A grater that shreds food so finely that juice can be extracted from the shreds. There are many varieties in different shapes and sizes. Porcelain and stainless steel graters are best.

Wild mountain potato of Japan.

Seven definable stages or aspects of judgment (judging ability): physical, sensorial, sentimental, intellectual, social, ideological, and Supreme. Often referred to as “levels” with the higher ones (four through seven) being more valued than the lower ones (one through three). In reality all judging abilities are equally important for personal development.

1. Physical: Decisions based on instinctive unconditioned reflexes and guided by hunger and thirst. This stage of judgment comes a few hours after birth and is also called instinctual, mechanical, or blind.
2. Sensorial: Decisions based on what is pleasant or unpleasant, comfortable or uncomfortable. This judgment begins when one perceives differences such as cold and warmth. Eventually one can distinguish what is agreeable or disagreeable.
3. Sentimental (Emotional): Decisions based on what is desirable and undesirable. This judgment first develops some months after birth as one learns what is helpful versus what frightens.
4. Intellectual: Decisions based on conceptual, scientific thinking leading to knowledge, abstraction, and synthesis of concepts. In this stage one develops an ability to distinguish what is good or evil, useful or useless.
5. Social: Decisions motivated by the desire for companionship with others and by the desire for approval from others. This stage includes two types of judgment: moral and economic.
6. Ideological: Decisions based on a dialectical principle, religious thinking, or on the basis of justice and injustice. This judging ability is often used by an originator of ideas or other deep thinker. One’s choices in eating and drinking are based on following dietetic or religious principles.
7. Supreme: Decisions based on the Order of the Universe, realizing the connection between all persons and things and thus embracing all phenomena, situations, and people in order to establish unification with Oneness.

Liquids extracted from various plant substances used as remedial drinks, applications, or massages. The following juices are used as drinks. See also Applications and Massages.

See Cautionary note.

Burdock juice: Juice from grated burdock root used as a drink for appendicitis, phlegm in the throat, or food poisoning caused by meat.

Daikon juice: Juice from grated daikon used as a drink for tension headaches or food poisoning. Rice syrup is added for coughing, asthma attacks, or hoarseness. Ginger is added to daikon juice with rice syrup to improve circulation.

Leek juice: Juice from chopped and ground leeks used as a drink for poisonous bites or food poisoning.

Lotus root juice: Juice from grated lotus root used as a drink for asthma attacks, uterine bleeding, or coughing up blood.

Rice syrup juice: Juice from chopped daikon in rice syrup used as a drink for coughs.

Scallion juice: Juice from chopped and ground scallions used as a drink for asthma attacks, uterine bleeding, or coughing up blood.

Sour apple juice: Juice from grated sour apple used as a drink for diarrhea, slowing the pulse, or reducing a high fever.

Umeboshi juice, sweet: Juice from grated ginger, ume su, rice syrup, and hot water used as a drink for children’s diarrhea.

The impartial law that applies to all that exists and that leads to deserved punishment for violations of the order of the universe or the just reward for following it.

The quality of being just by following the rules of society based on human-made laws. “If you have confidence only in man-made contrivances such as laws, power, knowledge, science, money, drugs, and medicines, you have faith only in relativity, not in Infinity. Since all relative judgment is transitory and of little value, you should learn the structure of Infinity: the eternal creator.” (Essential Ohsawa 199)

See Justice, Absolute.