தாய்ப்பால் சுரக்க மூலிகை சூப்..!

பிறந்த குழந்தைகளின் முதல் உணவு தாய்ப்பால். தாய்பாலில் இருந்து தான் குழந்தைகளுக்கான அனைத்து விதமான ஊட்டச்சத்துக்களும் கிடைக்கிறது. இதனால்தான் 6 மாதங்கள் வரை குழந்தைகளுக்கு தாய்ப்பால் தரவேண்டும் என்று மருத்துவர்கள் அறிவுறுத்துகின்றனர். உடல்நிலை காரணமாகவும், சத்தான உணவுகளை உட்கொள்ளாததாலும் சில பெண்களுக்கு தாய்ப்பால் சுரப்பதில் பாதிப்பு ஏற்படும்.

தாய்பால் சுரக்காத பெண்கள் வீட்டிலேயே எளிதான மருத்துவ முறைகளை கையாள்வதன் மூலம் குழந்தைகளுக்கு தேவையான அளவு தாய்பால் சுரக்கும்.

மூலிகை கசாயம்:

அதிமதுரம் பொடியை சிறிதளவு சர்க்கரை கலந்து 2 முறை பாலுடன் குடித்து வந்தால் தாய்பால் பெருகும். அருகம்புல் சாறுடன் தேன் கலந்து சாப்பிட்டு வந்தால் தாய்ப்பால் பெருகும்.

முருங்கை கீரை:

முருங்கை கீரையை லேசாக தண்ணீர் விட்டு வேகவைத்து அதை தாளித்து சாப்பிட்டால் தாய்பால் அதிகரிக்கும். முருங்கை இலையும் பாசிபருப்பும் சேர்த்து சாப்பிட்டால் தாய் பால் அதிகம் சுரக்கும்.

அதே போல் ஆலம் விழுதின் துளிர், விதையை அரைத்து 5கி காலையில் மட்டும் பாலில் கொடுத்துவர தாய்பால் பெருகும். குழந்தை பெற்ற பெண்களுக்கு வெள்ளை பூண்டை நல்லெண்ணெயில் வதக்கி அதனுடன் கருப்பட்டியுடன் கலந்து சாப்பிட கொடுத்தால் தாய்பால் அதிகம் சுரக்கும். இது உடல் ஆரோக்கியத்திற்கும் நல்லது.

உடலில் உள்ள தேவையற்ற கழிவுகளை வெளியேற்றவும் வெள்ளை பூண்டு உதவுகிறது. கருப்பட்டியில் உள்ள இரும்புச்சத்து தாய்ப்பால் வழியாக குழந்தைகளுக்கு போய் சேர்கிறது. மேலும் பசும் பாலில் பூண்டு சேர்த்து அரைத்து காய்ச்சி குடித்தால் பால் அதிகம் சுரக்கும்.

மஞ்சள் காமாலை நோய்க்கு அஞ்சத்தேவையில்லை!

பொதுவாக மஞ்சள் காமாலை நோய், பித்தம் அதிகரிப்பதால் வருகிறது. கல்லீரல் செல்கள் பித்தநீரை வெளிப்படுத்தாதபோதும், பித்தப்பையில் இருந்து பித்தநீர் குடலுக்கு வருகின்ற பாதையில் ஏற்படும் அடைப்பினாலும் காமாலை ஏற்படுகிறது. மேலும், ரத்த சிவப்பணுக்கள் அழிவதினாலும், பிறவிலேயே ரத்தத்தில் உள்ள பிலிரூஃபின் அளவு அதிகரித்துக் காணப்படுவதாலும், காமாலை நோய் வைரஸ் கிருமிகளாலும், சில வகை மருந்துகளினாலும், மது அருந்துவதாலும் ஏற்படுகிறது.
அறிகுறிகள்:
சோர்வு, பலவீனம், உடல் அரிப்பு, வாந்தி, குமட்டல், பசியின்மை, மலக்கட்டு, கழிச்சல், சுரம், மஞ்சள் நிறத்தில் சிறுநீர் போன்ற அறிகுறிகள் காணப்படும்.

சித்த மருத்துவத்தில் எளிய தீர்வுகள்:
கீழாநெல்லி இலை, வேர் இரண்டையும் அரைத்து நெல்லிக்காய் அளவு மோரில் கலந்து பருகலாம்.
அரை ஸ்பூன் கடுக்காய்ப்பொடியை நீரில் கலந்து குடிக்கலாம்.
அருநெல்லி இலையை அரைத்து சிறு நெல்லிக்காய் அளவு மோரில் கலந்து அருந்தலாம்.
கொன்றைப் பூவையும், கொழுந்தையும் அரைத்த சுண்டைக்காய் அளவு மோரில் கலந்து பருகலாம்.
சுரை இலை கைப்பிடி அளவு எடுத்து இரண்டு டம்ளர் நீர் சேர்த்து அரை டம்ளராக வற்றவைத்து சர்க்கரை கலந்து அருந்தலாம்.
வில்வ இலைச் சாறு 30 மிலி எடுத்து அதில் மிளகுத் தூள், சர்க்கரை கலந்து பருகலாம்.
வேம்பின் துளிர், முதிர்ந்த இலை இரண்டையும் பொடித்து இதற்கு அரைபங்கு ஒமம், உப்பு சேர்த்து அதில் அரை ஸ்பூன் உண்ணலாம்.
நெல்லி வற்றல், மஞ்சள், புதினா சம அளவு எடுத்துப் பொடித்து அதில் அரை ஸ்பூன் எடுத்து நீரில் கலந்து அருந்தலாம்.
15 மி.லி. கரிசலாங்கண்ணிச் சாறுடன், சர்க்கரை கலந்து பருகலாம்.
ஒரு ஸ்பூன் வெட்டி வேர்ப்பொடியில் அரை டம்ளர் நீர் சேர்த்து ஒரு மணி நேரம் ஊறவைத்து வடித்துப் பருகலாம்.
சிற்றாமணக்கு இலையையும், கீழாநெல்லியையும் சமஅளவு எடுத்து அரைத்து மூன்று நாட்கள் காலையில், சிறு எலுமிச்சை அளவு உண்டு, பிறகு சிவதைப் பொடி அரைஸ்பூன் உண்ணலாம்.
செங்கரும்பின் சாற்றை ஒரு டம்ளர் காலை மாலை அருந்தலாம்.
சீரகத்தைக் கரிசாலைச் சாற்றில் ஊறவிட்டு பொடித்தப் பொடி நான்கு கிராம், சர்க்கரை இரண்டு கிராம், சுக்குப் பொடி இரண்டு கிராம் கலந்து அதில் ஒரு ஸ்பூன் உண்ணலாம்.
மிளகின் பழச்சாறு 15 மிலி எடுத்து மஞ்சள் பொடி கால் ஸ்பூன் சேர்த்து அருந்தலாம்.
அன்னாசிப் பழத்தை நன்கு பிழிந்து சாறு எடுத்து 30 மிலி அருந்தலாம்.
நெருஞ்சில் இலைச்சாறு 30 மி.லி.யுடன் சர்க்கரை கலந்து பருகலாம்.
பத்து கிராம் வேப்பம் பட்டை நசுக்கி, அதில் இரண்டு டம்ளர் நீர் விட்டு அரை டம்ளராக காய்ச்சி அருந்தலாம்.

சேர்க்க வேண்டியவை:
சின்ன வெங்காயம், மோர், இளநீர், பேயன் வாழைப்பழம் (அ) நாட்டு வாழைப்பழம், மொந்தன் வாழைப்பழம், வெண் பூசணி, தர்பூசணி, மாதுளம்பழம், வெள்ளரிக்காய்.

தவிர்க்க வேண்டியவை:
அசைவ உணவுகள், எண்ணெய், நெய், காரம்.

Horror Tamil Short Film - AAKARUSHI (ஆகருஷி)

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Auschwitz-Birkenau: Hate’s Shameful Showcase

‘For ever let this place be a cry of despair and a warning to humanity…’ screams a plaque at Auschwitz-Birkenau. January 27, 1945, about 7,500 Jewish prisoners were evacuated by the Russian Red Army from the most notorious of Nazi concentration camps. The plaque was erected by the survivors of the Holocaust, the horrific ordeal that began in 1941 when Heinrich Himmler, Nazi Germany’s Minister of the Interior, designated Auschwitz-Birkenau as the destination for the “final solution of the Jewish question in Europe.” In those three years, the Third Reich systematically aggregated and annihilated 1.5 million Jewish internees in the death camp. Most were gassed to death but a great number also died of starvation and disease. Today, the camp is a memorial museum and a 120 Zloty (€35) daytrip from the Polish city of Krakow, 70 km away.

On the 68th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, which fell January 27, AMANDEEP SANDHU shares memories of the seven life-changing hours that he spent there. Sandhu is the author of two books, Sepia Leaves and Roll of Honour. Learn more about his work at his website.

Rest in Peace. We are yet to learn the lessons.

With a number of preserved buildings and wide roads, the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau looks like a pretty middle-class industrial township. Industrious it was, just the industry was war. On a bright sunny day in early June, among many people who have come to visit, what hits one the most is how everything here is so silent.

Two rows of electrified barbed wire make the boundary of the camp at Auschwitz. Between 1940-45, 802 of the over 3.5 million inmates attempted to escape. Of these only 144 were successful. The boundary was less of wires and more of the emotional blackmail and fear of what could follow, especially of how the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) would deal with the family members and friends of those who attempted to escape. On the gate is the inscription in wrought iron ‘Arbeit macht frei’ ("work makes free"). A few years back, the inscription was stolen, allegedly, by a Swiss art collector or neo-Nazi sympathizer. It was later found in a Berlin flat, cut up in three pieces. The intent for violence has neither abated nor reduced. A lookalike inscription has now replaced the original.

Picture by an American surveillance plane, 1944. The Allied forces knew what was going on, yet they did not bomb not only these camps for fear of killing inmates but even the railroad lines that made it possible to transport the people to the camps. Notice the two coloured squares, red and yellow. Those were warehouses where the inmates were asked to leave their personal belongings. They were called Canada I and II. Upon the end of World War II, on facing imminent defeat, the retreating Nazis burnt and destroyed those storehouses. Photo: Amandeep Sandhu

Jews, Poles and Gypsies (from as far as Romania, Hungary, Oslo) traveled in railway freight carriages to the camp with one-way tickets. They expected to be set free. The able-bodied among them were selected on this platform and put into labour camps

What was perfected was that a cheap gas Zyklon B (aka Cyclon B), a cyanide-based pesticide, was very effective. It finished 700 to 1,000 people in about 20 minutes. The gas was invented by a Jewish agriculture scientist. Photo: Amandeep Sandhu

Killing is not an easy industry. There was the matter of bodies, of what was to be done with them. Before the bodies were cremated, they were frisked for everything: rings, any jewellery, gold teeth, basically robbed. One of the items stolen was human hair, both at arrival to camps (to prevent typhus) and after gassing. When the camps were liberated on January 27, 1945, they found 7 tonnes of human hair from approximately 40,000 victims packed in bags (picture not allowed). Photo: Amandeep Sandhu

All objects are behind glass panes which makes it impossible to photograph them without reflection. These prosthetics from the victims were ferried back so they could be fitted on wounded or amputated SS soldiers. Photo: Amandeep Sandhu

Food bowls, from victims. The actual objects were very large in number and supplied back to the Axis Army lines and hospitals and ration shops. There is no account of exactly how much material went out from the camp. Photo: Amandeep Sandhu

Eight to ten to fifteen people slept in each rack. The commonest problem was dysentery. If one fell ill, one was pushed to the lowest bunk and lay there dying in one’s own muck. No medicines.

The slanting beds were meant for eight to twelve people to place their heads on one

Pretty neat but not for around 2,000 to 5,000 people in one building.

This is all one needs, a hole in the ground.

The site of the shooting range where thieves and rebels or those who flunked the assignments were killed point blank.

Notice the barricaded windows around the death wall. Sounds are a more potent deterrent than seeing the killings. The two poles are from which victims were tied before execution.

Block 10 was used as a laboratory for medical experiments. SS doctors tested the efficacy of X-rays as a sterilization device by administering large doses to female prisoners. Prof. Dr. Carl Clauberg injected chemicals into women's uteruses in an effort to glue them shut. Bayer, then a subsidiary of IG Farben, bought prisoners to use as guinea pigs for testing new drugs. The most infamous doctor at Auschwitz was Josef Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death". Particularly interested in research on identical twins, Mengele performed experiments on them, such as inducing diseases in one twin and killing the other when the first died to perform comparative autopsies. He also took a special interest in dwarfs, and he deliberately induced gangrene in twins, dwarfs and other prisoners to "study" the effects. (Pictures not allowed) In Block 11 are located some of the dungeons where inmates were kept confined and standing for long periods: even weeks. This is where Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe, a Conventual Franciscan friar, volunteered to die in place of a stranger. He was canonized on October 10, 1982 by Pope John Paul II, and declared a martyr of charity. He is the patron saint of drug addicts, political prisoners, families, journalists, prisoners, and the pro-life movement. Pope John Paul II declared him "The Patron Saint of Our Difficult Century".

The ruins of the gas chambers at Birkenau.

The incinerator where the dead bodies were burned. The ash was sold as fertilizer.

The last selection took place on October 30, 1944. The next month, Heinrich Himmler ordered the crematoria destroyed before the Red Army reached the camp. The gas chambers of Birkenau were blown up by the SS in January 1945 in an attempt to hide the German crimes from the advancing Soviet troops

In one of the rare cases of justice after WW II, the camp's first commandant, Rudolf Höss was hanged to death here. Other cases were tried in the Nuremberg Trials. The court awarded many officers short sentences and some got life and death by hanging. The Cold War erupted, the short sentences became shorter, and some officers committed suicide.

In one of the rare cases of justice after WW II, the camp's first commandant, Rudolf Höss was hanged to death here. Other cases were tried in the Nuremberg Trials. The court awarded many officers short sentences and some got life and death by hanging. The Cold War erupted, the short sentences became shorter, and some officers committed suicide

What is eaten in one week around the world .....

Italy : The Manzo family of Sicily
Food expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11


Germany : The Melander family of Bargteheide
Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07


United States : The Revis family of North Carolina (Sure hope most American
Families eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and less junk food than this family.)

Food expenditure for one week $481.00


Mexico : The Casales family of Cuernavaca
Food expenditure for one week: 1,862.78 Mexican Pesos or $189.09


Poland : The Sobczynscy family of Konstancin-Jeziorna
Food expenditure for one week: 582.48 Zlotys or $151.27


Egypt : The Ahmed family of Cairo
Food expenditure for one week: 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53


Ecuador : The Ayme family of Tingo
Food expenditure for one week: $31.55


Bhutan : The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village
Food expenditure for one week: 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03
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Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp
Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23


How happy a man is, is not how much he has but how little he needs.
Don't know about you, but right about now, I'm counting my blessings!

To Study Death

“For one who has taken his birth, death is certain; and for one who is dead, birth is certain. Therefore, in the unavoidable discharge of your duty, you should not lament.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 2.27)

“Let’s study the iPhone. It’s a revolutionary piece of technology. Before it was released, I never saw many people carrying the same technological device. Maybe many people had the iPod, which was the music player made by the same company, but phones were always varied. Then suddenly so many people had the exact same model of phone. This wasn’t the cheapest option by any means. It didn’t have the best service provider, either. And yet people in droves rushed to the stores to purchase them. When a new model comes out, there is a long line just to get into the store. Therefore let us study this phenomenon. Perhaps we can extend our research to the iPad, which had the single greatest launch in terms of sales for any technological device.”

“Let’s study vitamins. Everyone is taking them these days. Do they actually work? Which vitamin supplements are necessary and which aren’t? Is it better to take the supplements or just eat the foods containing those vitamins? Are there any significant health benefits to taking these vitamins? Will people actually avoid cancer and other diseases? We’ll get an experiment set up and monitor the results. Then we’ll report our findings.”

“Let’s do a study on people who do studies. What motivates them? Why do they feel the need to observe others and do a psychological analysis? Is it so they can feel superior? Do they wish to hover above everyone else from their ivory tower? Let’s study whether or not they have any friends. Perhaps they are unsatisfied with life, so they take pleasure in trying to analyze others, all the while exempting themselves from the analysis.”

We see that there are so many studies undertaken. There is even a study of the mating habits of the Australian rabbit. And yet through it all there are few to zero studies about death. Death takes place for everyone. It is likely the single most important event in one’s life, as it erases everything. The hurricane can destroy your home and destroy everything in it. The boss can fire you and eliminate your current flow of income. The teacher can give you a failing grade and squash your chances of going to the college you want.

Still, none of these forces destroy everything; only death does that. Therefore it must be the most powerful force. Everyone is afraid of it to some degree, as who wants to lose everything? Who wants to separate from their friends and loved ones? Who wants to be forced to leave their surroundings that they like? Who wants to jump on to a train heading towards an undisclosed location?

Death takes place nevertheless, despite one’s ignoring it. It may be the elephant in the room, but at the right time that elephant will strike. For this reason in Sanskrit the word for time is the same as it is for death, kalah. Time destroys everything eventually through what we call death. Time destroys right now, little by little, the body we accepted at the time of birth. Therefore death is the complement to birth; when there is birth, there must be death.

Of course the main reason that death does not get studied is that one cannot see what is going on. You can see the effects of a new technological gadget. You can observe what happens when people eat a certain food. You can see how different animals behave. You can’t see, however, what changes when a person suddenly goes from living to dying. There are some studies into the physical differences, as in the weight of the dying person, but there is no way to see exactly what causes the change. Moreover, why can’t the same person who was alive a minute ago come back to life?

Without knowing these things, man’s knowledge is imperfect. With imperfect knowledge, of what use is knowing so many other things? If I don’t know the most important thing, why should I bother with the least important? The validity of this rhetorical question is substantiated by the behavior of the animals. They don’t perform any studies. They are not wise enough to detect patterns for a large population of creatures. They go by what nature gives them. They act on their instincts. Through this limited intelligence they can eat, sleep, mate and defend just fine.

The study into the higher subject matters, which naturally include death, is meant for the sober human being. If a discipline did actually study death, one would have to assign it a higher importance. It is not surprising, therefore, that the most important Vedic work deals with death right at the outset. In the Bhagavad-gita, the wise speaker, Shri Krishna, speaks of the eternality of the soul and how it is different from the body. The magical change we witness at the time of death is merely the exit of the soul from the temporary body. That soul is inexhaustible in its existence. It does not take birth or die. At birth it enters somewhere and at death it leaves to go somewhere else.

“For the soul there is never birth nor death. Nor, having once been, does he ever cease to be. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 2.20)

These truths are straightforward enough. They make sense if we think about it too. To those who say that we only get one life to live, then we also only get one childhood. In adulthood that childhood is gone. Was the childhood wasted, then, if it was spent in study? Did the child waste their time going to school? On the other side, if a child didn’t go to school but rather played all day, did they live a successful childhood life?

Of course such questions are silly because in adulthood the same individual is still alive. The childhood was merely a period of their life. That period is gone forever, however. There is no way to get the childhood body back. There is no way to reclaim that innocence. And yet just because it is gone it doesn’t mean that the individual ceases to be. So the eternality of the soul is easily understood in this comparison. The soul continues to exist into old age, and it will continue after that in the next body, which is subsequent to death.

I know that death will come. From reading the Bhagavad-gita, I know that I will take birth again after death. The question that remains is where that next birth will occur. Do I have a say in where I go? Again, the example of the present life can be used to answer the question. Do I have a say in where I go today? Do I choose where to eat and where to work? I do, and so I can do the same with the next life. The key determining factor is consciousness, another point made by Shri Krishna.

“Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state he will attain without fail.” (Lord Krishna, Bg. 8.6)

Since Krishna discusses these most important topics, providing the only real study of birth and death, He is the wisest person. Not surprisingly, being conscious of Him means going to Him. Actually, being conscious of anything leads to that thing’s association. If I am conscious of eating all the time, I will get a body in the next life that will allow me to eat all the time. If I am conscious of earning a lot of money, in the next life I get a body suitable for business.

These bodies lead again to death, thereby repeating the cycle. A body that associates with Krishna, however, does not take birth again. Krishna’s body and spirit are identical. In His land there is no such thing as birth and death. Time exists, but it has no ability to destroy. It instead constantly creates new opportunities for association with Krishna, who is God in His personal form. In Krishna’s land, there is no need for costly studies. There is only constant enjoyment, bringing back the childhood-like innocence but in its purified form. All of this can come from the quick study of death and much more found in the Bhagavad-gita, the most valuable work for human society.

In Closing:

Upon new gadget’s release,

Variety in ownership to cease.

Study of this phenomenon let’s do,

Take on studies and vitamins too.

But why interest in death not to lend?

For rich and poor alike destined end.

Shri Krishna tackles death and much more,

No more rebirth when His vision in mind to store.

The meaning of life..

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