Amazing History!

     

                                   Amazing History!

•        Ancient Egyptian workers were sometimes paid in beer.
•         Ancient Greeks used to have ‘ Screaming Contest’ as part of their entertainment.
•       In Medieval times animals could be put on trial and even executed for crimes.
•      In ancient China, the color yellow was reserved only for the emperors.
•     In the Middle Ages, people believed that carrying a bay leaf protected them from witchcraft and lightening.
•      In ancient Egypt, servants were painted with gold to show how wealthy their masters were.
•     In the Middle Ages, some believed that carrying a nutmeg would protect them from plague.
•    In the Medieval times, some people were put on trial for eating cheese.
•   In eighteen hundreds, doctors prescribed chocolate to cure a broken heart.

Do you know ?

                                          Do you know?

 

•     The emperor Tiberius used to say that man, after the age of 35, should no longer have any need of doctors. This maxim is true in as much as man, by the time he reached the halfway point in his life, ought to have gained enough experience about himself to know what things are harmful and beneficial to him. By means of a good diet, he should be able to govern himself in such a way as to keep his health in perfect balance. This is not difficult to do so as long as his condition is not threatened by innate defects or by some serious injuries.
• Ice cream at the end of dinner does no harm; indeed it does good, since it draws back to the stomach the warmth necessary for good digestion.
• Languages are not born overnight but for the most part grow seamlessly out of languages over generations and centuries.
• Alexander the Great says about his teacher’s greatness. He says that his father brought him from heaven to this earth, but his teacher has made him to go to heaven from the earth.

Tidbits

 

                                            Tidbits

  

•         It is touch of Nature that makes the whole world kin.
•         Things often mend when they seem worst.
•         Silence and solitude are the best pleasing companions.
•        The kindly tone and sympathizing look are the real gifts one can give to others.
•         Doing one’s duty with pleasure is a good way to feed heart, soul and imagination.
•         Moulding character is the highest sort of sculpture and one should learn that before one touches clay or marble.
•        The values that unite us are much stronger than policies that divide us.
•       Skill is money.
•       Student in the college of experience could learn more than at even the great universities.
•      A nation’s prosperity depends upon how its soil is used.
•      It is really what we think and do that makes us beautiful or not beautiful.
•      Things we do for other people to make them happy come back to us with interest.
•       Each one of us has the healing power within ourselves if we are strong enough to invoke the Life Force within.

Horticultural hints on trees in ancient Sanskrit texts - just a sprinkling

   

                         Horticultural hints on trees in ancient Sanskrit texts- just a sprinkling

        

          Trees are planted after new moon and in the waxing period of it in fixed asterisms ( some specific Zodiac signs) .

Watering - The planted trees should be watered morning and evening in the Summer season, on alternate days in winter, and in the night during the rainy season if the earth ( soil ) has become dry. Trees planted 20 cubits ( A cubit was traditionally defined as the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. Generally equals about 18 inches ) are considered as excellent, 16 cubits apart as medium. There should be minimum 12 cubits distance in between one tree and the other. Trees planted densely would not bear fruits. They should first be pruned with a cutter.

The trees should be sprinkled with cold water mixed with a paste of Vidanga ( Embelia ribes, a kind of plant it seems ) and Ghee. If the fruits get destroyed cold water should be sprinkled with a paste of horse-gram, black gram, green gram, barley and sesame

One should always sprinkle cold water with ghee for getting abundant fruits and flowers. Sprinkling with the excrements of sheep, goat and powdered barley, sesame allowed to be soaked in meat and water for 7 nights would also increase the bearing of fruits and flowers in all the trees. Sprinkling with the washings of the fish would also increase the bearing of fruits and flowers in all the trees. Fish and meat mixed with Vidanga and rice would make them bear fruits. This would universally control the diseases of all the trees.

    

Exercises , dos and don’ts in the light of Ayurveda

 

                             Exercises, dos and don’ts in the light of Ayurveda

        The importance of exercise is stressed by all streams of medicine, whether Allopathy or Ayurveda. Exercise is known asVyayama in Sanskrit, any activity that makes one tired.According to Sushruta and Charaka that the effort which produces stability and strength in the body is known as Vyayama. It helps in maintaining the balance between the three circulatory forces or doshas Vata,Pittha, and Kapha.

Exercise stimulates agni, the digestive fire and metabolic capacity, and it enhances ojas, the mental and physical capacity to resist disease or stress.

Exercise primarily improves the digestive power to help absorb the nourishment from food. The body becomes lighter, thereby promoting stability and lowering the probability of accidental falls. Just as one’s diet needs to be personalized to suit the body type, so does the physical exercise.

•      One should not do any physical exercise while the food still remains undigested , nor immediately after taking food, nor after drinking water or any fluid.
• One should not do exercises affecting one’s body directly under the Sunlight.
• One shouldn’t expose his body to direct Sunlight after doing exercises.
• Physical exercises would remove the excessive phlegm ( Kapha).
• Massaging removes the excessive wind ( vata ).
• Bathing would remove the excessive bile ( pittha).

Inspiring voices from the past

 

                                Inspiring voices from the past

 

•       What experience and history teaches is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
•      There is no greater tyranny, than which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
•  Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
• Those who cannot inspire will never be leaders.
• Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
• No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again today.
• Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.