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1pm. Meal oi rotis (or rice)/ vegetables aad
curd or buttermilk.
8 p.m. A glass of buttermilk and raw vegetables
(the vegetables may be taken whole or
made into a salad.)
After following the above mentioned plan for
a day or two, the patient may go back to the normal
diet. This course will suffice to cure all stomach
troubles which are not chronic,
WATER-CURE METHODS
At the time of its birth/ Nature-Cure was little
more than water-cure. Perhaps because of this,
Nature-Cure is popularly understood as a system of
baths and packs. But actually water-cure is only
a part ot Nature-Cure. Water-Cure methods are
most efficient in the case of young people—the
younger they are, the quicker the result—and in
acute disease. In the case of older people and in
chronic and destructive disease, water-cure will not
produce much good.
Even in acute cases, fasting gets the first place;
baths and packs are only next in importance. Some
extremists there are, who would totally dispense
with water-cure/ relying only on fasting and dieting.
The disease'can be radically cured that way also,
I do not deny that. But it cannot be denied that
baths and packs and enemas do help to calm down
the distressing symptoms, and are an invaluable
aid in purifying the body. To give only a few
examples: The Coma bath is an ideal one lor
brining the patient back to his senses; the cold
spinal bath is an excellent tonic for the nervous
system and improves blood circulation; the hip