Teluk Intan Health's Corner

Dr Palaniappan, former Associate Professor of Ecology at Universiti Malaya has authored several books on complementary therapy called, ‘Ecological Healing System‘.

Dr Palaniappan said his 33 years of research had shown that high acidity in the body resulted in loss of immunity, thus making people more susceptible to viral diseases like Influenza A (H1N1).

Hence, to prevent acidity, it was essential to consume alkaline food and drinks that could neutralise excess acid in the body.

Dr Palaniappan recommends coconut water, which is alkaline, and therefore could be used as a herbal medicine for the prevention of H1N1.

For example, he said, those who felt feverish and developed a burning sensation while attending to a call of nature because of extreme acidity, could neutralise it by drinking coconut water, twice a day, for three days.

He also recommended orange, lemon and pomelo which, despite containing citric acid, were very rich in potassium and therefore, would not disturb the body’s immunity.

According to Dr Palaniappan, excessive physical activity like running a marathon should be avoided as it produced acid due to excessive metabolic activity.

Similarly, he said, keeping late nights without adequate sleep and working without proper rest could also increase the body’s acidity which in turn, lowered immunity and made the body vulnerable to viral attacks.

Dr Palaniappan’s blog: http://ecohealingsystem.blogspot.com/ discusses the therapy in more detail.

“Body getting heated up” may not make much sense to those who are used to judging heat and cold based on the readings seen in a thermometer.

Therefore, I have no choice except to explaining what is ‘body heat’, just to avoid another series of ‘attacks’.

Let us take two glass bottles, and fill one with plain water, and another with Hydrochloric acid.

Cool both the bottles in a fridge, and measure their temperatures, using a thermometer. Both would show identical temperature, say, 5oC.

At this, if a finger is dipped into the water, it would feel chill. Whereas, a finger dipped into the acid solution would give a sensation of very high heat.

Thus, milder acids make your body feel ‘heaty’, and milder alkaline solutions make you feel ‘cool’.

When your body becomes ‘heaty’ for any reason, if you check the pH of your urine, you would find it strongly acidic (of course within the range).

Likewise, if you checked the urine pH of a person with high fever, you would find it very acidic as well.

When your body has become acidic, you would feel the ‘heatiness’ or burning sensation while urinating and defecating. Even your eyes may give similar burning sensation.

When this happens, it is common practice for people in the Tropics to take coconut water or take some ‘body-cooling’ herbal drinks.

If you eat too much of mangoes, or any of the acid fruits I have mentioned in my article (such as kundang, rambai or macang), very soon you would develop sore throat, and that would end up in the development of common cold, and possibly, flu as well.

The above happen because your body has become over–acidified – in other words, it has become hyperacidosed.

At this, may I invite all those who deny the above facts: Please eat plenty of mangos (or any other strongly sour fruits – kundang, if available), repeatedly.

You would soon end up with sore throat, common cold and fever!

It is common knowledge that when a person develops sore throat, if he drinks a glass of freshly squeezed lemon or orange juice; the sore throat would soon vanish.

The above cure happens because the lemon or orange fruit contains plenty of potassium and a few more alkaline substances, and relatively lesser levels of citric acid.

Coconut water is very rich in calcium, and that is how it could give an instant relief from sore throat. It has very good capacity to ‘cool’ down the body heat – i.e., it can neutralise the acidity.

Another item I have experimented successfully is the fruit of Borassus flaberllifers.

This dryland palm fruit is mistakenly called “Sea Coconut”.

It is very highly alkaline, and its pH measures as high as the lime – the Calcium hydroxide that is rubbed on betel leaves before chewing.

When this fruit is administered (in the practice of Ecological Healing System) in the right dosage, it has the capacity to even correct chickenpox, shingles, German measles, and such serious virus diseases.

In Siddha and Ayurvedic medical systems, a person infected with such strong viral diseases (e.g., chickenpox) is often treated with coconut water and neem leaves (Azadiracta indica, known for its high alkaline nature).

With the above explanation, I believe, no one may want to begin another war of words defying that there no such thing as ‘body heat’.

Now, a few people have been anxious to know how does one’s body become acidified, when it fact the brain constantly maintains its acid-alkaline reactions of the blood in a constant state (i.e., between pH7.35 and 7.45).

This too requires some amount of elaboration for the benefit of those who are in doubt.

Since the above clarification has already become a very lengthy description, I wish to reserve this topic for another occasion.

I am sorry again, if I have hurt any of your feelings. My intention is not to hurt anyone in the process of dissemination of useful information.

I very much wish to request all of you to follow through many of my findings, and you will really appreciate every one of them.

With your encouragement, from now on, I intend to post novel and useful articles once or twice a week.

As I had mentioned earlier, please do put up your criticisms – but, let them be constructive.

I beg to remain your well-wisher and service provider.

With best wishes and thanks,
Dr. Palani

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