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020814-3 SEGMENTS How to eat for winter colds and blues – warming, grounding foods and herbs.
Autumn in New England is rainy and colder this week. Hopefully, it will not wash away the colorful leaves. I have started using warming herbs to prepare for the shorter days ahead. One half teaspoon each of ashwagandha and shatavari in a cup of warm water twice daily between meals strengthens muscles and eases tendons. Ashwagandha, an East Indian member of the ginseng family, is recommended for muscle weakness, backache, fatigue, and debilitating nerve diseases such as multiple sclerosis. Shatavari, wild Indian asparagus, rich in saponins and hormone-precursors, is a traditional female rejuvenative tonic for fertility and sexuality. I have also ordered Siberian ginseng capsules (AKA Eleuthero root) to prepare for cold weather and reduce nerve pain from caffeine. I take it when I enjoy black tea. Autumn is a good time to remember balance. We breathe deeply and stretch, allowing vitality to relax tense muscles and stiff joints. We balance summer’s frenetic activity and travel with the approaching stillness and heaviness of winter. Before my morning shower or during 15 minutes of sunshine on the porch, I give the body a light lymphatic drainage massage, using strokes from head toward the heart and feet toward the kidneys, with light colored sesame oil, adding a few drops of lavender and geranium essential oils to enhance circulation. It’s soothing and warming. I periodically take a break from writing by doing a modified yoga posture recommended for balance.
This Valentine’s day, stay warm and cosy inside. Love is Oily, Sweet, and Calming like a healing massage. The Sanskrit word sneha can be translated as “oil” and “love.” Ayurvedic health experts believe the healing effects of abhyanga–Ayurvedic oil massage–are like being saturated with love. Oil massage gives a deep sense of stability, comfort and warmth. To promote wellness, a fifteen-minute self-massage of the entire body using a warmed oil is recommended daily before a warm bath. It improves circulation, reduces pain, and promotes complexion beauty. But couple massage given with love promotes a feeling of protection and intimacy.
Love and marriage have changed especially in Europe and North America. Marriages today are fewer, later, and produce fewer, if any, children. Children are no longer a major reason for marriage. In an era of fast foods, we have fast marriages. Instead of a home made up of a provider and a homemaker, we have two or more people, employed if lucky, living together. Women today are asked to be Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandchild, Money Provider, and Nurse. It leads to stress. . . The changing demographic problem in Eastern Europe has been described as critical. Miklos Soltesz, 45, a member of the Hungarian Parliament for the Christian Democratic People’s Party says, “According to projections by Eurostat, Hungary’s population may drop 13 percent to 8.7 million in 2060 from the current 10 million. The trend is similar across Eastern Europe in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania and the Czech Republic. Our concern is that we will soon lack the labor force to provide for our aging citizens.”
We read in The Times of India: “Dr. Sanjay Chugh, specialist on sexual issues, states, “Sex contributes to general good health. Any sexual intimacy that is enjoyable and pleasurable promotes well being by providing several physical and psychological benefits. It is believed that sex boosts chemicals in the body that protects us against diseases. Research also suggests that sex and masturbation can help ease joint and muscle pain, combat depression, promote heart health and lengthen one’s life span.” Fine. That sounds better than the gym! Do you need energy for sexual drive? Does he?
You don’t have to be young to be in love, only healthy and young at heart. Then love can last forever. Yoga practice, an attitude of compassion and a wise diet, including Ayurvedic tonic herbs help us maintain generosity, resilience and vigor for loving relationships. Love always involves a risk: Becoming close to someone may challenge our independence and self-worth. That requires energy and patience more than drive.
Neem flowers and leaves We are becoming acutely aware of our need to enhance immunity and reduce emotional stress. Immunity to illness, in alternative health traditions, includes emotional balance, mental clarity, vitality, restful sleep, a positive outlook–in short, all the ways we feel healthy. Health does not come in a vaccine, but requires careful deep-cleansing of impurities and poisons; balancing energy, circulation and body fluids; and generally fortifying body and mind.
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