Detox treatments currently involve one of us drinking a
herbal medicated ghee and the other having medicated oil enemas, each for three
days. The enema amounts increase each
day and go from 60 ml, 90 ml and then 120 ml. The drinking of the ghee takes
place around 7:30 am, and then you go to your room and drink warm water every
15 minutes, about ¼ cup each time. The thought is that you are now lubricating
your insides. If you are drinking ghee you are allowed to eat lunch at 1pm but
encouraged to wait and have fruit at 4:00 with tea time and then eat a light normal
dinner.
During yoga on Tuesday morning Leslie got so dizzy she could
not participate. It appears that she did not blow out all the water from her
nose in the yogic kriyas, and some stayed in her sinus and seem to have
traveled to her ear. One of the other guests went back to the room to fetch
David to come help her get back to the room. The on-duty doctor came to the
room and then had Leslie come to the Spa area to have a nasal steam treatment
prior to drinking the last ghee drink. A steam treatment was done again that
afternoon and no more Shirodhara treatments for awhile.
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I ate lunch the first day but not the next two days. It is
amazing how tiring it is to digest this ghee! The last day it was very hard to
get the ghee down without throwing up because the smell is revolting as is the
slimy consistency not to mention it is green….
When you go for your daily therapy in the late afternoon the
Abhayanga sesame oil smells like ghee. I asked them to put some other nice
smelly oil in with the sesame oil because the smell was making my stomach
churn. The Dr. ordered some other oil that I think may have been camphor oil
added to the sesame and then put directly under my nose. I enjoy the steam bath
after the Abhayanga massage.
David’s enemas were given in the late afternoon, so they
continued to give him massages on his back in the morning. These usually
included 2 men working on him and usually doing the Kizhi. Kizhi
is a massage which uses small herbal boluses made of various herbs which are
warmed in medicated oils. After first oiling you down, these boluses are then
heated in oil and then pounded lightly on your feet moving slowly up and down
to your hands. It is a mixture of pounding and rubbing, which follows once the
boluses cool down. You can have bits of the herbs which have come out of the
boluses stuck in your hair. The benefits are believed to be in reducing
inflammation; improving circulation, relieving pain and stiffness in joints;
improving mobility and flexibility; toning the skin; and alleviating arthritis
pain.
His afternoon
treatments were a short head massage followed by a back massage with hot oil
and then the dough on the back to make a “dike” around the back injury which is
then filled by hot oil in that bounded area.
(Kati Basti) This wonderful process was then followed with the oil enema
which he was requested to keep inside as long as possible.
During this 3-day period, his food was restricted to mild,
cooked food like soup each meal, a dhal-rice mix, or mix of cooked spinach with
rice, and sometimes steamed vegetables, with only herbal tea allowed and no salads,
desserts or fruits. At some dinners, bread was allowed. Presumably the
restrictions were to make the stomach more controlled. The process seemed to
make us both, and particularly David, somewhat tired and lacking in energy.
We were happy when this three day period was over and even
looked forward to Purgation day. Leslie was told though she might have to do
another day of ghee drinking and to come see the Dr. before her afternoon
treatment. Thank goodness her skin was
shiny which meant that she had absorbed enough ghee one way or another such
that she did not need to drink any more.
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