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In truth, nature does everything in the cure of all diseases. Medicines help nature in the recuperative work and the regenerative or constructive process in the bodily mechanism. That doctor who tries to help nature is a judicious doctor. By injudicious treatment a doctor may do much harm to the patient. Nature �s healing may be interfered with or retarded by drugs. He who says, �I have cured such and such a disease, � is an ignorant man.
Avoid drugs. Give up high living. Eat simple, natural foods. Live in the open air. Take cold baths. Be moderate in food, drink and everything else. Wear simple dress. Bask in the sunshine. Enjoy the ultraviolet rays in the morning. Take exercise regularly. Do not go to doctors frequently. Eat simple, natural foods. Eat to live. Give rest to the organs by occasional fasting. Take raw things as much as possible. Do not throw away the water from rice and boiled vegetables. Use just enough water to cook them properly. You will be healthy, strong and vigorous. You will be endowed with a high standard of vim, vigour and vitality.
If you become ill, nip the malady in the bud. Do not allow it to strike deep roots. Your body is a mysterious machine. You are its driver. Learn how to take care of it properly, how to run it smoothly and efficiently and how to repair it when it gets out of order. Become a master- driver of this wonderful machine. Endeavour to qualify yourself as an expert nature- healer. Obey nature�s laws. You cannot find health in bottles with beautiful labels, so do not be carried away by pompous advertisements. Health is nature�s reward for obedience to her laws. If you obey the laws of nature the curative and reconstructive forces within your body will rebuild and renew your cells and tissues, heal them, and remove the deleterious effects caused by disobedience of nature�s laws.
The man who does not care for his health, who leads a happy-go-lucky life and who is a glutton, is a sinner and a criminal. He must be rigorously punished. He has no business to be sickly when he can have abundant life, vitality, energy and health by natural ways of living and by observing the simple rules and laws of health and hygiene.
Shun all sweetmeats ruthlessly. In Bengal one out of five is suffering from diabetes. Horrible and pitiable! This is due to taking too many sweetmeats. After all, man needs very little food on this earth. The palate and the tongue kill him. Man should pay the penalty when he transgresses nature�s laws. He will suffer. He must learn lessons.
Oh man! Why are you lingering with disease and poor health? Why are you dragging a cheerless existence? Enjoy the joys of supreme health by treading the path of nature. Swim in nature�s sweet stream. Take a plunge bath in it. Float in it and rejoice. Be always healthy, wealthy, strong and wise.
As a wise gardener acts in obedience to the law of nature, so it is laid down for us that we should treat our bodies as instruments of an infinite power, and not as opponents of its purpose. Nature requires but slight attention on our part in the task of maintaining good health.
Pure food, cleanliness, rest and reasonable exercise represent the easy service expected of us for our health, comfort and repair and in return we may derive a thousandfold blessing.