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- Salt, sweets, spices, chillies, pulses (dal), ghee, butter, ice–cream, cooked food, potato and nuts.
- High heel footwear, overweight, heavy exercise, TV and movies.
- Avoid
- Smoking, tea, coffee, alcohol, drugs, soft drinks, tobacco chewing, pan, zarda and other bad habits.
- White–flour (maida), white sugar, polished rice.
- Non–vegetarian food.
- Tinned/dried/adulterated/colored/flavored/synthetic/artificial food.
- Refined/deodorized/bleached/hydrogenated (vanaspati) oils.
- Any unnatural food and drinks.
- Food when in fear, worry and anxiety and when not hungry.
- Very hot and very cold food.
- Air/water/noise pollution.
- Harmful cosmetics and clothes, and medicated soaps and creams.
- Drinking water during meals and within half an hour before and upto one hour after.
- Late dinner.
- Heavy meals.
- Late sleeping.
- Sleeping on the left side and on the back.
- Breakfast.
- Practice
- Gargling with warm saline water once a day.
- Wash your eyes with Triphala water daily in the morning and in the evening for sparkling eyes.
- Do ‘Vamana dhauti’ (kunjal/vomiting) once a week.
- Take an enema if constipated.
- Massage and sun–bathe once a week.
- Do gentle massage over palate (roof of mouth) daily.
- Splash water twice daily on forehead and eyes, keeping a mouthful of water.
- Spend some time in laughing and singing daily.
- Precautions
- Wash vegetable and fruits properly before cutting/as they contain pesticides and contaminants.
- As far as possible, eat wholesome fruits and vegetables with the peel.
- Maintain an adequate distance while watching TV.
- Adopt
- The early to bed and early to rise habit.
- Fasting one day every week with juices and adequate water.
- Eat to live, not live to eat.
- Nature cure in case of illness as well as for good health.
- Points to Rememeber
- Food occupies sixth place in the following requisites for living.
- Adequate space.
- Pure air.
- Pure water.
- Sunshine.
- Exercise/physical work.
- Food.
- Drugs are more dangerous than diseases.
- Those who are regular in food, exercise and sleep/rest never fall sick.
- Water is the medicine and diet is the drug.
- Fasting is an important factor in cure.
- Hurry, worry and curry makes a man ill.
- Points at a Glance
- All healing powers are within your body.
- Nature cure is the safest and the most permanent cure.
- Do not eat if ill, tired, in pain, in a tense state or in a hurry.
- Food eaten during illness feeds the disease, not the patient.
- Drink water half an hour before and one hour after your meals. Do not drink water during meals.
- Good health depends on a well–balanced diet and a happy attitude towards life.
- Drugs, tobacco and alcohol are the other poisons that have to be condemned.
- Drink at least 8–12 glasses of water everyday.
- Keep three hours gap between dinner and bed time.
- Money can buy medicines, but not health.
- Nature is rich, let her enrich you.
- A disciplined life makes you live long and happy.
- Tea and coffee may stimulate you for a short time, but ultimately they depress you.
- Yoga has a complete message for humanity. It has a message for the body, mind and soul.
- Naturopathy and Yoga are like two wheels of a cart.
- Your guide during your period of treatment is your doctor. Please have faith in him and his advice for a change in diet and/or treatment.
- Take a stroll after dinner for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Eat according to your day to day appetite but fill only three–fourths of your stomach.
- Avoid smoking, tea, coffee, alcohol, drugs, soft drinks and other bad habits.
