My teacher and mentor, Vaidya Rama Kant Mishra, spent 20 years teaching me the fine art of Ayurveda. He made over 500 formulas for me to use in treating all the very difficult cases I see each and every day.
So I am familiar with so many herbs that are used for healing on many levels. But I must say, out of all the herbs my favorite is bhumi amla, also known as bhumi amalaki. Don’t confuse this herb with Amla, the amlaberry that is used for increasing our Vitamin C levels. It is just called bhumi amla because it looks somewhat like the amlaberry.
Let’s analyze this herb and I’ll show you what it does at a deeper level and how versatile it is.
By now we all know that we need to clean out the liver from time to time. This is because the liver is the main filter of the body. The blood comes in dirty and it leaves clean, and like any filter, it needs to be cleaned out — more often than you would think.
But most of us, including the holistic doctors, don’t understand some very important details about cleaning the liver. So let’s discuss that.
In this day and age we have surrounded ourselves with over 80,000 chemical toxins — in the water we drink, the food we eat, since we spray it with chemical pesticides, the air we breathe as it now harbors dangerous particulates of air pollution and heavy metals. The soil is laced with arsenic, we put nasty chemicals into our skin care products, unaware that these will absorb directly into the blood once put on the skin. And even the pharmaceuticals we take are themselves very nasty chemicals.
In ancient times we didn’t have these chemicals, so the liver was less toxic and stressed as it is nowadays. In the literature you will see that there are many herbs which clean the liver, such as milk thistle, dandelion, and burdock root. In Ayurveda we have several herbs also, such as bhringraj, picrorhiza kurroa, kutaj, guduchi leaf, neem and several others.
However, people don’t do too well on any of these herbs, whether they are Western or Ayurvedic herbs. They seem to upset their digestion or give them a rash or headaches.
Here’s why. Nowadays the liver is holding onto many chemical toxins, as I just described. These chemical toxins heat up the liver. In the same way that the toxins in the air pollution and industry are heating up the planet, on a smaller scale our liver is now overheating and is hot and angry from such an influx of chemical toxins, never seen before in the history of mankind.
Any herb that cleans the liver will heat it up. One of the worst is milk thistle, and yet it is one of the most common liver herbs prescribed to patients. But all the liver herbs have that tendency to heat up the liver as they are cleaning it out.
And here’s the other thing people don’t realize. Nowadays many people have food intolerances and allergies. The two underlying causes of the food allergies are coming from the gut microbiome and the liver.
If the friendly bacteria in the gut get destroyed, usually by various types of pharmaceuticals, then you will lose the friendly bacteria which are the surveillance team for other more harmful pathogenic bacteria, yeast, fungi and parasites that normally live in harmony with us. But once the surveillance team is missing these potentially harmful organisms can overgrow and become pathogenic, which creates a low level of chronic infection which in turn creates leaky gut and chronic inflammation, leading to food allergies.
But the other factor involved with food allergies is with the liver. Normally when the food comes into your digestive tract the friendly bacteria in the gut have to break it down and the liver has to process the food correctly.
But when the liver gets hot, it gets angry and has somewhat of a temper tantrum on the food, which means it oxidizes the food and turns it into a poison which we call ama visha in Ayurveda. The word visha means poison. This type of toxin leads the way towards autoimmune diseases, rashes and cancer due to its hot and inflammatory capabilities.
And here’s the thing. Many people nowadays have rashes, skin conditions, food allergies and sensitivities, autoimmune diseases and cancer. In all these cases we can trace the origins of these diseases back to the gut and the liver. So with the gut we have several ways of rebalancing the gut microbiome.
But we have to be extremely careful when it comes to cleaning the liver. So now, what do we do since the liver is already hot and out of control and turning the food into an autoimmune toxin? We just can’t give any of the liver herbs I just mentioned, because it will make the condition worse as you further heat up the liver.
This is why most people I see aren’t getting better with their detox programs. So what do we do then?
Well, this is where bhumi amla comes to the rescue — it is the only herb that can very carefully clean the liver and keep it cool at the same time. This is a very unusual and important combination.
In fact, in the ancient Ayurvedic texts bhumi amla was lovingly described in this way: they said that it would take care of the liver like a mother, nurturing and protecting the liver as it cleaned it out. Unlike milk thistle and the other herbs which wring the toxins out of the liver, agitating it while doing so.
Until I found out about bhumi amla it was very difficult to help people overcome their food allergies, and other diseases, most of which are related to a hot angry liver.
But since learning how to use it about 25 years ago, it made my job much easier, and produced a quicker recovery time for most people to regain their health.
And the vast majority of the patients I see have such a hot angry liver that they can’t even tolerate the crude herb of bhumi amla, so in those cases we have to give the vibrational version. Which means that the crude herb of the bhumi amla is stripped away and what is left behind is the intelligence only of what that herb does. So when you put a few drops in a liter of water of the vibrational liquid version, it doesn’t involve the liver at all.
This makes sense because in the same way that the liver is angrily turning all the food into ama visha, it will automatically do the same thing to the herbs, because herbs have to be digested in the same way the food does. And the liver will corrupt the bhumi amla or any herb for that matter and turn it into a hot toxin.
So the vibrational version gets absorbed into all the gaps in between the cells, where all the intelligence lies and where it can begin doing its work. It gets absorbed immediately into the mucosa in the mouth and the vibration of the herb goes to work as it courses through all the vibrational channels throughout the body, without your liver ever having to digest the herb.
So through the years as I saw the food allergies going away, the rashes going away, and the autoimmune diseases fading, I was very grateful to have bhumi amla, my favorite herb, in my arsenal of tools to help people get better. I’m not sure I would have been able to help them had I not had this special training in the use of this amazing liver herb.
Thank you