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| CRR Varma - Grandmaster of Naturopathy |
CRR Varmaji the grand master of Naturopathy and pride of beautiful Indian State of Kerala has contributed to human welfare by teaching people the power of self healing by mother Nature. A true Gandhian and his life's guiding principle was-
There is enough for everybody's need in this world but not enough for everyone's greed.
- M.K Gandhi
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A great humanitarian and Naturalist by choice and by his own life example taught us valuable knowledge of Self Healing power of Mother Nature. An engineer by profession who has traveled to many western countries and seen the effect of bad lifestyle choices and the consequent host of diseases human beings have to suffer.
He turned his attention to understanding the Nature inside each of us. Generally when we speak of nature we usually refer to plants and animals. But we forget that Nature is inside us as well as outside us. This inner nature of ours is extremely powerful. Varmaji spent his youth understanding the Nature of diseases. Below is a link to his Nature Cure Trust - Sanjeevani-
He understood earlier that not all things classified as diseases by modern medicine are in reality not diseases but nature's self healing mechanism in action. He taught that fever, cold, vomiting, Diarrhea etc are really not diseases but rather a natural reaction that happens when the body is trying to correct some imbalance or trying its best to push out some toxic substance from the body.
He taught us that what modern medicine tries to do is suppress the self healing action of body by giving drugs which interfere with the beneficial activity done by this self healing mechanism. This leads to the body's self healing ability getting suppressed and thereby blocking the beneficial activity that the body was doing to neutralize some harmful substance which has entered the body due to poor lifestyle choices.
Varmaji("Ji" is added as a mark of respect in India) first taught us not to overreact to diseases. This was one of his most beautiful teachings. Like people running with missile to kill a small rat the moment they see a rat. In essence what Varmaji taught humanity was not to fear diseases and rather look at them as Nature way of self healing. He was vehemently against fear mongering. Simple diseases like fever, cold, vomiting, diarrhea etc was actually mother Nature's way of expelling dangerous and waste products from human body.
When we use medicines for such diseases we are essentially suppressing the ability of body to expel the poisons that caused these diseases in the first place. Temporarily these symptoms are suppressed but such suppression in the long term when done frequently using drugs causes even greater diseases called chronic diseases and other fatal diseases like Heart attack, cancer etc.
Another major teaching of Varmaji was that pain was body's way to telling the person to slow down with any activity that he/she is doing. He also taught us to be humble when we get diseases and understand that mother Nature is punishing us temporarily for our past wrong doing. Once our body clears out the toxins in the body or heals the internal or external injury it is in the experience of people who followed Varmaji's teachings that the symptoms disappear like magic and has no side effects like drugs.
This does not mean that after a lifetime of bad eating and other harmful living habits like alcohol, drugs and smoking etc when you are severely sick you can just turn to Natural Living and expect results. What Varmaji taught us is life long discipline in terms of dieting(includes fasting) and management of disease symptoms. Explaining Natural treatment methods taught by Varmaji is not in the scope of this blog post. Maybe later I will put a more detailed post on the methods taught by Varmaji. But I will highlight a few teachings -
1) Giving the body time and opportunity to heal:
Varmaji taught us that body has a self healing mechanism which tells us that it is trying to expel some toxins from the body using simple diseases explained earlier. So he taught us to give time and opportunity for this to happen. Best way he taught was to fast using just fruit juices(not too sugary fruits) and natural electrolytes like coconut water.
The process of digestion, assimilation and excretion are extremely energy intensive activities of our body, so simple foods that can be easily digested like fruits, nuts and natural electrolytes(not artificial) consume less energy for digestion, assimilation and later excretion. So there is more life energy to heal the body and clean the toxins accumulated in the body. This teaches us how to use the body's energy optimally and achieve healing also in the process.
2) Living foods:
This is also Varmaji's most important of teachings. This should be developed as a lifelong eating habit. He taught us that no creature in nature cooks its food nor adds taste enhancers like salt, pepper, chilly and spices. We cannot see a tiger cooking its meat in barbecue and adding tons of spices to marinate it. It eats raw and eats even the bone marrow by crushing the bone which is the complete way to eat meat. So he recommended living foods like fruits, nuts and raw vegetables along with natural electrolytes as a lifelong diet. This was found to be extremely effective in preventing the diseases from turning into chronic diseases.
Varmaji defined Living foods as foods that are cooked by Nature not by Human's using fire. Maintaining a diet of living foods expels all accumulated poisons from your body and gives opportunity to the body to self heal using pure substances that can be readily absorbed by body. It also makes the digestive and assimilation system healthy.
Diet is the central principle of Naturopathy expounded by Varmaji. Without diet Naturopathy is ineffective in treating even simple diseases.
Simple examples of Living Foods that can be used as diet for Naturopathy -
a) Juices of Fruits(not too sugary fruits) and raw vegetables like cucumber, carrots, tomato, cauliflower, cabbage etc. Fruits like Indian gooseberry has immense health benefits. Varmaji also taught us that fruits which are not sweet tasting decreases acidity in the body. These foods are extremely useful.
b) All raw leafy vegetables and leafs that are medicinal like holy basil, Aloe Vera, mint leaves, ginseng etc.
c) flax seeds, chia seeds, pumpkin seeds etc.
d) Turmeric use along with other living foods.
e) scrapped coconut, juice of banana stem, raw vegetables.
f) Natural electrolyte like coconut water.
g) ginger, drumstick and drumstick leaves.
h) replacing sugar with Jaggery(natural brown sugar) if needed only. Avoiding sugar and salt treats in important part of Naturaopathy diet.
i) Getting half an hour sunlight with eye closed in the morning and evening. Do not look directly at the sun. Nonviolence to body is guiding principle here.
j) For spice add raw mangoes or tomato for sour taste, green chilli for hot spicy taste.
k) Natural Honey from trusted sources,
l) Green chilly or pepper instead of red chilli.
There may be many more but I am sure you got the general idea behind living foods. This is also supported by latest research in genetics and ageing by Dr. David Sinclair
3) Vegetarianism:
Varmaji argued that since we don't have the necessary teeth to eat meat raw and break into the bones and eat the marrow also, so it is highly probable that human beings evolved to be vegan. Our teeth and digestive enzymes are designed for vegan diet as per Varmaji. Varmaji taught us that by-product of animal protein digestion in the body creates harmful chemicals like uric acid which the body tries to expel using excess force which tires the body as well as if the person is having trouble expelling this it accumulates in the tissues and lymph nodes to create chronic diseases like Arthritis etc.
This is also supported by latest research in genetics and ageing by Dr. David Sinclair
4) Exposure to sunlight:
Varmaji expounded beautifully on the need for exposure to sunlight and the fantastic benefits it can have on eyesight and other diseases. I must warn you about direct sun gazing as it can be dangerous for eyes. What Varmaji taught was to look at sun light with closed eyes for varying period from 10 mins and more. He always insists on moderation and awareness of individual capacity on all the practices that he taught.
5) Cold spinal bath:
Dipping yourself in cold water tub with just enough water to just submerge the spine alone is called cold spinal bath process. It is effective for a lot of diseases.
6) Heat and cold treatment:
Repeatedly exposing a body part with pain to heat and cold can be effective natural treatment for pain and also can engage your longevity genetic pathways as part latest scientific research by Genetics and Ageing researcher like Dr.David Sinclair.
Foods to be avoided while practicing Naturopathy:
a) All animal proteins like meat, eggs etc.
b) Diary products(Curd, Milk, Cheese), Tea, Coffee.
d) Alcohol, drugs(even weed) and other addictive substances.
e) Refined flour products, pulses(can be sprouted and taken to just below 15% of daily diet), No beans and by-products like tofu, etc, all junk and sugary treats and liquids.
f) Reducing cooked foods to 15-25% of daily diet for one meal only per day. Other meals should contain only living foods explained above.
g) Reducing salt drastically. Use replacements like Epsom salt but use sparingly like some costly condiment.
h) Reduce cooked food to 30% of your one meal. Rest should be raw vegetables or fruit juices(no added sugar). If possible eat only 2 meals per day.
i) Reduce processed sugar products completely for few days. Don't worry living foods mentioned above can give you the necessary sugars without the side effects of processed sugar products that you buy from market. Below is a link to miracles of sugar fasting -
Warning: While following Naturopathy diet the body may try to eject out poison in multiple ways like by creating fever, cold, vomiting, diarrhea etc, ejection of poison accumulated over years through skin, body joint pains for poisons accumulated in body joints etc so this has to be undertaken carefully under the guidance of a expert practitioner who will be able to guide you and give you confidence to go keep to your diet throughout the entire healing process. Naturaopathy has ways to handle the symptoms generated during the healing process which has to be handled carefully and in a non violent method to body.
I can safely assure you that I have not even done 1% justice to the wealth of knowledge left behind by Varmaji. Varmaji passed away from this world in the year 1999 leaving a great vacuum in this field. We lost a man with immense knowledge of nature and the power of body to heal itself. Unfortunately his books are predominantly in my native language Malayalam and his insistence on not making this into a commercial venture with branding and marketing led to many of his valuable teachings not reaching the wider global audience. As a beneficiary and fan of this gem of a human being I will put in my best effort to bring out the teachings of Varmaji to a global Audience to the best of my ability through future posts.
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