03-02-2012, 01:04
Hey leannel! 
This is going to be a lengthy post, so sorry in advance.
My mom has a few books on Ayurveda that have been passed down for ages and ever since I was little, I used to call them her "magic books" because whenever anyone of us kids had a problem of any sort, she would just go to the book and find a solution! They cover a huge range of topics, from colds, arthritis, diabetes, cancers, tumors/ulcers, constipation, eye problems, etc. (and apparently even NBE!)
Whenever I was sick as a kid, my mom always gave me herbs and made homemade natural concoctions instead of hopping me up on pills. I used to think my mom was so hokey for giving me these random herbs, but when I lived on my own I just used pills when I got sick and they never worked as well as the herbs. Also, my sister has been getting horrendous migraines since she was 8 years old and the only thing that has lowered the frequency of her headaches and eased the pain when she does get them is Ayurveda.
The time that I really became a believer in Ayurveda and the "magic books" was once when I was 17 or so, I was super unhealthy (not eating properly, depressed, etc.) and I hadn't gotten my period in like, 3 months (which was not usual for me). Well, one day I guess my body started trying as hard as it could to make me have my period and make me healthy again. I don't know the medical term for what was happening, but I have never been in so much physical pain as I was that day. And that's saying a lot because I have a very high tolerance for pain! It honestly felt like someone was slowly ripping out my uterus from my body or something. I was writhing around in my bed, screaming my ass off, and basically wanting to die because I was in so much pain. It was like my body was trying to squeeze out some blood and forcibly shed my uterine lining. My mom was obviously so worried and didn't know what to do, so she went and consulted the "magic book". I was rolling my eyes (in between my screaming
) because I thought that we don't even know what's happening to me, and what the hell are some herbs going to do?
Well, my mom found a chapter that described the exact symptoms that I had and gave an herbal solution. It was also audacious enough to claim that once I ingested the herbal concoction, I would feel 100% better within 30 minutes.
Yeah, OK there! Obviously I didn't expect that to be true, but I took the concoction anyway.
You wouldn't even believe it, but LITERALLY 30 mins later, all the pain just abruptly stopped... as if some switch had been turned off or something. I remember it was exactly 30 mins later, because I wanted to watch a TV show at 1pm lol. My pain had started at 1230pm and I was sitting by the TV at exactly 1pm, no joke. It was seriously like magic. After that, I was like "Ok, I'm now a believer!" haha. I know it sounds unreal and like I'm exaggerating, but I am the biggest skeptic ever, so no one can be as shocked as I was to find out that that stuff works.
My mom has some health problems too and same thing - the only things that have actually made a difference in helping her is Ayurvedic medicine. Western medicines are all about the quick fix - they give the illusion that everything's better by stomping on the symptoms and suppressing them. That's why people tend to think they're "better", but really the problem hasn't been solved, it's just been put aside. But with herbal medicines, sure they take longer to have an effect that you can feel, but inside they are actually curing the problem, not just tossing it aside.
I've been fascinated with Ayurveda and the Vedas in general and when you really do some research on them, you find that these people were talking about surgeries and medical conditions thousands of years before the rest of the world caught up - I just find that so amazing, how advanced the people who wrote them were. Virtually everything in the Vedas is practiced nowadays, which is fascinating when you realize that the Vedas were written literally over 5000 years ago! That's what I mean when I say that it's easy for me to have faith in Ayurveda, even simply for the fact that it's lasted for so many thousands of years and is actually still valid; the information has barely changed and is in accordance to current medical techniques (surgery/condition-wise), not to mention in regards to scientific findings, too.
People are always going to roll their eyes at herbal remedies (like I did!
), but that's because we've all been so conditioned to believe that the only things that help are pharmaceuticals, which is so laughably untrue. People prefer pills because it's a quick fix - societally, we're a very impatient group of people. It's the same thing with NBE - people laugh at the concept of NBE and say the only way you can increase breast size is through surgery and you're an idiot to think otherwise. This forum is enough proof that that's untrue. Augmentation is a quick fix, NBE requires patience and faith which is a lot harder to have.
Come to think of it, NBE teaches you patience, temperance, humility, and diligence, so technically we can all say that NBE is making us more virtuous!! LOL
This is going to be a lengthy post, so sorry in advance.
My mom has a few books on Ayurveda that have been passed down for ages and ever since I was little, I used to call them her "magic books" because whenever anyone of us kids had a problem of any sort, she would just go to the book and find a solution! They cover a huge range of topics, from colds, arthritis, diabetes, cancers, tumors/ulcers, constipation, eye problems, etc. (and apparently even NBE!)
Whenever I was sick as a kid, my mom always gave me herbs and made homemade natural concoctions instead of hopping me up on pills. I used to think my mom was so hokey for giving me these random herbs, but when I lived on my own I just used pills when I got sick and they never worked as well as the herbs. Also, my sister has been getting horrendous migraines since she was 8 years old and the only thing that has lowered the frequency of her headaches and eased the pain when she does get them is Ayurveda.
The time that I really became a believer in Ayurveda and the "magic books" was once when I was 17 or so, I was super unhealthy (not eating properly, depressed, etc.) and I hadn't gotten my period in like, 3 months (which was not usual for me). Well, one day I guess my body started trying as hard as it could to make me have my period and make me healthy again. I don't know the medical term for what was happening, but I have never been in so much physical pain as I was that day. And that's saying a lot because I have a very high tolerance for pain! It honestly felt like someone was slowly ripping out my uterus from my body or something. I was writhing around in my bed, screaming my ass off, and basically wanting to die because I was in so much pain. It was like my body was trying to squeeze out some blood and forcibly shed my uterine lining. My mom was obviously so worried and didn't know what to do, so she went and consulted the "magic book". I was rolling my eyes (in between my screaming
) because I thought that we don't even know what's happening to me, and what the hell are some herbs going to do? Well, my mom found a chapter that described the exact symptoms that I had and gave an herbal solution. It was also audacious enough to claim that once I ingested the herbal concoction, I would feel 100% better within 30 minutes.
Yeah, OK there! Obviously I didn't expect that to be true, but I took the concoction anyway. You wouldn't even believe it, but LITERALLY 30 mins later, all the pain just abruptly stopped... as if some switch had been turned off or something. I remember it was exactly 30 mins later, because I wanted to watch a TV show at 1pm lol. My pain had started at 1230pm and I was sitting by the TV at exactly 1pm, no joke. It was seriously like magic. After that, I was like "Ok, I'm now a believer!" haha. I know it sounds unreal and like I'm exaggerating, but I am the biggest skeptic ever, so no one can be as shocked as I was to find out that that stuff works.
My mom has some health problems too and same thing - the only things that have actually made a difference in helping her is Ayurvedic medicine. Western medicines are all about the quick fix - they give the illusion that everything's better by stomping on the symptoms and suppressing them. That's why people tend to think they're "better", but really the problem hasn't been solved, it's just been put aside. But with herbal medicines, sure they take longer to have an effect that you can feel, but inside they are actually curing the problem, not just tossing it aside.
I've been fascinated with Ayurveda and the Vedas in general and when you really do some research on them, you find that these people were talking about surgeries and medical conditions thousands of years before the rest of the world caught up - I just find that so amazing, how advanced the people who wrote them were. Virtually everything in the Vedas is practiced nowadays, which is fascinating when you realize that the Vedas were written literally over 5000 years ago! That's what I mean when I say that it's easy for me to have faith in Ayurveda, even simply for the fact that it's lasted for so many thousands of years and is actually still valid; the information has barely changed and is in accordance to current medical techniques (surgery/condition-wise), not to mention in regards to scientific findings, too.
People are always going to roll their eyes at herbal remedies (like I did!
), but that's because we've all been so conditioned to believe that the only things that help are pharmaceuticals, which is so laughably untrue. People prefer pills because it's a quick fix - societally, we're a very impatient group of people. It's the same thing with NBE - people laugh at the concept of NBE and say the only way you can increase breast size is through surgery and you're an idiot to think otherwise. This forum is enough proof that that's untrue. Augmentation is a quick fix, NBE requires patience and faith which is a lot harder to have. Come to think of it, NBE teaches you patience, temperance, humility, and diligence, so technically we can all say that NBE is making us more virtuous!! LOL