For the proper functioning of the HEART, it is necessary that proper concentrations of potassium are maintained inside and outside the cellular fluids. It should not go up or go down. Either way, it will affect the heart and create many problems.

In plant foods, Potassium is present in higher concentrations than sodium by a factor of 10 to 50 fold. Plant foods are indeed rich sources of Potassium. Potassium present in a vegetarian diet is adequate to meet a man’s daily requirements. Even if a person’s takes excess of plant Potassium on a particular day, it will be stored in the body, and if on the next day the person takes less potassium, his body will use the Potassium that is stored in the body. But on the other hand, when a person consumes artificial potassium like ‘NIFEDIPINE’, a medicine prescribed by allopath doctors to bring down Blood Pressure, in excess of what is actually required, such excess quantity may cause intra cardiac blocks.

Nowadays, we find that potassium-containing medicines are being prescribed by physicians for 10 days at a stretch. But how can a physician assess the requirement of Potassium of a particular person, on a particular day. It is impossible. The physician takes a calculated risk. When the physician prescribes the medicines with potassium for 10 days, the potassium content may either be excess or deficient, because the person may be taking plant potassium or may not be taking. Therefore, the best choice to maintain a person’s osmotic balance of Potassium, for a particular day, is to get it from raw fruits and raw vegetables.

In short, to maintain the osmotic balance a keep the cells in proper shape, it is essential that sodium and potassium concentrations are present inside and outside the cells in proper quantity.

The best way to maintain this osmotic balance is to obtain daily, the required quantity of sodium and potassium from plant foods. On the other hand if the person replenishes the same on the advice of a physician with artificial supplements, and if the quantity so taken is in excess of his actual requirements, it may lead to intra cardiac blocks and if it is less, it may impair contractility of the heart muscles.

A balanced diet for this purpose is given below:
1/3 –  Raw fruits and Vegetables
1/3 – Cooked vegetables
1/3 –  Cooked rice, whole wheat chapatti