Profile of a person with extreme allergy cured in ayurveda

On Apr 25, 2014 , "Sudhakar Govindavajhala"  wrote:
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> Dear All,
>
>     [I am probably a quack. Please do not consider this as medical advice. Please think of it as an interesting experience I have had
> that I am trying to understand.]
>
>      I had written earlier about my experiences with Ayurveda; I have
> a few other articles written up on this subject that I will post in
> the future. I am trying to find like-minded individuals who would be
> willing to study the subject so that an informed opinion can be made.
> I write below an overview of a patient who did not have a cure for her
> life-threatening  allergy in modern medicine (Allopathy) and had found
> a cure in Ayurveda.  I am trying to document cases as they come to me;
> please help me write these cases with scientific rigour. This post is
> far from being of the highest scientific quality.
>
>
>         There is this African born lady (probably aged thirty-five) who lives
> in America. I met her at the Ayurvedic health resort a few months ago.
> She grew up as a strong non-vegetarian who used to essentially live on
> frozen pizzas.  Over a period of time, she developed  a series of
> allergies. In the initial stage, she develops allergy to food stuffs
> such as corn, then wheat, potato, rice etc. (not sure of the order).
> Finally, she develops allergy to **all** food stuffs.  In the next
> stage, she develops allergy to water too. She could not eat or drink
> anything. She would throw up if she swallowed. All doctors  agreed
> that she has a serious allergy, but were unable to offer a cure.        She
> is forced to take a large number of intravenous drips, practically
> carrying around an IV drip that feeds her.
>
>         After realizing that the medical system is unable to help her, she
> starts seeing nutritionists to see if they help. She really did not
> find any help. An Indian nutritionist had suggested to her that she
> try Ayurveda.  So, this lady  finds this Ayurvedic center in the
> middle of nowhere near rural Coimbatore. After a therapy over a few
> months she starts being able to tolerate some kinds of food material.
> She had been asked to come back after an year or six-months. Besides
> the therapy, the doctors convince her to eat healthy sattvic food.
> After doing multiple trips, this lady is able to eat normal sattvic
> diet --- effectively curing her allergy.  She has since then been
> eating only sattvic food.
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>         You kindly ponder over it decide. I am not saying it is a panacea, either. Technically, sattvic
> food is defined as
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> ayuh sattva balarogya
> sukha priti vivardhanah
> rasyah snigdah sthira hrdya
> ahara sattvika priya
>
> "Foods dear to those in the mode of goodness increase the duration of
> life, purify one's existence and give strength, health, happiness and
> satisfaction. Such foods are juicy, fatty, wholesome and pleasing to
> the heart."
>
>
>
> I write a few of my concerns on modern education below:
>
>     If you ask a modern doctor educated in India about Ayurveda, the
> perception is that Ayurveda is hocus-pocus. While this may be due to
> difficulty of finding a genuine Ayurvedic practitioner, it is
> unfortunate that modern doctors do not take  a balanced view.  It is
> unfortunate that modern  education convinces that our ancestors are
> fools, even though they did not have the latest iPhone.  They are
> atleast as intelligent as us damnit, albeit with the limitations of
> time and place.
>
>
>     Everyone is searching for eternal life, unlimited knowledge, and
> unlimited bliss (sat-chit-ananda). With this aim, people do their
> things, including going to office, watching sports, movies, social
> service, national service, service to society, scientific research,
> reading religious scriptures, undergo austerity as philosophers,
> yogis, bhaktas, etc.  But these goals are only attained when one rises
> above all these pretensions (religion, caste, nation, sex, education,
> etc.).  A prerequisite for such happiness is eating sattvic food and
> compassion. Compassion starts with compassion towards what you eat or
> else it is an opportunistic ego boosting technique.  It is due to this
> lack of purity of food that believers of different religions fight
> even though they are praying to the same God in different names and
> forms/formlessness.  Hardly any modern educational institution has
> managed to teach this important principle of life: purity of food.
> They teach students to find happiness in things external to the body
> than in one's Self.  That is why we have a world where almost everyone
> is unhappy --- roots of a quarrelsome world.  Happiness is inside
> one's self yet people search the whole world for happiness!
>
>
> Effectively, all advancement of knowledge in science, philosophy, fine
> arts, nationalism, economic development, religion and great activities
> are wasted as peace is still evasive.
>
> Sincerely,
> --sudhakar
>
>
> Dr. Sudhakar Govindavajhala
> IITM, B.Tech, 2001
> Princeton, Ph.D., 2001-2006