Herbs & Life: April 2012

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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Introduction......

Elements of Human Body

Human body in the eye of Hindus is made up of five elements.They are Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space. Christians believe that man was created from the dust or from the soil of earth.                                                                                                        According to Islam it
is the same; man was created with soil. Buddhists believe that Mahaa Brahman created man with mud. So it is the religious belief. Created or not, we all know, that human being exists in the world. I want to speak about the BODY, of this living and visible Human being.
                 Whatever it is our belief, we all know that the human body is a living organism.And 99% of human body is made up of oxygen,carbon,hydrogen,nitrogen,calcium, and phosphorus and 0.85% of the human body is composed of potassium,sulfur, sodium, chlorine, and magnesium.These elements have their own role in the human body.
          The human body as I personally feel, is a container where one is living. So Noah Diaz is not my body. But Noah Diaz is in it. Without a body There is no Noah Diaz too. So every one has to protect this container or the body where they live in.
          The human body, is changing everyday. Any relative changes of our bodies with our growth is nature. But any abnormal conditions in the human body is called a disease. Any functional changes in the body, or any type of deviation from normal health or any disorder in the body of humans,animals or even of plants is called a disease.The above conditions leads to illness.Or in other words  illness is a result of disease.This is the difference between disease and illness.But illness is not only due to the organic disorder of the body.spiritual and psychological imbalances in us can also be a reason to illness.So my aim here is to tell you how we balance our health or how we escape these imbalances and illnesses come to us due to diseases.  Very simple. one can do this with herbs.
            The cause of diseases may be due to some outside factors or may be due to any reason from within. Whatever it is, if the human body cannot respond to a disease by itself, with the "Immune   system" that is active in the human body by nature, there we provide the system with medicine. So that the human body fight against the foreign actions in the body. We can do this sort of remedies just after we come across with a disease or otherwise in advance.  We also can avoid diseases by prevention. Vaccination protects you from diseases. Practicing these two methods, people who live away from cities, have many other natural means of avoiding diseases.
                                                                                                                                              How is that ? By breathing pure fresh air, by drinking natural pure water that is rich with lots of natural minerals, by working hard, I mean, by working at home by themselves, such as chopping firewood for home use, by cleaning in and around their homes more than twice a day, by hand-washing their own clothes without using a washing machine etc; So there is no necessity of extra exercising, for them. They eat fresh vegetables and herbal plants, leaves, nuts, flowers, yams, creepers etc; They pay nothing for them. So everyone may not be able to get them for free and may not know what  the edible plants are. Because some plants flowers leaves and creepers may looks the same but not used as food.
               How the plants (The word "Plants" include all creepers trees leaves yams and so on) prevent or  recover one from any disease ?
        We discussed already about the elements of the human body at the beginning, and if you just sit calm and think why you eat an apple or why you drink a cup of fresh cow milk,  there you understand that is because they nourishes your body. So as, 99% of the plants in this world, inherit one or more natural substances necessary for the growth and for the protection of the human body.
                You may remember I mentioned above that man was created with five elements (According to Hindu belief). It's true that plants also was created same way as well. Same I mentioned that the man was created with dust as Christians, Jews and Muslims do believe, and it's also true, and according to those Holy  scriptures all other plants were created for the consumption of that man and those plants and animals also said to be created from the dust and we know they too depend on earth.
             So I tell you with a great belief that plants can balance of any imbalance or disorder that take place in your body. Is that all ? NO, I tell you with that same belief that they can protect you from being sick. Most joyful matter is, DO YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE PLANTS WHICH KEEP YOU YOUNG EVERYDAY ? What I meant here, is they help you to act in your life more sound and stronger than  other humans of your age. And you may appear so younger, compared to others in your age. But do not ask me of any plant that make you a kid again; or keep you alive for thousands of years, please. You know there are no plants to bring you to the beginning of your life, but there are lots of plants that can bring you to the end of your life in no time. By no way we can stop time running, so as, our age.We cannot go back in age.But can make our bodies act as that of a young.
                So let me come back to my point. It's so simple to understand that plants, fruits, nuts, leaves, husks, roots, buds or all parts or plants on the earth or in the waters are taken as medicine to treat the human body that is infected with any sort of disease. This is called by Indians "Ayurveda".  Same name is used in my beautiful island, named Sri Lanka,(a country, blessed with millions of herbs,).
                 The human body by nature, uses number of strategies to fight against infections. Skin the outer wall of the kingdom of human body fights against any infection. Same way your stomach, protect you from germs. The disorder in the body either from inside or from out side, if the human body is unable to make the situation calm, or can not fight against germs or infections,it is due the weakness of the immune system. This may happen due to our own acts. This defenceless situation may be be result of our carelessness in life. May be due to consumption of food in wrong time, or limitless eating. Many things, thousands of reasons. Yes there is an example I can tell you. AIDS.........how hard it is for the immune system of human body to fight against this virus.
                The " some thing that lacks " in the immune system makes human body defenseless. This certain "lacking things" in the immune system has to be given to the human body. So providing what is necessary to the body as a remedy against the disease is called medical treatment.
           
          It is believed Some great people lived in this part of the world years ago, founded certain plants, with there knowledge or by heavenly revelations can balance the imbalances or disorders in the human body. I respect that belief. But I have seen the dog and the cat living in my home go to the garden and eat there own medicine. No one taught them to do so. Therefore I have to add some extra thoughts to my belief. That is, any creature on this planet has the knowledge of natural medicines. Some people used this knowledge and may have tested other plants. They understood the elements in the plants and these qualities of plants were taken in treatments of man and animal. In sort knowing what is in plants grabbed that out and given to the human body.This done in various ways.
             So this is an innocent effort to introduce natural herbs,and the ways of using them to protect you from diseases and as a natural vaccination against many sicknesses.