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Food in its own shape or colour means proteins are not digesting
After being swallowed, a chemical process takes place upon every particle of food. So it follows that after that chemical process the shape and the appearance of the thing eaten ought to change.
Over six decades, after questioning more than one lakh patients, it was found that the patients of almost all old, chronic diseases definitely admitted that in their motion — the stool — some one or another of the following things is seen in its original shape or colour:
the seeds or the skins of tomato, brinjal or bhindī, lady's finger
the grains of chana, matar or groundnut
the leaf of coriander, curry leaf, spinach or methi
the raw pieces of carrot or beetroot salad
the mustard, cumin and the other things used in the taḍkā, the tempering
On reflecting a little it will be understood that all the things written above — whether in the form of leaves or in the form of vegetables — are all only different forms of protein.
This has been discussed with many doctors. All of them say the same thing: that the coming of undigested food in the motion is natural, and that it has no connection with any disease. Some say it happens because the food is not chewed properly. But Guruji proves, and stands by the claim, that it is not so. If anything at all is seen undigested in the motion, it means the proteins are not digesting properly. Often such people also say their stool is soft. Some say that to clear the stomach they have to go two or three times a day, or more.
The hen, the marble, and the three functions of the stomach's acid
In the feed given to a hen, marble powder is specially put, so that the outer layer of the egg becomes strong — because she has the capacity to digest marble.
In the same way, in the stomach of a healthy human being an acid called hydrochloric acid is prepared, which is harsher even than the acid that cleans drains, and which can digest every hard object. Whatever has been eaten, its form must change in that fierce acid — whether he has chewed it or has not chewed it.
The chief functions of that acid are three.
First — the acid is so fierce and harsh that no virus or bacteria can remain alive in it.
Second — only after the fierce acid has come out will the enzyme called pepsin come out in the stomach, which begins the work of digesting proteins.
Third — the food that comes from the stomach is acid-laden; when it goes into the duodenum, if its pH is not below 4.5 then the hormone secretin will not be made, which provokes the liver to send bile, which helps in digesting ghee and oil. So the stomach's acid should be very harsh indeed.
The working of the stomach is now so widely known that a child who has passed the tenth standard can recite it. So why the debate?
It is precisely here that the depth of the enquiry shows. After digestion and absorption, whatever residue is left is thrown out of the body as stool. So — when so many chemical processes are going on inside the body, can anything of the food still be seen inside the stool in its original, that is its former, form? If acid and pepsin come out in the proper quantity, then whatever has been eaten, its form and its colour will certainly change — whether he chewed it or did not chew it.
In those people in whom the skins of tomato, or pieces of carrot or beetroot, are appearing in the stool in their natural colour or their own shape, the acid of the stomach, or the enzymes of the intestines, have not even this much effect upon the food substances that they could at least change the colour. Which means those secretions are not being made in the right quantity, or in the proper concentration. And if the stomach's acid is not in the right quantity or of the proper pH, then proteins will not digest properly — and any germ that comes in with the food can easily get inside the blood.
All the enzymes of the body, the chemicals of the brain, and — with the exception of the steroid hormones — all the other hormones are made from proteins only. When some proteins do not digest properly, then whatever chemicals are to be made from them, their deficiency will come into the body; and because of that deficiency the balance of the body will be spoiled, and diseases will certainly come.
The liver's reserve, and why nobody falls ill on the first day
Even if there is a shortage of some proteins in the food, the liver of a healthy person makes several amino acids — these are called the non-essential amino acids — which it goes on making according to the need, at the right time and in the right quantity.
It is only because of this wonderful capacity of the body that even when the digestive system is not in order we do not fall ill at once, and are able to get free quickly from small ailments.
But when, through wrong habits and wrong eating and drinking, illnesses come again and again, then this capacity keeps on diminishing — and the body begins to become the victim of great diseases.
The bedside method
Five findings and no laboratory — the stool, the tongue, the curd
If the stomach's acid is right, then hunger will be felt properly, food will digest properly, and no disease can easily come into the body. This same capacity is called जठराग्नि — jaṭharāgni — in Yoga. And this is the very reason the therapy says that one should not drink water or cold drinks along with food, so that the acid of the stomach does not become quietened.
Second, the food that comes acid-laden from the stomach, when it goes into the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine — only if the pH of those secretions is below 4.5 will secretin be made, which provokes the liver to make bile, which is necessary to help in digesting fats. If secretin is not made, the digestion of fats too can be spoiled.
Third, remember that the chemicals of the digestive system itself are also made from proteins. If some proteins do not digest properly, then in the end the digestive enzymes too will not be made properly, from which the digestive action goes on becoming more and more spoiled. In this way a kind of vicious cycle goes on forming.
And if bacteria or a virus remains alive in someone's stomach or intestines, we should understand that his stomach's acid is less, or is not being made. Such people too must be getting UDF.
Now the part a therapist uses with his hands.
The chief aspect of the treatment, and the sign that carries it
We do not give treatment for any one disease; rather we treat according to the condition of the body on that day.
And to find out the condition of the body each day, the method is the sensation of pain at certain specially chosen places around the navel.
Chief among these is the part below the bone in the middle of the chest — the sternum — the region called in English the solar plexus.
In any disease of the stomach there is pain in the part between the solar plexus and the navel. Pain in that part indicates that the blood flow is not right in some parts of the stomach and the intestine.
Such people often say they have soft stool three or four times a day. Some have to go to the motion immediately after eating. This is an indicator that their digestive power is weak, on account of which they will certainly have UDF.
It is a separate matter that they will never have peeped inside the latrine to see what the motion is like. But if you explain to them the importance of this and tell them to observe, then the very next day they will come and say — yes, undigested food is seen in the motion.
Some people have small or large scratches or lines on the tongue. Here a popular saying is worth keeping in mind — the face is the reflection of the mind; the tongue is the mirror of the intestines.
Having lines on the tongue indicates that inside the intestines too there will be such scratches, on account of which they cannot absorb nutrients properly.
If the patient is a small child, ask the mother one question: when the child vomits after drinking milk, does milk come out as milk, or as curd — दही?
If milk comes out as milk, it means that hydrochloric acid is not being made in the child's stomach — otherwise the milk would not have come as milk; it would have come out having become curd.
The infant's curd test
This means that the child has UDF.
For acid to be made properly, histamine, acetylcholine and gastrin are required. So if the acid is not being made, it means that one of these three, or all of them, are not working properly. Hold those three names. They are the reason the HCl treatment at the end of this article is built the way it is.
The three levels
The problem of UDF is solved from three levels, for which there are several kinds of UDF formulas. Every formula in this article works in one or more of these three ways, and a student who knows the three can look at any unfamiliar UDF sequence and say what each part of it is for. (Figure 29.1)
By all these specific means, the production of the body's hormones and chemicals improves, and the repair of cells and tissues and the other maintenance and protective functions receive promotion.
When UDF comes
UDF can come to anyone at any age.
To small children UDF comes for the first time when their teeth are coming out. In small children after a certain age it begins to come when the child has eaten some odd or unsuitable thing, or when his liver is becoming weak. It will often be seen that a few days after UDF appears in the motion, the child may get pain in the stomach or the head, or fever, for a day or two. If jaundice — पीलिया — also came in childhood, then its effect remains upon the liver for many years.
The coming of fever indicates that the liver needs rest for a few days. A white layer-like coating appears on the child's tongue. At that time hunger is not felt.
In grown persons UDF often begins to come in those days when they eat irregularly or without limit. The common example is eating at parties or at weddings, on other people's insistence, even when there is no hunger. In such a condition, keeping a fast afterwards for a day or two is the best remedy.
What the patient must do, while you do your part
Change the system of food first — the patient's half runs with yours
During a fast the body gets time for its internal repair, and it soon begins to become well.
One more chief cause of UDF is today's system of agricultural production. Artificial fertilisers such as urea, and pesticides, are being used for crops in excessive quantity. After eating that crop, those chemicals go inside our body and spoil not only our digestive system but our immunity as well. Along with this, there is another ill effect: for some years it appears that the earnings are increasing, but in the long term it is harmful — because from it the fertile power, the productive capacity of the earth, keeps decreasing, which will prove harmful for the coming generations.
When such is the condition throughout the country, a question may arise: what can anybody do about this? Here the therapy makes a practicable request. Those big people who have their own land should use natural manure in at least some part of it; and whenever a birthday or other auspicious occasion comes in the family, they should give the crop grown from that land as a gift to the other members of the family and to friends. From this, awareness towards such crops and towards health will gradually be built up in people's minds, and a taste will be created for returning in the direction of our ancient agricultural method — which was beneficial for the whole of society.
Some people hold that the coming of UDF is not in itself any disease, and therefore one should not be frightened by it. It is true that this is not any disease. The coming of UDF only indicates that whatever has been eaten, the body is unable to digest it. But if this is ignored, then this same thing later becomes the root of diseases.
Guruji has found that the cause of the world's greatest diseases is the coming of UDF itself.
And then the instruction students most often forget, because it is inconvenient.
UDF first, the disease second
In old diseases UDF comes first, whatever the patient came with
Since the food, drink and manner of living of all people is not the same, one and the same treatment will not apply to all patients. After a deep study of the working style of the digestive system, different kinds of treatments for correcting UDF were made, for patients of different tendencies. The whole of the rest of this article is those treatments.
But before the first of them, the rule that orders the entire course of a chronic case.
Where the UDF treatment stands in a course of treatment
In old diseases — whatever the disease may be — the treatment for correcting UDF should be the very first stage of the treatment.
And the observation attached to it: it has been seen that when undigested food stops coming in the stool, from that alone a miraculous improvement is seen in the patient's disease. After that, on giving other treatments according to the condition of the body, the results have been found to be better still.
That is the rule Dr. Krishnamurthy Jalihal put into practice, and the story at the head of this article is what he found when he did. (Figure 29.2)
