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PHILOSOPHY AND
PRACTICE OF NATURE
CURE I & II

Dr. Shathirapathiy. G
Department of naturopathy,
BNYS, MD Naturopathy,
Sree Ramakrishna Medical College of Naturopathy and
Yogic sciences.
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INDEX
SL.NO TOPIC PAGE
NUMBER
1 INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY OF 5-11
NATUROPATHY
2 THREEFOLD CONSTITUTION OF MAN 12-13

3 TWOFOLD ATTITUDE OF MIND AND 14-15

SOUL
4 SYMPHONY OF LIFE 16-17

5 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF NATURE CURE 18-20

6 LAWS OF NATURE 21-24
7 CATECHISM OF NATURE CURE 25-27
8 PRIMARY CAUSE OF DISEASE AND ITS 28-40
MANIFESTATIONS
9 UNITY OF DISEASE AND UNITY OF 41-46
CURE
10 INFLAMATION AND SUPPRESSION 47-52
DURING STAGES OF INFLAMMATION
11 THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 53-55
FUNCTIONAL AND ORGANIC DISEASES

12 CONSERVATION OF VITALITY 56-66

13 AROGYA RAKSHA(K) PANCHATANTRA 67-86

14 IMPORATNCE OF MENTAL AND 87-98

PHYSICAL HYGIENE
15 HEALTH IS POSITIVE AND DISEASE IS 99-111
NEGATIVE
16 SCIENTIFIC RELAXATION 112-117
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17 TOXINS ANS ANTITOXINS IN NATURE 118-125

CURE WAY
18 VACCINATION AND THEIR EFFECTS ON 126-130
HUMEN BODY AND MIND
19 OLDAGE PROBLEM AND ITS 131-134
REJUVINATION
20 FAMILY PLANNING BY NATURAL 135-144
THERAPEUTICS
21 NATURE CURE Vs MODERN MEDICINE 145-147

22 PROPERTIES OF WATER 148-152

23 PROPERTIES OF MUD 155-156

24 PROPERTIES OF AIR 157-160

25 PROPERTIES OF SUNLIGHT 161-164
26 FUNDAMENTALS OF UNANI 165-172

27 FUNDAMENTALS OF ALLOPATHY 173-177

28 NATURE CURE DIAGNOSTIC METHODS 178-191

29 FUNDAMENTALS OF AYURVEDA
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We the 19th elites would like to express our special thanks

to our professor Dr. Shathirapathiy BNYS, MD (Naturopathy)
as well as our principal Dr. Anusha BNYS, MSc psychology who
gave the golden opportunity to prepare philosophy and practice of
nature cure book, which also helped us in doing a lot of reference
and we came to know about so many new things and we are really
thankful to them.
We are over helmed in all humbleness and gratefulness to
acknowledge our depth to all those who have helped us to put these
ideas, well above the level of simplicity and into something
concrete. We would like to express our special thanks of gratitude
to our staffs as well as our principle.
Thanking you,
19th elites
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NATUROPATHY
DEFINITION:
Naturopathy is the science of disease elimination without drugs it is based on
the principle of cooperation with the natural law of life, which are ever
working within as well as outside the body. And it make use of only the
natural agencies like water, light, heat, exercise, electricity etc. For the
purpose of curing disease. It is also known as natural remedies or natural
therapy or naturopathy treatment of disease.

INTRODUCTION TO NATUROPATHY:
The term naturopathy was derived from Natura (o) (latin word), root for birth
and pathos (Greek word) meaning suffering, such that to suggest natural
healing.
The term Naturopathy was coined in 1895 by John Scheel and popularized
by Dr.Benedict lust, He is considered as father of modern naturopathy and
father of U.S.A Naturopathy.
It is a form of complementary medicine employing a wide arrive of natural
treatments including Homeopathy, Herbalism, Acupuncture, diet, lifestyle
counseling as well as eliminating overeating, tea, coffee, alcohol etc.
Naturopathy favours a holistic approach with non-invasive treatments and
generally avoid the use of surgery and drugs.
Naturopathy claims the ancient greek father of medicine, Hippocrates
considered as the father of medicine. He described, the body in spiritual,
vitality terms with absolute reliance upon the cosmic force of man’s nature.
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Naturopathy philosophy is based on a belief in vitality and self-healing,

Naturopathy physician employ the principles of Naturopathy with context
conventional medical practice.
Naturopathy is the therapeutic science based on the PANCHA MAHA
BHOOTAS more over in the treatment of disease.
Our human body is compared of these pancha maha bhootas.
1. Akash – space
2. Vayu – air
3. Tejas – fire
4. Apa – water
5. Prithvi - earth
Thus, it is a system of working towards cure of disease without using any
medicine.

Points to remember:
• Father of medicine – Hippocrates.
• Father of naturopathy – Vincent Priessnitz.
• Father of modern naturopathy – Benedict lust
• Father of Indian naturopathy – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

HISTORY OF NATUROPATHY

Human beings are the intrinsic factor on part of nature, therefore

nothing except nature. Dr. Henry Lindlahr a famous and eminent
naturopath takes acute disease as the result of cleansing and healing
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of the body. If you suppress the acute condition by drugs or any other
therapies are laying the foundation chronic disease. History of
naturopathy is in many aspect, the history of mankind and its disease,
the healing science is as old as man but its progress has been neither
regular nor inevitable. It begin as magic

GENERAL HISTORY
HISTORY OF INDIA:
In ancient times, India was far advanced in health knowledge than any other
countries in the world. During Indus valley civilization, people from different
countries made trade in contact with our country and they established as early
as with 3rd millennium B.C and thus Naturopathy has been developed.
The earliest of Sanskrit writings, the sacred book, Rig veda – written about
1500B.C, it contains much more health information and it contains the
symptoms of the great Indian killer disease like malaria, dysentery, typhoid,
cholera, plague, leprosy, and small pox are described. However sages who
accompanied the wandering Aryans drive with bags of healing herbs. These
men not only treated wounds but also removed eyes and limbs and made
artificial organs to replace them.
They also knew the value of pancha maha bhootas such as Akash, Vayu,
Tejas, Apa and Prithvi. So, they embodied in the religious code as regular
use.
In this field, the excavations of the Indian cities Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
suggests that early India was superior to Egypt and Mesopotamia. Brick
walled sewers drained both main and the poorer side street of Mohenjo-Daro
which also possessed underground water pipe. The massive swimming pool
was constructed with steam bath, drains and fountains.
In 18th century, they provide spa treatment and it is mostly used for the
treatment of skin disease, Rheumatism, gout and debility. Cold baths and
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cold immersion bath were used for the Feverish, while tepid bath were
recommended for debility.

ACCORDING TO BHAGAVAT GITA

TRADITIONAL HISTORY:
ACCORDING TO VEDAS:
BHAGAVAT GITA:
Maha- bhutay ahankaro

buddhir avyaktam evaca

indriyani dasaikam ca

pancha cendriya –gocarah

iccah dvesah sukham duhkham

sanghatas cetana dhrtih

etat kshetram samasena

sa-vikaram udahrtam

MEANING:
The five great elements, false ego, intelligence, the unmanifested, the
ten senses and the mind, the five sense objects, desire, hatred,
happiness, distress, the aggregate, the life symptoms and convictions all
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these are considered, in summary to be the field of activities and its

interactions.

MANTRA FOR CARDIAC AND LIVER DISORDERS:

“Hirdrogam mama surya harimaanacha naa saya

yenna paavaka chakshasan bhuvangantam

janam anutwamvarana vasyasj”

PANCHA MAHA BHOOTAS:

AKASHA:
1) Akasha is the body of the Brahman.
2) The space is honey to all being and all being are honey to this space

VAYU:
1) The air is honey to all being and all being are honey to this air
2) May wind blow pleasantly for us.

TEJAS:
1) Agni is worshipped for increase in wealth.
2) Richer, heroes, food, progeny and longetivity are sought from agni.

APA:
1) Water is the mother.
2) Verily all this is water. All the created beings are waters. The vital
breaths are water, the quadrupeds are waters edible crops are water.
Ambrosia is water. The creator is water. Man is water. Meters are water
all the desires are water, three world earth, sky and heaven.
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PRITHVI:
1) Earth is the mother.
2) Earth gives off happiness, it sustains life and supporters of all living
being.

NATUROPATHY IN ROME:
Rome concentrated more in public health. Rome provided a example in
matters of public health. Romans realized that disease was caused by filth or
dirt and overcrowding the marshes surrounding Rome, a fertile breeding
ground for malaria so they drained out the whole waste product around 7 th
century B.C .In 6th century B.C Rome was furnished with a network of
underground sewers including its main drainage called cloaca maxima. They
also established a source of water supply by adequate bringing pure water
from miles away.
By the 2nd century A.D such adequate supply of 300 million gallons of
drinking water in a day .The poor people carried it from public fountains, rich
private houses also had hot, cold bath and swimming pools. Europeans and
wealthy citizens built magnificent public baths for poor.
Emperor Caracalla built 1600 baths at a time in 270 A.D (21st century). Early
empire Rome boasted 150 public latrines and also they built water storage
tank.

NATUROPATHY IN CHINA:
Chinese medicine has its own unique philosophy as to how the body
works which is very different than any other system in the world.
Acupuncture, the practice of healing by the incision of needles into certain
area of the skin, was a Chinese discovery to treat many disorders.
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Massage and Herbal medicine were also Chinese origin. Chinese

doctors first used mercury to treat ulcer 2000 years before and European
adapted it for the treatment of syphilis. They also concluded that the blood
circulation in the body under the control on heart, centuries before William
Harvey.

NATUROPATHY IN U.S.A:
The modern method of nature cure however originated mostly in
Germany and developed in U.S.A. Each master in this field developed his
own method in his own way and the whole mass of knowledge was later
collected under a name Naturopathy. The credit for the name Naturopathy
goes to Dr. Benedict lust and hence he is considered as the father of modern
Naturopathy.

CONCLUSION:
Union of health and healing knowledge of both east and west was
affected at the seaside town of salerno, south of Naples (Italy) in 9th century.
Hindu culture declined and received a set back with the moslem conquest of
India. The simple and effective method of treatments by using nature’s
remedies were forgotten. But from the middle of the 1st millennium B.C this
knowledge had already traveled and spread to the Mediterranean hands by
many routes. India got a chance to re-discover its own heritage in the field
which is due to Gandhiji’s interest in nature cure, which has now spread to
every nook and corners of India had received governmental patronage and
recognition in many state.
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THREEFOLD CONSTITUTION
OF MAN
Three planes of being corresponding
Threefold constitution of man
Planes of being Threefold constitution Analogy
Moral plane Soul Law of harmony or
music
Mental plane Mind Player
Physical plane Physical Body Violin

Man lives and functions on three distinct planes of being the physical,
spiritual and moral or mental planes.
One may be diseased upon one or more of these planes. The true
physician must look for cause of disease and for methods of treatment upon
all three planes of being.
The purely materialistic physician concentrates upon the physical or
material planes of being. To him mental, spiritual, psychical and moral
phenomena are merely chemical and physiological actions and reaction of
brain and nerve substance. He don’t believes in spiritual body or a soul.
On other hand mental healers, Christian scientists and faith healers
concentrate on either the mental or soul plane.
The true artist realizes that mind, the player, must study soul, the harmonics
and that the mind must also have its instrument, the body, in perfect condition
in order to interpret perfectly and artistically the harmonics perfectly and
artistically the harmonics of symphony of life. Likewise, the nature cure
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physician will look for causes of disease and for means of cure upon the
material, mental and psychical planes of being.
Physical health is the best possible basis for the attainment of mental,
moral, and spiritual health. All building begins with the foundation. We do
not first suspend the steeple in the air and then build the church under it. So
also, the building of the temple of human character should begin by laying
the foundation in physical health.
If there is in operation a constructive principle of nature on the ethical,
moral and spiritual planes of being, with which we must align ourselves and
to which we must conform our conscious and voluntary activities in order to
achieve self-content, individual completion and happiness, then this
constructive principle must be in operation also in our physical bodies and in
their correlated physical, mental and emotional activities. So the achievement
of health on the physical plane is as much under our conscious and voluntary
control.

To Recapitulate:
* Our wellbeing on all things and in all relationships of life depends
upon the existence, recognition and practical application of the great
fundamental laws and principles
* Physical health as well as moral health, is of our own making. We
are personally responsible not only for our own physical and mental health,
but we are also morally responsible for the hereditary tendencies of our off
springs towards health or disease
* The attainment of physical health through compliance with nature’s
law is just as much as a part of the great work as our ethical, moral and
psychical development. Therefore all powers of law and principles which
manifest on our planes proceed and continue from the innermost divine.
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TWOFOLD ATTITUDE OF
MIND AND SOUL
The twofold attitude or constitution is based on
1. Our own personal effort (independent)
2. Depends upon a higher power (dependent)
Both the independent and the dependent attitudes of mind and soul are
good and true and be entertained at sometime. This twofold attitude of mind
and soul is justified not only by reason but also by the anatomical structure
of human organism and its physiological and psychological faculties,
capacities and powers.
The activities of the human organism are governed by two different
systems of nerves, the sympathetic and the motor nervous system.
The sympathetic nervous system is the conveyer of vital force to the
organs and lens of the body arrangements and manifestation of that vital force
we call God, nature, life, the higher power or the divine within.
Heart action, the circulation of the blood, digestion, respiration,
assimilation of food, elimination and all other involuntary activities and
functions of the human organism are controlled by means of sympathetic
nervous system. The nature of the controlling force itself is not known to us.
We do know that it is supremely powerful, intelligent and benevolent
The more we study the anatomy, physiology and psychology of the
human organism, the more we wonder at its marvelous complexity and
integrity of structure and function. Every moment there are enacted in our
bodies in numerical innumerable mechanical, chemical and psychological
miracles takes place.
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What or who performs these miracles? We do not know yet every

moment of our lives depends upon the infinite care and wisdom of these
unknown intelligence and power.
The human entity is depend upon a controlling power nor are all its
functions involuntary. Within our body the divine intelligence dwells in his
own right and by his own mind. He is endowed with freedom of desire, of
choice, and of action. He creates brain, the nerve centers which control the
voluntary activities of the body and from these brain centers he send his
commands through the fibers of the motor nerve to the voluntary muscles and
make him to do his bidding. Some he commands to walk, others to laugh, to
eat, to speak etc.
This independent principles in man we call the ego, the intelligence. He
can desires, reasons, plans and workout by the powers of feel well and
independent choice and its own salvation destruction, physically, mentally,
morally and spiritually.
In this man differs from the animal creation. The animal is able to take
care of itself shortly after birth. But the human brain slowly destrudes and
laborously through many years.
For voluntary capacities and powers the newborn infant possesses little
more time, as the cerebral hemispheres are blank which is to be inscribed
gradually by its conscious voluntary activities, before it can think, reason,
speak, walk or do anything else, it must first develop in its brain special
centers for each and every one of these voluntary faculties and functions.
Through this persistent personal effort, reasons, will and self control
are gradually developed. While the animals, being hereditary endowed with
the faculties and functions necessary for the maintenance of life, has no
occasions for the development of the higher faculties and power and therefore
irresponsible.
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THE SYMPHONY OF LIFE

Human life appears to be as a great Orchestra in which we are players.

The great composition to be performed is the “Symphony of life”. It is
infinitude of dissonances and melodies blending into one colossal tone
pictures of harmony and grandeur. We players must study the laws of music
and the score of the great symphony and we must practice diligently and
persistently, until we can play our part unerringly in harmony with the
concepts of the great composer. At the same time we must learn to keep our
instrument, the body in the best possible condition.
For the greatest artist, endowed with a profound knowledge of the laws of
music and possessed of the most perfect technique, cannot produce musical
and harmonious sounds from an instrument with strings relaxed or overtense
or with its body filled with rubbish.
The artist must learn that the instrument, its material, its construction and
its care are just as subject to law as the harmonics of the score.
In the final analysis, everything is vibration acting in and on the universal
ethers, which are held to be the Primordial substance. Possibly the ethers
themselves are mode of vibration.
That which is constructive is harmonious vibration. That which is
destructive is inharmonious or discordant vibrations.
As the artist seeks vibratory harmony between his instrument and the
harmonics of the universe of sound, So the health seeker must endeavor to
establish vibratory union between the material elements of his body and
Nature’s harmonics of health in the physical universe.
The atoms and molecules in the wood and strings of the violin, as well as
the sounds produced from them, are mode of motion or vibration.
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In order to bring forth musical and harmonious notes, the vibratory

conditions of the physical elements of the violin must be in harmonious
vibratory relationship with nature’s harmonics in the universe of sound.
The elements and forces composing the human body are also vibratory in
their nature, the same as the material elements of the violin. They also must
to kept in a certain well balanced chemical combination, mechanical
adjustment and physical refinement before they can vibrate in union with
Nature’s harmonics in the physical universe and thus produce the harmonics
of health, strength and beauty.
If our instrument is out of tune, or if we ignorantly or willfully insist on
playing in our own way, regardless of the score, we create discords not only
for ourselves but also for our fellow artists in the great orchestra of life.
Sin, disease, suffering and evil are nothing but discords, produced by the
ignorance, indifference or malice of the players.
Therefore we cannot attribute the discords of life to the great composer.
They are of our own making and will last as long as we refuse to learn
out parts and to play them in tune with the great score. For in this way only
can be ever hope to master the art and science of right living and to enjoy the
harmonies of peace, selfcontent and happiness.
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BASIC PRINCIPLES OF
NATURE CURE

ACCORDING TO GANDHIJI:

1. Prevention is better than cure.

2. Take vegetarian (or) satvik food.
3. Do your duty without quest for the fruits of labour.
4. Disease is nothing but sin.
5. Ignorance (or) lack of knowledge is the cause of disease.
6. Follow bramacharya, as bramacharya is the discipline of cure,as one
is pure in physically, mentally, morally and spiritually.
7. Personal hygiene and healthy living is essential for every being says
Gandhi in the book entitled “MY NATURE CURE”
8. Through nature we should realize god.
9. Body is made up of five great elements.
10.Body is the perfect machine, if rest given to the body once
in a week, machine works as a perfect one.
11. Marriages are only to produce the off spring.
12. Lack of self discipline leads to diseases.
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ACCORDING TO HENRY LINDLAHR:

1) Body heals itself.

2) Main cause of disease is enervation.
3) Deposit of metabolic end product in the body is disease.
4) Acute disease is a remedial process is itself a cure.
5) Food is a building material does not increase vitality.
6) Fasting provides an opportunity to the body to heal itself.
7) Germs doesn’t cause the disease but are found in the diseased
condition.
8) Exercise are physical activities keep the balance between nutrition
and drainage.
9) External treatment whether natural, allopathic, ayurvedic,
homeopathy gives only relief not cure.

10) Patient on will to get well determination and faith are

necessary things for natural cure treatment.
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ACCORDING TO RIG VEDA:

1) Fasting.

2) Right dieting.

3) Bath.

4) Enema.

5) Sunbathing.

6) Exercise.

7) Breathing exercise.

8) Rest and relaxation.

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THE LAWS OF NATURE

Law of nature means law of hygiene and moderation in everything we do.
Violation of the laws of nature causes disease, but obeying them preserves
good health.
“Obey the law of nature, it will rewards you
If you doesn’t, it will punish you”
In order to live in accordance with nature, it is essential to understand at least
a few important principle of naturopathy.
• Healing is from within.
• Toxemia is the principle cause of disease.
• Body and mind should be treated as a whole.
• Cure cannot be obtained without cleansing.

1. Healing is from within:

Life under natural conditions is health. Life on earth is made to
adopt itself to its environment by the constant flow of the vital force in our
body. A natural tendency exists in this life force which brings forth a perfect
harmony between human body and surroundings.
Our body should adopt itself to its surroundings but if the body is
unable to adopt itself to surroundings, it leads to ill health and disease. So
body needs a certain amount of energy for this adaptation.
While drugs and medicines cannot give this power, the tendency of
the life force to preserve itself enables health to get protected from all
obstructions and barriers .The self-preserving power of the cells and organs
of the body act in union to remove the obstruction which attacks in the form
of disease.
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The guardian cell:

When the body receives an injury, the minute cells present in the
blood act with fullforce. The cells near the raw wound multiply faster than
they normally do and slowly a new skin forms to close the wound. These
cells known as “Police cells” guard the skin from getting infected till it gets
healed on its own.
When there are torn muscles as in severe injuries, the healing
processes take place in the deeper tissue. Even incase of a broken bone, the
fracture is joined by the soft tissues, until the new tissues becomes firm and
attains strength equal to that of the other parts of the body, the minerals
present in the body find their way into them and aid in this task Bandages,
Plasters and Stitches are external aids for fastening the body’s healing
process.
Except the nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord, all other
tissues are capable of forming a new skin when injury take place.

2. Toxemia is the principle cause of all disease:

Waste eliminating organs of the body are the lungs, which breathe
out Co2, kidney, that throw out urine and salt, bowels which expel the
undigested food and skin, which excretes waste products through sweat. If
there is an overload in these organs, clogging and occurs in the channels
resulting in toxemia.
Consumption of bad quality food in large quantities coupled with lack
of exercise, also cause clogging and stagnation in the channels.
Consequently, the respiratory organs, nose and throat get congested skin
assumes either dryness or Oilness, liver gets congested and fatty, the bowels
become congested/constipated and the toxins from the excreta get re-
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absorbed in the circulation. At this stage exercise is essential to purify the

system through oxygenation.

3. Body and mind should be treated as a whole:

The body-mind unit must be in harmony with the environment. No
injuries influx can enter the body without the influence of the mind.
Our emotions influence bodily functions. Mental attitudes of a person
determines the type of influence, a disease will have over the body. Most of
the chronic diseases have an unmistakable connection with emotions. Even
common cold, stomach and headaches are triggered by emotions.
Emotions like stress, anxiety, fear, jealousy and hatred influence our
physical being to create a morbid condition and cause toxemia in the system.
Their effects are very bad in association with the type of disease and the
organs involved.

4. Cure cannot be obtained without cleansing:

If only we could see the condition in which body’s internal organs,
as we would realize that internal cleansing is even more important. Our
internal organs include even the brain, which under the influence of
unhealthy emotions and thoughts makes a mess of the hormones,
contaminating the whole blood system.
While cleansing a machine, we first switch it off. Each part is then
dismantled and cleansed /cleaned. This process is called overhauling. The
human body is also a complicated machine, whose parts unfortunately cannot
be removed, but cleansing it is surprisingly very easy unlike machinery. This
is because the unique mechanism of our body is an auto cleaner. It only
requires little effort on our part in the form of water and rest. So in order to
lead a healthy life there are some of the natural methods, they are:
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1. Return to Nature
2. Elementary remedies
3. Chemical remedies
4. Mechanical remedies
5. Mental and spiritual remedies

RETURN TO NATURE:
By the regulation of the habit of eating, breathing, bathing, dressing,
drinking, resting, thinking, working, sexual and social activities etc…… on
in natural basis.

Elementary remedies:
Water, air, light, magnetism, electric etc……

Chemical remedies:
Scientific food selection and combination, specific nutrition, raw
foods, simple herbal extracts and the vital-vito chemical remedies.

Mechanical remedies:
Such as corrective gymnastics, massage, magnetic treatment,
chiropractices or osteopathic manipulations, surgery etc…..

Mental and spiritual remedies:

Such as scientific relaxation, meditation, pranayamas, prayer
etc………
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CATECHISM OF NATURE CURE

1) What is the Constructive Principle in Nature?

The constructive principle in Nature is that principle which builds up,

improves and repairs, which always makes for the perfect type, whose
activity in Nature is designated as evolutionary and constructive and which
is opposed to the destructive principle in Nature is designated as
evolutionary.

2) What is the Destructive Principle in Nature?

The destructive principle in Nature is that principle which disintegrates and

destroys existing forms and types, and whose activity in Nature is
designated as devolutionary.

3) What is Normal or Natural?

That is normal or natural which is in harmonic relation with the life

purposes of the individual and the constructive principle in Nature.

4) What is Health?

Health is normal and harmonious vibration of the elements and forces

composing the human entity on the physical, mental, moral and spiritual
planes of being, in conformity with the constructive principle of Nature
applied to individual life.
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5) What is Disease?

Disease is abnormal or inharmonious vibration of the elements and forces

composing the human entity on one or more planes of being, in conformity
with the destructive principle of Nature applied to individual life.

6) What is Acute Disease?

What is commonly called acute disease is in reality the result of Nature’s

efforts to eliminate from the organism waste matter, foreign matter and
poisons, and to repair injury to living tissues. In other words, every so-
called acute disease is the result of a cleansing and healing effort of Nature.
The real disease is lowered vitality, abnormal composition of the vital fluids
(blood and lymph) and the resulting accumulation of waste materials and
poisons.

7) What is Chronic Disease?

(a) Chronic disease is a condition of the organism in which lowered

vibration (lowered vitality), due to the accumulation of waste matter and
poisons, with the consequent destruction of vital parts and organs, has
progressed to such an extent that Nature’s constructive and healing forces
are no longer able to react against the disease conditions by acute corrective
efforts (healing crises).
(b) Chronic disease is a condition of the organism in which the morbid
encumbrances have gained the ascendancy and prevent acute reaction
(healing crises) on the part of the constructive forces of Nature.
(c) Chronic disease is the inability of the organism to react by acute efforts
or healing crises against constitutional disease conditions.
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8) What is a “Healing Crisis”?

A healing crisis is an acute reaction, resulting from the ascendancy of

Nature’s healing forces over disease conditions. Its tendency is toward
recovery, and it is, therefore, in conformity with Nature’s constructive
principle

9) What is a Disease Crisis?

A disease crisis is an acute reaction resulting from the ascendancy of

disease conditions over the healing forces of the organism. Its tendency is
toward fatal termination, and it is, therefore, in conformity with Nature’s
destructive principle

10) What is Cure?

Cure is the readjustment of the human organism from abnormal to normal

conditions and functions.
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THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF DISEASE

AND ITS MANIFESTATIONS

We have learned in the previous chapter that, barring trauma (injury) and
surroundings uncongenial to human life, the primary cause of all disease in
violation of Nature’s laws. Violation of Nature’s laws in thinking,
breathing, eating, drinking, dressing, working. Resting, as well as in moral,
sexual and social conduct, results in certain primary and secondary
manifestations of disease.

The three primary manifestations of disease coincide with the three primary
life requirements of the cell. Biology teaches us that these are innervation,
nutrition and drainage. By innervation is meant a copious influx of life
force and an adequate nerve supply from headquarters in the brain and
spinal cord. Anything, therefore, which obstructs the nerve connection of
the cell with the sympathetic and the central nervous systems lowers the
vitality of the cells, tissues and organs and of the organism as a whole, and
interferes with the transmission of afferent and efferent nerve impulses.

Nutrition, the second life requirement of the cell, necessitates normal

composition of blood, lymph and other fluids of the body: therefore,
abnormal composition of the vital fluids constitutes the second one of the
primary manifestations of disease.
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The third life requirement of the cell, according to biology, is perfect

drainage. Accumulations of waste and morbid matter interfere with
drainage as well as with nutrition of the cell; therefore, is accumulation of
waste and morbid matter in the system the third one
of the primary manifestations of disease. The following diagram will
illustrate the foregoing statements.

Diagram

Primary Life Requirements of Primary Manifestations of

the cell Disease

Innervation, that is an adequate Lowered vitality.

nerve supply through
sympathetic and central nervous
systems.

Nutrition, normal composition Abnormal composition of vital

of blood, lymph and vital fluids. fluids.

Drainage, that is free and Accumulation of waste and

unobstructed drainage through morbid matter which obstructs the
venous and lymphatic venous and lymphatic circulation.
circulation

The following diagram will outline the primary manifestations or stages of

disease and the secondary stages resulting from them
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Table I
Primary and Secondary Stages or Manifestations of
Disease
Primary Stage or Manifestation Secondary stages or
Manifestations

Lowered vitality due to over Hereditary and acquired traits of

work, night work, weakening sycosis, scrofula, psora, syphilis,
habits, excesses, over-indulgence mercurialism, cinchonism, iodism
over-stimulation, poisonous drugs and many other forms of systemic
ill-advised surgical operations and drug poisoning
and
to wrong thinking and feeling.
Abnormal composition of blood Disease germs, parasites, etc.
and lymph due to improper
selection and combination of
food, and especially to lack of
“organic” mineral salts.

Accumulation of waste material Fevers, inflammation, skin

morbid matter and poisons. These eruptions, catarrhal discharges,
accumulations of morbid matter ulcers, abscesses, hemorrages,
and poisons are caused by etc.-processes which indicate the
lowered vitality, faulty diet, over oxidation and elimination of
eating, use of alcoholic and morbid or pathogenic material.
narcotic stimulants, drugs,
vaccines, antitoxins, and by
suppression of acute discase by
poisonous drugs, ice and surgical
operations.
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Table II
The Unity of Disease and Treatment

In correspondence with the three primary manifestations disease, Nature

Cure recognizes the following.

Natural Methods of Treatment

1. Return to Nature, or the establishment of normal habits and

surroundings, which necessitates
(a) Extension of consciousness by popular general and individual education:
(b) The constant exercise of reason, will and self control;
(c) A return to natural habits in thinking, breathing, eating, dressing,
working, resting, and in moral, sexual and social conduct;
(d) Correction of mechanical lesions and injuries by means of massage,
osteopathy, chiropractic, narapathy, surgery, and other mechanical methods
of treatment

2. Economy of Vital Force, which necessitates

(a) Prevention of waste of vital force by stopping all leaks,
(b) Scientific relaxation, proper rest and sleep:
(c) The right mental attitude, right thinking and feeling.
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3. Elimination, which necessitates.

(a) Scientific selection and combination of food and drink;
(b) Judicious fasting:
(c) Hydrotherapy (water cure):
(d) Light and air baths;
(e) Manipulative treatment;
(f) Correct breathing, curative gymnastics;
(g) Such medicinal remedies as will build up the blood on a normal basis
and supply the system with the all-important mineral salts in organic form.

In the following chapters I shall endeavor to show how all the different
forms, phases and phenomena of disease arising within the human
organism, provided they are not caused by accident or external conditions
unfavorable to human life, grow out of one or more of the three primary
manifestations of disease (Tables I and II). When we succeed in proving
that all disease originates from a few simple causes, it will not seem so
strange and improbable that all disease can be cured by a few simple,
natural methods of living and of treatment. If Nature Cure accomplishes
this, it thereby establishes its right to be classed with the exact sciences.
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The Primary Stages of Disease

We shall now consider the three primary stages of disease, one by one.

I. Lowered Vitality
Health Positive-Disease Negative
The freer the inflow of life force into the organism, the greater the vitality,
the more there is of strength, of positive resisting and recuperating power.
At the very foundation of the manifestation of life lies the principle of
polarity which expresses itself in the duality of positive and negative
affinity. The swaying to and fro of the positive and the negative, the effort
to balance incomplete polarity, constitutes the very ebb and flow of life.
Disease is disturbed polarity or unbalanced chemical equilibrium.
Exaggerated positive or negative conditions, whether physical, mental or
moral, tend to disease on the respective planes of being. Foods, medicines,
suggestions and all other methods of treatment exert on the individual
subjected to them either a positive or a negative influence

It is, therefore, of the greatest importance that the physician and every one
who wishes to live and work in harmony with Nature laws should
understand this all important question of magnetic polarity Lowered vitality
means lowered, slower and coarser vibration which results in weakened
resistance to the accumulation of morbid matter, poisons, disease traints,
germs and parasites. This is what designate ordinarily as the “negative
condition.

Let us explain this more fully by a homely but practical illustration Many of
my readers have probably seen in operation in the summer amusement
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parks the “human roulette”. This contrivance consists of a large wheel,

board covered, somewhat raised in the center and sloping toward the
circumference. The wheel rotates horizontally evenly with the floor or the
ground. The merry-makers pay their nickels for the privilege of throwing
themselves flat down on the wheel and attempting to cling to it while it
rotates with increasing swiftness. While the wheel moves slowly it is easy
enough to cling to it, but the faster it revolves, the more strongly the
centrifugal force tends to throw off the human “flies” trying to hold fast.

The accelerated repelling power of the revolving wheel may serve as an

illustration of that which we call vigorous vibration, good vitality, natural
immunity or recuperative power. This is the positive condition.

The more intense the action of the life force, the more rapid and vigorous
are the vibratory activities of the atoms and molecules in the cells, and of
the cells in the organs and tissues of the body. The more rapid and vigorous
this vibratory activity, the more powerful is the repulsion and expulsion of
morbid matter, poisons and germs of disease which encumber and seek to
destroy the organism.

This explains why, with advancing age, waste and morbid matter
accumulates more readily in the body. Lowered vitality means lowered
vibration and this means lowered resistance to the accumulation of waste
and morbid materials. This in turn obstructs the inflow and distribution of
vital energy. Thus it becomes apparent how the primary manifestations of
disease see-saw and aggravate one another.
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Health and Disease Resident in the Cell

Health or disease, in the final analysis, is resident in the cell. Though a

minute, microscopic organism, the cell is an individual living being, which
eats, drinks, grows, throws off waste matter, multiplies. Ages and declines,
just like man, the large conglomerate cell If the individual cell embodies
health, man, the complex cell, is well also and vice versa. From this it
becomes apparent that in all our considerations of the processes of health,
disease and cure, we have to deal primarily with the individual cell.

The vibratory activity of the cell may be lowered through the decline of
vitality brought about in a natural way by advancing age. Or in an artificial
way, through wrong thinking and feeling. Wrong nadits of living, over-
work, unnatural stimulation and excesses of various kinds

On the other hand, the inflow of vital force into the cells may be obstructed
and their vibratory activity lowered by the accumulation of waste and
morbid matter in the tissues of the body. Such clogging interferes with the
inflow of life force and with the free and harmonious vibration of the cells
and organs of the body as surely as dust in a watch interferes with the
normal action and vibration of its wheels and balances.

From this it is evident that negative conditions may be brought about not
only by hyper-refinement of the physical organism, but also by clogging it
with waste and morbid matter which tends to interfere with the inflow and
distribution of vital force. The “positive nourishing” diet consisting largely
of meat, eggs, fats and gluten clogs the system heavily with pathogenic
waste and morbid materials, thereby obstructing the inflow and distribution
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of the life elements, which is equivalent to lowered vitality or a negative

condition. I call attention to this because many people are under the
impression that fasting, vegetarian diet or w food diet and certain
eliminating methods of treatment necessarily sult in the creation of negative
conditions and that negative patients must be kept on a heavy meat diet.

It also becomes apparent that in all cases where negative conditions are
caused by clogging with waste and morbid matter, the Nature Cure methods
of eliminative treatment, such as pure food diet, hydrotherapy, massage,
neurotherapy, etc. Must be invaluable means of removing these obstructions
and promoting the inflow and free circulation of the positive
electromagnetic and vitochemical energies.

II. Abnormal Composition of Blood and Lymph

As one of the primary stages or manifestations of disease, we cited

abnormal composition of blood and lymph. The human organism is made
up of a certain number of elements in well defined proportions. Chemistry
has discovered, so far, about eighteen of these elements in appreciable
quantities and has ascertained their functions in the economy of the body.
These elements must be present in the right proportions in order to insure
normal texture and functioning of the component parts and organs of the
body

The cells and organs receive their nourishment from the blood and lymph
streams. Therefore these must contain all the elements needed by the
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organism in the right proportions, and this, of course. Depends upon the
character and combination of food elements.

Every disease arising in the human organism from internal causes is

accompanied by a deficiency in blood and tissues of certain important
mineral elements (organic salts) and this in turn is caused by an unbalanced
diet. Improper food combinations create an over-abundance of waste and
morbid matter in the system, while failing to supply the positive mineral
elements or organic salts on which depends the elimination of waste
materials and systemic poisons from the body.

The great problem of natural dietetics and of natural treatment is, therefore,
how to restore and maintain the positivity of the blood and of the organism
as a whole through providing in food, drink and medicine an abundant
supply of the positive mineral salts in organic form.

III. Accumulation of Morbid Matter and Poisons

This is the third of the primary stages of disease. We have learned how
lowered vitality and the abnormal composition of the vital fluids favor the
retention of waste and systemic poisons in the body. If, in addition to this,
food and drink contain too much of the waste-producing proteins,
carbohydrates and hydrocarbons, and not enough of the eliminating positive
mineral salts, then waste and morbid materials are bound to accumulate in
the system and this results in the clogging of the tissues with pathogenic
materials.
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Such accumulation of waste and morbid matter in blood and tissues creates
the great variety of diseases arising within the human organism. This will
be explained fully in the following chapters which deal with the causation
of acute and chronic disease. More harmful and dangerous and more
difficult to eliminate than

The various kinds of systemic poisons (those which have originated within
the body), are drug poisons, especially when they are administered in the
inorganic mineral form. Health is dependent upon an abundant supply of
life force, upon the unobstructed, normal circulation of the vital fluids and
upon perfect oxygenation and elimination of waste. Anything which
interferes with these essentials causes disease: anything which promotes
them establishes health, nothing so interferes with the inflow of life force.

With free and normal circulation of blood and lymph and with the
combustion of food materials and systemic waste as the accumulation of
foreign matter and poisons in the tissues of the body. This I have
endeavored to explain more fully in connection with “Lowered Vitality. Let
us now see how health and disease are affected by mental and emotional
conditions.

Mental and Emotional Influences

Our mental and emotional conditions exert a most powerful influence upon
the inflow and distribution of vital force. Fear, worry, anxiety and all
kindred emotions create in the system conditions similar to those of
freezing. These destructive vibrations congeal the tissues, contract the
minute channels of life and thereby paralyze the vital activities. Emotional
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conditions of impatience, irritability, anger, fury. Wrath, etc. Have a heating

corroding effect upon brain and nerve substance and consume it like
burning fire. Self-pity has been called the consumption of the soul or
psychic phthisis. These mental, emotional and psychical causes of disease
and their treatment are more fully described in volume II.

In like manner, all other destructive emotional vibrations obstruct the

inflow and normal distribution of the life forces in and through the
organism, while the constructive emotions of faith, hope cheerfulness,
happiness, love and altruism exert a relaxing, harmonizing and vitalizing
influence upon the tissues of he body, thus opening wide the floodgates of
the vital energies and raising the discords of weakness, disease and
discontent to the harmonics of buoyant health and happiness.

Let us see how mind controls matter and how it affects the changing
conditions of the physical body. Life manifests through vibration. It acts on
the mass by acting through its minutes particles Changes in the physical
body are wrought by vibratory changes in atoms, molecules, microzyma
and cells. Health is “satisfied polarity that is, the balancing of the positive
and negative elements, forces and energies in harmonious vibration.
Anything that interferes with the free, vigorous and harmonious vibration of
the minute parts and particles composing the human organism tends to
disturb and unbalance polan and natural affinity, thus causing discord or
disease

When we fully realize these facts we shall not stand so much in awe of our
physical bodies, In the past we thought of the body a solid and
imponderable mass difficult to control and to change. This conception left
us in a condition of utter helplessness and hopelessness in the presence of
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weakness and disease. We now think of the body as composed of minute

electrons rotating around one another within the atom at relatively immense
distances. We know that in similar manner the atoms vibrate in the
Molecule, the molecules in the microzyma, and these in the cells, the cells
in the organ, and the organs in the body the whole capable of being changed
by a change in the vibrations of its particles

Thus the erstwhile solid physical mass appears plastic and fluidic, readily
swayed and changed by the vibratory harmonies or discords of thoughts and
emotions as well as by foods, medicines and treatment.

Under the old conception the mind fell readily under the control of the body
and became the object slave of its physical conditions, swayed by fear and
apprehension under every sensation of physical weakness, discomfort or
pain. The servants lorded it with a high hand over the master of the house
and the result was chaos. Under the new conception, control is placed
where it belongs. Dictatorship is assumed by the real master of the house,
the soul man, while the servants, the physical members of the body, remain
obedient to his bidding

This is the new man, the ideal progeny of New Thought and Higher
Philosophy. Understanding the structure of the body, the laws of its being
and the operation of the life elements within it, the superman retains perfect
poise and confidence under the most trying circumstances. Animated by an
abounding faith in the supremacy of the healing forces within him and
sustained by the power of his sovereign will, he governs his body as
perfectly as the artist controls his violin, and attunes its vibrations to
Nature’s harmonies of health and happiness.
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UNITY OF DISEASE AND UNITY

OF CURE
[Unity of disease and unity of cure was given by louse kuhne]

Unity of disease:
 There is an one common cause for all disease that is presence of
foreign matters in the body.
 Primary cause of disease excluding accidental and surgical injury
to human beings and surroundings hostile to human life is
violation of nature’s law.

The nature law can be violated in following bases:

1.)Wrong posture:
Eg: wrong sitting posture, walking in wrong postures,
sleeping in soft bed, wrong patterns of sleeping.
This everything causes strain to the body which might result in
deformities of spine or anyother part of the skeletal system.

2.)Lack of over physical activity:

Lack of physical activity puts on weight in the body.
Over physical activity makes the body weak and diseased.
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3.)Poor ventilation and pollution:

Poor ventilation causes suffocations the fresh air must be
getin and for better health.
In other hand the environment and also plays a major
role in one’s health mainly the pollution of soil, air, water, may leads
to respiratory disorders and other disease.

4.)Working in dark place without enough light:

Natural light is very necessary for life or all living
organism so working in dark places many result in strain over the eyes
reduce the synthesis of vitamin D and disturbs the melanine synthesis
and function of skin etc.

5.)Noise pollution:
It result in disturbances in sleep mental irritation which
affects the body and mind.

6.)Tight clothing, synthetic clothing:

Wearing of tight and synthetic clothes disturbs the
cutaneous respiration of skin.
It also disturbs the sweating process of skin in case
synthetic dresses it won’ t absorbes the sweat so sweating gets
accumulated is the skin itself and other diseases.

7.)Irregular and wrong food habits:

Over eating, eating without hunger, intake of artificial food
items, tinned food items, overcooked food items, non veg item etc.
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The above all food items and all food habits may disturb the
body function and result in disease.

8.)Use of stimulant and addictions:

Such as intake of tea, coffee , alcohol, tobacco etc,
disturbance the body function and also act as a CNS stimulant for
reading to de-arrangements in their function.

9.)Taking drugs for symptomatic relief of symptoms:

Drug used to relief pain or to reduce the symptoms
but the root cause is not removed .so this symptomatic relief always
drugs block the sensory channels of pain and gives relief and even due
to use of such drugs renal and liver toxicity also occur.

10.) Water drinking is very important and it plays major role in

living organisms
Some of the benefits of water drinking are:
o It helps to balance between intra and extracellular fluids.
o Helps in water balance
o Helps to keep balance between intra and extracellular fluids
o Helps to clean internal structures of the body etc.
So less water drinking disturbs the sweating process and even other metabolic
function of the Body.

11.) Mental disturbance and lack of mental health:

Mental health:

 Unhealthy dietry habits, unsuitable environment, wrong lifestyle

excessive workload all of these leads to psycho somatic disorders
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and hypertension, diabetes, obesity, stress, depression, and

cardio vascular disorders etc
 All this above leads to the violation of nature’s law.
 Resulting in reduced vitality, abnormal composition of blood and
lymph and accumulation of morbid matters.

REDUCED VITALITY:
Each cells has its own life and functions and each cell
neutralize energy it eliminate the wastes, it multiples, it get old and
die. If the individual cell is in sick the body becomes diseased.

Violation of nature’s law

Leads to reduced vitality of cells

Disturbs the functions of cell

Leads to lowered vitality of the body

Abnormal composition of blood and lymph:

Unbalanced diet
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Result in abnormal composition of blood and lymph as well

as the elements of body.

Accumulation of morbid matters:

Abnormal composition of blood and lymph

Leads to retension of systemic poisons indifferent sites or in

different system

Leads to accumulation of all those poisons in-differents sites or in

different system

Leads to lowered vitality and thereby it disturbs the normal functions

of the body.
If the accumulated morbid matter sustains in the body for a long
duration. It damages the each and every cell and other different system
leading towards chronic conditions.
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Unity of cure:
Unity of cure means elimination of foreign matter.
Eg: cough, diarrhea, fever, sweating etc

Channels of elimination:

• Bowels
• Kidney
• Skin
• Respiratory system

These are the different eliminatory channels, which eliminate the

toxins from the body.
So if any suppression in elimination of waste matter or any disturbance
one can eliminate their waste material through their different
eliminative channels and some of the nature cure treatment enhance
the process of elimination are fasting, enema, steam bath, sun bath, full
wet sheet pack, gastro hepatic pack, kidney, packs etc.
Even exercise, sunbath, air bath, and other manipulating therapy like
osteopathy massage, every treatments enhance the process of
elimination

Yoga:
Mental health is very important for the maintenance of proper health,
so various practices of yoga like asanas, pranayamas, kriyas plays
major role in elimination process so thus by above all treatments one
can maintain their proper health and there by helps to increase the life
span by following the nature law treatments.
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INFALMMATION

Definition:
Inflammation is defined as the local response of a tissue to injury
due to any agent. It is a body defence reaction in order to eliminate
or limit the spread of injurious agent as well as to remove the
recrossed cells or tissues.

Actiology/cause:
 Physical agent – Heat, cold, radiation, mechanical trauma.
 Chemical agent – Organic and inorganic poisons.
 Infective agents – Bacteria, virus and their toxins.
 Immunological agents – Cell mediated and antigen-
antibody reaction.
SIGNS:
There are 5 cardinal signs. They are:
 Rubor(redness)
 Calor(heat/warmness)
 Dalor(pain)
 Tumor(swelling)
 Function laesa(loss of function)
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Suppression During the First Two Stages of

Inflammation

It may be suggested that suppression during the stages of incabution

and aggravation need not have fatal consequences if followed by natural
living and eliminative treatment. To this I would reply: “Such procedure
always involves the danger of concentrating the disease poisons in vital
parts and organs, thus inying the foundation for chronic destructive diseases
I shall first consider the commonest of all forms of disease, the cold.

Taking cold may be caused by chilling the surface of the body or

part of the body. In the chilled portions of the skin the pores close, the
blood recedes into the interior, and as a result the elimination of poisonous
gases and exudates is locally suppressed.

Dis “catching cold through being exposed to a cold draft, through

wel clothing, etc not necessarily followed by more serious consequences. If
the system is not too much encumbered with morbid matter and if kidneys
and intestines are in fairly good working order, these organs will assist the
temporarily inactive skin to take care of she extra amount of waste and
morbid materials and eliminate the without difficulty.
The greater the vitality and the more normal the composition of the
blood, the more effectively the system as a whole will react in such an
emergency and throw off the morbid materials which were not eliminated
through the skin
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Luf, however, the organism is already overloaded with waste and

morbid materials, if the bowels and the kidneys are already weakened ar
atrophied through continued overwork and over-stimulation, if in addition
to this, the vitality has been lowered through excesses or over exertion, and
the vital fluids are in an abnormal condition, then the morbid matter thrown
into the circulation by the chilling and temporary inactivity of the skin
cannot find an outlet through the regular channels of elimination and
endeavors to escape by way of the mucous linings of the nasal passages, the
throat, bronchi, stomach, bowels or genito-urinary organs

The waste materials and poisonous exudates which are being

eliminated through these internal membranes cause irritations and
pathogenic congestion, and thus produce the well known symptoms of
inflammation and catarrhal elimination neezing (coryza), cough,
expectoration, mucous discharges, diarrhea, leucorrhea, etc., etc

We now understand that these so called “cold are nothing more nor
less than forms of vicarious elimination. The membranous linings of the
internal organs are doing the work for the inactive sluggish and atrophied
skin, kidneys and intestines. The greater the accumulation of morbid matter
in the system, the lower the vitality, and the more abnormal the composition
of the blood and lymph, the greater the liability to the “catching” of
colds.The incubation period of the “cold” may have extended over many
years, an entire lifetime or many successive lifetimes.
What, then, is the natural cure for colds? There can be but one
remedy: increased elimination through the proper channels. This is
accomplished by judicious dieting and fasting, and through restoring the
natural activity of the skin, kidneys and bowels by means of wet packs, cold
sprays and ablutions, sitzbaths, massage, neurotherapy, homeopathic
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remedies, exercise, sun and air baths and all other methods of natural
treatment that save vitality, build up the blood on a normal
Basis, and promote elimination without injuring the organism.

Suppression During the Third Stage of

Inflammation

Should the inflammatory processes be suppressed during the Stage of

destruction, the results would be still more serious and far reaching We
have learned that during this stage the affected parts and organs are
involved more or less in a process of disintegration. They become filled
with morbid exudates, pus, etc.., which interfere with and make impossible
normal nutrition and functioning.
If suppression takes place during this stage, it is obvious that the
affected areas will be left permanently in a condition of destruction mild
attack of pneumonia The doctors of the institution had ordered ice packs
Rubber sheers filled with ice were applied to the chest and other parts of the
body. This had been continued for several days until the fever had subsided
ice is more suppressive than antifever medicines. Continued icy cold
applications chill the parts of the body to which they are applied, depress
the yital functions and effectually suppress the inflammatory processes.
During and after the ice treatment was that the inflammation in the
lungs had been arrested and suppressed during the stage of destruction,
while the air cells and tissues were filled With exudates, blood serum, pus,
live and dead blood cells, morbid microzyma, bacteria, etc, leaving the
affected areas of the lungs in consolidated conditions.
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As a consequence of suppression in the case of this patient, the

pneumonia had been changed from the acute to the sub-acute and chronic
stages
Cold water packs—stripset fnen wrong out of water of ordinary
temperature wrapped around the bond covered with several layers of flannel
bundagene
The wet packs became warm on the body in a few minutes They relax
the pores and drew the blood to the surface, thus promoting beat radiation
and the elimination of morbid matter through the skin
They did not suppress the fever, but kept it below the danger upon
under this treatment, accompanied by fasting and judicious ipolation, the
inflammatory and feverish processes which hat ben pressed by the ice packs
soon revived, became once more active and were made to run their natural
course through the destruction, absorption (abatement) and reconstruction.

In our treatment of acute diseases we never use ice or icy water for
packs, compress, baths or ablutions, but always water of ordinary
temperature as it comes from well or hydrant. The water compress or pack
warms up quickly and thus brings about a natural reaction within a few
minutes, while the ice bag or pack continually chills and practically freezes
the affected parts and organs. This does not permit the skin to relax it
prevents a warm reaction, the radiation of the body heat and the elimination
of morbid matter through the skin.
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Suppression During the Fourth and Fifth Stages of

Inflammation
Let us see what happens when acute diseases are suppressed
during the stages of absorption and reconstruction. If the healing forces
of the body gain a victory over the pathogenic conditions which are
threatening the health and life of the organism then the symptoms of
inflammation, swelling redness, heat pain and the accelerated heart
action which accompanies them, adually subside. The “debris of the
battle field” is carried away through the renous

And lymphatic circulation the drainage systems of the body When in this
way all morbid materials have been completely eliminated, in other
words, when conditions have become normal then the microzyma will
regenerate and reconstruct the injured and destpyed cells and tissues

However, these processes of elimination and reconstruction. He

interfered with or interrupted before they are completed, the microzyma
will continue to create germs of putrefaction and the affected parts and
organs will not have a chance to become entirely well or strong They
will remain in an abnormal diseased condition, and their functional
activity will be seriously handicapped
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FUNCTIONAL

AND ORGANIC DISEASE
Functional disease may present a very serious appearance and yet yield
readily to natural methods of living and treatment.
In disease of an organic nature, however right living and self treatment
are usually not sufficient to obtain satisfactory results. In such cases all forms
of active and passive treatment must be a applied and even then it is
frequently difficult and sometimes impossible to produce a cure.
Organic disease of a functional nature develop an healthy organisms
became saturated and clogged with food and drug poisons to such an extent
that these encumbrance interfere with free circulation of the blood and nerve
currents and with the normal functions of the cells, organs and tissues of the
body.
Such cases resemble a watch which is losing time because its works are
filled with dust. All that such a waste encumbrance watch or body needs in
order to restore normal functions is a good cleansing. Pure food, diet, fasting,
systematic exercise, deep breathing, cold bathing and the right mental
attitude are usually cleansing and to restore perfect health.
In disease of the organic type however good results are not so easily
achieved. A body affected by organic disease resembles a watch whose
mechanism has been injured and partly destroyed by rust and corrosive acids.
In such case, cleansing and oiling alone will not be sufficient to put the time
piece in good working order. The watch maker has to replace the damage
parts.
The watch maker may remove those parts of the watch which are
suffering from organic trouble and replace them by new ones. This the
surgeon cannot do. He can remove but he cannot replace. Operative treatment
leaves the organism forever after in a multipled and therefore unbalanced
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conditions, and often prevents and frustrates nature’s cleansing and healing
crises.
One should aid nature’s healing effects not only by the right mental
attitude and the prayer of faith but also by natural living and many different
methods of physical treatment.
Mental attitude alone will not clean the watch, the nature and purpose
of acute diseases tries to purify the system from its morbid encumbrance
through inflammatory febrile process (acute disease) and that there cleansing
effort of nature are generally presented checked and suppressed by allopathic
methods of medical and surgical treatment thus changed into chronic disease
conditions.
The metaphysical healer does not suppresses the treatments and they
allow nature’s acute cleansing effort of nature run their natural course.
While functional disorders, can be corrected by natural methods of
living right treatment and by right mental attitude but the organic disease is
exactly different from the functional disorders.
When waste matters, poisonous alkaloids and acids produce in the body
as a result of wrong diet and other violations of natures laws have brought
about destruction and corrosion in vital parts and organs when dislocations
and subluxions of bony structures or new growth and accumulations in the
form of tumors, stones or gravel obstruct the blood vessels and nerve currents
gradual decay of tissues etc..
So

The body be cleansed and freed from obstructive and destructive

materials but the injured parts must be repaired, morbid growth and abnormal
formations should be eliminated and lesions in the body structures corrected
by manipulative treatment.
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In organic disease, the vitality is usually low and destruction so great,

the stimulating influence of mental and metaphysical therapeutics are not
sufficient to bring about the reconstructive healing crises. This can only be
accomplished by the combined influences of all natural methods of living
and of treatment. If the vitality is too low or the destruction of vital parts and
organs has too far advanced even the best and most complete combination of
natural methods of treatment may fail to produce a cure.

CONCLUSION:
To overcome from functional disease by natural diet, fasting, exercise,
breathing exercise, right mental attitudes etc… But in organic disease right
living and self treatments are usually not sufficient to ensure satisfactory
results, all forms of active and passive treatments must be applied and even
it is difficult and impossible to produce a cure.
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CONSERVATION OF VITALITY
INTRODUCTION:
The force which animates our body is called vitality. The vital force is
invisible, Immeasurable and continuously flowing from center of the body to
periphery. In order to remove foreign materials from our body, our body
needs some amount of energy, that energy is called vitality. [Some kind of
energy which cannot be seen, but we can feel] The food, air and other
panchaboothas plays an important role in making and raising the vitality. It
helps to increase both health and hygiene. The vital force is altered or
deranged, then it is called as Disease. If vital force is absent in our body, then
it is called as Death. If it is corrected to normal, then it is called Cure. Vital
force cannot be measured.

IMMUNITY:
The term immunity was traditionally refer to the resistance exhibited
by the host towards injury caused by micro-organism and their products.

TYPES:
The immunity against infections disease is mainly of two types,

• Innate immunity or native immunity.

• Acquired immunity or Adaptive immunity.

INNATE IMMUNITY:
This provides the first line of defense against infections.
Again it is classified into two types;
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INNATE IMMUNITY

SPECIFIC NON-SPECIFIC
1. Species 1. Species
2. Racial 2. Racial
3. Individual 3. Individual

ACQUIRED IMMUNITY:
Acquired immunity is classified into two types,
ACQUIRED IMMUNITY

ACTIVE PASSIVE
1. Natural 1. Natural
2. Artificial 2. Artificial

INNATE IMMUNITY:
1. SPECIES IMMUNITY:
This refers to the total or relative refractoriness to a pathogens, shown
by all members of a species.

2. RACIAL IMMUNITY:
Within a species, different races may show difference in susceptibility
to infection.
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Eg: Anthrox [high resistance of Algerian sheep]

3. INDIVIDUAL IMMUNITY:
This is the difference in innate immunity exhibited by different
individual in a race.
Eg: Homozygous twins exhibit similar degree of resistance to
Lepromatous leprosy and tuberculosis, such correction is not seen in
heterozygous twins.

ACQUIRED IMMUNITY:
The resistance that an individual acquires during life by recognizing
and selectively eliminating specific foreign molecules is known as acquired
immunity.
➢ ACTIVE IMMUNITY:
This is the resistance developed by an individual as a result of antigenic
stimulus.

1. NATURAL ACTIVE IMMUNITY:

It results from either a clinical or in apparent infection by a microbe.

2. ARTIFICIAL ACTIVE IMMUNITY:

It is the resistants induced by vaccines.
Eg: Polio vaccines.
PASSIVE IMMUNITY:
This is the resistance that is transmitted passively to a recipient in a
readymade form. This is called passive immunity.
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1. NATURAL PASSIVE IMMUNITY:

It is the resistances passively transfer from mother to the baby.
Eg: Breast feeding [colostrum] which rich IGA antibodies, which helps
to resistant to intestinal digestion gives protection to the neonate [new born
baby]
2. ARTIFICIAL PASSIVE IMMUNITY:
It is the resistant passively transferred to a recipient by the
administrations of antibodies.
Eg: Tetanus Immunoglobin.
HERD IMMUNITY:
This refers to the overall level of immunity in a community and is
relevant in the control of epidemic disease when a large ratio of individuals
in a community [herd] are immune to a pathogen, the herd immunity to the
pathogen is satisfactory.
The immunity or vital energy totally depends on the following factors:

FOOD
DEFINITION OF FOOD:
The food contains nutrition such as carbohydrates, proteins, fat,
minerals and vitamins.

According to the nutrition food is classified into three types;

1. Energy yielding food-Carbohydrates and fat.

2. Protective food –Minerals and vitamins.
3. Body building –Protein
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So, individual should take proper ratio or composition of above

mentioned food should be taken regularly in order to maintain good health
and also we have to take plenty of fresh green vegetables, fruits, pulses etc.
According to arogya raksha panchatantra by Dr. Venkat Rao, we should
eat times per day.
According to yoga, we should take satvic diet which is easily
digestible.
We should avoid rajasic and tamasic diet.

DIETARY PATTERN:
❖ Choose variety of food which contain plenty of grains, vegetables
and fruits.
❖ Choose diet with low fat, saturated fats and low cholesterol.
❖ Choose diet containing moderate salt and sodium.
NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT:
• Infants and children –protein, iron and calcium.
• Pregnancy and lactation –iron, calcium, folic acid, vitamin B6, and
vitamin B12. Elderly people –vitamin B6, vitamin B12, Folic acid, minerals,
zinc etc.
• Teenagers–High calcium and magnesium.
HOW MUCH TO EAT:
✓ According to stomach capacity.
✓ Half of the stomach –solid materials.
✓ Quarter of the stomach-water.
DEPENDING UPON DAY:
✓ Morning-Take large quantity of nutritional food
✓ Afternoon-Take small amount of food.
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✓ Evening-Take one cup of tea or coffee.

✓ Night-Take less, light and easily digestible food.

DEPENDING UPON SEASONS

➢ Summer season –Drink 2 -3 litres of water .
✓ Fresh fruit juices
✓ Green vegetables
✓ Light food
➢ Winter season – The diet should contain boiled ground nuts, vegetable
soups, tubers etc.
If you follow these dietary habits to get a good health and free from all
the diseases.

AIR:
✓ Pure air is quite indispensable from our life and for raising the
vitality as good food.
✓ According to yoga air is considered as prana, which is the vital force
flowing in our body.
✓ The air consists of oxygen which is essential for oxidation purpose
during metabolism in our body.
✓ By practicing yoga and pranayama we can increase pranic flow
which are needed for healthy life.

NATURAL METHODS TO INCREASE VITALITY:

Cleansing process or eliminating process, balanced food habits,
hydrotherapeutic treatment asanas, pranayama, relaxation, massage,
exercise, prayer, meditation, detoxification.
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PERSONAL HYGIENE:
SKIN:

Skin is the most important channel of elimination. So it should be kept

clean. Skin is affected by many diseases which will destroy elimination
process. We can cleanse our skin by using cold water, sun bath [increases
sweating process], mud bath [healing property], full wed sheet pack, plantain
leaf bath, neem leaf bath, immersion bath, Epsom salt bath, steam bath [helps
to open skin pores.]

NASAL TRACT:
• By practicing jala neti, sutra neti, kriyas.
• Steam inhalation.
• Luke warm water drinking.
These all will eliminate excess mucus from our body.

GASTRO INTESTINAL TRACT[GIT]:

By practicing vamana and vastra dhauti. It cleanses the upper GIT,

removes excess bile, removes excess acid, removes undigested food and
enhances the vital power of our body.

ENEMA:
Cleanses the lower GIT.
It prevents constipation.
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FASTING:
We have to take fasting atleast once in a week.
It gives rest to GIT.
It eliminates waste from GIT.
It will boost our immune system.
It improves healing property of our body.
It will increase will power and memory.

ORAL CAVITY:
We have to cleanse our teeth and oral cavity regularly by using neem
sticks, salt mixed with mustard oil, tooth paste or powder [astringent,
pungent, bitter taste]

GARGLING:

All these five will nourishes the teeth and jaws. Cleanses the supra
clavicular lymph node system.

NOSE:

One should inhale two drops of sesame oil into each nostril every
morning. It will give protection to eyes, nose and ear from the disease.

Nourishes ligament and connective tissues of head and neck. It will

leads to strengthening of sense organs and also prevents headache.

EYES:
We can cleanse eyes by using cold water.
Practising eye exercise and trataka.
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Prevent infection includes eyesight, helps to strengthen the eye

muscles.

EAR:
Removal of wax by using mustard oil.
It will give good hearing capacity and free from infection.

URINARY TRACT:
It can be maintained by water drinking treatment.
It can enhances the micturition process [flow of urine] and remove waste
materials from urine.

BALANCED FOOD HABIT:

Nutritional food is essential to maintain good health.
Take natural diet contains all essential nutrients which will maintain
normal body function.

HYDROTHERAPHY TREATMENT:
Hydrotheraphy treatment such as hipbath, arm bath, footbath, steam
bath, enema, Epsom salt bath all will enhance the vitality of the body.

ASANAS:
Some of the asanas increases the vitality mainly pranamasana,
padmasana, vajrasana, swasthikasana etc.
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PRANAYAMA:

It will calm the mind which relieves from stress and anxiety, increases
mental power.
Eg: Nadishodhana pranayama

RELAXATION:
Relaxation techniques such as deep relaxation technique, Instant
relaxation technique, quick relaxation technique, shavasana, makrasana etc.
will increase the vitality of the body.

MASSAGE [ Abhyanga, self massage]

By practicing massage, blood supply increases which leads to the
removal of waste materials from the lymph system throughout the body
which increase oxygen supply to blood, increases elasticity, maintain
structure and prevents skin problem.

EXERCISE:
Exercise increases muscular activity which will remove blood WBC and
toxins throughout the lymphatic vessels. Also eliminates waste as sweat
through skin pores.

DETOXIFICATION METHOD:
Methods such as steam bath, mud bath, water massage, hip bath, spinal
bath, those methods removes toxins from the body and increases vitality.
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MENTAL HYGIENE:
It includes positive thinking, ahimsa, calming low desires, prayer and
meditation. These practices increase mental power.

CONCLUSION:
Vitality or vital force in our body is concerned with our immune power.
If immunity is impaired which will lead to disease and then loss of vital
force.
According to naturopathy the main cause of disease is accumulation of
toxic substances in our body.
So this toxin should be eliminated from one body in order to increase
vitality.
So we have to conserve vitality by naturally in order to maintain the healthy
and energetic life and also free from
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AROGYA RAKSHA(K)
PANCHATANTRA
Arogya -- Health
➢ Raksha(k) – Providing
➢ Panchatantra – Principle

Arogya rakshak panchatantra means health providing principle. It’s

given by Dr. Venkat Rao.

CRITERIA FOR GOOD HEALTH

i. Sound sleep
ii. Clear motion
iii. Hunger, happiness and enthusiasm (interest) throughout the day
work.
iv. Flat abdomen.
v. Good communication with all.

FIVE PRINCIPLE TO HEALTH

1) Eat twice a day.
2) Drink 2-3 liters /8-10 glasses of water daily.
3) Regular and moderate exercise for one hour.
4) Fasting once in a week.
5) Prayer twice a day.
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1. EAT TWICE A DAY

Definition of food:
It is defined as “Food is any substance which is taken in to body, which
built up, improves and repair the tissue, or will furnish heat or mechanical
energy”.
Food and nutrition is decided on the basis of age and nature of work.

When to take food?

i. When you are appetite
ii. Depending on nature of work.
iii. Alternatively food act as poison for body in over eating
condition.

What to eat?
i. Uncooked food (salads, fruits etc...).
ii. Cooked food.
Satvic – without cooked.
Rajasic – non veg foods, spicy foods.
Tamasic – preserved food.

SATVIC FOOD:
Simple, easily digested food with moderate and without spices or
salt and oil.
Eg: porridge.

RAJASIC FOOD:
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This type of food that which brings about activity of restlessness.

This includes vegetarian and partly non vegetarian foods. Eg : coffee, tea,
alcohol, spicy food, tinned, cooked food

TAMASIC FOOD:
This type of food which makes us lethargic and sluggish.
Tamasic food are taste which dulls the mind and brings lack of interest
and confusion.
Eg: stale food, sugar rich foods, pickles, half -cooked.

How many times to eat?

VEDAS:
It is mentioned in vedas that a person should eat only twice a day
Arya samaj -- two times a day.

How much to eat?

Eat only the amount which can digest easily.
The amount of food is required, depends upon the nature of work, age
and disease condition.
i.e. Sedentary
Children less food.
Old age
Heavy work – more food.

Eating less or more than required is also harmful for the body. So food
should be filled according to the capacity of stomach.
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AYURVEDA:
Ek Bhuktham -- Maha yogi
(eat once a day)
Dwi Bhuktam – Maha bhogi.
(eat twice a day )
Tri bhuktam – Maha rogi.
(eat thrice a day)
Chature Bhuktam – Maha dhrohi.
(eat four times a day )

ALLOPATHY:
Give gap of three hours before starting next meal. Many people suffer
from indigestion due to the lack of gap.

2) DRINK 2 – 3 LITRES / 8-10 GLASSES OF WATER DAILY.

Water is the most abundant constituent (60 to 70 %) of the body mass
essential for normal life. Water plays a major role in life of human being
which mainly give many beneficial effects. All living beings are depend on
water.

IMPORTANCE OF WATER:
i. It is considered as internal bath for all organs.
ii. For all metabolic activities, transport of solutes, required water.
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iii. Stabilize the cellular structure by maintaining the shape and structure.
iv. It’s required for excretion of waste products and regulation of body
temperature.
v. It act as a lubricant in various part of the body as synovial fluid, reduce
friction and helps in smooth movements.
vi. It improve the quality of life

SOURCE OF WATER:
i. Drinking water
ii. Milk, beverages, and water from fruits and vegetables.
iii. Food.

GOOD HABITS OF DRINKING WATER:

❖ Drink water at the gap of every one hour.
❖ Drink water half an hour before and after meal.
❖ Drink two to three litres of water in a day.(except in the condition
of kidney failure)
❖ Drink more water in empty stomach (or)( rice water).

BAD HABITS:
➢ Drink less water.
➢ Drink more coffee, tea, soda, cool drinks than water.
➢ Drink more water during meal time.
➢ Drink cold water while thirsty and hot water while sick.
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TYPES OF WATER DRINKING:

▪ Hot water drinking
▪ Cold water drinking
▪ Warm water drinking

COLD WATER DRINKING:

Cold water is
i. Tonic
ii. Antipyretic
iii. Diuretic
Cold water eliminate the toxins of the body by improving the activity
of kidney and intestine.

INDICATION:
➢ Constipation
➢ Indigestion
➢ Acidity
➢ Diarrhea
➢ Burning maturation
➢ Fever

CONTRAINDICATION:
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➢ Kidney disorder
➢ Cardiac disorder

WARM WATER DRINKING:

➢ Sedative
➢ Analgesic
➢ Expectorants

INDICATION:
➢ Constipation
➢ Asthma
➢ Gastric problem
➢ Cold
➢ Cough etc…

HOT WATER DRINKING:

➢ Sedative
➢ Analgesic

INDICATION:
➢ Asthma, constipation
➢ Flatulence
➢ Gastralgia
➢ Sore throat
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➢ Rheumatism

CONTRAINDICATION:
➢ Ulcer
➢ Esophagitis.

3) REGULAR AND MODERATE EXERCISE FOR ONE

HOUR :
➢ Exercise is an activity that requires the physical and mental exhaustion
especially where they perform to develop to maintain the fitness.
➢ Exercise is essential for development and maintenance of vital
structure.
➢ Exercise for the restoration of health.
➢ Exercise delivered from food is used for the body activity (exercise and
work).
➢ For our optimum health we need both physical and mental exercise.

TYPES OF EXERCISE:
▪ Aerobic exercise
▪ Anaerobic exercise.

AEROBIC EXERCISE :
Derived from two Greek words Aeros – air, bios – life
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Aerobic exercise is a vigorous exercise done enough to increase the

body needs for oxygen and hence air intake and breathing rate increase.

DURATION:
20 – 45 MINUTES
Eg: Swimming, brisk walking, cycling, jogging etc…

ANAEROBIC EXERCISE:
It means without air or oxygen. This exercise involve intense activities
that leads one to gasp for breath.
Anaerobic exercise can be for a minute because it depends on the
limited storage of glycogen in the muscle.
So during anaerobic exercise the glycogen are rapidly gets depleted
resulting in intense.
Eg : weight lifting , springing.

SPRINGING (Regular physical exercise)

Regular physical exercise are needed one’s life as they improve blood
and nutrient supply to all parts of the body and proper drainage.
According to WHO there are two types of physical exercise
➢ Heavy / fast exercise
➢ Light exercise.

LIGHT EXERCISE:
➢ It does not need any special diet or rest.
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➢ It needs balanced diet.

➢ No harm when we skip the exercise.
➢ Suitable for children, adult and old age.
➢ Both mind and body are strengthened
➢ Exercise makes everyone physically healthy and yoga makes everyone
mentally healthy. Eg: yoga, walking.

HEAVY EXERCISE:
In heavy exercise,we need high calorie diet. But once if we discontinue
the heavy exercise and remain with food habits we put on over weight and
suffer from obesity, heart disorder and arthritis.
Eg: wrestling, weight lifting, body building.

BENEFITS OF HEAVY EXERCISE:

i. Maintain a healthy weight, bone density , muscle strength, joint
mobility.
ii. Promotes physical fitness and strengthens immune system.
iii. Reduce the level of cortisol which cause many health problems
both physically and mentally.
iv. Increase the blood and oxygen supply to brain and also the
growth factors that help to create new nerve cells.
v. It increases the chemicals in the brain such as dopamine, nor
epinephrine, serotonin.

MENTAL EXERCISE:
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Mental exercise is the act of performing mental stimulating task that is

considered as beneficial.
When mental exercise are practiced it stimulates the mental activity of
the brain resulting in activation of different action of brain.
It mainly activates neurons and nerve cells and also neuromuscular
function. Eg: puzzles, chess, pranayama, meditation etc…

BENEFITS:
i. Improves the activities of brain.
ii. Maintain the physical and mental fitness.
iii. Deepens the high intellectual power.
iv. Relax the body.

4) FASTING ONCE IN A WEEK:

Definition of fasting according to HERBERT M. SHELTON.
Fasting is defined as “voluntarily complete abstinence by taking any
kind of food for a particular period of time in order to give rest to digestive
system.

Definition according to HENRY LINDLAHR.

Fasting is the safe and natural way to the health on remove the
accumulated toxin from the body.

OBJECTIVES OF FASTING:
i. To give rest to GI tract.
ii. To eliminate the waste product.
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iii. To repair our body.

BENEFITS DURING FASTING:

i. Digestive system gets rest.
ii. Elimination of toxins speed up.
iii. Activate liver function.
iv. The resistance power is increased.
v. Enhances the mental power.
vi. Improve the healing power of the body.
PHILOSOPHY OF FASTING:
Fasting is the best practical method to prevent and cure disease and
promote the health.
UPAVASAM is a Sanskrit word which means “Go near to god”.

PRINCIPLES OF FASTING:
The main principle of fasting is to give total rest to all the organs of the
body.
Normally most of the energy is utilized for the process of digestion,
absorption and assimilation but during fasting this energy is diverted towards
elimination.

TYPES OF FASTING:
1. Depend on purpose
 Religious fasting.
 Political fasting.
 Therapeutical fasting.
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2. Depending on duration
 Short fasting (3 – 5 days).
 Intermediate fasting.
 Long fasting (10 – 15 days).

3. Depending on method of fasting.

 Dry fasting.
 Water fasting.
 Juice fasting.

a) Alkaline juice – tender coconut, veg juice, ashguard juice.

a)alkaline juice :tender coconut, veg juice, ashguard juice.

b) Acidic juice : tomato juice, orange, pineapple, lemon juice etc…

 Fruit fasting ( weak patient )
 Saline practice – salt + lemon is best suited for dehydration and
severe vomiting.
 Mono diet fasting. Or kalpa therapy. Eg: milk, grape fasting,
mango fasting, butter – milk.

DEPENDING ON PURPOSE:
1. Political fasting :
Fasting is often used as a tool to make a political statement, to protest,
or to bring awareness to a cause. A hunger strike is a method of non-violent
resistance in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to
provoke feelings of guilt, or to achieve a goal such as a policy change.

2. Religious fasting :
Fasting is adapted for religious purpose in respect of traditional system.
i. Hindus fast during amavasa.
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ii. Christians fast during good Friday.

iii. Muslims fast during ramzan.

3. Therapeutical fasting:
Fasting is done in order to treat the disease. It accelerate the healing
process. Fasting is followed according to disease condition. The duration of
fasting is depends upon the condition.
Eg: obesity, arthritis, fever etc…

PHYSICAL RULES DURING FASTING:

1. Water drinking essential for proper elimination.
2. Enema should be taken daily for entire period of fasting. Warm
water enema is advisable.
3. Drink adequate amount of water to maintain body temperature.
4. Cold bath in weak condition sponge bath should be given for
short duration. Bath twice a day to increase perspiration.
5. Sun bath It stimulate or open the pores of the skin in order to
eliminate the waste products through sweating.
6. Exercise In order to promote optimum health and burn out the
excess fat from the adipose tissue.
7. Fresh air It’s good to have morning and evening walk and get
refresh.
8. Mud application to abdomen Enhance the function of digestive
system and improve peristalsis.
9. Eliminative treatment like steam bath, sauna bath, full wet
sheet pack, enema should be given.
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During fasting mind should be engaged with some works in order to

avoid craves for food.
Process of fast :-
In initial stage patient feel discomfort
Leads
Hunger (disappear after 1-2 days of fasting)
Leads acute manifestation of crisis
Head ache, diarrhea, excessive salvation, skin eruption, vomiting,
insomnia etc..,
These are the ways body eliminate the toxins.

It should be properly treated.

CRISIS DURING FASTING:-

Crisis indicates the elimination of toxins and maintenance of health.
Crisis Head ache, mouth ulcer, bad breath, giddiness, white coating
over the tongue, body pain, diarrhea etc.

HOW TO BREAK THE FAST:-

➢ Tongue should be clean.
➢ Have fresh air.
➢ Should fell hunger naturally.
➢ Taste of the saliva should be pleasant.
➢ Urine should be normal odour.
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➢ Skin should be normal and glowing.

➢ Should fell a sense of rejuvenation and wellness.
➢ Eyes should be clean and clear vision.
➢ Feeling of lightness in the body.
➢ Pulse rate is regular and rythmatic.
➢ Normal body temperature.

BREAK THE FAST WITH:-

Thick juice like apple juice, tender water [avoid citric acid juices]

❖ Tasted fruits
Sprouts
then
Boiled food with low spices, minimum salt
Normal diet (constructed diet)

EFFECTS OF FASTING:-
➢ Fasting give physiological rest to GIT hereby it alleviates the
elimination from the body
➢ Increase the metabolic activities.
➢ Stimulates the function of vital organs.
➢ Help to rejuvenate our body cells and tissue thus it revitalize our body
cells, tissue and organs.
➢ Increase the vital power of digestive organs.
➢ Strengthen our immune system.
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➢ Increase the will power, improve the memory and concentration.

SIDE EFFECTS OF FASTING

➢ Flatulence
➢ Increase body temperature
➢ Vomiting
➢ Regurgitation

NEED REST DURING FASTING;-

1. Physical rest
➢ Avoid heavy work.
➢ Have proper sleep and relax completely.
2. Mental rest
➢ Fasting not only clean the body, also heals the mental
illness. (stress and depression)
➢ To relax our mind read spiritual books.
➢ Prayer and read any books which relaxes and helps in
healing.
3. Sensory rest
➢ Absolute sensory disturbance should be avoided like
auditory, visual disturbance, Excessive heat or cold should
be avoided.

4. Pysiological rest
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➢ During fasting all activities and functions of body is at rest.

5. Place for fasting therapy

➢ Naturopathy institution
➢ Calm, quit and peace full atmosphere
➢ Pure air and water available area
➢ It is always done under the supervision of experts.

5) PRAYER TWO TIMES A DAY:

“THE PRAYER AND HEALTH “.Relation between two is as the body
is restless without food, the mind too stress full without prayer. Our body is
fed with rich diet likewise; our mind too needs nourishment in the form of
prayer.
So both mind and body are healthy and we can experience blissful state
(external happiness).

Why we need prayer twice a day

Morning prayer
➢ We believe that there is divine power (super nature power) in and
around us which keeps thing moving forward.
➢ During sleep the super natural power, god protect throughout the
night.
➢ After getting up in the morning we thank god.
➢ He protect us from danger.
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➢ He gives good sleep.

➢ He wakes us in the morning
So, when we get back our life from god. We should thank him and
asking him to continue the same blessing during the day too.
Thanking god indicates that we are nothing but everything is god.
Requesting god to bless indicates that we are humble and no ego can
over power

EVENING POWER
At the end of the day we should evaluate our experiences
In order to promote and prevent same like action.
Thanking god for everything.
One of the virtues which differ from animals is being grateful and
thankful so evening should be a thanks giving prayer
Prayer to god is a relationship between god and human beings
Requesting god to protect us at night .we can avoid some of the hazards
or dangerous during the day.
But during the night time we are not aware and god keeps watching
over us.

BENEFITS OF PRAYER
➢ Prayer is good for mind and soul.
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➢ To sharpen the mind.

➢ To bring everything success.

Why prayer is required?

There is a relation between prayer and health as body becomes restless
without food likewise mind without prayer. How the body requires food,
mind also requires food in the form of prayer, when both mind and body are
healthy we have a blissful state.

Selecting spot to pray:

You will find that you can pray any time, any where, any how. It may
help to be in a place where the focus is on spiritually such as church or temple
or mosque or where the environment remains you, your spiritual bone like a
natural sitting. Some people even pray with eyes open and some closed eyes.
Some religious believers in facing certain direction during the act of prayer.

Prayer Position:
There are various positions adapted during prayer.

➢ Sitting
➢ Kneeling
➢ Lying down on the floor
➢ Hands folded
➢ Head bowed
➢ Folding hands with other people.
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IMPORTANCE OF PHYSICAL AND

MENTAL HYGIENE
Introduction:
Life for most of us is in struggle, it can unending competition of our
body .it is the chief instrument for going through of struggles of life, unless this
instrument is kept in fit working condition to competate and beside the full
benefits of body must be fit.
The human body is the wonderful machine works well only when all parts
working properly, so the machine of the body can be healthy only when its
Function performs properly by the concern organs

Classification:
Environmental hygiene:
1. Domestic bathing using soaps, fresh air, ventilation, food

and light
2. community: water supply, drainage

Personal hygiene:
1. Physical: exercise, yogasanas
2. Mental: shatkriyas
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Personal hygiene:

❖ It includes both physical and mental. It is an application of certain factors

and daily out and it leads a healthy life of an individual.

Physical hygiene:
❖ It includes case of sense organ such as eyes, nose, buccal cavity, skin, ear,
bathing, clothing, washing hand etc…
❖ It can be properly maintained by exercise and yogasana.

External physical hygiene:

❖ Practice asana, pranayama, mudra, bandha

❖ In developed countries, special preference is given to physical hygiene
❖ Simple ways to maintain physical hygiene and drinking pure water.

Internal physical hygiene:

❖ By practicing shatkriyas such as dauti, basti, neti, nauli, trataka and
kapalabati we can attain hygiene.
❖ Internal hygiene speaks about the cleanliness of our thoughts
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Mental hygiene:

❖ It is an important aspect of holistic life, it needs

recognition of role played by mind in health.
❖ Sigmund freud, says that unconscious mind play a
important role in the psychosomatic diseases,
hypertension, mental stress, depression etc…
❖ Hence to prevent the psychosomatic diseases and complications of
diseases, mental hygiene should be practiced.
❖ Mental hygiene can be attained by thinking positively by prayer and
meditation

“POSITIVE EMOTION CAUSE WELLNESS”

“NEGATIVE EMOTION CAUSE ILLNESS”
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Importance of physical and Mental Hygiene

Personal Hygiene:
Personal Hygiene relates to a person’s realization of own duties towards
his body and in trying to keep it clean and healthy as a matter of daily routine
perhaps more than good and nutritious food , it is personal hygiene which is more
necessary and central to a person’s physical and mental well being. It is of two
types Physical and Mental hygiene.

Physical hygiene:
Definition:
• Physical hygiene is defined as the science that deals with promotion and
preservation of health.
• It relates to general cleanliness and physical appearance and up keep of an
individual so that he subscribes to minimum social standard and is not a
drag on his means. One should look neat, should not be fowl smelling ,
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should have a clean presence. The aim is to promote standards of person

cleanliness with the conditions of environment.
• Personal hygiene includes clothing, bathing, washing hands , care of feet
etc..
• Training of the following things should be followed from very early age and
also carried out during life.

Hair :
Wash your hair at least once in a week using shampoo. Dry your hair
after a wash. Brush your hair 3-4 times a day with a soft bristled brush or a wide
toothed comb. Wash your brush and comb every time you wash your hair. Oil the
scalp once a week preferably an hour before hair wash.

Skin:
• Soap and water are essential for keeping skin clear and a good bath once or
twice a day is recommended in India.
• Germicidal and antiseptic soaps are not essential for daily bath.
• Use bath sponge for scrubbing. Wash off well after soaping.
• Drying with a clean towel is important.
• Avoid sharing soaps and towels.
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Teeth:
• Brush twice a day and rinse well after any meal.
• Brushing before going to bed is important.
• Pay attention to the fact that you are getting rid of food particals stucking in
between teeth.
• Use tooth paste without strong antiseptics

Hands:
• Wash your hands with soap and water before and after every meal and after
visiting toilet.
• Soaping and rinsing should cover the area between fingers , nails and back
of hands.
• Hands should be dried with clean towel after wash.

Nails:
• For long, vestigial growth at the tip of your finger, they are pretty
important. Grow nails only if you can keep them clean.
• Short nails makes less trouble. A healthy body ensures healthy
nails. Brittle or discolored nails shows deficiency or diseased
condition.

Feet:
• Give your feet a good scrub with sponge or foot scrubber than
having a bath. Dry after bath with clean cotton towel between
toes.
• Keep toe nails clipped.
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• Menstrual Hygiene:
o No women feels completely comfortable when she her period
use sanitary pads or napkins to deal with the flow.
o It should not left unchanged beyond 6 hours.
o If left unchanged causes toxic shock or infection.
o Washing and hygienic auxiliary is important.

Cleaning of sense organs:

Cleaning of nose:
• One should inhale 2 drops of sesame oil into each nostrils every
morning, it will give protection to eyes, nose, ear from the
disease and nourishes ligament and connective tissues of head
and neck.
• It will lead to strengthening of sense organs and also prevents
head ache. kriyas are also used for cleansing.

Eyes:
• We can clean eyes by using cold water practicing eye exercises
and by practicing Trataka.
• Prevent infection including eye sight and helps to strengthen the
eye muscles .
Ear:
• Removal of wax by using mustard oil, it will give good hearing
capacity and free from infection.
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Tongue:
• Swish warm water in your mouth to loosen up the plague.
• Wet your tongue and spread adequate amount of cleanser. Start
cleaning from back to front and at the sides using a soft bristled
toothbrush or tongue scraper .
Cleaning of GIT:
• By practicing Vamana and vastra dhauti. It cleanses the upper
GIT removes excess bile, acid, undigested food and enhances the
vital power of our body.
Enema:
• Cleanses the lower GIT. It prevents constipation.
Cleaning of urinary tract:
• It can be maintained by water drinking.It can be enhanced
micturation (urination) process and removes waste materials as
urine.
Other methods to maintain physical
Hygiene:
• Hydrotherapy treatments such as hip bath, arm and Balanced
food habits.
• foot bath, steam bath, Epsom salt bath.
• Asanas such as meditate asanas,
• Exercises
• Pranayama.
• The another specific part comes under personal and physical
Hygiene.
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Environmental hygiene:
• It means cleanliness of surroundings. It is divided into domestic
hygiene and community hygiene.

Domestic hygiene:
• It means keeping the cleanliness of individual home.
They are:

• Practice of using soaps

• Hygiene preparation and storage of food.
• Hygienic disposal of waste.
• Proper lightening and ventilation facilities.
• Supply of fresh water .
Protecting home against attack of rats and other insects.

Community hygiene:
• It means improvement of basic sanitary services. They are
• Proper disposal of human excreta and other solid and liquid
waste.
• Food sanitation.
• Vector control.
• Proper housing.

Benefits of physical Hygiene:

• It develops cleanliness compassion, indifference and also helps
in cleansing the body, mind and intellect.
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• It helps the person to attain spiritual knowledge.

• It makes body a fit home for cheerfulness.

Mental hygiene:
• It is a psychological state of someone who is functioning at a
satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment.
• Objectives of mental hygiene:
 To help to realize one's potentiality.
 To develop self respect and respect others.
 To understand one's limitation and tolerate the
limitation of others.
 To care harmonious to development to create happiness.
 To enable bone to make efficient adjustment.
 To enable one to know his or herself.
• Characteristics of mentally healthy person :
 He feels comfortable about himself
 He feels secure.
 He neither underestimates or over estimates his or her
own abilities.
 He feels right towards others.
 He is able to meet the demands of life.
 He is able to think for himself and to take his own
decisions.

Causes of mental illness:

Organic cause:
• Cerebral tumors.
• Chronic diseases like TB, leprosy, epilepsy.
• Metabolic causes like diabetes, uremia.
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Hereditary cause:
• Schizophrenia (split personality kind of disease)
Socio pathological cause:
• Stress
• Poverty
• Broken homes
• Anxiety.
Prevention of mental illness:
• Primary prevention –
Mainly on community basis by improving social
entertainment and by promotion of social, emotional and physical
health.
• Secondary:
By early diagnosis, screening and by psychological
counseling .
• Tertiary:
To reduce the duration of illness by reducing the stress created
among family and community .

Other methods:
• Pranayama
• Relaxation.
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Signs of poor mental health:

• He or she is unnecessarily worrying.
• He /she looses temper easily.
• Regular insomnia.
• Flextuation in mood from depression to happiness and vice versa.
• Continuously unhappy without justifying the cause.
• Dislike to be with people.
• They are afraid without real cause.

Management of mental hygiene:

• Prayer - It helps to calm the mind and diverting the mind towards
spirituality.
• Positive thinking.
• Aum kara chanting - creates positive vibration in the body.
• Change of environment
• Pranayama
• Meditation
• Relaxation
• SMET - stress management of excessive tension.
• MSRT - mind sound resonance technique.

Conclusion:
• Practice of physical and mental hygiene is a way to attain proper health
• At last, one should maintain the physical hygiene from the mental hygiene
in order to attain and maintain healthy life
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HEALTH IS POSITIVE
DISEASE IS NEGATIVE
• Everywhere in the literature of today and in the social vernacular we
meet with the expressions “Positive” and “Negative”. Science speaks of
positive and negative substances, Forces and Energies. We hear of positive and
negative personalities and traits of character. Nature Cure Philosophy claims
that all disease – physical mental, moral, spiritual and psychical – is originally
negative, and that health on all planes of being is positive.

• We arrange the elements of matter found in animal and human

bodies and in the foods which they require in such a manner that the negative
elements, carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur, fluorin,
chlorin and iodine are placed to the left of hydrogen, and the positive elements
iron, lime, sodium, potassium, manganese, magnesium and lithium on the right
of hydrogen, then we find that hydrogen is positive to the negative elements on
its left but negative to the positive alkaline mineral elements on the right.

• For, while hydrogen is the positive and dominating element in

negative substances like acids, ptomains, alkaloids, xanthins etc. it has to
relinquish its dominating position at the approach of a positive alkaline mineral
element. The latter will take its place and change the negative acid or xanthin
into a new substance, a neutral salt. Both kind of elements display varying
degrees of positivity and negativity among themselves.

• According to this basic law of Nature every entity seeks vibratory

correspondence or union in or with another like entity of opposite polarity.
In harmony with this law, electromagnetically positive atoms are attracted to
and seek vibratory union with negative atoms and vice versa.
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• Let us now study more closely the chemical processes which

determine health or disease. Practically all diseases arising in animal and
human bodies, always barring accidents and surroundings uncongenial to life
and health, are caused ultimately by the deleterious or destructive action of
certain acids, ptomains, alkaloids, xanthins or other pathogenic substances and
toxins. These disease producing chemical substances to which we refer
collectively as pathogen are made up of hydrogen in combination with negative
elements. If food and drinks consist almost entirely of this negative pathogen
producing elements, then in time abnormal or diseased conditions must
develop.

• The foods most highly valued by the medical profession and the laity
for their “nourishing” qualities, namely proteins, dextrins, starches, fats and
sugars are, when chemically pure, made up of hydrogen in combination with
negative, acid forming elements. These are carbon, oxygen, hydrogen,
nitrogen, phosphorous and sulphur. Hydrogen is the basic element in all acids.
Oxygen is found in practically all acids, ptomains, xanthins and colloids. These
two basic elements are reinforced in pathogenic (disease producing )
substances more or less of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur, chlorin,
fluorin, iodine and other negative elements found in foods, medicines and
tonics. Carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen are the basic elements in all toxic
substances in the body.

▪ Experiment: The customary American Meat-White – Bread – potato

– pie-and - coffee diet, unbalanced by organic mineral salt foods must in
time produce abnormal conditions in tissues and functions of the human
body.

• Naturally the question arises, how can we prevent the formation of

these negative, disease producing substances? The answer to this is now self
evident; namely, by providing in foods and medicines sufficient amounts of
positive alkaline, mineral elements in the live, organic form. If this is taken into
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consideration and properly attended to then the positive minerals elements will,
through chemical affinity, unite with the negative atoms and molecules and
thus produce chemically balanced combinations which are not injurious but
rather beneficial in the vital economy of the body.

Physiologically science now admits that all cell waste is chemically acid
and that it must be neutralized by alkaline elements as quickly as it is formed In
order to prevent the accumulation of morbid waste product.

Thus the salt eliminated through the kidneys and skin are neutralized
acids. When through the excessive intake of negative foods and the subsequent
excessive production and neutralization of acids, more salts are formed than
can be eliminated by the organs of depuration, then these salts also form morbid
deposits and become pathogenic substances in rheumatic joints, in calculi,
“hardened” arteries and obstructed capillaries . The “new discoveries” of
orthodox science confirm my claim that originally all disease is negative or
acid. They also verified the fundamentals principals of natural dietetics.
The diagram above illustrates the chemical changes involved in cell
nutrition and in the neutralization and elimination of cell waste.
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Column I. The three principal classes of cell food are:

IV V VI

1. Carbohydrates – Starches, dextrins and sugars. These food

substances, when chemically pure, contain carbon, oxygen and
hydrogen.
2. Hydro – carbons - fats and oils when chemically pure contain
carbon, oxygen and hydrogen.
3. Proteids – when chemically pure contain carbon, oxygen,
nitrogen phosphorus hydrogen and sulphur.

Column II. Shows the schematic outline of a cell with its nucleus. The
cell substances are protoplasm, when chemically pure contains the
elements carbon, oxygen, nitrogen phosphorus hydrogen and sulphur.
These correspond to the elements contained in the cell foods in Column I

Column III – Contains some of the most common forms of cells waste.
The cell protoplasm and its food materials are broken down in the
metabolic processes of cell life, of digestion, nutrition and elimination
into their component atoms & molecules these enter into new
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combination for no atom or group of atoms will remain alone and

isolated if it has a chance to combine with other chemical units; the same
as a normal human being will not remain

alone and separated from association with his fellow beings if he can
prevent it. Since acids are made up of hydrogen plus
electromagnetically negative elements, and since pure protoplasm
consists of hydrogen plus four or five other negative acid forming
elements, it follows that all cell waste must be of an acid nature, or
must consists of other negative pathogenic materials such as
ptomaine leukemia’s, etc..
The acid cell waste products given in Column III are convertible
into neutral salts, by combination with positive alkaline mineral elements
shown in Column IV. These alkaline elements neutralize acids by
replacing the hydrogen atoms, thus changing the harmful acids into
neutral salts.
A number of these salts, the products of acid neutralization by
alkaline elements, are given in Column V. For instance carbonic acid is
changed into sodium carbonate. Urea is one of the normal end products
of protein and carbohydrate metabolism. Sulphuric and sulphurous acids
are changed by combination with calcium into calcium sulphate or
sulphide , etc..
Calcium VI. Contains morbid products of abnormal cell and food
metabolism which are constituents of what we designate as pathogen.
These substances when they accumulate in the system in excessive
quantities may cause (in the form of leucocytes and colloid matter)
capillary obstruction, followed by inflammation and exudation of the
pathogenic materials into the neighboring tissues, resulting in
putrefacting changes as described in the chapters dealing with

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inflammation . These morbid processes favor the development of normal

as well as abnormal microzyma into bacteria. The bacteria feed on and
decompose the pathogenic materials (leucocytes and colloids) into
simple compounds, suitable for neutralization by alkaline elements and
for elimination through the natural channels. When the pathogenic
materials have been decomposed the bacteria are either eliminated from
the system or the microzyma consume the protoplasm of their own
bacteria, leaving nothing but the microzyma themselves. These under
favorable conditions, that is, in a congenial morbid soil in their own or
other bodies, may

again develop into scavengers or bacteria as science call them. That this
process under certain circumstances actually takes place is admitted by
orthodox science. They give the name “spores” to what Bechamp called
microzyma.

The foregoing explains why healing crises become necessary when

the pathogenic encumbrances in the body of a “chronic” contain excessive
amounts of morbid substance classified in Column VI.

ACID DISEASES
URIC ACID:
The potentially alkaline blood takes up uric acid, dissolves it and
holds it in solution in the circulation until it is neutralized, its salts carried
to the organs of depuration and eliminated in perspiration and urine. If,
however, through the excessive use of nitrogenous foods or through
defective elimination, the amount of uric acid and other waste
products in the system is increased beyond a certain limit, the blood
loses its power to dissolve and neutralize these substances and they form

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a sticky, glue like “colloid” substance which occludes or blocks up the

minute blood vessels (capillaries), so that the blood cannot pass readily
from the arterial system into the venous circulation.

• When this obstruction of the circulation by uric or carbonic

acid or other pathogenic substances prevails throughout the body, the
blood pressure is too high in the arterial blood vessels and in the interior
organs, such as heart, lungs, brain etc… and too low in the surface,
extremities and in the venous circulation. This gives rise to the much
dreaded high blood pressure.

The return flow of the blood to the heart through the veins is
sluggish and stagnant because the force from behind , that is , the arterial
blood pressure , is obstructed by pathogen which clogs the minute
capillaries that form the connection or bridge between the arterial and
the venous systems.

Because of this interference with the normal circulation and

distribution of the blood, uric acid produces many annoying and
deleterious effects. It irritates the nerves, the mucous membranes and
other tissues of the body, thus giving rise to headaches, rheumatic pains
in joints and muscles, congestion of blood in the head, flushes, dizziness,
fainting and even epilepsy.

Other results of uric acid irritation and inflammatory and catarrhal

condition of the bronchi, lungs, stomach, intestines, genitor-urinary
organs; also rapid pulse, palpitation of the heart angina pectoris, etc…

These colloid substances occlude the minutes ducts and capillaries

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in liver, kidneys and other organs, interfering with their normal functions
and causing the retention of morbid matter in the system.

All these troublesome and destructive effects of uric acid

poisoning may be greatly augmented by excessive accumulation of
sulphuric, phosphoric and other acids and by the formation of ptomaine,
leukemia’s and poisonous alkaloids incidental to the metabolism of
protein substances.

The entire group of symptoms caused by the excess of uric acid or

pathogen in the system and the resulting occlusion of the capillary blood
vessels by colloid substances is called collemia.

TO RECAPITULATE:

The freer the inflow of life force into the organism, the greater the
vitality, the more there is of strength, of positive resisting and recuperating
power. At the very foundation of the manifestation of life lies the principle
of polarity which expresses itself in the duality of positive and negative
affinity. The swaying to and fro of the positive and the negative, the effort
to balance incomplete polarity, constitutes the very ebb and flow of life.

Disease is disturbed polarity or unbalanced chemical

equilibrium. Exaggerated positive or negative conditions, whether
physical, mental or moral, tend to disease on the respective planes of
being. Foods, medicines, suggestions and all other methods of treatment
exert on the individual subjected to them either a positive or a negative
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influence. It is, therefore, of the greatest importance that the physician and
everyone who wishes to live and work in harmony with Nature’s laws
should understand this all important question of magnetic polarity.

Lowered vitality means lowered, slower and coarser

vibration, which results in weakened resistance to the accumulation of
morbid matter, poisons, disease traints, germs and parasites. This is what
we designate ordinarily as the “negative” condition.

Let us explain this more fully by a homely but practical

illustration: Many of my readers have probably seen in operation in the
summer amusement parks the “human roulette”. This contrivance consists
of a large wheel, board covered, somewhat raised in the center and sloping
toward the circumference. The wheel rotates horizontally, evenly with the
floor or the ground. The merry-makers pay their nickels for the privilege
of throwing themselves flat down on the wheel and attempting to eling to
it while it rotates with increasing swiftness. While the wheel moves slowly
it is easy enough to cling to it but the faster it revolves, the more strongly
the centrifugal force tends to throw off the human “flies” trying to hold
fast.

The accelerated repelling power of the revolving wheel may

serve as an illustration of that which we call vigorous vibration, good
vitality, natural immunity or recuperative power. This is the positive
condition

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The more intense the action of the life force, the more rapid and
vigorous are the vibratory activities of the atoms and molecules in the
cells, and of the cells in the organs and tissues of the body. The more rapid
and vigorous this vibratory activity, the more powerful is the repulsion and
expulsion of morbid matter, poisons and germs of disease which encumber
and seek to destroy the organism. This explains why, with advancing age,
waste and morbid matter accumulates more readily in the body.

Lowered vitality means lowered vibration and this means

lowered resistance to the accumulation of waste and morbid materials.
This in turn obstructs the inflow and distribution of vital energy. Thus it
becomes apparent how the primary manifestations of disease see-saw and
aggravate one another.

Health or disease, in the final analysis, is resident in the cell.

Though a minute, microscopic organism, the cell is an individual living
being, which eats, drinks, grows, throws off waste matter, multiplies, ages
and declines, just like man, the large conglomerate cell. If the individual
cell embodies health, man, the complex cell, is well also, and vice versa.
From this it becomes apparent that in all our considerations of the
processes of health, disease and cure, we have to deal primarily with the
individual cell.

The vibratory activity of the cell may be lowered through the

decline of vitality brought about in a natural way by advancing age. Or in
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an artificial way, through wrong thinking and feeling. Wrong habits of

living, over-work, unnatural stimulation and excesses of various kinds.

On the other hand, the inflow of vital force into the cells may be
obstructed and their vibratory activity lowered by the accumulation of
waste and morbid matter in the tissues of the body. Such clogging
interferes with the inflow of life force and with the free and harmonious
vibration of the cells and organs of the body as surely as dust in a watch
interferes with the normal action and vibration of its wheels and balances.

From this it is evident that negative conditions may be brought

about not only by hyper-refinement of the physical organism, but also by
clogging it with waste and morbid matter which tends to interfere with the
inflow and distribution of vital force. The “positive nourishing diet
consisting largely of meat, eggs, fats and gluten clogs the system heavily
with pathogenic waste and morbid materials, thereby obstructing the
inflow and distribution of the life elements, which is equivalent to lowered
vitality or a negative condition. I call attention to this because many people
are under the impression that fasting, vegetarian diet or raw food diet and
certain eliminating methods of treatment necessarily result in the creation
of negative conditions and that negative patients must be kept on a heavy
meat diet.

It also becomes apparent that in all cases where negative conditions are
caused by clogging with waste and morbid matter, the Nature Cure
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methods of eliminative treatment, such as pure food diet, hydrotherapy,

massage, neurotherapy, etc. Must be invaluable means of removing these
obstructions and promoting the inflow and free circulation of the positive
electromagnetic and vitochemical energies.

TREATMENT:

 In correspondence with the three primary manifestations of

disense, Nature Cure recognizes the following

Natural Methods of Treatment

 Return to Nature, or the establishment of normal habits and

surroundings, which necessitates.

a) Extension of consciousness by popular general and

individual education;
b) The constant exercise of reason, will and self control;
c) A return to natural habits in thinking, breathing, eating,
dressing, working, resting, and in moral, sexual and social
conduct;
d) Correction of mechanical lesions and injuries by means of
massage, osteopathy, chiropractic, narapathy, surgery, and
other mechanical methods of treatment

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 Economy of Vital Force, which necessitates

a) Prevention of waste of vital force by stopping all leaks;

b) Scientific relaxation, proper rest and sleep:
c) The right mental attitude, right thinking and feeling.

 Elimination, which necessitates.

a) Scientific selection and combination of food and drink;

b) Judicious fasting:
c) Hydrotherapy (water cure):
d) Light and air baths;
e) Manipulative treatment;
f) Correct breathing, curative gymnastics;
g) Such medicinal remedies as will build up the blood on a
normal basis and supply the system with the all-important
mineral salts in organic form.

In the following chapters I shall endeavor to show how all the

different forms, phases and phenomena of disease arising within the
human organism, provided they are not caused by accident or external
conditions unfavorable to human life, grow out of one or more of the three
primary manifestations of disease (Tables I and IT). When we succeed in
proving that all disease originates from a few simple causes, it will not
seem so strange and improbable that all disease can be cured by a few
simple, natural methods of living and of treatment. If Nature Cure
accomplishes this, it thereby establishes its right to be classed with the
exact sciences.

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SCIENTIFIC RELAXATION

INTRODUCTION:
Under the strain of works a day hurry and worry our nerve
vibrations are apt to become more and more intense and excited. So the over
sensitive individual must gain control over this nervous system and sub dued his
emotional activities into restful, harmonious vibrations this is done by insuring
sufficient rest and sleep under the right conditions and by practising scientific
relaxation at all times.

a) Relaxation while working:

This necessitates and planning system. Take some time to plan and
arrange your work and form the habit of doing certain things, that have to be
done every day. Such orderly system will soon become habitual and result in
saving much valuable time and energy.

b) Relaxation while sitting:

Sit upright in a comfortable chair without strain or tension, spine and
head erect legs forming right angles with the thigs, feet resting firmly upon the
floor the fore arm resting upon the legs keep the hands upon the knees. This
must be accomplished without effort or tension.

Dismiss all thoughts of hurry, care, worry or fear and we’ll upon the following
thoughts “I am now completely relaxed in body and mind. I am receptive to
nature’s Harmonious and invigorating vibrations.”

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“New Life, new health, new strength are entering into me with every
breathe.” Repeat these thoughts mentally quietly and forcefully, impressing
them deeply upon your inner consciousness.

c) Relaxation before going to sleep:

When ready to go to sleep lie flat on your back so that any part of the
spine touches the bed, extend the arms along the sides of the body, hand turns
upward palms open, every muscles relaxed.

Dismiss all thoughts of work and anxiety. “Say to yourself, I am now

going to sleep soundly and peacefully. I am master of my body, my mind and
my soul, nothing evil shall disturb me. I shall awaken rested and refreshed,
strong in body and mind I shall meet tomorrow’s task and duties promptly.

d) Relaxation in yoga:
In yoga, relaxation refers to loosening of bodily and mental tension. They
are 3 relaxation techniques according to yoga.

• Instant relaxation technique (IRT)

• Quick relaxation technique (QRT)
• Deep relaxation technique (DRT)
These three relaxation technique were developed by “Vivekananda Kendra yoga
research Foundation, Bangalore.” These are quite effective and easy to
perform.

❖ IRT (Rapid concentration):

Duration: Within 1 minute.
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Definition: IRT is defined as a method of relaxation which helps person to

attain a state of increased calmness or to reduce levels of pin physically from
any exercise or asanas, instantly.

Procedure:
• In shavasana, joint the legs heels and toes together and start tightening
the toes. Tighten the ankle joint calf muscles pull up the knee caps.
• Tighten the thigh muscles and squeeze Al the lower lymph muscles.
Exhale and contract the abdomen Inn.
• Make fists, tighten the wrist joints, fore arm, below joints, biceps and
triceps
• Tighten the shoulder neck muscles and squeeze the facial muscles. Inhale
and expand the chest region.
• Tighten the cold body from tip of the toes to bend region after tightening
release the whole body by exhaling through the mouth.
• Keep the legs and palms apart and open the palms facing upwards. Relax
the whole body slowly.

❖ QRT (Quick relaxation techniques):

Duration: 5 – 10 minutes
Definition: QRT is defined as the type of relaxation given to the whole body
by concentration with relaxation in a quick manner. In QRT, breathing phases
more concentrated perceiving the abdomen movements.

Procedure:
• QRT begins with shavasana.
• It has three phases.

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I phase:
The first phase begins by observing the movement of abdomen muscle, as
you breath in and out. Complete this phase with 5 cycle.

II phase:
Second phase begins with co- ordinating the movement of abdomen
muscle with breathing. The abdomen moves up with inhalation and down with
exhalation.

III phase:
It involves breathing deeply and slowly so as to energize the body and
give you sense of lightness. As you exhale completely collapse, all the muscles
and enjoy the relaxation with mixing of thoughts chant “AHM” in a low tone as
you slowly exhale while feeling the vibrations in your lower body. Slowly come
up from either right or left side of body.

❖ DRT (Deep Relaxation Technique):

Duration: 20-30 minutes.
Definition: It is the relaxation technique that involves successively relaxing
the tensed difference skeletal muscles and groups and enhancing relaxation to
mind.

Procedure:
Step I:
• Position- Shavasana
• Focus your mind to the lower part of the body, slowly focus on tip of the
toes, gently move them and relax.

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• Feel the relaxation in sole’s of the feet and ankle joint.

• Relax around the calf muscles and gently pull up the knee caps, release
and relax.
• Shift your awareness to the thigh.
• Loosen the hip joint and relax them.
• Focus on your pelvic and waist region and relax totally and r..e..l..a..x.
• To enhance the relaxation in the lower part of the body, chant
A….a….a…..a kara and feel the vibration in the lower part of the body.

Step II:
• Slowly bring your awareness to the middle part of the body relax your
abdomen muscles and focus the movement of abdomen. Relax the chest
muscles.
• Shift the awareness to the back muscles (middle, upper, lower) and relax
them.
• Sensitive the tip of the finger and relax them one by one mentally.
• Relax the palms loosen the wrist joint, forearm region, neck region and
relax.
• Slowly move the head left, right and bring back to centre.
• Totally relax the middle part of the body and r..e..l..a..x…
• To enhance relaxation chant u….u…u… kara and feel the vibration in
middle part of the body.

Step III:
• Shift your awareness to the upper part of the body.
• Relax cheek, chin muscles, lower and upper jaw, teeth, lips, throat.
• Focus the particular point and relax it completely and mentally.
• Focus your mind on your nostrils and observe breathing effortlessly.
• Feel the cool air touching the walls of the nostrils while inhaling and
warm air while exhaling and relax the nostrils.

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• Focus on your eye region, eye balls, eyelids and eyebrow’s.

• Totally relax the upper part of the body. R…..e…l…a…x…
• Chant m……m….m…. kara and feel the vibration in your head region.

Step IV:
• Observe the whole body from tip of the crown region and relax
effortlessly.
• To enhance the relaxation chant ‘AUM’ in a single breath.
• Feel the soouthening and massaging effect throughout the body.

Step V:
• Co-ordinate the relaxation between body, mind and breath.
• Enjoy the silence, bliss and relaxation throughout the body.

Step VI:
• Slowly come back to body consciousness while inhaling chant ‘AUM’
kara and feel the relaxation throughout the body.

Step VII:
• Bring your awareness to physical body, move your body a little, feel the
lightness and energy throughout the body.
• Gently bring your legs together and hands by the sides of your body.
• Turn to your left or right and come effortlessly.

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TOXINS AND ANTITOXINS IN

NATURE CURE WAY

INTRODUCTION:
Any group of substances produced by micro organisms, plants and
animal origin is called toxin. It is classified as endogenous and
exogenous toxins.
Endogenous toxins – produced by the body as a byproduct of
biochemical producers and tends to accumulate the joints or various
muscle groups. Eg: Bacteria, Chronic stress, anxiety.
Exogenous toxins – Toxins ingested or absorbed by a person into the
body from external sources including food, water, air contact.

Types of toxins:
Inorganic toxin or inorganic chemical toxins
Eg: Heavy metals – mercury, arsenic, cadmium, lead.

Arsenic:
Pesticides, smelter, herbicides and some marine plants.

Lead :
Leaded gas, canned goods, hair dyes, fertilizers, rubber toys,
tobacco smoke.

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Mercury:
Thermometers, paints, explosives, electrical appliances,
batteries, fluorescent lamp, cosmetics, amalgam filling.

Cadmium:
Cigarette smoke, air pollution, sea food, paints, welding etc.

Aluminium:
Found in tin vessels. This metals have the adverse effects on
the body. Some of the harmful effects like headache, tremors,
indigestion, anemia, fatigue, constipation etc.

Organic chemical toxins:

Chemical can affect the human body in different form like, pesticides,
addictives etc. It’s adverse effects are head ache, fatigue and etc.

MICROBIAL COMPONENTS:
➢ Microbes such as bacteria, fungus, yeast produces toxins. This
toxins are absorbed in the blood and produces ulcerative colitis,
liver disease, thyroidism etc.
➢ Bacterial toxins are classified into endo and exo toxins.

ENDOTOXINS:
o Any toxins secreted by micro-organism and released into the
surrounding environment only when it dies. It is not release until
the bacteria is killed by immune system.

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EXOTOXINS:
o Any toxins secreted by microorganism and immediately released
into the surrounding environment.

Mycotoxin:
• They are caused by fungi. Growth of fungi on animal host
produces respiratory, dermal and other disease.

Toxin from food:

• Processed food which creates symptom ranges from graving,
weight gain to poor digestive health and food allergies.

Environment:
• Pollution from manufacturing cars, second hand cigarette
smoking, household cleaners containing bleach.

Beauty and negative thinking:

• 90% of human illness and diseases is due to stress. Stress can kill
the good bacteria and yeast that live in our intestine and keeps our
immunity good. By this bad bacteria and yeast are able to take
over which can cause illness and disease.

Bi- products of metabolism:

• Ammonia and urea are produced by the body when protein gets
breakdown. Kidney does most of the work in the process of
eliminating the substances. In case of renal failure kidney fails to

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do so. And so this bi-products get accumulated and leads to

gouty-arthritis and other ortho disorder.

Free-radical:
• They are the reactive oxidant intermediate product that reacts
with variety of other molecules and cause inactivation of protein
and it damage to DNA and lipid peroxidation in cell membrane.

• Reactive oxygen phases are known to interact with cytoskeleton

elements with mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and cause
ATP depletion.

• Free radicals may alters biochemical and cellular reaction and

produce different pathological disease this causes cancer and
abnormal growth of organs. Free radicals are present in spicy food
items, bakery item, fast food items.

ANTI-TOXINS:
• Anti-toxins or antibodies are formed in response to poisonous
substances and biological origin such as Diphtheria, Tetanus and
gas gangrene.

DETOXIFICATION:
• Detoxification refers the chemical process that occurs in the body
to convert toxic substances to non-toxic substance.

• Detoxification is the procedure, way of body to cope up with

overload of toxins.
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• The toxic substance include the foreign organic compounds.

Example:

➢ Drugs used for therapeutical purpose. Chemical used for

diagnostic purpose and the products which are found in intestine
due to normal metabolic reaction, etc.
➢ This detoxify products are excreted either in urine or stools. The
liver is shown to be the major site for detoxification process
although kidney also participates along.
➢ Body has the ability to neutralize and eliminate toxins. Liver,
Kidney, respiratory system and various other parts helps in
eliminating the body toxins. But occasionally, the contaminants
are more in the body resulting in accumulation and there by it
leads to health disorders.

ANTI-OXIDANT:
▪ Anti oxidants are the substances that inhibits oxidation especially
used to counter at the deterioration of stored food products in the
body. It is the products which protects from the free radicals or
toxin accumulation. They prevents the oxidation of unsaturated
glycerol until they them self consistory. Antioxidants are rich in
diet, especially pyto nutrients like raw vegetables, green leafy
vegetables fruits and nuts.

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Mode of action:
▪ Antioxidants act by three ways. They can prevent the damage by
free radicals before they have a chance to destroy the healthy
cells. They are able to repair the molecules that have already been
damaged by free radicals and preventing the chain reaction on
destruction in healthy cells.

Classification of Anti—oxidants:

➢ Natural (endogenous)
➢ Synthetic (exogeneous)

❖ Natural anti-oxidants:

o Superoxide dismutase
o Intracellular enzyme
o Glutathione peroxidase

❖ Synthetic anti-oxidants:
o Magnesium
o Vitamin-c

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o β – carotene
o riboflavin
o zinc
o selenium
This antioxidants prevents the enzymes that catalyzes the
breakdown of free radicals and there by it prevents the participation of
metal ions in free radical generation.

TOXINS AND ANTIOXIDANTS IN NATURE

CURE WAY

TREATMENTS:
• According to toxemia theory toxins are produced in the body due
to indigestion, irregular food habits and consumption of food that
are difficult to digest these toxins enters the blood stream and
eventually gets accumulated in organs, joints and body parts.
Naturopathy believes in self cure and living in harmony with
nature to give the body on opportunity to repair and heal itself.

How to detoxify?
WATER:
• Deep cell hydrated; drink, more water to help your body detoxify
and flush out toxins.

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FOOD:
• Includes pro-biotics like yogurt, green tea in your diet choose
clean, whole and organic foods and unprocessed foods.

YOGA:
• Make yoga a part of daily routine yogic asana and pranayama are
a great detoxifiers and flushes out toxins from the liver.

AVOID:
• Alcohol, refined table salt, white crystal sugar, white flour,
animal fats, processed cereals and pulses.

CONCLUSION:

The several factors such as pollution, diet, cigarette smoking,

heavy exercise, non-ionising radiation, influence the susceptibility
and gets easily affected. So antioxidants food and blood purifiers
helps to protect bones, brain, colon, heart, liver, kidneys, pancreas
and spleen.

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VACCINATION AND THEIR EFFECT

ON HUMAN BODY AND MIND

VACCINE:
Definition:
 Vaccine is an immunological substance designed to form or
produce specific protection against particular disease.
 A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity
for a Particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent
that resembles a disease causing micro organism and is often
made from weakened or killed forms of microbes, its toxins
or one of its surface proteins.
 Vaccines are mainly prepared from:
▪ Live, modify or attenuated organism.
▪ Inactivated or killed organism.
▪ Extracted cellular fraction and the toxoids ( after
removal of toxins).
▪ Combination of these.

a) Live vaccine:
These are prepared from live organism which have loss the
capacity to cause or produce disease but the immunogenicity is
reduced.
Eg. Polio, Mumps, Rubella, Measles.
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b) Killed vaccine:
Here organisms are killed by heat and are inoculated into the body
to stimulate the production of antibodies.
Eg. Tyhpoid, cholera.

c)Toxoids:
Here the vaccines are from the exotoxins of bacteria and is
injected into the body by deactivating its toxin property.
Eg. Diptheria, Tetanus.

IMMUNOGLOBINS:
Anti-sera:
Antibody is prepared from non-human source. Louis Pasteur
discovered the immungizing procedure but in naturopathy is strictly
against it, because body is having its own healing property.

Hazards of immunization or ill effect:

Reaction related to immunization:
 Locally - Pain, swelling, redness, tenderness, development of
small nodules.
 Generally – Fever, general weakness, headache.

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Reaction due to antigen or antibody:

 Bronchial spasm, paleness, hypotension, dyspnoea, skin rashes,
edema, etc.
• Post vaccine- encephalitis
• Neuro paralysis.

Reaction due to faulty techniques:

 Improper sterilization
 Improper storage may produce other kinds of infections in the
body.

ADVERSE EFFECTS FOLLOWING IMMUNIZATION:

VACCINE REACTION:
 Event caused or precipitated by the vaccine it is given correctly,
caused by the inherited properties of vaccines.

PROGRAMME ERROR:
 Event caused by an error in the vaccine preparation, handling or
administration.

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CO-INCIDENTAL:
 Event that happens after immunization but not caused by
vaccines.

INJECTION REACTION:
 Event from the anxiety about gain from injections rather than
vaccine.

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VACCINATION CHART

PERIOD NAME OF DOSAGE ROUTE INTERNAL

VACCINE

Birth OPV 2 drops oral 1st dose

3-30 days BCG 0.1 ml ID Single dose

Hepatitis-B 0.5 ml IM Single dose

45 days Pentavalent 0.5 ml IM 1st dose

OPV 2 drops oral 2nd dose

75 days Pentavalent 0.5 ml IM 2nd dose

OPV 2 drops oral 3rd dose

105 days Pentavalent 0.5 ml IM 3rd dose

OPV 2 drops oral 4th dose

208 days Measles 0.5 ml S/C Simple dose

OPV 2 drops oral 4TH dose

0.5 ml
1 ½ years Pentavalent 2 drops IM 4Th dose
OPV oral 5th dose

5 years BPT 0.5 ml IM booster

10 years Tetanus 0.5 ml IM booster

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OLD AGE PROBLEMS AND

REJUVINATION
INTRODUCTION:
Ageing is a natural process and is regarded as a normal, inevitable,
biological phenomena.
According to Seneca, “old age is a incurable disease”
Sir, James sterling commanded that “you do not heal old age, you
protect it, you promote it, you extend it”.

GERONTOLOGY:
• Study of physical and psychological changes related to old
age is called as Gerontology.

CLINICAL GERONTOLOGY OR GERIATICS:

• The care of old age is called as geriatrics. There are various
problems associated with ageing process.

OLD AGE HEALTH PROBLEMS:

1. Problems due to Ageing process:
• Senile cataract, glaucoma, nerve weakness, osteoporosis,
emphysema, failure of special senses, changes in mental
outlook.

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2. Problems associated with long term illness:

• Certain chronic diseases are more common in older people
than the younger one.

3. Degenerative disease of heart and blood vessels:

▪ It is seen after 40 years of age.
▪ No single factor can be identified as the cause.
▪ But some disk factors are diet, hereditary, over-weight,
nervous and emotional strain etc.
4. Cancer
5. Accidents
6. Fractures in the neck of femur is a common geriatric
problem.
7. Due to decalcification, the bones become more fragile.
8. Diabetes:
• 75% of diabetes occurs after 50 years.
9. Diseases of locomotor system:
• Gouty arthritis, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis.
10. Respiratory illness:
• Chronic bronchitis, asthma, emphysema.
11. Problems related to genito -urinary system:
• Enlargement of prostate gland, frequency and urgency of
micturition.
12. Psychological problems:
a) Mental changes:
▪ Impaired memory.
▪ Dislike of changes.
▪ Rigidity of outlooks.
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b) Emotional disorders:
▪ Emotional disorder results from social mal adjustment.
They feel difficulty to results in depression. So we need to
rejuvenate old people on physical, mental and spiritual
means.

REJUVINATION THROUGH NATUROPATHY AND YOGA:

MANAGEMENT:
• Reduction of Body weight.
• Modification of habits of life.
• Turning towards the natural method of living.

• Physical rejuvenation:
▪ It can be improved by hip bath, mid pack , cold abdomen pack, water
drinking, massage, fasting , light exercise.

• Fasting:
▪ Fiber rich diet, nutritious food.
▪ Eg: light food, raw diet, fruit, sprouts which are rich in vitamins and
minerals.
▪ Light exercise: physiotheraphy to strengthen the muscles and to
increase the mobility.
▪ Sunbath
▪ Spinal spray
▪ Spinal bath
▪ Walking

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• Mental rejuvenation:
a) Yoga: simple asanas, sukshma vyayamas, pranayama, relaxation
techniques like DRT, QRT, IRT.

b) Meditation: OHM kara meditation.

c) Development of positive mental attitude.

d) Psyhic meditation.

e) PET (Pranic energizing technique).

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FAMILY PLANNING BY
NATURAL THERAPEUTICS
DEFINITION:
Family planning refers to practice that help the couples to attain
certain objectives.
The objectives are
✓ To avoid unwanted birth.
✓ To bring about wanted birth.
✓ To regulate gap between the pregnancies.
✓ To control the time at which birth occurs.
✓ Determine the number of children in the family.
In olden days the juices of plants, neem and pudhina used as a
contraceptive.
They also used urinary bladder of goat and skin of animals as
condom.

DEFINITION OF CONTRACEPTIVE:
Device which help to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
Contraceptive methods are preventing method to help women to
avoid unwanted pregnancies.
Contraceptive methods are temporarily as well as permanent. These
are measured to prevent pregnancies resulting from sexual
intercourse.
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CLASSIFICATION:
CONTRACEPTIVE

A.TEMPORARY B.PERMANENT
[TERMINAL]
SPACING METHOD
1.VASECTOMY
1. BARRIER METHOD 2. TUBECTOMY

1. Physical method 2. Chemical method 3.Combined method

CONDOM SPERMICIDAL
DIAPHRAGM CREAMS, GEL
SPONGES JELLY

2. INTRAUTERINE METHOD
3. HORMONAL METHODS
4. POST CONCEPTIONAL METHOD
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5. NATURAL METHOD [6 DIVISIONS]

A. SPACING METHOD:
1. BARRIER METHOD:
a) CONDOMS: Most popularly used device for male. It prevent
the entry of semen into the uterus.

ADVANTAGES:
• Easily available.
• Easy to use.
• No side effects.
• It is light and compact.
• It prevents sexually transmitted disease [STD].

DISADVANTAGES:
• Condom may get rupture during sexual intercourse resulting in
pregnancy.

B) DIAPHRAGM- FEMALE
It is shallow cup made up of plastic or rubber fixed deep in vagina.
It is inserted before sexual intercourse and removed after that.

ADVANTAGES:
• No risk and no medical contraindications.
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DISADVANTAGES:
• Chance of infection if left for longer.
• It may lead to Pelvic Inflammation Disease[PID]
• Initially a physician is required for demonstrating how to use
diaphragm.

SPONGE:
Sponge saturated with spermicide and is inserted into the vagina. It is
less effective.
Spermicidal-killing sperms.
Aerosomal reactions- drop of fluid-millions of sperm.

2.CHEMICAL METHOD:
Spermicidal creams,jellys and pastes are applied over vagina before
sexual intercourse.
Consumption-consuming
Vaginitis-inflammation of vagina.

DISADVANTAGES:
High failure rate or chances of pregnancies.
May cause irritation or burning sensation of genital tract.

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3.COMBINED METHOD:
Most effective physical and chemical methods are combined together
and used.
Eg:Diaphragm +spermicidal creams for female.
Condom+ spermicidal creams for male.

2. INTRAUTERINE METHOD:
This device is maximum used for 2years.
It is the form of copper-Tclastest.

MECHANISM OF ACTION:
Presence of foreign substance in uterus prevents fertilization.

ADVANTAGES:
 Very effective,failure rate is less.
 Simple /easy.
 Requires no hospitalization and is reversible.
 It is inexpensive.
 Less side effect.
 Effective for longer duration.

DISADVANTAGES:
 Medical expert is needed for insertion .
 May cause irritation and infection if associated with poor
hygienic.
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 May cause perforation .

 May cause ectopic pregnancy.
 Sometimes menstrual bleeding may be heavy.

3. HORMONAL METHOD:
EXAMPLES:
Combined oral pills, Mala N, Mala D are popularly known as oral
pills.
Both estrogen and progesterone are used.

MODE OF ACTION:
It prevent release of ovum from ovary.

ADVANTAGES:
100% effective.

DISADVANTAGES:
It may cause breast cancer.
Hypertension.
Liver disorders.
Weight gain.

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4. POST CONCEPTIONAL METHOD:

Abortionis the post conceptional method done before 16 weeks of
conception.

5. NATURAL METHOD:
BRAHMACHARYA: Complete cessation of all requires strong will
power and determination.

DISADVANTAGES:
Everyone cannot practice Brahmacharya, a suppression of natural
urges may lead to nervous and psychic disorders.

COITUS INTERUPTS:
Voluntary fertility control method, a sexual act is interrupted.
Male withdraws before ejaculations. Therefore semen is prevented to
be deposited in vagina.
Sexual act is interrupted and requires strong motivation an co-
operation from both partners.

DISADVANTAGES:
Leads to Neurasthemia, Anxiety.
Changes of miscalculation give to irregular menstrual cycle.

BASAL BODY TEMPERATURE METHOD:

It is said that during ovulation there is rise in temperature.
Due to release of ova due to progesterone.

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Absence of sexual activity should be there between pre-ovulation

period and 4 days after ovulation.
98.6^ F-Normal Body Temperature.
99.6^ F – Ovulation period.

DISADVANTAGES:
Miscalculation may be there.

CERVICAL MUCOUS METHOD:

During ovulation cervical mucous become watery smooth and
profused.
After ovulation cervical mucous become thick.
Eg: Decrease in quantity.
Tissue paper is used to analyse the cervical mucous.

BREAST FEEDING METHOD:

It is also a kind of contraceptive .It act as a natural
contraceptive………

YOGIC PRACTICES:
Vajroli Mudra-Helps in controlling ejaculation by males.It can be also
entirely done by females .It is done by contracting the muscles of
vagina voluntarily by females.

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B.TERMINAL METHOD:
VASECTOMY:
No sperm is release during ejaculation.

TUBECTOMY:
Ovary is not conducted through the fallopian tube to the uterus.

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NATUROPATHY
Vs
MODERN MEDICINE
MODERN
S.NO CONTENTS NATURE CURE
MEDICINE
1. FUNDAMENTAL Accumulation of toxins Microbes are
BASIC causes functional positive factors
disturbances leads to for disease,
lowered vitality. according to the
microbes invade
to the body and
decreases the
immunity. Then
diseases cause due
to infections.
2. DIET Diet is very important. It does not give
Food any substances any concentration
which taken into the body over the dietary
which built and repairs habits.
the tissues, furnishes heat
or mechanical energy and
regulate the body process.
According to yoga diet is
classified as: satvik,
rajasic and tamasic.

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3. SIMILARITIES Composition of body is Composition of

Panchamahabhoothas. body is cells.
Mind plays important role Mind has no
in Nature cure and significance
cleaning the body is very except
important. psychological
cases. Does not
believe in
cleansing process.
4. DIFFERENCES No internal medicines Both internal and
used .Against of surgery. external
medicines are
used and surgeries
are regularly
recommended.
5. NATURAL Naturally available things Artificial things
MEANS are generally used and are used.
toxic substances are not Example: Tablets,
used. Tonics.

6. TREATMENTS Beleives in preventing Believes in

measures for all diseases prevention only
in case of any diseased infectious disease.
conditions, enhances the Believes in
process of elimination by suppression of the
all open channels of the symptoms by
body and there by drugs, chemicals
improve the vitality as and surgery.
well as immunity.

7. SIDE EFFECTS No side effects are seen. Generally side

effects are seen.

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8. OTHERS It is considered as a It is considered as

holistic system of orthodox system
medicine. of medicine.

Believes in prana theory. Does not Believes

in prana theory.
They focuses primarily on They focuses
treating diseases as well mainly on treating
as promotion of health. diseases only.

Body heal is treated as a Only

whole. Symptamatic
relief.
Complete cure is possible Cure is impossible
by removing the root and gives
cause of the disease. symptomatic
relief.
Medicines are natural and Drugs are
therefore safely synthesize in lab
metabolized by the body. and not safely
metabolized by
the body and toxic
substances settled
in the liver,
kidney, brain,
etc…

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PROPERTIES OF WATER
INTRODUCTION:
Water is the most abundant compound on earth’s surface covering 70%
of the planet. In nature, water exists in liquid, solid and gaseous states.
It is a tasteless and odorless liquid nearly colorless with a hint of blue.
Many substances are dissolved in water and it is commonly referred to
as the universal solvent.
Water has several other unique physical properties and chemical
properties they are:

SPECIFIC HEAT:
Water has a high specific heat. Specific heat is the amount of energy
required to change the temperature of a substance. Because water has a
high specific heat, it can absorb large amount of heat before it begins
to get hot. It also means that water releases heat energy slowly when
situations cause it to cool.

PH:
Water in a pure state has a neutral pH. As a result, pure water is neither
acidic nor basic. Water changes its pH when substances are dissolved
in it.

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CONDUCTION:
Water conducts heat more easily than any other liquid except mercury.

SOLVENT:
Water is the universal solvent. It is able to dissolve large number of
different chemical compound. This feature enables water to carry
solvent nutrients in runoff, infiltration and around water flow.

SURFACE TENSION:
Water has a high surface tension. This allows for the formation of water
droplets and waves, allows plants to move water from their roots to
leaves and movement of blood through tiny vessels.

DENSITY:
Density of solid water (ice) is less dense than liquid water. It is for this
reason that the ice floats.

CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF WATER

➢ HYDROGEN BONDING:
Water is a polar molecule. It tends to be slightly positive on the
hydrogen side and slightly negative on the oxygen side. The
electrostatic bond between the positive hydrogen sides of this molecule
is called hydrogen bond.
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Molecules and ions which form water forms hydrogen bond and are
hydrophilic. On the other hand, ions and molecules that do not form
hydrogen bond with water are hydrophobic.

LIQUIDITY AT ROOM TEMPERATURE:

At room temperature most compounds with low molecular weight take
gaseous form with water. However, hydrogen bonding helps to keep it
liquid at room temperature.

CHEMICAL REACTION:
When ionic compounds such as NaCl are added to water, hydrogen
bonding will tend to pull those ionic compounds apart. This makes
water a natural solvent. Once ionic compounds dissolve their anions
and cations circulate through the water allowing further reactions to
occur.Thus water also facilitates chemical reaction.

STABLE TEMPERATURE:
Water takes more heat to rise its temperature than other common
compounds. Since much of that heat is required to break the hydrogen
bonds water also retains heat so that its temperature falls slowly.

FREEZING POINT:
AT 32 degrees Fahrenheit or 0 degree Celsius and below, water
molecule form hydrogen bonds in a crystalline lattice structure. This
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bonding space the molecule a bit further apart than usual causing water
to expand when it freezes. This results in ice been less dense than liquid
water which is why ice flows.

OTHER PROPERTIES OF WATER

➢ ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES:
Pure water is a good conductor of electricity but is not a perfect
insulator as it always contains ions due to self dissociation passage of
an electric current causes electrolysis producing oxygen at the anode
hydrogen at the cathode.
Electrical conductivity of water depends on the water temperature. The
higher the temperature, the higher is the electrical conductivity of
water. The electrical conductivity of water increases by 2- 3% for an
increase of 1 degree Celsius of water temperature.

MAGNETIC PROPERTIES:
Liquid water is affected by magnetic fields and such fields can assist
its purification. Water is diamagnetic and mainly levitated in very high
magnetic fields. The magnetic susceptibility of water increases from
negative towards positive with magnetic frequency and is reported to
be positive.
State of water at different temperatures:

• 0°C or 32°F – Ice or freezing point

• 25°C or 77°F – dynamic equilibrium between liquid and gases
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• 100 °C or 212°F - Steam

TEMPERATURE FOR HOT AND COLD

APPLICATIONS:
DESCRIPTION TEMPERATURE APPLICATION
Very cold Below 15° C Ice bag
Cold 15-18° C Cold pack
Cool 18-27° C Cold compression
Tepid 27- 37° C Alcohol sponge bath
Warm 37- 40 °C Warm bath
Hot 40- 46° C Hot soak, hot compresses
Very hot Above 46 °C Hot water bag for adults

CLASSIFICATION OF TEMPERATURE FOR

TREATMENT PURPOSES:
Very cold 32- 55 °F
Cold 55- 65 °F
Cool 65- 80 °F
Tepid 80 -92 °F
Warm 92-98 °F
Hot 98-104°F
Very hot 104°F and above

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PROPERTIES OF MUD
Mud is an important element of nature. It contains important minerals
which have positive effect on human health. Mud can absorb toxins
from human body therefore is very useful in preventing many diseases.
It also helps in cooling and relaxing body as it can hold moisture for a
long time.

DESCRIPTION OF MUD:
Mud is formed because of the erosion of several rocks especially
feldspar and mica. Once transformed into powdered materials they are
easily carried away by water flow and deposited in sediments at river
side (or) at the bottom of seas and lakes although the composition and
morphology of these muds are very different , they have the following
specialistic characteristics.
Their main content is aluminium, iron, magnesium and so on.

TYPES OF MUD:

❖ BLACK MUD: Dark cotton soil having some greasiness is

suitable for mud therapy as it is rich in minerals and also retains
water for a long time.
❖ DEAD SEA MUD: This mud has beautifying and therapeutic
power. It contains more than 20 kinds of salts and minerals

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including magnesium, calcium, silicate and potassium. They are

useful for healing any kinds of skin disorders.

MOOR MUD: It is produced from organic residues of flowers,

grasses and herbs. It contains vitamins, amino acids and plant
hormones. It is also used in detoxification, healing, beautification
and nourishing human body. It is also useful in condition such as
arthritis and recovery from injury due to sports.

USES OF MUD:
Mud could be used in two ways as:
1. Mud pack
2. Mud bath

MUD PACK:
To prepare mud pack, soak mud in water for 30 minutes. Use a thin wet
muslin cloth and apply the mud evenly at about 1 inch thickness. A
mud pack should be applied for a duration of 20 -30 minutes. When
applied in cold weather, place a blanket over the mud pack and cover
the body as well.

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MUD BATH
Mud is prepared by soaking it in water. Apply it to full body and is keep
it for 1 hour and ideally expose to sunlight intermittently. Head should
be covered or use a cold compress. Then the patient should be washed
with cold or lukewarm water. Dry the person quickly and transfer them
to a warm bed. Mud bath helps in regulating the blood pressure and
energizes the skin tissues.

PROPERTIES OF MUD:
The main properties of mud are as follows:
➢ Absorbing power: Mud has a very high absorbing
capacity due to its colloidal size particles which have
enormous effects. It also acts as antitoxic and
decongestive.
➢ Wound healing property/cicatrizing property: Due to
its high aluminium silicate content, it cicatrizes wounds,
eczema and other disturbances of skin very quickly. This
translates into less scaring and marks.
➢ Stimulating capacity: Mud absorbs several types of
radiation (solar). It may be released again but at a lower
frequency resulting in a very concrete potential of organic
stimulation which influences the body by increasing the
metabolism there by invigorating the cells, reconstructing
and accelerating all the organic processes.
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➢ Anti-microbial effects: Its highly powerful absorption

effect inactivates the microorganism action and such
action seems to be strengthened by a natural anti-biotic
capacity of mud.
➢ Therapeutic use (externally)/ cosmetic properties: Mud
is a natural biocatalyst especially of the connective tissue,
because of its high silicon content which is an
indispensable element for the correct composition of
collagen fibers.
They also have a clear action over tumors, ulcers, eczema,
burnings and other dermatological troubles and helps with
healing of scar.
Silicon in mud neutralizes free radicals and retards the
oxidative process of cell. Oxidation of cell and free radical
damage are the main reason for skin aging.

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PROPERTIES OF AIR
INTRODUCTION
Air is a natural resource. It is a mixture of gas 78% of nitrogen
and 21% of oxygen with trance of water vapour, carbon
dioxide, argon and various other components.
‘Air’ in Sanskrit is ‘vayu’. In Hinduism, air is worshipped as a
god (Vayu Bhagawan).

PROPERTIES OF AIR
Properties of air are divided into physical and chemical
properties.
1. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF AIR
➢ PRESSURE: The pressure of air depends upon the
location and also the seasons of earth. The
atmospheric pressure is also known as barometric
pressure. Air is completely under pressure due to
gravity.

➢ TEMPERATURE: Air has temperature. Air also

expands when it gets hot and contracts when it gets
cold. Temperature has an effect on volume and that
volume has an effect on pressure.
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➢ VISCOSITY: The viscosity of air depends mostly

on temperature. At 15 °C, the viscosity of air is 1.81
× 10-5 kg/ (m·s).

➢ HUMIDITY: Humidity is the amount of water

vapour in air. Water vapour is the gaseous state of
water and is invisible.

➢ VOLUME: The volume of air is the mass/unit

volume of earth’s atmosphere. This volume is
interrelated with pressure and temperature. The
volume of air is 1.19g/liter.

➢ SPECIFIC GRAVITY:
Carbon dioxide- 1.5
Oxygen-1.1
Argon – 1.38
Nitrogen- 0.9

2. CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF AIR

Earth’s atmosphere is composed of air in a mixture
of gases.
Carbon dioxide – 0.039%
Oxygen- 20.95%
Argon-0.093%
Nitrogen-78.09%
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BENEFITS OF AIR
• Air cures all the respiratory diseases.
• It cures asthma through the proper practice of pranayama.
• It has smoothening effect upon the millions of nerve
endings all over the surface of the body.
• It has good results in case of nervousness, neurasthenia,
and rheumatism and skin disorders.

AIR THERAPY
Air therapy improves health of body organs such as lungs,
abdomen, diaphragm, kidney and pancreas.
Air therapy helps in taking toxins out of the body and thus it
improves immunity.
Air bath allows cooling air currents to stimulate contraction
and dilation of skin capillaries.
➢ PRANAYAMA: Pranayama is a type of breathing
exercise involved in expansion of our life span. For
example, nadishodhana, surya bhedana, Chandra
bhedana and surya and Chandra anuloma viloma.

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➢ AIR BATH: Fresh air is the most essential for good

health. The advantage of air therapy can be achieved by
means of air bath. Everybody should take air bath daily
for 20 minutes or longer if possible.
➢ AIR BY TREES: Our nature consists of 5 major
elements. Air is one of them. They are available
naturally. One source is trees. It inhales carbon dioxide
and exhales oxygen which is useful to humans.

CONCLUSION
By air, it not only implies rarified force that exists in the
universe but also the energy that allows digestion, removes
waste and

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PROPERTIES OF SUNLIGHT
The sun is a hot sphere of gas, whose internal temperature
reaches over 20 million degree Kelvin.
Nuclear fusion reaction at the suns core converts hydrogen to
helium. The sun is believed to be 4.6 billion years old. The
energy that we receive from the sun detects the environment
on earth which is so important to humanities existence.

PROPERTIES
Sunlight is a portion of electromagnetic radiation given off by
the sun in particular rays as infrared, visible and ultraviolet
rays.
The ultraviolet radiation in sunlight has both positive and
negative health effects. There are certain kinds of radiations.
They are:
➢ ULTRAVIOLET- C: It is invisible to human eye and
very little of this radiation reaches the atmosphere.
Although it has been known for the last 100 years that
UVC irradiation is highly germicidal, the use of UVC
irradiation for prevention and treatment of localized
infections is still in the very early stages of development.

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➢ UV-B: It is greatly absorbed by atmosphere and along

with UV-C; it is responsible for photochemical reaction
leading to production of ozone layer. It directly damages
DNA and causes sunburn. But it s also required for
vitamin D synthesis.

➢ UV-A: This is told as less damaging to DNA when

compared with UV-B, hence it is used in artificial sun
tanning therapies. It can damage DNA indirectly and is
also able to cause skin cancer.

➢ INFRARED RAYS: It is responsible for an important

part of electromagnetic radiation that reaches that
reaches earth. It is also divided into infrared A, B and C.

➢ VISIBLE RANGE/ LIGHT: As the name suggests the

range that is visible to naked eye is called visible light. It
is also said to be the strongest output of the sun.

THERAPUTIC PROPERTIES
➢ Analgesic property/ pain killing property: The patient
exposed to an increased intensity of sunlight experienced
less perceived stress and less pain.

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➢ Sunlight burns fat: The subcutaneous fat, unlike

visceral fat is not considered as a risk factor for
cardiovascular disease that is the exposure of human skin
to UV rays results in increased subcutaneous fat
metabolism. It regulates human life span. The effect of
solar cycles on human life span in the world is said that it
directly affects the human genome. Sunlight exposure
may directly affect the length of our life and may even
accelerate genetic change.

➢ Improves evening alertness: Effects of light exposure

on early evening improves performance, subjective
sleepiness and hormonal selfishness.

➢ Sunlight may convert to metabolic energy: A long

standing assumption that animals are incapable of
utilizing light energy directly is proved in other words
our skin may contain the equivalent of melanin and it
may be possible to ingest energy as plants do directly
from the sunlight.

➢ Benefits of sun bathing: it improves blood circulation.

It helps in eliminating toxins from the body. It helps in
synthesis of vitamin D in the presence of ergosterol
found under skin. It improves conditions such as

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osteoporosis, paralysis, gout, tuberculosis and other skin

ailments.

CONCLUSION
The universal energy radiates heat and light but the inner
fire removes waste and ensures circulation in human
body. Thus sun is the main source of energy and life.

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FUNDAMENTALS OF UNANI
INTRODUCTION:
Unani system of medicine is an exhaustive segment in the realm
of Indian Medicine System. It was compiled centuries back by
Hippocrates, the great scholar. However, with time it was enriched by
a number of his successors due to which it has achieved the status of a
science. Therefore like any other scientific system it is governed by a
number of principles and concepts. Doctrine of natural unani system
strongly believes in nature and its healing properties. It believes that
health is a condition which is achieved when all the functions are
carried out in correct and complete manner. Thus wholeness and
balance were the norms for human beings. The six factors of health is
another principle which guide the unani practitioners. These six factors
help in determining the state of a person. The primary six factors are
examined in relation with health and disease.

HISTORY:
Unani medicine is a branch of alternative medicine which
attempts to discover the best possible ways by which an individual can
lead a complete healthy life without any illness of sickness. Unani
medicine originates from Greece and it means “Greek Medicine”.
Unani medicine is founded on the teachings of Hippocrates who
was a Greek physician. Hakuin lbn Sina established Unani medicine as
a healing system in his medical encyclopedia,the canon of medicine.
The Unani medicine uses medicines in the form of dietary changes,
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drinks and other regimens such as codes of conduct which contribute

in maintaining and promoting good health and in preventing and curing
of disease.

Unani medicine believes that by using clean and freshwater,

breathing pure and clean air and eating fresh foods many diseases can
be prevented. Similarly, there should be a balance between the body
and mind to enable easy metabolic processes and elimination of waste
products from the body. Unani medicine is based on the concept of 4
humors namely,
1. Balgham (phlegm)
2. Dam (blood)
3. Safra (yellow bile)
4. Sauda (black bile)

The ability of human body to defend itself and maintain a proper

balance of this humor is called as Quwwat -e- mudabbara. Unani
medicines aid the body in regainning this balance. The balance of these
4 humors in the body leads to health where as only any imbalance or
alteration in these humors causes diseases and sometimes even death.

According to unani medicine,the fundamental composition of the

body is categorized into 7 major groups . The seven natural and basic

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components are known as Umoor -e -tabiya and are responsible for

maintaining a person health.

The seven basic components of unani medicine are

1. Arkan (elements)
2. Mizaj (temperament)
3. Akhlat (humors)
4. Aaza (organs)
5. Arwah (vital forces /spirits)
6. Quwa ( facalities )
7. Afaal (functions)
The unani system of medicine involves many therapeautic
procedures such as venesection, turkish bath, massage, leeching,
exercise and cupping among others. In case of musculoskeletal
problems such as back pain and arthritis, treatment is done by
puncturing specific reflex point and releasing a few drops of blood.
Dietotherapy is another form of treatment done in Unani which
comprises of implementing certain diets or alterations in the quality and
quantity of food to regain health. In pharmacotherapy, drugs obtained
from plant and mineral sources are administered.
A unani physician (hakim) starts with a mild dosage in the initial
stages of the treatment. The patient is also instructed to adhere to
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certain restrictions in diet and lifestyle. The diagnosis is done by the

unani physician by feeling the pulse. The alterations are changes in a
pulse are felt by the fingers to find out which humor is dominant or
imbalanced and helps in diagnosis. Other methods which help in
diagnosis are urine and stool examination. The colour and viscosity of
the urine and stool is examined and diagnosis is made on that basis.

TREATMENT:
Unani is known by man in different names Greco-Arabs
medicine, Arab medical unanian medicine and oriental medicine.
According to unani system, diseases are natural processes and
symptoms are body’s reaction to them.
For diagnosing the disease unani physician feel the rhythmic
expansion of arteries (nubz) of the patient. Mainly there are 4 important
types of unani medicine treatment available.

1. Ilaj bil tadbeer : (Regimental therapy )

It is a detoxification method that improves constitution of
body by removing waste materials. It also protects health and increase
defense mechanism of the body. Important technique include,

Massage (dalk , malish )

Turkish bath (hammam)
Exercise (Riyazat )
Leeching (Taleeq-e-alaq)
Venesection (Fasd )

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2. Ilaj-bil- ghiza : (dieto therapy )

Dietotherapy involves regulations of quantity and quality of
your diets. Unani physician may ask you to increase intake of specific
food that is helpful to allieviate symptoms of the disease.

3.Ilaj bil dawa : (pharmaco therapy )

Natural drugs plants, minerals and animal drugs are used in unani
system. Potency and temperament of drugs are important consideration
in unani treatment. The drugs are supposed to act according to their
temperament that is hot, cold, moist and dry. Unani medicines are
available in the form of tablets, decoctions, infusion, jawarish, majoon,
khamira, syrup and powder.

4. Javahat (surgery):
Ancient physician of unani system where considered to be
pioneer in the field. However at present only minor surgery is in vogue
in the system.

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF UNANI SYSTEM:

The fundamental principles are
1. Umoor-e-Tabaiyak (Natural/basic component)
2. Mawaleed-e-Salasa (Trimatter theory)
3. Asbabe Sitta Zarooriya (6 essential factors)
4. Tabiyat (Medicateix naturae)
5. Theory of Akhlaet (Humoral theory)

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Umoor-e-Tabaiyak:
According to the unani system the human body is composed of 7
natural and basic components called Umoor-e-tabaiyak which is
mainly responsible to maintain the health.
1. Arkaan- elements
2. Mizaj- temperature
3. Akhlaat-humors
4. Aaza-Organs
5. Arwaah-spirit/vital force
6. Guwa-faculty/energy
7. Afaal-functions/ action

Mawaleed-e-Salasa:
The entire universe is made by the 3 matters. Similarly human
body is also formed in that way. These are
1. Solid
2. Liquid
3. Gaseous

Asbaabe Sitta Zarooriya:

These 6 essential factors are responsible for the health as well as
disease of the body. They are

• Hawa (air )
• Maakool wa mashroob (food and drink )
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• Harkat wa sokoon-e-badani (physical movement and

response )
• Harkat wa sokoon-e-nofsani (mental movement and
response)
• Naum wa yagza (sleeping habits )
• Fhtebas wa Istifragh (retention and evacuation )
Tabiyak :
Unani system of medicine believes that the real physician is the
body’s intensic power of healing and maintaining its normal state of
health tabiyak.

Tabiyak is responsible for all physiological functioning of the

body in healthy conditions; prevent the body from disease and cure, the
disease by eradicating the causing substances. If tabiyak is strong, then
a man will not suffer from a disease easily.

Theory of Akhlaat:
According to this theory, the human body consists of 3 types of
materials
1. Solid which are named as organs (azaa)
2. Liquid which are named as humors (akhlaat )
3. Gaseous matter named as arwaah (pneuma )
Akhlaat are divided into 4 groups
• Dam (blood)

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• Balgham (phlegm)
• Safra (yellow bile )
• Sauda (black bile )

Dam - hot and wet

Balgham - cold and wet
Safra - hot and dry
Sauda - cold and dry

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FUNDAMENTALS OF
ALLOPATHY
INTRODUCTION:
Allopathy is a method of treating disease with remedies that
produce effects different from those caused by the disease itself .The
word allopathy has been referred to as conventional medicine. It is the
use of non-homeopathic remedies for diseases.

The term allopathy was invented by German physician Samuel

Hahnnemann. He conjoined allos ‘opposite’ a pathos ‘suffering’ as a
referent to harsh medical practices of his era, which included bleeding,
purging, vomiting and the administration of highly toxic drugs. Thus
allopathy has been defined clearly as that which treats a disease with
something opposite to the disease.
But regular physician refused to use the term and referred to
allopath as a false nick name. Although many modern therapies can be
constructed to conform to an allopathic rational standard medicine has
never paid allergiance to an allopathic principle. The word ‘allopath’
was considered highly desire by regular medicine. But it is no more
offensive than the use of the word quack in 1978 to describe a competitor.
In this regard, allopathy is sometimes called the western approach
and known to the west as conventional medicine. Allopathy focuses more
on treating, the symptoms of disease primarily through prescription
drugs. Allopathy or modern system of medicine or conventional
medicine is practiced by physicians who graduate from medical school
and written M.D after their names.S

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ALLOPATHIC CONCEPTION OF DISEASE:

From a 20th century view point, early American medicine was
anything but scientific. Isolated observations of disease and treatment
outcomes were generalized in what now seems a most orbit manner, into
universal theories of disease.

FOUR HUMORS THEORY:

The ancient a humors theory attributed disease to an imbalance of
four humors (i.e. blood, phlegm, black and yellow bile) and four bodily
conditions (i.e. hot, cold, wet and dry) that corresponds to four elements
(i.e. earth, fire, air, water) physicians following the Hippocratic tradition
attempted to balance the humors by treating symptoms with opposites.
For instance, fever (Hot) was believed due to excess blood because
patients were flush. Therefore balance sought by blood letting in order to
cool the patient.

TREATMENT:
The methods of treatment used in allopathy are
1. Bleeding
2. Leeching
3. Cupping
4. Blistering
5. Purging
6. Puking
7. Poulticing
8. Rubbing with ointment

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All these allopathic treatments method were thought to be

cleansing, purifying and balancing treatments which sought to
reestablish humoral harmony of the four humors.

BLEEDING:
Bleeding was usually the initial treatment .There were a few
different methods of bleeding a person.
It was believe that the use of bleeding released bad blood that
contained disease from a person body.
Physician used to bleed for congestion of the brain, sore eyes,
spinal disease, sore throat or swelled tonsils, asthma, inflammation of
lungs, pulmonary consumption, disease of heart, piles, inflammation of
spleen.
Bloodletting – a patients vein was directly cut with a lancet
(Venous section).

LEECHING:
Leeching is a method of bleeding with leeches. A leech was
placed in thin tube while the patient skin was washed and shaved. To
encourage the leech to bite, a drop of blood or milk was placed on the
area of a vein. Then the tube with the leech in it inverted over the spot
and the leech sucked blood from the vein. Then the tube with the leech
had taken enough blood. Salt was sprinkled on the leech causing the leech
stop sucking and let go of from skin.

CUPPING:
A treatment in which evacuated glass cups are applied to cut skin
in order to draw blood. Cupping was usually used in combination with
bloodletting. After one or two aggressive bleeding a patient blood
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pressure would drop to the point where blood would no longer split out.
So heated cups were placed over cuts to help draw more blood .special
cups were heated and placed over the cuts, creating a vaccum, allowing
the blood to freely flow from the vein.

BLISTERING:
It was believed that the pain of blistering caused the patient to
focus on new pain, taking their minds away from the more serious pain
from which they suffered.
The practice of blistering was performed by deliberatively giving
the patient a second degree burn and then draining the resulting cure.
It was these treating the following diseases as congestion of brain,
inflammation of brain, sore eyes, sore throat, inflammation of stomach
and lungs, liver and spleen and typhoid fevers.

PLASTERING:
Plasters were paste like mixtures made from a variety of
ingredients including even substances such as cow manure. They were
applied to the chest or back of a person suffering from a chest cold or as
internal pain even pneumonia.

POULTERING:
Poultices were made from bread and milk and sometimes other
ingredients were added such as potatoes, onion and linseed oil. Poultices
were applied to cuts, wounds, bites and boils.

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PUKING:
Puking consist of dosing a patient with emetus in order to produce
vomiting. The practice of puking was believed to relieve tension on
arteries and to expel poisons from the body.

PURGING:
It is a treatment that induces elimination of bowel and intestine
with powerful laxative, purging which was done to cleanse the body of
toxins or irritants. The most commonly used purgative was calmed a
form of mercury chloride.

OINTMENT:
Ointments containing mercury were topically used against general
diseases. Sulfur was quite commonly used to treat itching.

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NATURE CURE DIAGNOSTIC

METHOD

In naturopathy four types of diagnosis are there:

 Chromo diagnosis
 Spinal diagnosis
 Facial diagnosis
 Iris diagnosis

CHROMO DIAGNOSIS:
It is a method to analysis the internal condition of different organs by
observing the colour changes in the body and its various excretion.
Eyes:
Normal conjuctive is clear

Scelera in pinkish white in colour

Pale scelera

Anemia

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Yellow sclera – Jaundice

Reddish sclera – Stress, hypertension, insomnia, addiction, fever.

Tongue:
Normal tongue – pink
Pale tongue – anemia
Black tongue – fungal infection
white coating in tongue – acidity , typhoid, git disorder
blue tongue – cyanosis
Bright red – pellagra
Central cyanosis in lips and tongue indicates lung or heart disease
Peripheral cyanosis in nail bed is seen in condition circulatory or
due to exposure of heat

FACE:
➢ Normal bright pinkish red
➢ Pale – anemia
➢ Redness – anxiety and hypertension
➢ Yellowish – jaundice
NAIL:
➢ Nail – pink
➢ Yellow – jaundice
➢ Blue – cyanosis
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➢ Pale – anemia
LIPS:
Normal – pink

CHRONIC DIAGNOSIS IN EXCRETION:

URINE:
➢ Normal – straw, yellow
➢ Red – injury to renal organs , renal calculi, hematuria.
➢ Daric colour – decrease water inhale
➢ Yellow – jaundice
➢ Black – malaria, alkaptouria

STOOLS / FACES:
➢ Normal – yellowish brown in colour
➢ Black – bleeding of upper G&T
➢ Red – Bleeding of lower G&T
➢ Clay colour – excretion of fats in stools
SPUTUM:
➢ Normal – white in colour
➢ Clark green – any infection disease
➢ Black colour – bronchitis
➢ Dusty brown – pneumonia
➢ Red colour – hemoptysis in TB

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SPINAL ANALYSIS:
Analysing and detecting the disease by examining the spine.

MEHTOD OF SPINAL ANALYSIS:

Detailed case history by examination spine

a.) INSPECTION:
➢ colour changes in spinal region
➢ Any vertebral prominence
➢ Visible deformities in spine
Commonly seen deformities are:
Corodorsis - abdominal convexity is more
Eg., Rickets, pregnancy
Kyphosis – over curvature of throacis inverthrone
Eg., walking like oldage people.

SCOLIOSIS:
It is medical condition in which the person spine is curved from
side to side there will be even musculation arm on one side of the
spine ribs promnance, uneven slow nerve action.

b.) PALAPTION:
• Deformities
• Path of tenderness
• Rigidity of muscle due to pain
• Measurement of bilateral symmetry

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c.) ANALYSIS:
All finding are summarized and analyssed in detail there by
trying to find out thre seriousness of problem and degree of
involvement of structure and amount of deformity already caused.

d.) TREATMENT:
Inchro Practice, spinal manipulation is most commonly used. In
this technique hand are used to manipulate the spine by massing
applying physiotheraphy which influence the spine related disease.

Fascial diagnosis:
Fascial diagnosis by lowis kuhne.
Fascial diagnosis is the signes of fascial expression which is to
analysis the internal condition by absorbing the external changes in
the body.
Normal fatigue:
Head – moderate in size
Neck – round (neither too short nor too long)
Chest – arch in shape
Abdomen – flat (not prominent)
Legs – strongly build not bound internally or externally
Forehead – smooth without wrinkles not adipose cushion
Eyes – clear
Lips – beautiful in form and not bethicle
Chin- rounded
Fasce – oval or round in shape

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ENCUMBERANCE:
(Accumulation of foreign matter)
Due to violation nature’s law there is accumulation of foreign
matters in the body is called encumberance
Foreign matters
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Select organs with low resistance especially abdomen
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From abdomen it moves to head and neck
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Distribution progress and itr moves to

TYPES OF ENCUMBERANCE:
1. Front encumberance
2. back encumberance
3. side encumberance - right side
- left side
4. Mixed encumberance

FRONT ENCUMBERANCE:
It means accumulation of foreign matter in front parts of the
body.

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Characteristics features:
➢ Face appear large
Example: Renal failure, submatuxillary sublingual
cancer or oral cancer
➢ Mouth is protended
➢ Adipose tissue overtorched
➢ Complexion is either pale or red
➢ Parts encumnbered shows great tension and showing
shining appearance
➢ Mobility of head is restricted
POSSIBLE DISEASE:

• Acute disease like mealses, inflammation

• Chronic disease like a disease of throat and neck region,
tooth decay
• Tensilities
• Cancer of throid glandetic
COMPLICATION:
It is easy to treat but if it is not treated it will leads to other types
of encumberance (i.e.) back or side or mixed encumberance
TREATMENT:
o It is easy to cure by humans of hydro therapy treatment

▪ SIDE ENCUMBERANCE:
o It means accumulation of foreign matters on the sides of
the body.

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o It is two types:
Right side
Left side
CHARATERISTIC FEATURES:
Enlargement of the neck on the side affected all body
appear asymmetry. It is more serious somporal to front
encumberance. It is difficult to treat mobility of neck .

LEFT SIDE ENCUMBERANCE:

Suppress activity of skin, so it is more serious than right
side encumberance.

POSSIBLE DISEASE:
Acute disease like toothache, tooth decay deafness,
cataract, hemiplegia, mumps.
Chronic disease like migrance skin disease

TREATMENT:
Sativic diet, massages etc.,

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BACLE ENCUMBERANCE:
Accumulation of foreign matter in back part of the body is
called encumberance here foreign matter moves to back causing
various changes in shape of the body
More serious time, then side and front encumberance
Foreign matter
reaches
Back part of the body
finally head
Line of demartation of neck and bakle of head

When foreign matter ascends to hed which involves nervous

system lead to nervous disorder there by leading to demention or lack
of energy.

TREATMENT:
Hyprtherapy treatment inducing perspiration, taking
massages, natural diet steam bath to eliminate waste matter.
If foreign metter is difficult to eliminate out form the
system which make as chronic disease. If the foreign matter are soft
and mobile the eliminate is easy.

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MIXED ENCUMBERANCE:
It is combination of two or 24 kinds of encumberance
found simultaneously which is called as mixed encumberane or cold
body encumberance.
Eg., front encumberance Vs back encumberance
Back encumberance and side encumberance

IRIS DIAGNOSIS:
The interpretation of internal condition of the body by analysing
different features in iris is called iris diagnosis.
Father of iris diagnosis - Ignate Von Pecily
Modern father of Iris diagnosis – Bennald Jaison

Seven zones:
ANALYSIS:
COLOUR:-
➢ NORMAL – black, brown or blue
➢ It is different in different bases and community
➢ New born body has iris colour of blue or brown. The
colour changes due to exposure to environment and
also due to mother’s milk.

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➢ All the body part are represented in eye with specific

colour. Any change in iris colour signifies lesion or
disease in corresponding organ.

DENSITY:
Normally the iris closeness and compactness in
arrangement or fibres of

a.) ACUTE DISEASE:

fibres are slightly raised
b.) SUBACUTE DISEASE:

c,) CHRONIC DISEASE:

fibres are much supressed and in zig zag manner which
signifies prolonged suppression
d.) DEGENERATION DISEASE:
suppression and discontinuity of the fibre indicating
degeneration and organ destruction.
MARKING IN IRIS:
a.) SCURFRIN:-
it is the dirty grey margin just below the outer margin
of iris indicates lung or skin

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b.) RADISOLARIS:
It is marking seen in radial direction due to impact
circulation or poor digestion.
c.) SODIUM RING:
it is light milky white ring formed around the iris
during hypertension. It may be partial or complete.
D.) LYMPHATIC ROSARY:
It is the small head like structure it is milky white in colour
indicating lymphatic obstruction.
e.) NERVE RING:
There is depression, light, complete or partial
ground. Structure seen incase of stress.
LACUNA OR CAVITY:
Cavity or coloured part seen in various area signifying
particular organic disease.
g.) PSORA SPOT:
daric brown spot or silver light spots.
h.) ARCUS SCENELIS:
The major circulatory indicator it is pleasant shape sign in
the brain era.
It is usually involves zone which indicates compromised
of brain.

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i.) DRUG DEPOSIT:

these are black spots on organ where drugs are settled.

j.) OPEN LENSION:

it is usually u or v shape. In iris open portion of the lesion
is always faces. The peripheral region. It is seen injuries.
k.) CLOSED LESION:
The border is not broken and is usually almond shape
but sometimes it well be enlonged and use like spingle shape. It
indicated healin.
`dark or grey iris lesion response to chronic
condition. Black indicates advanced tissue degeneration
ADVANTAGE:-
1. 90% is accuracy in diagnosis.
2. Underactivity, sluggishness of bowels inherent
strength of weakness of organs gland and tissue can
be diagnosed by iris
3. More of prognostic value
LIMITATION:

• In infection condition it is not utilized.

• BP level, blood sugar level, can’t be able to
diagnosis through iris.

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• Pregnancy can’t be diagnosed by [ it is normal

physiology condition] and not an abnormal tissue
alteration
• Renal stone can’t be diagnostic through iris we can’t
be able to specify the location, 2 causing problem

FEVER:-
Fever can’t be also to diagnose through iris lesion are not
seen in physiologically in pregnancy iris like head ache fever, boils
and surgery under anasthesia.

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