Sometimes you do not feel like taking your daily bath in the morning, either feeling cold or fever-like. But bath should not be avoided. You would have experienced that, on the day you go out for work without taking bath, you will not be feeling fresh and in winter, a sort of shivering, because the morning cold bath produces sufficient heat in your body to keep you fresh during the clay.
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Sun-bath is taken both for pleasure or as exercise, as well as for treatment of an ailment. When for pleasure, the best time is early morning, within an hour of sun-rise. You are to find a secluded place, either on a sea-beach, a garden, or any sunny place, like the roof in your own house.
In case of high fever, a wet-sheet pack greatly helps in bringing down the temperature. Take a bedsheet and drench it in cold water. Squeeze the water out of it and spread it quickly on the patient’s EMPTY BED. Then let the patient lie on the sheet, rather naked.
To get clay for the mud, dig up earth at a clean place, taking earth from 4 to 6 inches beneath the surface. Have it sieved and then wet it with water, making it as thick as dough. Take a piece of wooden plate and spread a piece of thick or jute cloth over it.
Enema is necessary to be had when going on fast and when suffering with such ailments as born of constipation. In a complete fast or a fast on all-fruit diet, since no amount of solid food is eaten, the bowels do not get sufficient pressure to be cleared.
In some cases, a patient is advised local treatment of a cold pack on the body, say in the case of chest or back-ache or pain in the organs of the abdomen. In such cases, a wet bandage of cloth is used and wrapped around the body covering the affected part.
One of the most important methods of Nature-cure is FASTING. Since the time Gandhiji took to fasting, mainly for political reasons to compel the British Government to accept national demands, fasting became a common word with the people.
In cases of such ailments, as hyper-acidity, ulcers of the stomach, etc. a 40-day fast purely on milk is advised. To begin with, a complete fast for 3 days is observed, which is followed by the milk fast, which is also called ‘Dugdha Kalpa’.
The milk fast starts with the taking of spoonfuls of milk, gradually increased to in-take of cup-fuls and then glass-fuls of milk.
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Regulation of diet, too, is treated as one of the important methods or disciplines of Nature-cure treatment. We can treat many an ailment simply by change of our daily diet and regulating it in a proper way.
It is a sorry affair that we confine our concern in the matter of our food, to the amount of calories of energy that it provides from its major elements, carbohydrates, proteins and fats.
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Massage is also a useful method of Nature-cure treatment. It is a helpful means of forcing toxic matter out of the superficial areas of the body, like muscles, etc.
Massage helps in getting the toxic elements carried round by the blood stream before being eliminated from the system through the kidneys. Active circulation of the flow of blood is necessary for this purpose and this is well achieved by massage also.