Dream of Gandhiji: Naturopathy for the masses.

[Guest guest]

Honourable Health Minister/Most Revered Swami's/Revered Doctors/Dear Friends,

 

Yesterday was Gandhi Jayanti, the 136th birth anniversary of Mahatma Mohandas

Karamchand Gandhi, the Father of our Nation. On this occasion I had the good

fortune to attend the opening of a naturopathic clinic under the International

Naturopathy Organisation (INO), with its headquarters at New Delhi. Dr Salila

Tiwari, the Vice President of the INO was present to inaugurate the clinic at

the premises of an alternative medicine hospital run by a voluntary service

organisation in India.

 

Dr Tiwari is an internationally renowned naturopath. During one of her tours to

Britain, where she described the benefits of naturopathy to a gathering of

eminent people, a doctor argued that if naturopathy was indeed so effective then

why was it not adopted as the prime treatment in India. This taunt set her

thinking but she lacked the necessary funds. After coming back to India she was

called to treat the child of a very reputed and successful industrialist. The

child suffered from paralysis and Downs Syndrome and had been declared

incurable. After visiting many doctors, the rich parents decided to try

naturopathy as a last ditch attempt. Dr Tiwari recalled how she treated the

child with mud, water, sunlight and goats milk. The child ultimately recovered

and the happy father, Mr Rakesh Agarwal, founded the INO with Dr Tiwari as the

Vice President. Today the INO is in a position to make effective the dream of

Gandhiji to make available the knowledge of naturopathy to all the

villages of India.

 

Talking about the secrets of naturopathy Dr Tiwari said that all diseases arose

because of deviation from natural laws and the urge to create an artificial

life. She said non-natural food, an artificial, often perverse lifestyle, and

the lack of knowledge of the need for both internal purity and external

cleanliness was the prime cause behind the health crisis today. She said that

the ultimate healer was the inherent vitality of the patient. The force that

regulates the intricate operations of the body and mind knew fully well how to

cure aberrations. But today's doctors, she lamented, began by treating the

natural purging urges of the body as disease. If there was loose stools, they

termed it diarrhoea and gave medicines to stop the motions. If there was

vomiting they stopped it abruptly. The purging of phlegm was termed as cold and

supressed. Skin eruptions were treated as infections and supressed. All this

suppression, sans the effort to set right the internal cause, resulted in

accumulation of waste matter inside the body leading to vicious chronic

diseases and ultimately destroying the immune system of the body in the form of

Cancer and AIDS. Just as a garbage dump full of rotting filth attracted flies,

viruses appeared in the body, she explained. The naturopath attempted to cleanse

the body without bothering about the virus as common sense indicated that once

the filth was removed, the flies too would disappear. It was not strange, she

said, that she was able to cure many deemed incurable cases during her practice

without bothering to know the name of the disease or trying to identify the

virus.

 

The body, mind and the senses are involved in the process of eating, digesting,

assimilating and eliminating. This process should be judiciously regulated. One

should ensure that the right food was given to the body, mind and all the

senses. The digestive process should ensure that everything was processed so

that all nutrients were assimilated and waste matter entirely eliminated. But

today, she lamented, we have ignored this process. The common man no longer has

the power to discriminate between the good and bad. He forgets that it is his

own responsibility to ensure good health. Today's education no longer provided

the knowledge of the aim of life, the secrets of a healthy life and the art of

learning from nature. Today mankind treats nature as an enemy forgetting that it

is nature that nourishes mankind.

 

She declared that vested economic interests were active to ensure the status quo

so that there would be a growth in the sales of medicines which had assumed

massive proprtions in recent times, Rs. 20,000 crores annually in India alone.

She was pretty sore at the indiscriminate way in which chemical drugs,

antibiotics and vaccines were being used to create more disease so that the drug

industry and allied forces could prosper. She said that using naturopathy at

home would totally eliminate the use of unnecessary medication. She cited the

example of her own elder sister-in-law, whom she had brought along, who had

recovered from total memory loss and paralysis without making her bankrupt in

the process. Her sister-in-law walked into the stage and narrated her

experience.

 

She said that the aim of the naturopath was to educate the common people so that

they no longer required a doctor to treat themselves. She declared that camps

would regularly be held at the clinic to educate the masses so that they in turn

could educate others. She said that the one room that was offered to the clinic

by the hospital would be enough for her purpose as her aim is to reduce disease

and not increase it. She wanted to educate the public about the following;

 

1. Yogic kriya's, neti, dhauti etc.

2. Simple yogasana and pranayama.

3. Meditation techniques and yoga nidra.

4. Use of mud packs and water therapy.

5. Natural enema for colon cleansing.

6. Scientific massage of the whole body.

7. Steam bath and hot food bath.

8. Shower bath and fruit dieting.

9. The therapeutic value of common fruits, vegetables and spices.

10.The secrets of a natural, holistic life.

 

Let us wish her all the success in her noble endeavour. We would request all

health and charitable institutions to take up the cause of naturopathy so that

the common man is assured of what is his fundamental right, a healthy body and a

healthy mind. Our government should concentrate on such efficacious and economic

methods for improving health instead of wasting the national wealth in building

huge hospitals and spending more on law & order. After all a healthy society

needs neither hospitals nor prisons.

 

The next stop for Dr (Mrs) Salila Tiwari is Africa where she has been invited by

many governments to advise on ways to deal with the AIDS menace. Dr Tiwari is

also a Reiki Master and is well versed in many forms of energy healing.

 

Respect & Regards,

 

Jagannath Chatterjee

Bhubaneswar

Orissa

India.

 

 

 

 

 

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