Nature Cure and Yoga

"Nature Cure is so simple easy and cheap.....this system of treatment should be used." -Mahatma Gandhi
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
Naturopathy is a system of medicine aimed to diagnose and treat any human ailment, pain and injury through the use of natural elements, mainly 5 in numbers - Space, Air, Fire, Water and Earth.
Naturopathy believes that all forms of disease are due to the same cause, that is, the accumulation of waste materials and toxins in our bodies that are steadily piling up.

Nature cure believes that disease is one, its cause is one and so its treatment is one.

How do the waste materials pile up?

1. Natural means - Our body is made up of cells, some of which continuously die and are replaced by new ones। The old dead cells are foreign material to the body and need to be eliminated. In addition, processes of the living cells also generate toxic wastes due to metabolic reactions.
2. Unnatural means - Wrong ways of life also cause production of excess toxins.
   When these toxins are not eliminated at a reasonably fast rate, a diseased condition is created.
   
3. Myth!! Germs cause Disease
   Germs do not cause disease but are found breeding in the accumulating waste matter in the body. In a healthy body, having normal secretions and excretions, the germs cannot find a breeding ground and are destroyed by the antibodies present in the secretions. There have been extensive experiments to prove this.
   
   "Just as mud cannot stick to a smooth, oily surface, similarly, the germs cannot blemish a healthy body।"
4. Germs are part of the result of disease and not the cause।
5. Nature Cure recognizes this। Instead of concentrating its energy on killing germs, the activity of which we cannot escape when the conditions are ripe, nature cure attempts to invigorate the system, to build up blood and lymph, and to purify the tissues so that germ activity is rendered inconsequential.
6. Exercise keeps the balance between nutrition and drainage. Exercise -both physical and mental - help greatly in removing toxins. Exercises provide for a greater intake of oxygen nd help in improving blood circulation। Organ massage also takes place.
7. Yoga provides for an extremely beneficial and complete method aimed at total body and mind health।

Yoga and Cleansing

Even modern science now believes that disease, decay and degeneration are due to the presence of free radicals in the body. But how are the free radicals created?

Free radicals develop due to the accumulation of toxins in the body. Toxins, themselves, are a product of our lifestyle, our diet, the environment and our emotional patterns.

With our unregulated and undisciplined lifestyle, the kind of food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we

drink and our emotional pulls and pressures, certain hormones are secreted that have a tendency to leave behind toxins.

The accumulation of toxins in our body is, therefore, natural. We CANNOT escape from this.

Yoga has a two pronged approach. In the long term it aims at developing attitudinal changes that prevent the build up of toxins through various practices and meditative techniques.

However, Yoga has very practical purification practices that aim at the detoxification of the body and mind. These detoxification techniques are a sort of cleansing that help the body rid itself of toxins.

These techniques, called Shatkarmas or Shatkriyas are extremely powerful in that they work on specific areas of the body that have the maximum impact upon our health.

Benefits of Cleansing :
	Helps to develop immunity by eliminating the toxins.
	Stimulates the mind and aids in removing lethargy (tamas).
	Washes the colon, sinus tracts, the stomach etc.
	Provides a massaging effect to the areas applied thereby stimulating the effective working of the Organs.
	Stimulates vitality and helps in retardation of ageing.
	One's capacity to think, digest, taste, feels express etc. increases and a greater awareness develops. for more details, Click here