The question of healthy and proper nutrition is beginning to arise more and more often. People with health problems think about how to solve them, and try to find methods without the use of drugs, because at the moment, drugs are an expensive pleasure.
In the modern world, the proportion of people who have become involved in sports and eat healthy food is growing every year. In many countries of the world, about 30% of the population suffers from a disease such as obesity. However, many of them were fond of sports and changed their diet. People began to monitor their health, and sports became a fairly fashionable movement. Previously, this topic was not as relevant as it is now. This applies to both young people and older people. Increasingly, issues are discussed among sports, specific exercises, gyms and more. This topic is becoming more interesting.
Everyone receives information from various sources: online articles, books, youtube channels, and all that. However, in order to construct information in the head, you need to spend a lot of time and energy searching for worthwhile information.
You should start with where healthy, proper nutrition came from. Because without the designation of historical facts, it makes no sense to move on. "A people who do not know their history are doomed to destruction."
There are many health sciences that began to exist many years or even centuries ago. The most famous is Ayurveda. The origin of this teaching took place in India thousands of years ago - this teaching is the oldest. Eastern countries have always been distinguished by their knowledge of health and beauty, both in the past and in the present. The ancestor of the science of a healthy lifestyle is Dhanvantari, mentioned in the Vedas. This Indian teaching is popular in our time, and in 1985 it was even recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO). Ayurveda involves the treatment of not only the affected organ of the body, but the treatment as a whole. The emphasis is also on the prevention of diseases, the proposal of therapeutic methods to maintain health and further longevity.
Considering the fact that Indian teaching is the oldest, it can be concluded that all who have appeared rely on Ayurveda again. Great influence was exerted on European, Arab, and also on American countries. Its basic procedures, such as: diagnostics, diets, enemas and baths, have become the basis of medical practice in many world countries. Also, the directions of this teaching went into medicine, they include surgery, therapy, pediatrics, pharmacology and ophthalmology; massages, acupuncture, physiotherapy and nutrition. Over the past millennia, Ayurvedic knowledge has expanded, it does not stand still, but is improved. This teaching had moments of decline during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when European physicians offered better treatment. But the last 50 years, the popularity of Ayurveda began to increase again due to the fact that European doctors began to use only treatment with pills and completely ignore the preventive methods of diseases, as well as folk remedies and methods.
There are many institutions in India and other countries that teach this science. Also in major hospitals and clinics in India there are Ayurveda therapy departments.
The main thing in Ayurveda is to find harmony in your own body and soul, because this science is not only about physiology, but also about the soul.
The second most famous teaching was “Natural Hygiene”. This science is the heir to Ayurveda, as mentioned earlier. It has a very great similarity in principles and methods. Its origin was associated with mass epidemics when drugs did not help. And they began to resort to a comprehensive recovery of man. All the means at hand provided by nature were used here: water, sun, rest, proper food.
The origin occurred in 1832 in the United States. And the preacher is Sylvester Graham. Graham was a supporter of the fact that man himself is to blame for his illnesses and misfortunes, because he leads a disgusting lifestyle. He preached vegetarian food, and according to statistics, none of the vegetarians at the time had a terrible cholera disease.
Initially, the pressure of this theory was felt that there should be no drugs in the treatment of the human body. The main thing in natural hygiene is the self-healing forces of the body, which excite with the help of the complex healing conditions described above. The path to health through wellness measures.
Like Ayurveda, natural hygiene is based on the following principles:
- Health. The English word "health" comes from the old English word "hǣlþ", which means "healthy, whole, unharmed." It follows from this that health is a state of integrity and integrity of the organs of the human body, as well as their growth and adaptation to each other. Each organ interacts and is interdependent on another organ, that is, the principle of integrity acts here, and not "each for itself."
- Disease. Each disease involves a complex illness of the body, and not its individual parts. A preventive approach is also used.
- Food. “Food is the most important factor supporting life. Only eating contributes to the proper development of the person, the use of harmful food is the cause of disease, ”- Vedas
- Mood. The basis is the mental state of the human body. Here you need to use positive emotions, because the body with negative emotions is prone to overeating.
- The rejection of the pill. The use of natural herbs for treatment is more effective than tablets made chemically.
This was an introductory article about the origin of such a relevant topic about health. However, I do not call you for treatment based on theories of pneumonia, erysipelas, appendicitis and other infectious diseases that require surgical intervention. Antibiotics and a scalpel cope well with them. But in order to help in the chronic diseases that affect most of the world, Ayurveda is a good choice with minimal side effect.