{"pageProps":{"content":"# NATUROPATHY\n\nNaturopathic medicine is defined as a drugless,noninvasive,rational and evidence-based system of medicine imparting treatments with natural elements based on the theories of vitality, toxaemia and the self-healing capacity of the body,as well as the principles of healthy living.\n\n### Natural Elements:\n\n-   Earth (Prithvi)\n-   Water (App)\n-   Sun (Tej)\n-   Air (Vayu)\n-   Ether (Akash)\n\n### Way of Healthy Living:\n\n-   Waking up early in the morning (Brahmi mahoortam)\n-   Eating only when hungry\n-   Eating the food in its natural form (raw food)\n-   Eating only the required quantity of food\n-   Eating only after doing some physical work\n-   Not drinking water while eating and immediately after eating\n-   Fasting, resting, and drinking plenty of water when ill\n-   Using the five great elements of nature for restoration or maintenance of health\n\n### Basic Principal of Nature Cure:\n\n-   Body heals itself.\n-   Main cause of disease is enervation\n-   Deposit of metabolic end-products in the body is disease.\n-   Acute disease is a remedial process-itself a cure.\n-   Food is a building material, does not increase vitality.\n-   Fasting provides an opportunity to the body to heal itself.\n-   Germs do no cause the disease but are found in the diseased conditions.\n-   Exercise or physical activity keeps the balance between nutrition and drainage.\n-   External treatments whether natural, allopathic, ayurvedic or homeopathic - give only relief, do not cure.\n\n-   Patient's own will to get well, determination and faith are necessary things for nature cure treatment.\n"},"__N_SSG":true}