Amal
Contents
Part
Preface
Chapter 1
Nila Nalam — An Understanding
The Moon's Phases and Us · The moon's four phases and the body · Why the moon? …
Chapter 2
Our Body — An Understanding
The body's clock · How light becomes a hormone · The day's three key moments …
Chapter 3
The Daily Plan
Vata | 2 – 6 in the early morning · Kapha | 6 – 10 in the morning · Pitta | 10 in the morning – 2 in the afternoon …
Chapter 4
The Monthly Plan
Before you begin a cycle · The shape of the cycle · How to break the fast …
Chapter 5
The Lifetime Plan
Three stages · Seven habits that hold for a lifetime · The four seasons of a life …
Chapter 6
Food and the Methods
How to read the table · 1. Coconut milk, sabja, almond gum · 2. Tender coconut water, sabja, almond gum …
Chapter 7
Ways of Living
1. Yoga and breathing practice · 2. The oil bath · 3. Ayurveda and Siddha medicine …
Chapter 8
The Cycle Method
Why eating plans fail · What the words mean · 1. The repeating approach …
Chapter 9
Nila Nalam and the Puthukural
1. Twenty Puthukural on health that I learned for myself · 2. Ten Puthukural I learned from my parents
Chapter 10
Notes on the Teachers
In brief · 1. Mr Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi — "Key to Health" · 2. Dr George Washington Carver — the peanut man, American botanical scientist and educator …
Chapter 11
What I Learned, and Stories of Success
A one-week fast · Stories of success · My story …
Part
Afterword
Things I still have no answer to · Thanks · To you
Appendix
Glossary
Ayurveda and the body's rhythm · Breath and yoga · Hormones …
About this book
The moon does not become full in a single night. From new moon to full moon and back to new moon again — a small change every day. Health is the same. This book shapes that cycle into a thirty-day plan.
Awareness — what I eat, how much, and why. Rhythm — living in step with the body’s daily order. Cycle — not all in one day, but as a cycle.
This book is not medical advice. The author is neither a doctor nor a nutritionist. Before you begin the fasting days — above all if you have diabetes, high blood pressure, or a heart or kidney condition, or are pregnant or breastfeeding — talk to your doctor.