. It's a tonic of all tonics. It is called the 'mother, father & child' of everything known or ever produced by God. (See page 360)

Fry eggplant slices in pore ghee, with chopped onion, garlic, and ginger. Add cardamon, cloves, cinnamon sticks and bay leaves. When the dish is completed, pour saffron milk over it (2 Teaspoons of Saffron soaked in 1 cup of milk) and put silver leaf on top. Serve with flat bread.

Garlic Saffron Almond Rice

Enhances a man's creativity

1 cup milk

1teaspoon saffron

1Vz cups basmati rice 6 cloves garlic

2 cups homemade yogurt

%teaspoon cinnamon

1teaspoon salt

%cup almonds

1Tablespoon ghee

Soak saffron in milk overnight. In the morning, blend until smooth. Soak the almonds overnight or in boiling water to remove their skins. Then slice the almonds. Peel and slice the garlic into quarters. Sautee garlic and almonds in ghee. Rinse rice thoroughly. Boil basmati rice in saffron milk and 2 cups of water. Add garlic and almonds, Simmer for 20 minutes. (Add the saffron milk when dish is half-cooked.)

It should be eaten with yogurt and the yogurt should always be homemade. To cleanse the internal organs, then eat this dish with Golden Yogurt, using turmeric. In that case, yogurt should be made from golden milk. Boil % teaspoon of turmeric in 1 quart of milk. Use this milk to make the yogurt.

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In reviewing this list ofrejuvenating foods; we wifi present the country of origin, the source, or foodstuff[ and the qualities which make that food valuable.

Sweden

Q: The separation that happens in homemade yogurt is that also whey?

Dr. Soram Singh: No, that's acidophilus. It's different.

Q: So the liquid part of homemade yogurt is acidophilus?

Dr, Sorapi Singh: Not necessarily. However, acidophilus and whey are not equal.

Rose Hips

The first item is from Sweden, and the rejuvenating source is rose hips. Rose hips provide Vitamin C. Vitamin C is necessary to the health of the body protein, collagen. For this reason rose hips keep the skin beautiful and youthful, preventing wrinkles, flabbiness and discoloration and the skin tight and smooth. Rose hips affect the adrenal glands which secrete hormones. Vitamin C has a rejuvenating effect on the glands,

Q: Collagen, and its source, and how to take it?

Dr. Soram Singh: Collagen is another aspect of rose hips which I don't know as much, about. It is the substance from which our skin is made and it helps keep the skin beautiful, youthful, prevents wrinkles, flabbiness, discoloration. This collagen is in rose hips. Some of the creams are now available in very natural forms, and they are rich, specifically in collagen, to help maintain that beauty and shine and glow of the skin.

Whey

The second item from Sweden is whey. Whey helps digestion and elimination of food. Whey helps us prevent the development of harmful bacteria by providing the proper nutrients for beneficial bacteria in the intestinal tract. {Acidophilus actually contains these beneficial bacteria,) It prevents constipation, is high in vitamin B and B2. Whey comes in tablets or powdered form.

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Student: Tomake acidophilus, Yogi Bhajan said to leave the yogurt out for several days and then the natural souring of the yogurt would create the acidophilus liquid.

Finland

Sauna

Dr. Seram Singh: The next country is Finland. Its rejuvenating source is fever, as in a high body temperature. Fever is a defense against poisons, virus and stress factors. Healing high temperature speeds metabolism, inhibits growth of virus and bacteria. The Finnish people use saunas. However, you shouldn't take saunas often. It shouldn't be a daily activity. Once a month is fine, and never without a massage and a cold shower after. This is because the sauna routine is very powerful and can temporarily diminish theaura. Saunas and fevers also cause profuse perspiration using the skin to eliminate poisons. Also, I repeat that high temperatures help to kill off the invading organisms and speed up our metabolism which is necessary to fight infection. In other words, it gets the body running. Your heart's beating faster when you have a fever, pumping more blood, which lets you resist and fight bacteria.

Q: Do you call that a curative measure or a preventative measure?

Dr. Soram Singh: Sauna would be, as it's commonly used, preventative. There are countries, and I would imagine Finland might be one, where fever therapy is used. That is, intentionally raising your body temperature, whether it be through sauna or another form, such as hot baths that you soak in, as a curative technique. When you have a fever, we're suggesting that you let it go. The body is using the fever to help heal itself.

Rye

The rejuvenating source is rye as used in sourdough rye bread. Its qualities are beneficial to the health of the digestive and eliminative organs. That is, your intestines and colon. It is an anti-constipation food.

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Fermented Foods

One rejuvenating source is fermented foods, including sauerkraut, sourdough bread, pickles, etc. The qualities of these fermented foods as listed here are: cures arthritis, scurvy, ulcers, colds, digestive disorders, and cancer.

This is an appropriate place to interject that in these qualities I don't think we should, any of us, get carried away and go out of here saying, "One of our friends has cancer and I heard at the course to give him pickle and he'll be cured." Similarly for ulcers or for any other thing. What we are saying is that these foods can be beneficial in those conditions.

Q: You said, "Cures arthritis." Do you want to say relieves it?

Dr. Soram Singh: I'm reading to you what's on this sheet as given to us by Yogi Bhajan, I think that it can cure arthritis in combination with other factors which would be contributing toward the cure.

Mineral Waters

Mineral waters have extensive beneficial effects. Mineral baths cure high blood pressure, arthritis, female disorders, cardiovascular diseases, skin disorders, nervous disorders, allergies, old age, and senility. Taken orally they can prevent heart disease, tooth decay, hardening of the arteries. That's quite an extensive statement for mineral water. But indeed, if you look through history, mineral baths in Germany, in Europe, the Bavarian hot springs, have been used for curing everything. Again I'll say that in times when we didn't have all the technology that we have available now, this is what they had and this is what they used. We have much more available today, so that something like mineral water can be used in a supportive way and one can take advantage of everything else to use along with it.

Juice Fasting

The next health tradition from Germany is juice fasting, mentioned earlier by Yogi Bhajan to be done with extreme caution and wisdom. Juice fasting increases the cleaning capacity of lungs, liver, kidney, bowels, and skin. It expels toxins, rejuvenates mental, glandular, hormonal and nervous systems. It can also expel decayed cells and stimulate new ones. Alkaline juices are the best.

Q: What are the alkaline juices? What generates alkalinity in the body?

Dr. Soram Singh: The juices that Yogi Bhajan typically suggests to people are carrot, beet, celery, quite often celery. For ulcers he recommends cabbage juice. He’s also recommended cucumber juice.

Juice fasting, I would also emphasize, should be done with caution. Shouldbedone bysomeonewhose body isintrinsically strong enough to withstand the toxins that are going to be eliminated. The body should be prepared for fasting. It should be done in aprogram of building up and letting down following the fast, whether it's ajuice or food fast.

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Soured Milk Products

It's known for the rejuvenating source of soured milk as in homemade yogurt and kefir. The qualities of these foods are that they prevent auto-toxemia and putrefaction in the colon. They prevent self-poisoning and improve health and long life.

Yogurt, as I think we all know, is a most beneficial food. It can be used in many, many ways. It can be used orally to replenish and rebalance the intestinal flora, those bacteria which normally grow in our intestine! It can be used as an enema to locally implant those same bacteria, to stimulate the friendly bacteria and to help knock off the unfriendly ones. It can be used by women as a douche.

Questions: Has Yogi Bhajan recommended enemas to anyone? Isn't he against them?

Dr. Soram Singh: I think in general that he doesn't recommend their use because they don't promote natural bowel functioning.

Q: What about colonics, would they be generally out of the question?

Dr. Soram Singh: If used for reasons of constipation, they would be in the same category as enemas, I would think.

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Honey and Pollen

The next country "is Russia which has given us honey Mainly depending on the pollen content, honey induces longevity, is effective in treating asthma, hemorrhoids, allergies, digestive disorders, arthritis, hay fever, and multiple-sclerosis. It improves assimilation and elimination, Pollen is available in tablets {ten per day) or pure form. You can get the granules and you take about a tablespoon a day for a dose/ - V -

Sugar

What we'd like to talk about now is.sugar. Sugar is not on the list of good things. It's on the bad list. We are mentioning sugar because so many people eat sugar and don't know it, for instance, in ketchup. Soft drinks are loaded with sugar. All colas are loaded with sugar. The best thing 1think I can say to you is, whatever sugar you are eating, you should stop. Whatever honey you are eating, you should probably cut down, Honey, although it comes directly from a natural source, has been processed by the bees and-it is a concentrated sweet It can have the same detrimental effects on your body and mind as sugar.

I've traveled around the country from ashram to ashram, my observation is that people are eating too much honey, thinking that there is nothing wrong and that they are not hurting themselves. In the best of all worlds, in paradise, one could get along with eating honey as long as one were staying relaxed and didn't have much to do. But we're talking about living in cities and living under stress. An excess of honey in the diet is an enormous physical stress combined with the emotional and psychological stresses. All this precipitates an imbalance in the autonomic nervous system. You can calf it hypoglycemia, which many people do call it. I'm increasingly getting away from calling it that name. It's the same syndrome. Basically it comes down to stress, and honey and sweets are a great stress on your bodies.

therapeutic techniques. Even without these techniques, if you can stop abusing yourself, youlf get well. It's a question of being out of touch with how you are abusing yourself. Whether it's physically or mentally, it doesn't matter. It is not treating ourselves properly and our body reacts by getting what we call "sick." It's a way your body uses to heal itself, to attempt to heal itself through being sick.

Q: What about fructose?

Dr. Soram Singh: Fructose may be better because less is required to sweeten, but it is still a sugar and it still works as a stress.

O; We're comparing it to honey?

Dr. Soram Singh: Yes, same category. Better than white sugar; white sugar should just definitely be out.

Student: Honey is 75% fructose and fructose is more fat-forming than glucose (which is the sugar molecule in white sugar). In the chemical pathways, it can be fatted more easily So if you tend to have a weight problem, fructose in honey is actually worse for you than sugar.

Dr. Soram Singh: What you are saying is that honey will tend to make you more fat than white sugar. But white sugar has so many other negative things that I would definitely not tell you to eat it, for that reason.

G; What is a tolerable amount of sweet?

Dr. Soram Singh: The tolerable amount is a very individual thing. I don't want to say one tablespoon and then everybody go home taking one tablespoon. Many of you may be able to eat two tablespoons, and some of you should have zero. But, by and large, you need to tune-in. From my experience of examining people, whatever you're doing now, it is probably too much, and start from there. I'm just saying this very realistically. It's just too much. You have to read the labels of things: sugar is just everywhere, in almost all canned foods. I think most of us are pretty conscious of that. Things like the so-called health food soft drinks are loaded with honey or fructose, and they really blow you out without you even realizing it, unless you're tuned-in to your own body.

Q: What about some of these fruit juices that are really, really sweet, like apple-boysenberry, but have no sugar or honey in them. Still the fructose can blow you out Would you put that in the stimulating drink category?

Dr. Soram Singh: I definitely would. We're also talking about things like dates and raisins, which have natural sugar, yes, but in excess can really make you off-balance.

Now, why am I telling you these things? Is it because I want to make you suffer? Or that you shouldn't eat sugar

because somebody told you not to? No, its because as Sikhs and as Khalsa, we're making every effort to be able to focus our minds, to direct our consciousness, and to help support and uplift those around us. What I see in people who abuse themselves with sweets is that they are not able to do that—they get spaced out. Or even if they appear to be effective, they could be still more effective. For example, if they're tired in the morning when they wake up or too tired at night after they come home from work, often by decreasing the amount of sweets they eat, there can be a drastic change in how that person feels in terms of energy. The problem is that once you get into that cycle of sweets, your whole glandular system reacts to that over-stimulation. It begins to fatigue and you get what is called the adrenal-exhaustion syndrome, which subsequently affects the thyroid, and then the pituitary. What we're seeing increasingly these days, which I didn't see, say, two years ago, is that people come in not just with an imbalance in their adrenals, but now the vast majority of people who are blown out have also blown out their entire glandular system. These kinds of things are set off by stressors—of which sweets are one.

Student You said you wouldn't say it, but at one class, in a very general statement, Yogi Bhajan said, one tablespoon a day of honey and then only for medicinal use.

Dr. Soram Singh: Yes, he said that about five years ago. Another thing he said in that same class was that if the skin and the hair were left on the meat nobody would ever eat it. Nobody would ever think of eating it. Likewise, if you were to sit down to a cupful of white sugar, you wouldn't even think of eating it. But, if you drink an eight ounce glass of a soft drink, that's exactly what you're taking in, a cupful of sugar.

Student: I think some of the prasad1 that I've eaten would fill the normal daily requirement.

Dr. Soram Singh: I'm glad you brought that up. Prasad is indeed sweet, but there's a very, very interesting thing about prasad. We've done some measurements on equivalent types of situations. Prasadis not what it appears to be. The benefit that you get from prasad, is not from its nutritive value, "on the physical plane," but from the etheric vibration it is filled with through the blessings. I can tell you for sure that if you were to take the individual components of prasadbefore it's made, take aperson who has a problem with stress, and muscle test them or measure them, they would definitely be blown out by the honey, and in many cases by the wheat. On the other hand, if you take the prasad, and take a person who's totally blown out on wheat on every muscle, and put that in their aura, everything will become strong. That is because of the etheric energy that is imparted to it through the prayers and all the energy that we direct into it.

1A sweet dish traditionally served after taking a hukam from the Guru Granth Sahib, made from flour, water, ghee and honey or sugar.

Student: So-throw away your Hersbey bars.

Dr. Soram Singh: I had a patient do that in my office one day. He came into my office with some kind of bread that he was very allergic to (he's been allergic all his life to wheat). I walked out of the room to get a phone call. I had just tested him and he had been totally blown out by the bread, and he was thinking he wasn't going to be able to eat it anymore. When I came back in, he said, "Test me for this just one more time." I said, "Sure." He was strong as a rock. I said, "What'd you do?" He said, "I said a blessing over it while you were gone." And we think when we bless our food for dinner, for breakfast, whatever, that this is just a ritual, this is a routine, we always do that, I'm in a habit. Very specifically, you're putting a great deal of energy into it, and that energy is what affects our consciousness.

Student: Also eating with the fingers is part of that. Yogi Bhajan says that what you're doing is transfering prana into the food. The food, the nutritive value of food, is not so much in what it is made of, protein, carbohydrates, and so on, it is in the energy that we extract from that. That's why if you have a bad digestive system, you can eat all day long and still be very unhealthy because you're not getting the energy.

Q: How much prasad should one eat?

Dr. Soram Singh: The questions here are coming out of the range of medical and into the range of spiritual and that's fine. The answer I think is you should eat what's given to you.

Garlic and Onions

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cleaning out radiation and that's what we generally use. I don't know that garlic would do it.

Q: Can you comment on the conflict between garlic and homeopathic remedied?

Dr. Soram Singh: Yes. I have heard Yogi Bhajan say that raw onion will neutralize homeopathic medicines and, in my experience, I definitely find that to be true. I'd like to speak to you today from my clinical experience, I feel that’s the most I have to offer you, and, I can say, we have a lot of patients who are taking garlic in the form of Kyolic, who are getting homeopathic medicine simultaneously and between the two of them there seems to be no conflict. Now, with people eating raw garlic every day, in large quantities, it may fall more into that category of raw onions. I can't say anything specifically. Usually we advise people definitely not to eat raw onions, on the day that they take homeopathic medicines.

functioning in men and women. Sunflower seeds are rich in these nutrients.

Zinc isvery important for male sexual functioning. Older men with prostate problems definitely need zinc nutritionally.

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Seaweed or Kelp

Nutritionally seaweed is rich in natural iodine and it helps the endocrine glands, especially the thyroid. Use kelp instead of salt.

Q: Raw garlic, is it as good as cooked garlic?

Dr. Soram Singh: I would say that they would be similar and I couldn't tell the difference quantitatively.

Q: Do you think powdered onion, garlic, and ginger are as effective as fresh?

Dr. Soram Singh: I don't know. Kyolic is a therapeutic agent for people in the business community and people out in the world who don't want to eat raw garlic three times a day. Kyolic serves as a very excellent substitute; it comes in capsules, it leaves no odor, and it works, by the measurements that we've made. Now whether it works less effectively than raw garlic, I don't know, because I don't have that many patients taking raw garlic cloves three times a day as a medicine.

Buckwheat

Buckwheat is next. It is also from Russia. It supplies rutin and is beneficial in circulatory and cardiovascular system diseases. My experience with buckwheat is that it is a complete carbohydrate. As opposed to simple carbohydrate, it's a complex carbohydrate. It is balanced, and it can be handled well by the body. It is very good for people who have so-called hypoglycemia because.it is a complex carbohydrate.

Sesame Seed

Next from the orient is halva, sesame seeds. The qualities are extensive: increases virility; rejuvenates mental and physical capacities and endurance; has abundant potassium and magnesium; is an excellent source of lecithin; increases secretion of the pituitary, pineal and sex glands (one couldn't ask for much more than that); good for the brain and nerve tissues. What we've got here is a very solid food. Tahini is a common form of sesame seed butter. "Halva" 1think is a popular form of candy.

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Papaya

Papaya is rich in papain, which is a digestive enzyme. It is also rich in vitamin C and an excellent cleansing food.

Lime

It aids digestion, is a powerful antiseptic, treats colds, liver complaints, scurvy, dysentery, and fever. Limes, of course, are rich in vitamin C.

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Chile

Chile stimulates circulation, helps digestion (by stimulating enzymes and hydrochloric acid in stomach), is beneficial to the kidneys, spleen and pancreas.

Damiana

Damiana is an herb we use a lot at the clinic. It is a remedy for sexual impotence. It is also a tonic for nerves, and can be used for mental and physical exhaustion, Damiana also helps support the adrenal glands

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Sarsaparilla

Its qualities are: blood purifier, helpful for chronic rheumatism, skin disorders, psoriasis, general weakness, sexual impotence, and as an antidote for toxic effects of strong poisons, Itis a natural source of male and female sex hormones,

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Ginseng

The healing qualities of ginseng: aphrodisiac; stimulates cell growth; increases hormone production; rejuvenates the nervous system; cures all ills (again temper this with modern knowledge); and, finally, strengthens the heart.

Gotu-kola

Its healing qualities are: keeping the endocrine and, sex glands in peak working condition; energize nerve and brain functions.

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Morning Cleansing Time

The tradition of eating only fruit in the morning, and a big meal at noon, because from 5:00 to 11:00 a.m. your body is cleansing. Eating at this time disrupts this process.

V it a m in E.

Aging is caused by oxidation. Vitamin E is a natural anti­ oxidant and it increases fertility,

Vitamin C

We could talk about vitamin C all day really, as many of you probably know, and especially in view of the work of Linus Pauling and others, in megavitamin dosage of vitamin C. I can speak of my experience with it, which has been moderately extensive. We use vitamin C regularly for people who have infectious diseases, and for people who are under stress. (Stress will be mentioned many times as we review this list.) Stress can be in many forms. It can be the stress of physical labor, working very hard, lifting heavy things; it can be nutritional stress, that is, improper diet. Stress can also be pollutants around us such as smog or pollution from factories. Vitamin C basically helps to build our resistance and to maintain it. It offers specific anti­ inflammatory and anti-infectious properties. We will often use 15,000 units of vitamin C intravenously for people who have an acute flu or cold. With that kind of dose taken intravenously, the flu can be completely eliminated in a few hours, if caught early enough.

If you can't usevitamin Cintravenously, there are many, many oral forms. There's one particular powder which we have found to be very, very good. It's called "Emerg6n-C." This particular vitamin Cis ascorbic acid in the ascorbate ion form combined with minerals such as potassium and calcium. It's prepared in a powder which you dissolve in water and drink. Because of the way these ions are combined, the ascorbic acid gets right into the cells and does the job. And so it's more effective than the tablet form.

Q: What about pure organic vitamin C, in very small quantities?

Dr. Soram Singh: Another company, Standard Process,

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