Does anyone have a tissue?

No, this isn't a teary eyed blog and I don't really need a tissue because I am a tissue!  Have you ever stopped to think about the fact that you are simply a covering made of food and that cover is tissue?  In Ayurveda, you have 7 "tissues" or "dhatus" of the body.  Each one is dependent upon the health of the other.  Each is it's own unique organism with barriers to entry to prevent disease and illness.  When the barriers are depleted by stress, illness and bad choices, the doshas (Vata, Pitta and Kapha) go through the holes in the barriers and cause the tissue systems to go out of balance.  The tissue systems are:

Plasma (12 hours to healthy)
Blood   (5 days)

Muscle (5 days)
Fat (5 days)
Bone (5 days)
Bone marrow and nerve (5 days)
Reproductive fluid (5 days)

 

Knowing that each feeds the other means that if you simply feed the first one really good stuff, the other systems are going to be healthy.  The first tissue is plasma.  If you were to put your blood in a test tube and run it through one of those machines that spin, the blood would separate and on the top would be a clear substance called Plasma.  Plasma can be cleaned out in 12 hours.  That means if you eat a nice meal of beans, grains, veggies and fruit, your plasma is going to be clear and sweet and yummy for the blood.

Blood takes a little longer to clear out...5 days in fact.  If you eat good for 5 days, you will have healthy plasma and blood.  Add another 5 days to that and another and so on and all the systems of your body will get completely cleaned out and healthy.  So, it takes about 35 total days to totally reset your system and clean out all the tissues of the body.

That's what we do during the Elemental Cleanse.  We take 28 days to get to your bone marrow and nerves and then you are empowered to eat for your body type to continue to get to the layer of Reproductive fluid or what we call "shukra."  Shukra means sweet.  It's not just what makes babies.  Shukra is what makes Ojas.  Ojas is the divine spark that is your essence.  Have you ever seen a person with sparkly eyes, a big smile and lots of energy?  They have Ojas in excess and it's wonderful.

Ojas is what makes you feel vibrant, fresh, clear and beautiful.  That's really why the Elemental Cleanse works so well.

Om Shanti,  Pamela