Food & Diet in Health & Disease from Homoeopathic Standpoint

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The vital is dramatic, the mind is imaginative, but the body is sanity itself.

And we finish with the most general directions with regard to food in relation to different bio – typological individuals as laid down in the “Song Celestial (Srimad Bagavad – Gita):

“The sattwic temperament in the mental and physical body turns naturally to the things that increase the life, increase the inner and the outer strength, nourish at once the mental, vital and physical force and increase the pleasure and satisfaction and happy condition of mind, life and body, all that is succulent and soft and firm and satisfying.”

“The rajasic temperament prefers naturally food that is violently sour, pungent, hot, acrid, rough and strong and burning, the aliments that increase ill – health and the distempers of the mind and body”.

“The tamasic temperament takes a perverse pleasure in cold, impure, stale, rotten or tasteless food or even accepts like the animals the remnants half – eaten by others.” (Stanzas 8, 9 and 10, Chapter 17, Gita.)

The science of dietary is best developed in the Ayurvedic System of Medicine and we may have occasion to present it to our readers in future.

B.K.SARKAR.

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