Sexual Energy Massage: The primary practice of Bone Marrow Nei Kung. It involves simultaneous digital massage of one's genitals and meditative breathing. The purpose of Sexual Energy Massage is to release Ching Chi from the genitals for dissemination in the body and absorption by the bones. Ching Chi isa combination of sex hormones and sexual energy that can regenerate bone marrow.

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Lesser Kan & Li (Sexual Alchemy): Form of meditation whose theory posits chi, core energy channels, higher energy bodies, and internal male and female sexual energies (which are mixable in self-intercourse).

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Syphilis: A venereal infection transmitted through sexual contact

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scientific palmistry: Variation of medical palmistry practiced by Nathaniel Altman, author of Discover Palmistry, Medical Palmistry, Palmistry for Lovers, The Palmistry Workbook, and Sexual Palmistry.

It involves analysis of the consistency and flexibility of the client's hands and reveals detailed information about health and spirituality.

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Chinese hand analysis: Form of palmistry based on the ancient Chinese theory of the Five Elements. It isa means of obtaining information on health, sexuality, vocation, and spirituality.

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SkyDancing Tantra: Westernized form of Tantra developed by Margo Anand, author of The Art of Sexual Ecstasy and the bestseller The Art of Sexual Magic. SkyDancing Tantra is an approach to sexual ecstasy that borrows from bioenergetics, NLP, shamanism, and transpersonal psychology. It awakens vitality and hidden powers of the brain. The Fall 1997 New York Open Center catalog described the expression SkyDancing as an ancient metaphor for the ability to reach ecstatic states when love is experienced as a joyful meditation.

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Chi Weight Lifting: Component of Bone Marrow Nei Kung that can rejuvenate bone marrow by supplying the body with abundant Ching Chi,a combination of sex hormones and sexual energy. It involves genitally lifting weights attached to the penis and scrotum or to the vagina.

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Chi Weight Lifting: Component of Bone Marrow Nei Kung that can rejuvenate bone marrow by supplying the body with abundant Ching Chi,a combination of sex hormones and sexual energy. It involves non-manually lifting weights attached to the penis and scrotum or to the vagina.

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Keep Your Wife Happy Qigong: Subject of the book of the same name (East & West Publications, Ltd.) by Linhai (see Qigong therapy). Its principle is that the kidneys are sexual engines that power lovemaking. It involves energy cultivation and spiritual intimacy.

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Multi-Orgasmic Couple: A means of learning how to prevent the indiscriminate loss of sexual energy while one enhances spiritual growth. It is related to Healing Love.

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Healing Love (Healing Love meditation, Healing Love practices, Seminal and Ovarian Kung Fu, Taoist Sexology and Practice): A foundational component of the Healing Tao System.

Healing Love is a mode of sexual intercourse that cultivates, conserves, and transforms sexual energy through the Microcosmic Orbit,a major energy channel. For men, Healing Love involves the power draw: sex without ejaculation.

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Ching-chi:

Ching-chi. Sexual energy. This is the power that goes into creating a child. When procreation is not the goal Taoists believe, it is best to conserve this energy and channel it throughout your body for pleasure and health.

(See also: Ching-chi, Tantra, Tantra Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul)

Tibetan Pulsing Healing (Tibetan Pulsing): Modern approach to an ancient Tibetan technique. It is a form of bodywork whose principle is that sound and the pulse are usable to dissolve blockages in the nervous system. Its theory posits (a) a 'cool' healing fire created by the heart, and (b) the hara,a controller of the immune system wherein sexual energy often is locked. Tibetan Pulsing includes a system of eye-reading whose design is to determine which organs need attention.

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Kum Nye (Kum Nye relaxation, Kum Nye relaxation system of self healing): Holistic mode of self-healing developed by Tarthang Tulku and based on Tibetan medicine and Buddhist mind-body disciplines. It involves breathing exercises, self-massage, slow movements, and visualization. Its theory posits energy centers (e.g., the head center and the heart center) and energy blockages (e.g., sexual blockages). Practicing Kum Nye vitalizes the senses and conduces to alertness and limberness.

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Choice of Partner

Ayurvedic wisdom suggests that like types make better mates because of similar mental processes, attitudes and sexual proclivities. Unfortunately, two people of similar dispositions are likely to have the same defects too. Choosing the right partner who will stimulate, inspire you to evolve into better individual thus becomes very important.

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A dominant Vata ensures that Tamasika individuals are the most down to earth, concerned about fundamental questions of practical existence, specially when confronted by more spiritual and less physical issues.

Pasava

Lack of intelligence, forbidding dispositions, envious nature. Excessive sexual indulgence and sleep.

Matsya

Unsteadiness, constant passion, and cowardice. Excessive desire for water intake.

Banaspatya

Indolence. Excessive indulgence in food. Deficiency of intellectual faculties.

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Winter:

Diet

·  Dig into piping hot, oily, sour & salty food along with rice. Also plenty of cow’s milk & cane juice.

·  Drink warm water and it will improve your life span.

·  Avoid light food to pacify vata.

Conduct

·  Don’t expose yourself to cold.

·  Go for an invigorating oil massage followed by tepid water bath.

·  Cover your body with sufficient warm wraps

Indulge in intense sexual pleasure.

(See also: Winter, Ayurveda, Ayurvedic Dictionary, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

CADUCEUS

(keryx, "herald - a herald's wand, kerukeion). Representative of the spinal column: matter and spirit intertwining to produce the manifest world and to create a channel for the sexless Sushumna power. Pingala and Ida, the two serpents, are male and female. Ultimately, the embodiment of Kundalini: the sexual, hence vital force or "healing power." The doubled serpent is unconditional, absolute wisdom. A herald's wand confers immunity in all regions - protection from attack (especially since the serpents are vipers).

Apart from being the emblem of the wandering healer, the caduceus also stands for the Qabalah as a whole. The staff itself is the middle pillar and the serpents are the two flanking pillars, representing the slippery extremes that reflect one another back and forth. A recently unearthed hieroglyph depicts Thoth with a staff surmounted by two cobras bearing, respectively, the crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt (the conscious and unconscious mind). In medicine, the black and white serpents signify disease and health.

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Sex & Ayurveda

Sex has always been an issue of dichotomy. An integral part of our lives and essential for the continuation of the species, it is far more than just a technical necessity. While social structures in India are quite strict on this, the study of

 sex - from both its physical and psychological perspectives - has been practiced here from ancient times. Unlike in the west, where this is a fairly recent phenomenon and they are yet to find the proper line of distinction between sex

 in general and pornography in particular.

On the other hand Maharishi Vatsayan's Kamasutra is yet unparalleled as the  most comprehensive documentation ever on the practice of sex. Unfortunately,  its classic treatment of the act and the art has often been misrepresented. The ancient Ayurvedic text of Charaka Samhita provided complete sexual solutions over 3000 years ago And the time-frozen, stone-carved, erotic sculptures in the temples at Khajuraho and Konarak leave millions of visitors utterly awe-struck by their sheer beauty, elegance and variety. An undying testimony to how intrinsic sex was to the daily lives of people in ancient India.

The importance of sex in our lives has remained quite unchanged. The crucial points to be kept in mind in relation to the same being:

·      Sex is an integral part of our daily habits (Dinacharya).

·      Night and after two hours of dinner is the ideal time for intimacy, as it is kapha time.

·      An absolutely satisfying sexual union, when developed over time, bestows you and your partner with health and vitality.

·      For best results, each of the partners should be physically, emotionally and spiritually involved with the other.

·      Touch, smell, food, music and ambience play a vital role in developing, increasing and prolonging intimacy.

·      Perverted or unsatisfying sex has adverse effects on your mental and physical health, as it aggravates your vital energies (doshas) and reduces immunity. An aggravated vata will make you more emotionally vulnerable and fear-prone, increased pitta will move you to anger and even frustration and enhanced kapha will make you more possessive.

·      The frequency of sex depends on your constitution and seasons - kapha types indulge in sex more frequently than your vata & pitta types thanks to the extra stamina they possess.

·      Vata types might find satisfaction in changing partners. While the difficult-to-quench-their-desires pitta types are usually in quest for more intensity.

For more and better sex therefore, one can practice Vajikaran therapy (virlification) - that part of Ayurveda which enhances male fertility and potency. However, any misuse of the same may open up a deluge of emotional and psychological complications. Use of similar medication (aphrodisiac supplements) instantly induces sexual pleasure and excitement, increases sexual stamina and promotes fertile seminal secretions.

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Planetary Ailments

The Planets and their Corresponding Ailments

Sun

Circulatory deficiencies, Anaemia Indigestion

Moon

Circulatory disorder, Lunacy

Mars

Constipation, Flatulence, Liver trouble, Blind piles, Skin Trouble

Mercury

Nervous Disease, Ulcers, Acidity, Blood Pressure, Restlessness, Irritation

Venus

Bronchial disorder, Whooping Cough, Asthma, Dyspepsia, Sexual ailments, Delirium, Obsessions

Saturn

Neurosis, Neuralgia ,Sciatica, Rheumatism, Excretory disorders

Jupiter

Jaundice, Biliousness, Colic Problems Palpitation, Toothache ,Insomnia

Rahu

Hyperacidity ,Burning Sensations, Brain Disorders, Sexual Excesses ,Drinking Problems

Ketu

Skin Disorders, Nervous Debility,Small Pox, Urinary Tract Infections

Herbs to the Rescue

To counter these negative planetary influences, Ayurveda suggests the use of multi-faceted herbs that not only provide curative relief to various physical afflictions but are also endowed with the preventive power to combat planetary interference.

Venus

Hydrocotyle asiatica (Mandukparni)

Jupiter

Swertia Chirata (Chirata)

Sun

Aegle Marmelus

Ketu

Withania Somnifera (Aswagandha)

Saturn

Nyetanthes arbortristis (Shefali)

Desmostachya bipinnata (Dhuva)

Mars

Hemidesmus indicum (Anantmool)

Rahu

Bacopa monierri (Brahmi)

Mercury

Bacopa monierri (Brahmi)

Moon

Cueumis Satirus

Cucumber (Khirika)

Gemology

In exactly the same manner precious gemstones such as rubies, diamonds, pearls, red corals, sapphires etc. can influence the effects of the planets substantially. Although they can minimise the impact of planetary afflictions, they should always be worn with care and on recommendation of an experienced astrologer. For the wrong stone can aggravate the condition and even cause fresh problems.

PLANET * DISEASE *GEM

Mars, Mercury, Moon

Rheumatism, musculo skeletal

Red coral, emerald, dark blue pearl,

Saturn, Sun

Problems and bone diseases

sapphire, ruby

Mars, Mercury

Digestive diseases, diabetes

Red coral, white coral,emerald

Saturn, Ketu

Diseases of the nervous system

Dark blue sapphire

Mercury, Mars, Ketu

Psychol0ogical diseases, including hysteria

Emerald in the night, red coral in the day

Mars, Saturn, Rahu

Skin diseases

White coral, yellow sapphire

Saturn, Mars, Moon,Venus, Mercury, Jupiter

Urinary and gynecological problems

Pearl, diamond, red coral, yellow sapphire, emerald, topaz

Saturn, Mars

Dental problems

Sapphire, red coral

Saturn, Mars

Ear nose, and throat problems

Yellow sapphire, white coral

Saturn, Mars

Blood-related problems

Dark blue sapphire, emerald, ruby

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