Why is garlic not good for the budding Buddha brain? Because it is a “brain toxin.” Garlic is in particular not good medicine for your brain on meditation. Sorry to deliver such bad news for all you aspiring Enlightenment seekers and garlic eaters out there. This somber news item comes from the ancient yogis of India. Those sages of the past who have practiced what they have preached for thousands of years. According to both yogis and Ayurvedic doctors, garlic agitates and dulls the mind and the lower chakras (yes, what a crazy mind-body combination!) and is therefore not conducive to a contemplative lifestyle. In addition to being vegetarians, the yogis of old also ate a sattvik or yogic diet specially devised for a contemplative lifestyle. The yogi diet consists of foods that improve mental clarity and energy. The yogis divide the energy of foods into these three categories: Sattvik (pure, balanced) foods are great for both the body and the mind. Energetically they are pure, light, clear, calming, harmonizing and promote wakefulness. Such foods include most vegetables, grains, milk, ghee, beans, fruits, etc. Rajasik (energetic) foods are OK or good for the body, but may or may not be good for the mind, depending on the time of the day and the quantity taken. Rajasik foods are energetically cloudy, turbulent, agitated, and disturbs the emotions. Such foods include chocolate, coffee, black tea, and many hot spices, etc. Some yogis and ayurvedic doctors include garlic and onion is this category, but this does not seem to be the best way to classify these plants, because most rajasik foods are OK to take in moderation. Tamasik (dull) foods are generally not good for the body (or neutral) and not at all for the mind. Tamasik foods are dulling and create lethargy and heaviness. Meat, fish and eggs are classified as tamasik foods, and also garlic and onion. Overeating, even sattvik foods, would also be considered tamasik. Satvik foods are healthy for both the body and the mind. Most hot spices, including garlic and onions are not conducive to meditation as they tend to overstimulate the mind and then crash it into low gear, making it dull and lethargic—giving us a kind of garlic rock and roll, then a garlic blues. I have not personally eaten garlic or onions for over 35 years, so what do I know? In other words, I may not be the best judge anymore, but when I tested this many years ago, I found that these rules were true: my meditation did suffer from an overstimulated and strangely foggy brain. We all know that coffee and chocolate are stimulating (rajasik), and therefore I try not to ingest these items at night. Otherwise I turn into a yogi on speed, which is not very conducive for meditation or sleep.

1. Onion and Garlic - Toxic And Brain
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2. They are a neuro poison
I have been telling people this for years, all
you need is a EEG of the brain to see the
truth .. they totally desynchronize the brain
and cause us to loose our spiritual
intelligence... yes our spiritual intelligence.

3. Awful smell
• when you eat it ... what happens to you ! ...
you smell awful and are totally repulsed by
others . most are generally being nice not to
tell you ... YOU STINK .. stay your distance !

4. Organic pesticide
• It is also the best organic
insect killer, too, is there a
reason why no bug will eat
garlic or any of the onion
family...because it kills
them.

5. Brain is clinically dead after eating
garlic
• We discovered this much to our horror, when I was
the world's largest manufacturer of ethical EEG
biofeedback equipment. We'd have people come
back from lunch that looked clinically dead on the
encephalograph, which we used to calibrate their
progress. "Well, what happened?" " Well, I went to
an Italian restaurant and there was some garlic in my
salad dressing!"

6. No onion and garlic for pilots
• I was in flight test engineering
in Doc Hallan's group in the
1950's. The flight surgeon
would come around every
month and remind all of us:
"Don't you dare touch any
garlic 72 hours before you fly
one of our airplanes, because
it'll double or triple your
reaction time. You're three
times slower than you would
be if you'd [not] had a few
drops of garlic."

7. Garlic gives headaches.
Garlic extract also does
the same.
• If you have any patients who have
low-grade headaches or attention
deficit [disorder], they can't quite
focus on the computer in the
afternoon, just do an experiment -
you owe it to yourselves. Take
those people off garlic and see how
much better they get, very, very
shortly. And then let them eat a
little garlic after about three
weeks. They'll say: "My God, I had
no idea that this was the cause of
our problems." And this includes
the de-skunked garlic's, Kyolic,
some of the other products. Very
unpopular, but I've got to tell you
the truth.

8. • According to Ayurveda, India’s classic medical science, foods are grouped into
three categories - sattvic, rajasic and tamasic - foods in the modes of goodness,
passion and ignorance. Onions and garlic, and the other alliaceous plants are
classified as rajasic and tamasic, which means that they increase passion and
ignorance.
Rajasic and tamasic foods are also not used because they are detrimental to
meditation and devotions. “Garlic and onions are both rajasic and tamasic, and are
forbidden to yogis because they root the consciousness more firmly in the body”,
says well-known authority on Ayurveda, Dr.Robert E.Svoboda.

9. • Those that subscribe to pure brahmana-style cooking
of India, including myself, and Vaishnavas - followers
of Lord Vishnu, Rama and Krishna - like to only cook
with foods from the sattvic category. These foods
include fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs, dairy
products, grains and legumes, and so on. Specifically,
Vaisnavas do not like to cook with rajasic or tamasic
foods because they are unfit to offer to the Deity.

10. • It should be pointed out that Garlic and onion
are avoided by spiritual adherents because
they stimulate the central nervous system,
and can disturb vows of celibacy.

11. • The Taoists realized thousands
of years ago that plants of the
alliaceous family were
detrimental to humans in their
healthy state. In his writings, one
sage Tsang-Tsze described the
Alliums as the "five fragrant or
spicy scented vegetables" - that
each have a detrimental effect
on one of the following five
organs - liver, spleen, lungs,
kidneys, and heart. Specifically,
onions are harmful to the lungs,
garlic to the heart, leeks to the
spleen, chives to the liver and
spring onions to the kidneys.

12. • Dr Beck explained that as far back as the 1950s it was known that garlic reduced
reaction time by two to three times when consumed by pilots taking flight tests.
This is because the toxic effects of garlic desynchronize brain waves. "The flight
surgeon would come around every month and remind all of us: "Don't you dare
touch any garlic 72 hours before you fly one of our airplanes, because it'll double
or triple your reaction time. You're three times slower than you would be if you'd
[not] had a few drops of garlic."
• For precisely the same reason the garlic family of plants has been widely
recognized as being harmful to dogs.
• Even when garlic is used as food in Chinese culture it is considered harmful to the
stomach, liver and eyes, and a cause of dizziness and scattered energy when
consumed in immoderate amounts.
• Nor is garlic always seen as having entirely beneficial properties in Western
cooking and medicine. It is widely accepted among health care professionals that,
as well as killing harmful bacteria, garlic also destroys beneficial bacteria, which
are essential to the proper functioning of the digestive system.

13. • Reiki practitioners explain that garlic
and onions are among the first
substances to be expelled from a
person’s system – along with tobacco,
alcohol and pharmaceutical
medications. This makes it apparent
that alliaceous plants have a negative
effect on the human body and should
be avoided for health reasons.
• Homeopathic medicine comes to the
same conclusion when it recognizes that
red onion produces a dry cough, watery
eyes, sneezing, runny nose and other
familiar cold-related symptoms when
consumed.
• These are just some of the reasons I
avoid leeks, chives, shallots, garlic and
onions.

14. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xft0CLkgLpE

15. Onions and garlic are non-vegetarian
• Onion and garlic came from the body of
a dead cow and therefore they are
considered like eating beef.
• As per the story below (the scriptural source is
not known) onion and garlic came from the
dead body of a murdered cow and therefore
they are considered like eating meat. They
break the non-vegetarian principle from the
scriptural point of view

16. Medical fraud – false onion and
garlic benefit claims
Strict vegetarians don't eat onion nor garlic. Since
meat is tamasic, onions and garlic are also tamasic and
rajasic food. It is considered a medical fraud if one
claims that they have some medicinal values. Thus
they are taboo for followers of Vedic culture.

17. • One time the sage who was about to perform a gomedha sacrifice,
his wife was pregnant. She had a very strong desire to eat and she
had heard that if, during pregnancy one has a desire to eat and
does to eat it very soon. not fulfill this, then the baby that will be
born will always have saliva coming from its mouth. Very strange,
she desired strongly to eat meat, thus she decided to keep one
piece of meat of the cow's body that was offered in sacrifice. She
hid it and was making a plan to eat it very soon.

18. At that time the rishi was finishing the sacrifice and uttered
all the mantras for the new young cow to come to life.
However when he saw the new cow, he noticed that there
was a little part missing from her left side. He went into
meditation and realized that his wife had taken away a
piece of meat during the sacrifice. Now his wife also
understood what happened and quickly threw the meat far
away.

19. Forbidden foodstuffs
• Due to the effect of the mantras uttered by
the sage there was now life in this piece of
meat. Then the blood of this meat became red
lentils, the bones became onion and garlic,
and the meat became carrots.

20. Prasadam is the direct mercy
Honor prasadam only Avoid these foodstuffs
• Onion, garlic, carrot, and red
lentils – these foods are never
taken by any Vaishnava
situated in the mode of
goodness as Vaishnavas should
be because it is not considered
by us as offerable due to its
association as a non-vegetarian
food. Plus it is in
the mode of ignorance."

21. • "It is not vegetarian to eat onions and garlic.
They have discovered 21 different types of
slow poison in both. So they are not so
innocent."