The body is born, it grows, wanes and finally disappears. It is not Permanent. Diseases, old age and death are common to all. Without the body, none can realize the purpose of life. So it is essential to take care of the body by natural way. Nature has all the consequences to cure any diseases occurring to mankind. In order to cure diseases, one has to understand the functioning of the body.
The body is a marvelous machine. The physical health is essential for man who has been born to live. Our life is priceless. We need a long life to get wholeness in life and it will be useful, only if we are healthy.It is the common duty and the right of everyone to get good health, long life, enough wealth, fame and wisdom. The disease-less life alone is the limitless bounty.
Reason for Diseases
The ancient Tamil poet Thiruvalluvar says, "The learned people have said that if the peace of the circulations of blood, heat and air increase or decrease to cause disease".
The marvelous body is capable of functioning automatically. But why sometimes does it lose its balance? If we live in unison with Nature, the balance can be maintained. As our life style and food habits have become disharmonious with Nature, the health conditions lose their balance and diseases increase. This deterioration affects the quality of life and along with it, the time also. Food habits are also part of the cause for diseases. Balanced diet with fresh fruits, dry fruits and vegetable can help one to live a healthy life hence "One can be his own Doctor!".
Tips to Cure Diseases by Natural Way
1. The habit of eating after hunger comes. "After Digestion one who feeds his body needs no medicine".
2. Avoid high fat meat foods and fast foods to reduce risk of heart disease.
3. Take Natural treatments!
Naturopathy Treatments!
Obviously there are certain treatments which includes Banana-leaf bath, Mud bath, Sun bath and water Therapy are some of specialities of Naturopathy.
(i) Banana-leaf Bath
Heart patients and those who are suffering from headache should not take this therapy. Asthma patients, if they want, can take this. Half an hour bath is enough for others. It is good for healthy people to take this treatment once a month. Those who have a skin disease and who do less physical work can take this bath twice or thrice a week.
Procedure to be followed:
It is good to take this bath between 10.00 a.m and 3.00 p.m. We should take this 2 hours after taking the food. It is important that the stomach is empty.
- First tie your head with a wet cloth like turban.
- Drink cold water to your full limit.
- Then lie on the open banana leaf which is spread out in an open place under the full sun. Your body will be fully covered with the leaf and lightly tied around, for which you need help from another person.
- Above the neck, the leaf will be torn so that you can easily breathe.
After half an hour, the leaf can be untied and removed, you may be sweated much. The leaf should be thrown away beyond the reach of any cattle because the poison in the perspiration will harm the cattle, if they eat the leaf. When the body comes to normal temperature, you can take bath in the water, now you feel that you are healthy!
(ii)Mud Bath
This also should be done after 10.00 am and before 3.00 p.m. It is important that the stomach is empty. Water should be taken to the fullest limit.
Preparation of Mud and the Procedure
Only the mud, which is one foot below the surface, should be used. The mud should be clean without shells, coal and lime. As artificial fertilizers are used in the paddy field, the mud from the fields should not be used. If the mud of anthill is available, it is good. The anthill mud the mud taken from one foot below the ground should be mixed in water and made as paste. This should be smeared thickly from head to toe.
After the mud is completely dried in the sun, it can be dusted out of the body. We should then come under the shadow. When the body comes to normal temperature we can take bath in cold water. This therapy is a good cure for skin diseases and impure blood.
Note
Those who have the skin diseases can have this therapy two days in a week. Others can take once in a month. Mud bath and Banana-leaf bath should not be taken together in the same day. They can be taken alternatively.
(iii) Sunbath
The sunbath is to be taken in the sun without shirt and banian after 3.00 p.m for an hour. As the morning sun rays have the quality of Pitha, this should not be taken in the morning sun. Peolpe who take the banana-leaf and the mud bath can do so under the sun from 10.00 a.m to 3.00 p.m. Others should not be roaming under the sun.
The Sun rays do have the Vitamin D. But excess of elixir also will be poisonous and excessive exposure in the sun will cause cancer.
