Brahmi Ghee Nasya and Other Ayurvedic Techniques for Calming Anger

This cooling, pitta-pacifying drink will help to settle angry feelings and other pitta symptoms such as burning in the stomach. Dip your little finger into a jar of brahmi ghee (or plain ghee if you haven’t made GHEE NASYA. brahmi ghee), and lubricate the inside of your nostrils with a small amount. (Make sure your nails are trimmed so you don’t scratch yourself.) Then gently inhale the ghee upward.

This sends a calming message to the brain. You will become quite tranquil; anger and hostility will dissolve like a cloud in the sky. A cooling pranayama to help dissipate anger is shitali pranayama. Make a DO BREATHING EXERCISES tube of your tongue; breathe deeply through your mouth down into your belly; hold the breath for a few seconds; exhale through your nose.

Do about 12 repetitions. (See the illustration in chapter 6.) . Good yoga asanas for pitta include the Camel, Cobra, Cow, Boat, Goat, and YOGA POSTURES Bridge poses. (See appendix 4 for illustrations of yoga postures.) Avoid the Headstand or other inverted poses such as the Plow and Shoulder Stand.

Do not perform the Sun Salutation; do the Moon Salutation instead. There is an ancient method of meditation that involves watching your every MEDITATE emotion come and go, without either naming it or trying to tame it. As the feelings arise, breathe deeply, and exhale the emotions out. Angina Angina, or to give it its full name, angina pectoris (chest pain), is a condition created by kapha dosha.

Accumulated kapha blocks the flow of prana vata into the coronary artery, so that the heart muscles do not receive sufficient blood and oxygen supply. It is a kind of local anemia, resulting in pain that can be severe and frightening. Typically, the pain starts from the breastbone in the center of the chest, goes to the left shoulder, and passes along the inner side of the upper arm to the tip of the little finger. To heal angina, the following herbal remedy is effective: HERBAL REMEDIES shringa bhasma ⅛ part musta 3 parts arjuna 3 parts Take ½ teaspoon of this mixture 2 or 3 times a day with warm water.