Easy Home Remedies Be Your Own Doctor - Volume I

About the Book

During my extensive research and practice of the science of nature cure, I came across scores of books written by different writers. People who could not find relief in any form of therapy, in despair turned to natural methods of treatment, which proved beneficial and so they took to studying the subject and then wrote about their experiences. These people belonged to diverse sections of society. There are hundreds of books each addressing a different topic. Some are about ailments, some about food, some about water treatment, and some cover the basics only. Louis Kuhne is the master in water treatments, Arnold Ehret writes on mucus less diets, Adolf Just writes in his book 'Return to nature' about natural baths by water, air and sun, clothing, earth, and fire used as enemy etc. There are wonderful books written by Indian writers in Hindi, barring a few such as by H.K. Bakhru and Kulranjan Mukherji who wrote in English as well. In my pursuit of books I felt the need of collecting all the precious material from all over, compile, sieve, and put them all together in one book. So that it can benefit the students as well as the beginners wanting to practice Naturopathy. I have tried to extract the gist from the experiences of great writers and pioneer of Naturopathy and have tried to put them together, in a compiled form. Simultaneously to this I have added some more mixtures, garnished them with my experiences and this is my humble effort to try to explain to the reader, the basic fundamentals of the science of naturopathy in a very simple and scientific manner. Every individual is different and no two human bodies are alike even though they appear anatomically similar. Hence every body responds in a different way to whether it is drugs, emotions, environment, or treatment pattern. Likes and dislikes are different; tastes and habits vary from person to person therefore what is good for one may not be good for another. No hard and fast rules can be laid down but a general pattern of dos and don'ts assembled with individual needs constitute the basis of naturopathy. A practitioner is capable of bringing relief to the person with this basic know-how, a little common sense, knowledge of body parts and the five elements and the art of balancing them within a body. As we will learn later in this book in the initial chapters on philosophy and principles of nature cure that the cause of all diseases is same (accumulation of foreign matter), treatment is same (removal of foreign matter) and the medicines used are same (the five elements from which the body is made up of). Hence in fact no conventional diagnostic procedures are required. But by the time the person reaches a Naturopath, or is tired of running around and wishes to try some home remedies on himself, he has already been thoroughly investigated and diagnosed by modern techniques. All this makes the job of Naturopaths easier they now already know the site and extent of accumulation of foreign matter. On the contrary in spite of this ease most of the time the task at the hands of a Naturopath is much more difficult than other streams of medicines because the patient usually comes very late, only after having tried every possible “–pathy” or mode of treatment available. Medicines taken and surgeries performed make the task tough, complicated and time consuming and some times impossible. There are no quick relief medicines but if sufficient life force is remaining the patient will not only cure from the ailment they came for but will get rid of all the diseases which they had in past and so will rejuvenate totally. And people wanting to treat themselves will need a strong will power to switch over to naturopathy and change the pattern of treatment and have enough courage to tide over the phase of ‘healing crises’ without making use of miracles drugs, he or she has been used to. "Nâ vittaen Tarpaniyo manushyah" Meaning: - man cannot be gratified with brimming ri

About the Author

The author is Bachelor of Surgery and Medicine from Meerut University, Meerut (UP) India; Bachelor of Science in Zoology Botany and Chemistry from Agra University, India. She served as gynaecologist and obstetrician, and later on various other positions as Deputy Chief Medical Officer, District Project Manager and Assistant Director for the state medical services for almost thirty years after which she chose to study again and recently completed Master of Public Health from University of Sydney, Australia. Her inclination towards yoga and naturopathic treatment has its roots from the family atmosphere she had as a child and her brush with books providing home remedies for various ailments. While practicing as a practitioner of modern medicine she still advocated certain home remedies, which were also aired in women’s programs by All India Radio in eighties. With her family responsibilities over she found enough time out of her job to research and study naturopathy and yoga to understand the scientific basis for the procedures carried out. There she attended naturopathy camps and came in contact with the stalwart naturopaths. With her basic knowledge of botany, chemistry and medical science topped up with the knowledge of principals of naturopathy and yoga, acupressure, reflexology etc made her a perfect combination to write this comprehensive book. After having performed enough surgery and prescribed enough medicines she realised that it was a vicious circle with no end in sight.. As District Project Manager she started and edited a news letter for UPHSDP, but creativity failing to find a let out her posting at directorate of medical and health services of state of UP Lucknow brought about the final detachment. She took premature retirement from the job to pursue her passion. In her spare time she works as an editor for the newsletter she publishes on the Internet for her web site “letnaturecure.com” other times she enjoys being with her family in Australia and relishes every moment with her grand children. She equally enjoys reading, yoga, outings, travelling and watching movies.