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its parent ^nd starts if Q3 an independent being. It
is Life which differentiates the original substance
into a great variety of tissues and organs/ and guides
their diverse activities so as to serve one common
purpose. It is Life which is behind all the workings
of the body/ both in health and disease.
We should therefore speak of conserving Life,
not of sustaining it,
Space does not permit me to elaborate this
point further.
A second misconception is with regard to our
food requirement. Food requirement is usually
given in terms of Calories. According to the
allopathically-inclined scientist, even a person who
is resting in bed needs to consume about 2000
Calories daily/ which is equivalent to about 20 oz.
of grains.
A dyspeptic who wants to act up to this teaching
of medical science has no hope of cure because he
cannot digest even a third of the quantity of food,
which, the allopaths say, is absolutely essential for
sustaining Life. Herein lies the secret of the failure
of allopaths to cure dyspepsia.
But hundreds of dyspeptics are annually being
cured by natural methods. My father himself
suffered from the worst type of this malady. In my
father's case, so long as he religiously adhered to
the allopathic dictum, which prescribed 2500 Calories
of food for a man of his type/ he found that he was
getting worse day by day, even when he was relying
on predigested food. He drastically cut down his
rations to a very small fraction of the allopathic
minimum. At one time he lived for six months on