Holistic Healing Consultation 

Food - The Human Medicine

Excerpts from Food: The Human Medicine, Beads of Truth, Winter 1992 by Yogi Bhajan

To begin with, all food was considered as human medicine. Food is the medicine which creates equili­brium. That is the beauty of food. The basic properties of a food must be that it should be nutritious, sustaining, and balanced. Balanced food is that food which can be digested without drawing on your health. It should not put a strain on the body.

Food which sustains you will always give you more joy in life. Any food which pushes you is going to kill you. You don't grow old by years, you grow old by food. The bottom line is not how much you know, the bottom line is how much you eat and what you eat.

We take medicines to get rid of disease. What does medicine do? It fights the disease and gives the body a chance to recuperate. What is a medicine? It is a sustaining food. Chemical medicines are produced because they are inexpensive. The difference between organic medicine and chemical medicine is that chemical medicine is direct, while organic medicine is indirect. Organic medicine affects us slowly but its effects are long term.

Eating tasty food is nutritious, but eating right food is sustaining too. Eating the right food is a cure in itself. What has happened with modern medicine is that they have removed the curing properties of foods. They have taken those direct properties, filled the medicine with them, and have shoved it into people. If the whole food or the whole herb is used, rather than merely taking the extract from it, there is hardly any negative reaction.