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through personal contact with him, or through his
writings. Not one of them has had an occasion
to regret having taken such a step.
I said, the cure will be a slow process. But the
healthward progress starts, the moment the right
treatment is adopted. Because, say, the cure takes
about a month or two/ that is no cause for
running away from Nature-Cure; for Nature-Cure is
inevitable; it is the only way there is. If health was
lost through drugging and wrong living, it can be
got back only through druglessness and right
living. After all what is Nature-Cure but right living
and druglessness ?
I said, right living is the only cure there is,
But that alone is not enough- One must also make
amends for the past wrong living, If he had
over-eaten in the past/ he must now fast for a few
days/ or atleast for a few hours every day. If he had
been eating only disease-causing food, he must
eschew them completely and take only health-giving,
cleansing foods.
DIET FOR CHRONICS,
Foods may be divided into two classes'—primary
and secondary. Primary foods both nourish the
body and cleanse it; they are necessary both for
the preservation of health and eradication of
disease; as such they are necessary for all people/
both healthy and sick. Vegetables and fruits come
under this class. For some time at least, sick people
should be not alone vegetarians/ but vegetablarians.
All grains are secondary foods; they are meant
only for the healthy. So, so long as he has not
reached ,a fair degree of health, a patient's diet
should gonsist exclusively, or .almost exclusively of