Aloe Vera and Natural Remedies

Paintings and farm milk production

0:03: Hari-śauri: They had that one in the bedroom in New Vrindavan.

0:06Prabhupāda: Hmm? Hari-śauri: This picture, the original. It was in New Vrindavan. Kīrtanānanda has purchased.

0:31Surendra Kumar Saigal: I have washed my hands with nim soap.

0:33Prabhupāda: That's all right.

0:40Surendra Kumar: Now I will give you [indistinct].

0:54Prabhupāda: And Philadelphia, what is that name? Hari-śauri: Port Royal farm. Port Royal? That's the nearest place to it. Pennsylvania farm. Ah. Is there any gain there? I have been in Pennsylvania farm. They get enough quantity milk.

1:12They sell fifteen hundred dollars per month. Jaya.

Scheduling evening milk and apples

1:28Surendra Kumar: Mahārāja, you wanted milk and apple.

1:34Prabhupāda: Yes, that's all...

1:36Surendra Kumar: What time you like, sir?

1:37Prabhupāda: At nine.

1:37Surendra Kumar: Nine. Are you feeling some relief?

1:42Prabhupāda: Yes.

1:43Surendra Kumar: You will get relief. From two, three applications, absolutely.

1:51Prabhupāda: Very good.

Medicinal properties of aloe vera

1:56Hari-śauri: What's the Hindi name of that drug that you were taking the other day? That plant? Oh. Ghṛta-kumārī. Hari-śauri: You can get some of that?

2:09Surendra Kumar: Which one? Hari-śauri: Ghṛta-kumārī. I have not heard. Hari-śauri: Looks like a cactus. The English name is aloe vera. Which has got pulp? Yes. You want it? I have got it in my house.

2:27My wife takes them by making in the cāpāṭi or paraṭa, because of her knees. It is wonderful for this pains in the knees. Yes.

Natural remedies for blood pressure

2:43Hari-śauri: We were told it was good for relieving high blood pressure and clearing the... Relieving high blood pressure, best is garlic.

2:52Prabhupāda: Garlic.

2:53Surendra Kumar: Garlic, you don't want it. [laughter]

2:58Prabhupāda: Garlic, onions, prohibited. Hari-śauri: But if you could get some of this ghṛta-kumārī... It is there in his house.

3:07Surendra Kumar: Yes, it is in my house, it is in my garden.

Preparing aloe vera in chapati

3:13So my wife will prepare for your breakfast small cāpāṭi. You will find it very tasty and delicious. That's called gwaraka-pata. [Hindi] Gwaraka-pata. Gwaraka. I will show you.

3:29Prabhupāda: Ācchā. That's nice. It is little bitter?

3:32Indian man: No. It is, I mean, tasteless. And it is...

3:43Prabhupāda: You know?

3:43Gaursundara: Yes. We have in Hawaii. It's called aloe cactus. Aloe vera.

3:46Surendra Kumar: It is kneaded in the flour and little ghee and the paraṭā will be... It is wonderful for your joints.

Cultivating aloe vera in gardens

3:58And this arthritis, it is wonderful. I got it about a year back and put in my garden because my wife needed, and we were getting it from somebody else's garden. So I told my gardener, "Why don't you put it in our own?

4:11We have plenty of land."

4:12Prabhupāda: It doesn't require to taken care of very much. It grows automatically.

4:20Surendra Kumar: Its growth is very good. And plenty of it. If Your Divine Grace gets any benefit from it, then it can be planted in each temple on one side. No problem. And then on your visits, that place where you will use.

4:37Prabhupāda: Then we can, in Vṛndāvana.

4:37Surendra Kumar: I will show it to you. Yes, yes. Vṛndāvana, we will put the plant in Vṛndāvana. And I will show you tomorrow.

4:44Prabhupāda: No, he got from Vṛndāvana.

4:44Surendra Kumar: Got from some Vṛndāvana? Hari-śauri: Yes, but not from our temple. From an āśrama it's grown. Well, I will show you what you mean and I mean are the same things. And my wife will make herself for breakfast. It will be...

5:06He will like it.

External applications for skin conditions

5:13Gaurasundara: Rub it. Do you apply it externally? Hari-śauri: Well, this is the first I've ever heard of it. Break a little. You can rub it on eczema or anything, very helpful. Hari-śauri: I know it's very good for burns.

5:21We use it on cuts and things. Yes, burns, very good. Any skin disease, you rub a little of it. Hari-śauri: We can try that. That boy that came from Philippines, Tamopahā, he told us. It's also Hawaiian medicine.

5:47Everyone knows it.

Troublesome nature of the body

6:02Prabhupāda: Body is simply troublesome. [end]