NATURAL LIVING

Health for all – Drugless way

‘ ALEXIS CARELL ’To live is not sufficient, we also need the joy of living and the joy of living

requires health. Above all we need the health which embrases body mind and soul.

Inspite of modern medical science so developed the diseases are increasing day by day and it looks as though there is no remedy for the suffering humanity. The more one goes to the doctors for treatment of ones ailments, the more one gets confused.

Nature cure brings to notice that diseases are the results of going away from Nature and disobeying the nature laws.

Health for all - The WHO slogam could only be achieved when people realize and follow a certain discipline in their life style.

Health is not a commodity that can be purchased in a doctor’s clinic in a medical shop or in a reputed hospital.

Nature Cure is a very simple and at the same time very effective system which depends on the inherent healing power of the human body. What is required during an acute ailment and in chronic illness is to assist the body and not to infere.

About 90% of diseases are due to 1. Accumulation of Morbid matter or impurities in the system.2. Altered composition of blood and lymph.3. Lowered vitality.

The fundamental principles on which Naturopathy is based are1. Regulated daily routine.2. Good dietary habits.

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3. Regular yogic exercises.4. Sleep ( 5 – 6 Hours ) and relaxation. 5. Avoiding indiscriminate excessive medication.6. Abstaining from habits and additions like excessive tea & coffee, smoking

and consumption of tobacco products, drug addiction and alcohol.7. Physical treatments for symptomatic relief and for assisting the body to

recover likea. Hydro therapy ( Water treatments )b. Massagec. Chromo therapy ( Colour treatments )d. Mud therapye. Enema or Bowel irrigationf. Yogic kriyas are used only in specific cases.

Body is made of five elements of nature ( Panchabhutas ) i.e., Earth, Water, Ether, Fire & Air and has remarkable self recuperative capacity. Healing is from with in when given a chance and with natures assistance it is fastest. So a simple cure is made complicated by man by not allowing natures healing process to work.

For prevention of diseases including the chronic infections a natural way of life with certain discipline mentioned above are important to build up a natural resistance against causative factors of illness.

Management of common day to day ailments :

Cold, Cough, Sore – throat, head ache, nausea, abdominal discomfort, indigestion, one or two motions, fever, etc.,

The above day to day ailments are commonly seen and even doctors do suffer from them occasionally. These ailments are due to temporary lowered resistance of the body due to dietary abuse, physical or mental over strain, insufficient sleep or climatic changes.

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We do not have to interfere by prescribing battery of medicines which is unfortunately the practice. Today may be the patient wants immediate relief by evening and insists upon the doctor. What one has to do is to remain on suitable liquid diet by skipping next solid meal for few hours to 48 hours and take plenty of water in addition to plain luke warm water enema if bowels have not moved. 80 to 90% of the cases settle down to normal within 24 – 48 hours and only 10% cases require further evaluation to rule out Malaria or Typhoid of it happens to be a fever. Interfering our body too much and too often with powerful meditation lowers resistance power and in the long run causes hepato – toxicity.

It is a universal convention that an antibiotic should be prescribed after confirming the diagnosis and identifying causative organism and also its sensitivity to the drug.

Dr. Ornish’s study done at university at San Francisco recently reported that a vegetarian diet, Moderate exercise and a hour a day of yoga and meditation could produce a reversal of athero sclerosis.

CONCLUSION :

To sum up regulated routine good dietary habits, regular yogic exercises, minimizing intake of medication, abstaining from habits and addictions have a definite role in the maintenance of health and in prevention of acute and chronic ailments of man.

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