Introduction

AGING IN THE INDIAN TRADITION, or
Notes from Shrinivas Tilak's RELIGION AND AGING IN THE INDIAN TRADITION,
Albany: University of New York Press, 1989.
by Lyle Pearson

Before Buddha, in Vedic society, death was probably associated with youth and vitality more than with old age. Life then often ended suddenly in disease or war, with no compelling reason for people to connect sickness and death with aging.

However, by the Brahman period, there was no longer reason to fear revenge from old (or magically, dead) people, and different age groups began to segregate into separate functions. Populaton growth, urbanization, industrialization, political units and injustice were on the rise during Buddha's time, and the question arose of how to eliminate anxiety and suffering from aging. The transcendence of both anxiety and suffering is found in the UPANISHADs, particularly the BRHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD. Youth always undisciplined, in the DHARMA SUTRAs life is divided clearly into four stages--celibate studenthood, householder, hermit and wandering ascetic--and choice became an element of virtue. During Ashoka's reign (c. 273-236 BC), Buddhism became the religion of the masses, and the last message of the Buddha was:

Aging is inherent in all component things.
Work out your own salvation with diligence.

Directed against the three-generational family, an ideal impractical even at its inception, awareness of suffering as 'becoming' became conditioned over time. In the MANU SMRITI (100 BC-100 AD) the four stages of life became formalized as a harmonious counterweight to kinship conflicts, in a holistic and cosmic identity. Growth and aging now coexist from conception to death. Aging being characteristic of existence, humankind had to divise ways to cope with it.

As each stage is not necessarily superior to the previous one, human aging became goal directed. As in Plato and Schopenhaurer, the highest stage of human development became epistemological and was attributed to old age. Ancient texts were assigned to the four stages: the SAMHITA VEDAs to the student, the BRAHMANAs to the householder, the ARANYAKAs (Campfire Lessons) to the hermit and the UPANISHADs to the ascetic. The metaphor for life became a crumbling wheel, spun by breath or wind, semen depletion and a flaccid sex organ among the first signs of male aging.

Time became not just inescapable, but ontological. Change--birth, growth, aging and death--also became both. Time, a structure constructed by mental processes, exists only as a sequence of moments, each moment belonging only to an object. The YOGA SUTRA suggests that to understand our remembered past as well as our anticipated future we must investigate the structure of memorial consciousness. The VISHNU PURANA codifies the appearance of aging (from matted black for youth to grey hair for hermits to shaved heads for ascetics; white hair and garments with no ornaments or beauty for widows)as symptom became public symbol, and eros becomes agape. Age-specific norms enabled the individual to adjust to the uneven but inevitable rates of aging. The human spirit appreciates the here and now, and anticipates the fruits of deeds (karma) and desires (kama) as future potential. Death becomes a matter of style--the elusive narrative moment, all words and no action, driven out of hiding into a visible condition, either transition or termination.

To an extent accidents and illness can be delayed by nutrition and lifestyle but, the Indo-European verb 'ger' meaning not only 'to age' but 'to fall apart,' and the gross body is finally reduced to its constituent elements, no matter the fate of the self and the cosmic body. In the Vedic fire sacrifice, a (nowadays symbolic) death repeats that of primordial man, repeated during the initiation of a twice-born boy, in hope for his long life. Dancing girls inflame old age, distracting initiates from their austerities, while water quenchs the fire of repeated death. Knowledge provides a compensating antidote to the certainty of death.

Over-population necessitates death while devotion forestalls it. Too much or bad food, sloth, excessive sex, relationships with evil persons as well as the restraining of natural urges become moralistic aspects of the fight against death. Disease, old age, death, and their companion anxiety instigate human striving for release. Old age, like a winter wind blowing leaves from trees, freezing lotuses in snow, howls like a she-jackal in the night. Release (nirvana) relieves the process. Like a raging wind or river, life itself breaks up our lives and flows on. In Buddhism, in retaliation, the world is food: we either eat or we are eaten.

Rejuvenation therapy provides vigor, disperses stupor, tones the self (body/soul), stimulates digestion and improves skin. It can be practiced in an expensive spa, or for free outdoors. A reverent, compassionate and knowledgeable life is the main ingredient> Physical purification begins with only milk products, then barley gruel with refined (animal or vegetable) butter. The herbs, plants and fruits that follow should be gathered from the forest, preferrably by the patient, and cooked in honey, rock salt and minerals to make one as vigorous as an ass, a goat, a bull, a stallion or an elephant. Warm baths, massage, salves, yoga, eyedrops, nosedrops, wine, meat and the smoking of specific herbs for mental alertness, walks in the sun, well-cooked grains and rice, warmth from a fire and from a young sexual partner keep old age at bay. Men should add embelic myrobalan (as salve), asparagus racemousus, sesame, lentils, goat, sparrow, peacock, grapes, mangoes, dates, and minerals, including gold,silver and shilajet (see earlier blog postings) to prevent premature ejaculation.

Geriatrics developed as a true science only in the 20th century. Ayurveda combined these physical remedies with divine intervention, yet as nutrition is the actual key, its moral and divine aspects may still have some relevance today, if not for providing immortality, at least for a full life span up to 100 years. Human suffering is endowed with metaphysical experience. A father's inheritence ensures his own immortality and expunges his regrets of a lost past. It has always been this way.

Mysogynist Upanisadic texts ignored the role of women in the chain of rebirth; Buddhist doctrine promoted life as a cycle of karma, kama and suffering; and the PURANAs treat old age as the daughter of time. Each life will lose stamina within each stage of life. Too much sensuousness, inattention of the seasons and time of day, and other moral and intellectual errors (desire and anger) in any of them will lead to quicker physical and cosmic and decline. Karma is of two kinds, conscious and unconscious. Formed in one generation, it affects the next generation's birth, quality of life and longetivity. Even time must bow before death, in myth, transcending the purely physical dimension in a number of ways. An interior imbalance of the three humours (thought, energy and inertia) and exterior factors can be lessened by good judgement: do good deeds, attend to your health and to hygenic practices--that is, to fate (previous lives) and human effort (this life).

India's heritage could contribute to a new, nuanced Indian gerontology. Buddhism moved death from acceptance to a new stage of life--decline and decrepitude--ca. 500 BCE, striving for a spiritual liberation. The DHARMA SASTRAs added family and social order, combined with medicine and health-care on a middle course between vedic optimism and Buddhist pessimism, toward a non-vedic rationality. Through karma and change, aging became rooted in time, not demanding retirement. Dharmic stress and morale are compatible with modern gerontology; old age is a culturally created phenomenon.

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I'm a 68-year old student/householder/hermit/ascetic.
Are you ready for some TANTRA?
From here on, this blog is for Adults Only.

Hope 2001

In October 2001, after some prostate problems and five biopsies, I was clinically diagnosed with just about the smallest amount of prostate cancer possible. Out of many small cores extracted via an electric needle, only one showed any cancer, and less than half a millimeter at that. My urologist sent me home with some literature and told me to make a decision on immediate treatment--a radical prostatectomy, beam radiation, seed radiation, hormone therapy, cryotherapy or, the least of which he seemed to value, watchful waiting. I read the literature thoroughly and returned to his office, thinking that seed radiation--one of the least invasive techniques--might be the one for me.

"I told you to read that material!" he trumpeted. "Surgery--that's the answer!"

"I did read it," I countered, "and it's very badly written. I don't care, for instance, what Jerry Lewis did. I'd like to know, rather, things like, Does diet have anything to to with this?"

"No, it doesn't. There's no cure."

"So why, according to this other page, do men in Asia have little prostate cancer?"

"Well, there could be three reasons--brown rice, green tea and soy."

I'd already decided to have a second opinion, but continued. "I'm interested in clinical trials." I was so because I'd read in Franz Metcalf's WHAT WOULD BUDDHA DO? that that's what Buddha would do--suffer, if need be, for the greater good of human--or here, mankind.

"Then get on the Net."

Several days later, at the Community Cancer Center, an arm of St. Joseph's Hospital here in Bellingham, I told my story.

"Go home and drink a glass of tomato-based vegetable juice every day," my new doctor answered. "Eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. If you're interested in clinical trials, try to get involved in one for PC-SPES (PC for Prostate Cancer, SPES being Latin for hope). Come back in three months--then we'll see if you're a candidate for seed radiation, even temporary radiation"--which my first urologist claimed is no longer done.

At the Community Cancer Center, you get not only a doctor, but a dietician, a psycho-social worker, and someone who tracks prostate cancer all over Whatcom county. I found out that I couldn't enroll in a clinical trial for PC-SPES without going to San Francisco, or buy it for less that $200 a month. But one of these Center people suggested that I contact a particular naturopathic college in Seattle, and perhaps they could put something similar together for me. We knew the formula, and the clinic did put it together, for $20 a month. I took it twice a day, and changed my diet according to all the material on prostate health that I could find in the Bellingham Library. Robert Arnot's book THE PROSTATE CANCER PROTECTION PLAN: THE POWERFUL FOODS, SUPPLEMENTS AND DRUGS THAT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE(2000)was the most recent.

Four months later, when I returned to the Center, I was a good 10 pounds lighter (down from 186 to 177) and my PSA(Prostate Specific Antigen)count, the normal fear factor, eventually went down by more than two points, from 10.7 to 8.4. I didn't even need seed radiation, just watchful waiting. Five years later, three years after I stopped taking the new formula, my PSA is down to 7.7.

Three years later I had another biopsy, because my prostate was enlarged, and we found no cancer at all.

The formula that I took was equal parts Reishi (a mushroom), Baikal Skullcap, Dyer's Woad, Mum, San-Qi Ginseng and a like amount of saw palmetto. The last ingredient, Rabdosia, we could not find so I didn't take it.

The foods that I gave up are coffee, eggs, potatoes, red meat, processed grains, all fats and all dairy products except mozarella cheese (from buffalos, it's almost fat free).

Besides brown rice, green tea (four cups a day) and soybeans (40 grams a day, as soymilk from flakes, miso, tofu, tempeh, nuts and/or soy ice cream), I added Navy, Pinto, kidney, and black beans (1 1/2 cups a day), All-Bran, grapefruit, cocoa, minestrone, freeze-dried soups (no ramen), lentils, whole wheat spaghetti, calamari, free range chicken and turkey, tomato sauce, olive oil, kohlrabi, asparagus, red cabbage, purple onions, collard greens, rutabegas, turnips, bok choy, kale, rye bread, Ry-Krisp,red wine, sherbet, fig bars, chocolate-chip/oatmeal cookies, almonds, cashews, chestnuts, hazel nuts, coconut, honey, mangoes and cranberries,sherbet and dark chocolate. I was already eating flatbread, lean beef, pork (ham), wild salmon, trout, halibut, tuna, shrimp and crab, garlic, spinach, red bellpeppers, cauliflower, squash, broccoli, sunflower seeds, Brussels spouts, parsley, mustard, corn and carrots, shitake and portobello mushrooms and brownies, cherries, apples, pears, bananas,strawberries, plums (prunes), oranges and canteloupe. The Italian, Greek, Chinese and Japanese diets being the best, with their whole, non-processed grains, according to Michael Milken--yes, that Michael Milken, the ex-con and longterm cancer-survivor--in his TASTE OF LIVING WORLD COOKBOOK, I could also have added canola oil, barley seedlings, buckwheat, tabouli, couscous, sorghum, artichokes, focaccia, bouillaisse, edamane, rapini, macademia and Brazil nuts and limes, for more good international prostate menus than there are days in the week. Being intersted in India, I aso use tumeric, cumin, cardamom (all three have anti-cancer properties), cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and coriander. Organic produce is the best, so I use my Smart Commuter card (10% off any one organic item) each time I shop at Bellingham's Community Food Co-op, to keep myself from any further impurities and inflamation in my system. The more colorful the veggies, the more flavinoids, and therefore the more antioxidents they have in them. I take selenium and saw palmetto, and try to keep my Vitamin D, calcium (they cause stones)and glucose (diabetes)down, and my Vitamin E (libido) and soluble fiber up (for the digestive track). I try to keep my weight down, the theory being that since cancer cells feed off normal cells, they will starve to death before the normal cells are damaged. Try not finishing that little dab of food left on your plate. It helps.

I'm still watchful waiting. It's 2006.

Part 1

When I was in Seattle two weeks ago for a checkup from the doctor who had performed the Coretherm ProstaLund microwave treatment on my prostate for BPH (Benign Prostate Hyperplasia) last December, I told him that I was having a little trouble--in spite of all my practice at Tantra--sustaining an, well er ah, erection. The doctor answered, "I can help you. I can write you a prescription for Viagra."

"No free samples?" I asked.

"We're not allowed to do that anymore."

"How much are they?"

"Ten dollars a pill. I can make you a prescription for ten pills."

"Now wait a minute!" I explained my financial situation.

"I can make you a prescription for five."

"That would be fifty dollars?"

"Yes. I can make you a prescription for as many as you like. You can cut them in half."

"Make it for two. I'll cut them in fourths."

The doctor scoffed a bit, but he did and I did, and the first quarter is still working, two weeks after I saw him. Maybe I just needed a jumpstart, I'm thinking, or maybe I had been too gentle with myself. I told this story to my general physician in Bellingham and he responded, "I can give you free samples. I don't know why he told you he couldn't." (I think it's probably U of W Hospital policy.) This doctor then walked out of the room and returned, "I don't seem to have any Viagra right now, but here's some Levitra. It's the same thing. You can quarter them also."

I'm still on that first quarter Viagra (my, my, at my penile root there was a sensation that I've never known before, it hasn't been like this in years and if you don't mind me saying so, for a while it was too much for my Tantra to handle!) and now I have enough of this stuff, if I ever do use it again, for more that a year.

I may try to regranulate it.

Part 2

The October night after I refused a TURP (Transurethral Resectioning of the Prostate, or coring it out with a metal loop, like an apple) to solve my BPH (Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy), a refusal I made because of TURP's side effects--a possible 50% erectile dysfunction and 80% retrograde ejaculation--I got my groove back, or as one doctor put it, my "libido." For 4 1/2 months I'd been wearing a catheter and had believed I would have to have a prostatectomy because of my prostate cancer. When I found out that I didn't have to (my cancer appears in remission; after two years of a Chinese herbal formula, it hadn't been detected in my latest biopsy) a doctor still recommended that I have a TURP, not just for my BPH but because in resectioning the prostate a large enough sample of flesh would be obtained to check more thoroughly for cancer. I read in the 2005 issue of 'The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy,' an issue devoted to prostate cancer, the comments of a guy who had undergone a protastectomy. He hadn't been prepared for the change in his body image, and hadn't realized that tumesence, climax and ejaculation were three different things: now he was stuck, without drugs, with only one of the three, and a deflated body image. I thought, DON'T LET A SURGEON CONVINCE YOU TO HAVE A PROSTATECTOMY WITHOUT A SECOND OPINION FROM A DOCTOR WHO IS NOT A SURGEON.

But now I had also refused a TURP and that October night, even though I was still wearing my catheter, I felt a nocturnal tumescence for the first time in four months and was still firm in the morning. Not that I might not have been tumescent earlier. "Physicians believe that if a man has erections in the middle of the night," according to Jon L. Pryor and Stacey Glass' book 'It's In the Male,' "he has no physical or organic problem."

" Most patients believe the erections they have when they wake up are the kind of erections they typically have all night. This is not the case. It is the erections a man has when he is sound asleep that are important for (physical) diagnosis. For such testing...bands are placed around the penis to detect the erections. Probes
placed on the scalp indicate when a man is in REM sleep. Other monitors check breathing and heart rate. Finding out how often during REM sleep erections occur, how large the penis gets, and how firm, is the goal. NPT testing (nocturanal penile tumescence) is a great advance over what was used in the past, the old (postage) stamp test. For the mere cost of three to five stamps (depending on the size of the penis), physicians wrapped stamps around the penis. Their breaking apart during the night indicated some enlargement during sleep. In attempts to make a more sophisticated 'stamp,' various bands and cuffs have been developed... "

For weeks after the return of my nocturnal tumescence I marveled at it, at the high that I had gotten just by saying NO! toTURP and at the firmness I felt in the mornings. During the days, I searched the St. Joseph's Hospital library and on the net, at PUB MED and GOGGLE for information on other, less invasive procedures than TURP to lessen my PBH. I found more than ten such procedures, some rather amusing--for example, a hot water balloon can be sent up your urethra to burn away excess flesh, as long as your prostate isn't misshappen. The least invasive procedure of all, a TUNA (Transurethral Needle Ablation, or microwave burning of two small holes near the bladder neck), isn't done in Bellingham so I phoned the University of Washington Hospital (where I had earlier hoped for a prostatectomy less invasive than a normal one, a laproscopic prostatectomy) to see if I might be a candidate for a TUNA. Instead, the doctor there tried to convince me to have an advanced form of a TUMT (Transurethral Microwave Therapy, or a microwave burning away of the mucosa (inner lining) of the urethra), a procedure that is available in Bellingham, but now called Coretherm ProstaLund, with an advancement that is not available in Bellingham, allowing better monitoring of the blood flow in the prostate during the procedure and therefore a more accurate use of microwave energy. ( I just tell my friends that Coretherm has a better thermostat.) The doctor finally did convince me--he had claimed there was very little chance of erectile dysfunction and 30% of retrograde ejaculation, and my research had found a 4.4% chance of erectile dysfunction and only 19% of retrograde ejaculation--and I agreed to submit to the procedure December 30, 2004. Now, on a May 2005 evening, I lay on my bed, two weeks after having taken care of any erectile dysfunstion with a 1/4 Viagra, this time after a 1/8 Viagra, still disapointed that I hadn't made any progress in curing my apparant 100% retrograde ejaculation. After seven months on a catheter (including two after the procedure) and two months practicing Tantra, my muscles let my blood flow in the right direction: but would anything else?

Actually, in Tantra retrograde ejaculation is supposed to be a good thing: it shoots your sexual energy back into your body, recycling it through your chakras ("wheels," 6, 7 or 4 depending upon whether you're using the Hindu or Buddhist Tantric system) by waking your Kundalini (subtle female serpent energy) coiled around chakra number one (at your perineum), sending it up through your body and out the top of your head, whence a golden child appears above your crown. But I wanted to know that I was still fertile, to know that I COULD produce a child in the normal way, not just through the top of my head, whether I was really going to or not. In short, I wanted my ejaculation back. I lay there depressed: my erectile dysfunction seemed more that 4.4 %, in spite of all my Tantra without Viagra, and my retrograde ejaculation still appeared 100%. I lay between the cover of the book 'Betty Page Confidential' on my left (one should always pay obeisance to the Mother Goddess, the creator of all things in Tantra, whether one is gay or not) and a Colt greeting card with some mustachioed hunk lounging on his left elbow, wearing one leather glove on my right(My lover had died a year ago, his misdiagnosed lung cancer metastasizing to his brain). I thought how similar they were, the book and the card, in skin tone, lighting, neutral background and purpose. It was over, I was spent, but where had the passion been? Viagra just produced a physical sensation, a super-tumesence and an unfortunate climax, with still no ejaculate. I thought, How could I ever have have been talked into that Coretherm ProstaLund? My life was ruined, across the board, I felt, and better living through chemistry simply rushed blood from my head into my dry, barren penis--a penis that ironically was too much for my Tantra to handle. I knew I wouldn't always be this depressed, but my condition seemed permanent indeed.

The next morning I decided to try once again. I whipped out my copy of Bruce Anderson's 'Tantra For the Gay Man' and re-read the paragraphs on ejaculation:

"Most men have an orgasam when they ejaculate, and this single event becomes the the central drive of their sexual life. With practice we can learn to have multiple orgasams that don't include ejaculation. Prolonging ejaculation is generally a tool used to extend lovemaking sessions. To ejaculate requires flection of the back, gluts, abdominals, and quadriceps in the legs. In fact, some men enjoy flexing many of their muscles all at once to create one great come-pumping piston. The rise of the Kundalini through the spine, piercing the brain and blasting through the skull, is very similar to the rise of semen through an erect penis, blasting out and spreading your seed."

That last is what I wanted--one good ejaculation--and I set out to work again. That October 2004 night, after I refused my TURP, I had gotten my groove back. This May morning, after 1/4 and later 1/8 of a Viagra, seemingly endless Tantra (sometimes twice a day) and several accidental, failed climaxes--I got my ejaculate back.

DON'T EVER SUBMIT TO A TURP TO ALLEVIATE BPH WITHOUT CONDUCTING YOUR OWN SEARCH FOR LESS INVASIVE PROCEDURES. AND THEN--PRACTICE, PRACTICE. PRACTICE. Other books to help your practice include Betty Dodson's 'Sex For One,' available in the Bellingham Library, Margo Woods' 'Masturbation, Tantra and Self-Love' and Thomas W. Laqueur's 'Solitary Sex,' which aren't.

THE AYURVEDIC/CHINESE PROSTATE/IMPOTENCE TRANSLATION/PAGES

THE AYURVEDIC/CHINESE PROSTATE/IMPOTENCE TRANSLATION/PAGES

INDIA

SUKRA (Potency)

Prostate, Perineal, Penile Root, Penile and Pubic Massage (One deep breath per repetition)
GHEE (Clarified Unsalted Organic Butter), prostate and perineal; or
ASHWAGANDHA ("Horsesmell," Winter Cherry, Withania somnifera) oil, penile only; or
BALA or ATIBALA ("Strength," Indian Country Mallow) oil, perineal and penile, urination; or
KUMARI (Indian Aloe, Aloe indica) with cumin, juice paste, penile inflamation; or
SHATAVARI ("Possesses 100 Husbands," Asparagus racemosus) root ghee, stamina;
and/or Mahanarayan c ("Great Vishnu," TIL (Sesame) plus 52 other natural ingredients) oil,
pubic or penile root, warm, 5 minutes morning and evening (See page 3 for other uses)

Internal Herbal Formula (1 teaspoon of each twice a day)
BALA root powder,
ASHWAGANDHA root powder, respiratory problems,
VIDARI (Indian Sweet Potato or Kudju, Ipomomea digitata) root powder, anti-aging, and
HALSUL (Garlic, allium sativum) chopped, antibiotic-cancer-edema-respiratory problems, in
DUDH (Goat or Cow Milk) warm, before and after ejaculation
add Raw CHEENEE (Sugar), MADHU (Honey), GHEE and/or GEHUNATA (Wheatflour)

Mild Aphrodisiac Drink (nightime)
KESR or KESARA (Saffron, crocus) flower, cooked in warm DUDH, increases sperm count

Tranquility Tea (nightime)
SHANKAPUSHPI ("Shankini," Evolvolus alsinodes, Aloeweed), liver, laxative, memory,
JATAMAMSI ("Indian Spikenerd," Valerina jatamansi), sedative,
BRAHMI ("Wisdom," Gotu Kola, Hydrocotyle asiatica) powder, urination;
add ADRAK (Ginger), ILAYACHI (Cardamom), TWAK (Cinnamon), KARPURA (Camphor),
KASTURI (Musk), KALLI TIL (Black Sesame Seed oil), other SHAKs (Herbs, see page 2)

YOGA ASANAS (Postures, to the edge of your comfort zone)
VAJRASANA (Sitting on the heels)
ARDHACHAKRAASANA (Kneeling wheel)
DHANURASANA (Bow)
KUKUTSANA (Rooster or Elevated Lotus)

Abstinence


SUKRASTAMBHAKA (Premature Ejaculation)

Perineal, Penile and Pubic Massage (One deep breath per repetition, while performing the
ASHWINI ("Horse," Kegel) YOGA MUDRA (exercise), 10 repetitions, 5 seconds each, in
PADM (Lotus) ASANA one hour before sex)
ANDI (Castor) oil, perineal and penile, for sphincter;
TIL oil, 1 ounce with 5 to 10 drops of RAI (Mustard) oil, penile only, wash afterwards; and/or
BRAHMI, ASHWAGANDHA and/or SHATAVARI ghee, pressing on groove under the glans,
and on public bone

Mild Relaxing Drink (morning and evening)
BADAM (Almond), SEML (Silkcotton juice), ADARAK, TWAK and/or KESR in warm DUDH

YOGA ASANAS
USHTRASANA (Camel)
DHAUNRASANA (Bow)
MATSYASANA (Fish)

VISYA (General Prostate Problems)

Internal Herbal Prostate Remedy
SHILAJIT ("Rocklife," Himalayan fulvic acid, with 85 minerals), pill or liquid (See page 3),
PUNARNAVA ("Hogweed," Boerhaavia diffusa), kidneys, diuretic, and
GOKSKHURA ("Goat's Head," Caltrops, Tribulus terrestris), edema, stones, aging;
add ASHWAGANDHA and ADRAK, respiratory problems

Herbal Prostate Tea
SIBERIAN GINSENG (Panax ginseng) root powder, liver, impotence, anti-cancer; or
JAPA KUSUME (Hibiscus, Rosa sinensis) flower, aphrodisiac/contraceptive, kidneys; or
HORSETAIL (Equiselum arvense) stem, urination, bladder, hair, fingernails; or
ZIRA (Cumin), DHANIYA (Coriander) and SAUNFA (Fenel), anti-cancer; or
VIDARI and ASHWAGANDHA; or
Punarnava Guggulu (+Indian Bedellium) c, kidneys, anemia, edema (See page 3)

Perineal Massage (One deep breath per rep))
ANDI oil; or TIL oil

YOGA MUDRA (Morning and evening, one deep breath per rep)
ASHWINI 10 repetitions

BASTI (Enema, retain 5 to 10 minutes)
TIL oil, 1 cup, warm


OJAS (Libido)

Internal Herbal Remedy
ASHWAGANDHA teaspoon and VIDARI 1/2 teaspoon cooked in warm DUDH,
before and after ejaculation

Foreskin Base, Groove Under the Glans Penile MARMA (Spot) and Glans Massage
BALA or ANDI oil; or BRAHMI or SHATAVARI ghee
for 1 or 2 minutes, with index finger, one breath per rep

Meats: Sparrow, Partridge, Chicken, Duck, Peacock; Black Monkey, Buffalo (esp. testes)
Additional Foodstuff: SEB (Apples), ANJEER (Figs) , PAYAZ (Onions), PIPPALI I (Long red
pepper), ANGUR (Grapes), GULAB JAL (Rosewater), AMLA (Gooseberry), JO (Barley),
PAN (Betel leaf), KALACHANNA (Black Garam), ATMAGUPTA (Cowledge), ANDE (Eggs),
BHALLATAKA (Marking Nuts), SAVETA MUSALI (Asparagus adscendens), TALMULI
(Black Musli), SHARAB (Wine+musk+herbs), PADM (Lotus) and KADDU (Pumpkin) seeds
Additional Herbs: JAYFUL (Nutmeg), HING (Asafoetida), LAVANANGA (Cloves), METHI
(Fenugreek), HARIDRA (Tumeric), NAMAK (Rock/Bamboo Salt), SARIVA (Hemicesmus
indicus), VACA (Sweet Flag), CHANDAN (Sandalwood), HARITKI (Chebulic Myrobalam),
LAJJALU (Sensitive Plant), PUTRAJIVKA (=), AFIM (Opium) and GANJA (Cannibis Sativa)
Additional Minerals: Gold, Silver, Mica, Sulpher, Copper, Tin, Lead, Iron, Coral and Pearl
crushed in pill form, in complex formulae; extremely toxic if not properly measured
Additional Sources: YOGA OF HERBS (1988), INDIAN APHRODISIACS (2001), GOGGLE c

CHINA

QIAN LIE XIAN WAN c (Prostate Pain) pills, includes astragalus (anti-cancer) and licorice
KAI KAT WAN c (Prostate Swelling) pills, includes rehmannia (kidneys) and astragalus
KANG WEI LING c (Impotence) pills, includes rehmannia and ginseng

AYURVEDIC MASSAGE
for men

Ayurvedic sex therapy is divided into two
parts, RASAYANA (Rejuvenation) and
VAJKARANA (Aphrodisiac).
Massage is meant for rejuvenation,
not as an aphrodisiac.
There are 3 Ayurvedic biological humours:
KAPHA (Water/Earth, Stability, stomach)
VATA (Ether/Air, Life Force, colon)
PITTA (Fire/Water, Temperature, intestine).
A man's constitution is made of variations
of these 3 humours. The treatment of
disease depends not only on his
predominent humour(s) but on the humours
of all life forms. Many other divisions of life
--6 tastes, 16 body channels, the mandala
of time--complicate the system further.
The accompanying pages disregard the
humours of man while emphasizing those
of life forms used in prostate therapy. A
summation of these uses from modern
English texts appears in my
PA/CP/I/TRANSLATION/PAGES.
According to the ancient texts, the best
aphrodisiac for men is an EXPERIENCED,
YOUNG, RICH, ARTISTIC, BEAUTIFUL
SINGER-DANCER-COOK-SEAMSTRESS.


AYURVEDIC MASSAGE
Frequency:
10 repetitions, 5-10 seconds each,
1 full breath per rep, standing, sitting or
lying down, knees bent, toes forward
each with 1 (or more) ASHWINI (Kegel)
exercise, from twice daily to 3 times a week
PROSTATE
Castor oil or GHEE (Clarified butter)
(impotence)
PERINEUM
GHEE (impotence), Castor or Sesame oil
(premature ejaculation)
PENILE ROOT
Mahanarayan c oil (potency)
PENIS
Castor oil (sphincter) Mallow (urination)
Winter Cherry or Mahanarayan oil (potency)
Asparagus ghee (stamina)
Sesame oil (premature ejaculation)
Aloe paste (inflamation)
FORESKIN BASE
Castor, Sesame, Mallow oil and/or
Gotu Kola or Asparagus ghee (libido)
Gotu Kola, Winter Cherry or Asparagus
ghee (premature ejaculation)
GROOVE UNDER THE GLANS
and GLANS
Castor or Sesame oil, and/or
Gotu Kola or Asparagus ghee (libido)
PUBIC AREA
Mahanarayan c oil (potency)

(c=copyright)

AYURVEDIC MASSAGE

AYURVEDIC MASSAGE
for men

Ayurvedic sex therapy is divided into two
parts, RASAYANA (Rejuvenation) and
VAJKARANA (Aphrodisiac).
Massage is meant for rejuvenation,
not as an aphrodisiac.
There are 3 Ayurvedic biological humours:
KAPHA (Water/Earth, Stability, stomach)
VATA (Ether/Air, Life Force, colon)
PITTA (Fire/Water, Temperature, intestine).
A man's constitution is made of variations
of these 3 humours. The treatment of
disease depends not only on his
predominent humour(s) but on the humours
of all life forms. Many other divisions of life
--6 tastes, 16 body channels, the mandala
of time--complicate the system further.
The accompanying pages disregard the
humours of man while emphasizing those
of life forms used in prostate therapy. A
summation of these uses from modern
English texts appears in my
PA/CP/I/TRANSLATION/APPENDIX

According to the ancient texts, the best
aphrodisiac for men is an EXPERIENCED,
YOUNG, RICH, ARTISTIC, BEAUTIFUL
SINGER-DANCER-COOK-SEAMSTRESS.


AYURVEDIC MASSAGE
Frequency:
10 repetitions, 5-10 seconds each,
1 full breath per rep, standing, sitting or
lying down, knees bent, toes forward
each with 1 (or more) ASHWINI (Kegel)
exercise, from twice daily to 3 times a week
PROSTATE
Castor oil or GHEE (Clarified butter)
(impotence)
PERINEUM
GHEE (impotence), Castor or Sesame oil
(premature ejaculation)
PENILE ROOT
Mahanarayan c oil (potency)
PENIS
Castor oil (sphincter) Mallow (urination)
Winter Cherry or Mahanarayan oil (potency)
Asparagus ghee (stamina)
Sesame oil (premature ejaculation)
Aloe paste (inflamation)
FORESKIN BASE
Castor, Sesame, Mallow oil and/or
Gotu Kola or Asparagus ghee (libido)
Gotu Kola, Winter Cherry or Asparagus
ghee (premature ejaculation)
GROOVE UNDER THE GLANS
and GLANS
Castor or Sesame oil, and/or
Gotu Kola or Asparagus ghee (libido)
PUBIC AREA
Mahanarayan c oil (potency)