INTRODUCTION
It is by no means an exaggeration to say that
almost all our ailments, possibly, v/ith the exception
of those which are due to accidental injuries/ have
their origin in the digestive system. A very large
majority of the chronic or destructive constitutional
diseases can be traced to these twin evils—indiges-
tion and constipation.
A time was when indigestion and disorders of
the digestive system were the exclusive monopoly
of the rich. But v/ith the spread of urban civilization/
with its debilitating habits and unnatural modes of
living and eating, these troubles have become far
more common than they were two or three decades
back.
• The fact that the drugging school, both of the
west and the east has failed to give the sufferers
anything more than a temporary relief from such
troubles cannot be questioned. Patients nowadays
rely more upon patent medicines than on the usual
allopathic prescriptions. The position of the physi-
cian has now been usurped by the chemist and
d^ggist
Said an honest allopathic physician to my father
who was then suffering from dyspepsia of the worst
type/ " Dyspepsia is a disease of millionaires. If any
.doctor is lucky enough to tumble upon a sure remedy
for this malady/ he will very soon be the richest man
in the world." The remedy has not yet been found/
because there cannot be one in the very nature of
things- Nevertheless unscrupulous men continue to
make fabulous sums of money by holding out
of cure with their quacfe