We must know the characteristics of the human machine. Just as a car needs water, gas, and electricity, so does the body. Your gas and water supply come from the solids, liquids, and oxygen you take into your body. To utilize them, the energy of life must be present. That is the electricity. Without this life electricity you couldn't digest your food or assimilate oxygen. You can liken the body to an automobile battery, both require inner electricity to produce electricity or energy. A battery is better, because when it dies you can recharge it from an outside source. But when your physical body is dead, you cannot revitalize it.
The stomach is the weakest part of the human machine, and often the most abused. When digestion malfunctions, owing to overeating or wrong eating, it causes all kinds of troubles in the body. Ordinarily, when you see yourself in you mirror in the morning, you think you are quite all right. You don't realize that you are carrying many poisons in your system. The body is full of them. If you don't know how to get rid of these poisons, and the system can no longer handle them, disease results. In the American diet, protein poisoning, from the toxins in undigested protein, is usually the most at fault. In the East, the diet is often lacking in protein, but in the West it is overstocked with protein, because you eat too much meat. One of the effects of undigested protein in addition to serious consequences such as heart disease and cancer is that the toxins work on your nasal membrane and make you susceptible to catching colds.
Bad colds affect the whole body adversely, and even obstruct the mind so that you can not think clearly. Colds are extremely disruptive to the yogi's meditation, preventing correct practice of meditation techniques
All those who need their voices, such as singers and lectures, are usually susceptible to throat troubles because they are more or less sensitive about the throat. So when a cold first starts in the nose you should arrest it immediately. If you don't it gradually settles in the throat and lungs. Do you know why? The heat of the body becomes unbalanced.
Speaking of colds, I'll give you some practical suggestions, gargling daily with a glass of warm salt water is a very good preventative for colds, as are right diet and exercise, and daily sunbaths for ten to thirty minutes, depending on the intensity of the sun and the sensitivity of the skin. If you do get a cold, it is best to stop it while it is only the nose, before it goes down into the throat and chest. The best way to quickly bring the cold under control is to fast. It will arrest the condition. There is nothing that kills a cold as quickly as fasting. If you can fast twenty four hours, the cold usually goes away. But if the condition is chronic. you must eat plenty of fruits and vegetables and also have plenty of fresh air and sunshine, and exercise. Many people believe in drinking lots of water when they have a cold. This is good if they have a fever, or congestion with thick mucus. Otherwise, excess water many make the mucous membrane very active. One of the worse things you can do when you have a cold is to drink hot beverage. Cold contracts, and heat expands. The heat may feel good for a little while, but it expands the cells and disturbs their normal function. And don't take ice cold drinks either.
If you get a chest cold, dip a turkish towel in very hot water, wring it out and rub the chest with it. Then wipe the chest area with a dry towel. Repeat this five times, two or three times a day. Keep the chest well covered after each treatment. These are the physical ways of preventing or getting over a cold...
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