数十年不吃不喝的圣人

    2003年11月的一天，印度西部城市艾哈迈达巴德的斯特林医院接待了一个名叫皮拉拉德•杰尼的隐士。已过古稀之年的他长期隐居在山洞里，被当地人称为“圣人”。他宣称自己数十年来滴水未沾，粒米未进。但精神矍铄，健康如常。

    杰尼这次来医院是应医学科研人员的邀请来进行隔离式医学观察的。在连续10天的隔离观察期间，他确实不吃不喝，也从未如厕，没有洗澡，连漱口水都原量吐出。然而，他的精神与身体状况也都正常。对他所作的一系列实验表明，他的身体机能和常人没有太大的差别。

    按杰尼自己的解释，他不吃不喝能够活数十载，原因是其上腭有个小洞。几滴水流过这个小洞，就能使他的生命得以维持。医生说：“他上腭那个小洞是个不正常现象。”

An Immortal Neither Eating nor Drinking for Tens Years

    One day in November 2003, the Stelin Hospital of Ahmadabad City in west India received a recluse named P. J. He was over 70 years old and lived a long life of reclusion in a cave. He was called the sage by local people. He declared that although he had neither drunk a drop of water nor eaten a grain of rice for tens years, yet he was hale and hearty like a normal people. 

    Under the invitation of the scientific research personnel in medical science, P. J. came to the hospital to do the medical observation of isolation. During the observation for 10 days running, he did actually neither eat nor drink. He did not go to the toilet and take a bathe. He spat even the water for mouth-rinsing wholly. But his state of spirit and health were normal. A series of experiments on him demonstrated that his body functions were not much different from normal persons.

    According to J., the reason why he could live for tens years without eating and drinking is that there is a small hole in his upper palate between the oral cavity and the nasal cavity. If only several drops of water flow through the small hole, he will live a life normally. Doctors say: “J’s small hole is actually an extraordinary organ.”

以泥土为食粮的莫鲁亚族

    2000年下半年，科学研究人员发现了居住在新几内亚岛上森林中的莫鲁亚族人，他们过着非常悠闲的生活，毋须为生活而工作，到了肚饿时只需弯身掘泥进食即可。这种被现代人视为过着非人生活的莫鲁亚族人，凭着进食污泥不但可以活到160岁，而且还能保持健壮如牛的体魄，有机会活到200岁。

    在一天午膳时，科学研究人员、人类学家们在新几内亚岛上找到了约300名莫鲁亚族人，除幼童外，他们均手持盛满泥土的石碗慢慢进食污泥。每天早上，由20名男子负责搜寻到足以作为该族人早餐的污泥后，一批妇女便负责把这些泥土搅匀并分发给族人进食。

    莫鲁亚族每餐都以泥土为食，对研究人员十分友善，不断邀请这些外来客同他们一起进餐。不过，研究人员实在无法仿效他们以泥土为食粮，但又十分想知道他们以泥土为食粮而长寿的奥秘。在莫鲁亚族人的心目中，这个世界上没有什么东西比泥土更美味可口了，所以每当进食泥土时，他们都显得十分满足而欣慰。

The Moruya Clan Take Earth-Water for Food

    In the second half of 2000, scientific researchers discovered that people of the Moruya clan living in the forest of New Guinea are having a carefree and content life. They need not to work for their own life because they live only on the earth and water. In modern sense they are regarded as living an inhuman life. They eat the mud usually. They can live to the age of 160 not only but also can be as strong as a cow, and even have the opportunity to live untill 200.

    The researchers and anthropologists found about 300 people of Moruya clan in New Guinea when they were having lunch. Except the children, all of them were holding a stone bowl filled with earth and water and were taking the earth and water slowly. They also found that every morning 20 men were in charge of collecting enough earth and water for their breakfast, and then a group of women were in charge of mixing up the earth and water and distributing them to everyone.

    The people of Moruya clan take earth and water for food for 3 meals a day and were very friendly to the researchers. They invited them to have meals together. But the researchers couldn’t follow their example of taking earth and water. Nevertheless, researchers and anthropologists wanted very much to know the secrets how the Moruya clan could take earth and water as food and could live to the age of 200 years. In Moruya people’s eyes, nothing in the world is more delicious than the earth and water. For this reason, whenever they take earth and water, they look very pleased.