Naturopathy

The sense of sight is perhaps the most important of the five senses nature has given to man. A sightless man is a pitiable sight. Anything that interferes with your vision is irritating and a danger to the capacity to see is the most serious danger of all. You must, therefore, take care of your eyes.

Sometimes eyes do the job of the tongue: a mere flickering of the eye-lids may express volumes. They reflect your inner mind.Large eyes ringed with dark circles are ugly, but sparkling eyes, even if they are small, are beautiful.

You can disguise your face under a coat of make-up, but the only thing that can make your eyes beautiful is their constant care.The beauty of the eyes depends on cleanliness of body. Constipation, for example, make the eyes dirty.

The white of the eyes no longer remains white: inadequate intake of water may give them a yellow tinge. Insufficient perspiration gives rise to accumulation of poisonous humours in the body and dark circles appear around the eyes.

Proper diet: It is the inner cleanliness which is the key to the beauty of the eyes. Improve you

diet, enjoy sun-shine and fresh air. Spend at least 15 to 20 minutes in the sun with the minimum of clothing so that fresh air can get into your pores and the heat of the sun can bring out the perspiration.Vitamin A is found in abundant quantities in spinach, leaves of turnip, sweet potatoes, milk, butter, cabbage, tomatoes, peas, gourds and carrorts.Vitamin B is to be found in the husk of the wheat seed, soyabeans, milk, peas, unpolished rice, toasted rice, raisin, cucumber, oranges, spinach, cabbage, carrot and pineapple.

The sources of Vitamin C are: green chillies, juice of lime, orange, leaves and stalk of the mustard plant, spinach, leaves of turnip, papaya, leaves of beet root plant, cabbage, tomatoes, mangoes and myrobalan. The cheapest sources of natural Vitamin D are: Milk, butter, sunlight. Exercises: Some exercise for eye care are also suggested:

Fold your arms with your hands under the arm pits and stand in a relaxed manner. Take your shoulders back in a circular motion and resume the earlier position.Touch the underside of the neck with your chin and then move your head as far back as you can.

Move your head in a circular motion so that it touches first the right and then the left shoulder. Then move in the reverse direction touching first the left and then the right shoulder.Move your head from side to side without moving your body. Keep your head stationary and then move your eyes upward and then downwards.

Move your eyes left and right. Repeat this process at least half a dozen times.Concentrate your gaze on your index finger extended outward and try to view a distant object across it just as you are taking aim. Repeat it twenty times.Stand with your feet one foot from each other. Close your eyes and move your body from right to left.

This should be done as you face the early morning sun. Sprinkle cold water over your eyes and then dry them with a soft piece of cloth.Put your palms on your eyes. Sit with you elbows on your knees and palms on your closed eyes.

Do it softly so that no pressure is exercised on the eye balls.All the exercise suggested here should be done while your body is completely relaxed and your mind free worries or thought of things that you have to do during the day. They will help to make the eyes healthier and more beautiful.Rheumy EyesRice, wheat, millets, as a matter of fact, all the cereals add to the amount of phlegm or mucus in the body.

It is only vegetables, particularly greens, and fruit which can clear this condition. Eat more of them and less of cereals. Exercise is also a must. Wash the eyes frequently with cold water.TrachomaPoisonous humours in the body lead to trachoma and only a cleansing of the humours can help.

Unless that is done, external applications, lotions and drugs will be of no avail.Vegetables and fruits clean the blood and refined foods like flour products, sugar, ghee, cereals, tea, coffee, cigarettes, condiments, produce morbid humours which give rise to disease. For a fortnight eat only fruits and raw vegetables like tomatoes, carrot and spinach. Give up salt during this period. After that take to bread, boiled vegetables and fruits.

Take an enema during the period that you live on fruits.Discolored EyesNight BlindnessNight blindness is a deficiency disease; if the elements needed are found in the diet night blindness will go. Natural salts and vitamins needed to make up the deficiency which casuses night blindness are found in wholemeal bread, unmilled rice, fresh vegetables and unboiled milk. Put the child on a diet of these foods and ask him to eat at least 250-grammes of carrots each day. Carrot is a vegetable which contains vitamins which make up the deficiency.

Symptoms: Chicken-Pox is usually an infantile disorder: it rarely attacks adults, but when it does, it leaves the patient prostrated for a length of time. There is fever and a skin eruption in the form of vesicles which look like blisters. They dry slowly and scabs are formed. The vesicles appear in crops; as one batch dries up, another appears as opposed to small-pox where the vesicles develop simultaneously over the whole body.

Treatment: The treatment of chicken-pox should start, as in the case of other fevers, by fasting. Only fresh orange juice and water should be allowed to the patient with an enema morning and evening till the temperature drops to normal, the scabs over the vesicles fall and the tongue reattains its healthy hue. The eyessss of the patient should be protected from strong light as it is likely to harm the tissues. If there is cough present along with the fever in the earlier stage of the disease, cold packs to the chest should be applied to relieve the condition. Care should be taken to see that the patient does not scratch the vesicles.

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SMALL-POX

Symptoms: Small-pox is an acute infectious disease which has taken a huge toll of humanity throughout recorded history. It is only recently that it has benn wiped out. The orthodox treatment for small-pox is mainly preventive. Inoculating everybody has had the effect of pushing the dreaded scourage into the limbo of history.

But cases are extent when the disease has been caught by persons inoculated. Sometimes inoculation has had deleterious effect on the health of the person. The onset of the disease is sudden without any premonitory symptoms.

The temperature suddenly shooting upto 104 degree F or more with shiveringl the pulse is rapid, extreme thrist, pain in the back of the neck, intense headache and vomiting. There is an eruption, more serious than that of scarlet fever, all over the body. The vesicles resemble blisters which harden and later on fill with pus. They dry up, the scabs fall off but they leave ugly scars on the body. In severe cases the eruption appears; also in the eyes, leading to total blindness.

Treatment: There are two sides to the treatment of this dreaded disease: preventive and curative. Prevention consists in keeping the environment clean and a clean, healthy living according tothe principles of naturopathy.

If fever of small-pox strikes, the treatment is the same as in other fevers. The best way to deal with the eruptions on the body is to keep them clean; the patient should be prevented from scratching himself as he has the temptation to do because of the itch which comes on during the period when the scabs are falling.

Scratching will only delay the recovery and the pitting on the skin may be more pronounced. A little olive oil may be heated and applied with a swab over the scabs. That will not only alleviate the itch, but would also help the scabs to fall early.A small-pox patient should be given a cold sponge twice or three times a day. Alternatively, the parts of his body on which there are no vesicles, should be wiped with a piece of cotton-wool dipped in could water.