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of proper exercise these toxins start •They endeavour to develop awareness
accumulating in the body and eventually in the society towards the therapeutic
cause the disease. The basis of all the and preventive scope of Nature Cure and
treatments in naturopathy is to assist the Healthy lifestyle.
body in removing accumulated toxins •They provide information and education
and restoring the vital forces called through health awareness programs about
Jeevan Shakti. Proper relaxation, stress the scope of natural therapies and benefits
management, physical detoxification, of a healthy lifestyle, natural and simple
nourishing diet and moderate exercises are diet, proper exercise and relaxation and a
all part of traditional naturopathy. balance daily routine.
Naturopathy had always been the way One must arrest the sickness before
of life for ancient Indians, but somewhere expecting any cure. Arresting the sickness
in the name of modernisation and status itself would initiate the self-healing.
living, we forgot all about it and started The healing in actual fact is self-healing
copying the West blindly. Thankfully now therefore the individual has to be educated,
once again there is a wave of awareness empowered and encourage so that he or
and a resurgence in India’s time tested she can take control of his or her own life
practices and therapies, be it Yoga, and that’s the healing process itself. One
Meditation or Naturopathy. has to learn to discipline the body and
mind, which isn’t easy after we have spoilt
ourselves like crazy, but if we understand
the benefits and make up our mind, slowly,
one step at a time, we will surely be able
to adopt and adapt to healthy lifestyle
practices by overcoming our cravings and
desires. The main Naturopathy treatment
modalities applied are:
Detoxification
Detox or purification with the help of
Many big and small centres have come Naturopathy diet and fasting.
up all over the country and they cater to Diet and fasting play an important role in
people from different economic strata. Nature Cure regimes as the result in faster
There are some fancy ones with 5 star removal of toxins and facilitate the healing
facilities while there are many modest process. Various types of cleansing and
ones providing the same services in a more rejuvenating diet plans are offered as per
pocket friendly budget. the patient’s conditions and needs. Recipes
are scientifically developed with a variety
What do they do? of options.
•They provide natural therapies based on Whenever necessary fasting of various
integrative and holistic approach. kinds is advised and administered under
•They provide easily accessible high the strict supervision of well-trained
quality traditional natural therapies. naturopath doctors.
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