The present work is completely free from any other bias or prejudice against other systems of medicine. Its approach is synthetic, which lays great emphasis on the practical way of treating diseases - mainly through observing the natural rules of living, improving the general standard of health and harnessing the forces of nature as curative agents. Individual treatment of a number of common diseases, including that of women and children, the science of heliotherapy, chromo therapy, hydrotherapy, air-therapy as also other allied subjects as dietetics, mental therapeutics and spiritual healing, are included in the thirty-three chapters of this work. Table of Contents: - Publisher's Note
- Mahamrityunjaya Mantra
- Life-the Grand Vehicle of All Endeavours
- Mother Nature-Our Saviour
- Air for Health and Cure
- Water - Cure
- Sun - Cure
- Colour Cure
- Health and Brahmacharya
- Exercise
- Massage
- Chiropractic
- Sleep
- Care of Teeth
- Diet and Health
- Fast Cure
- Food Medicines
- Herbal Cure
- Naturopathic First Aids
- Treatment of Diseases
- Children’s Diseases
- Women’s Diseases
- Pregnancy and confinement
- Care of the New Born
- Health and Deep Breathing
- Mental Therapeutics
- Musico-Therapy
- Spiritual Healing
- Public Health
- Snake-Bite
- Scorpion Sting
- Some Naturopathic Questions and Answers
- Treatment at a Glance
- Cheap Household Natural Remedies
- Some Do’s and Don’ts For Health
- Appendix.
About the Author: Sri Swami Sivananda, born on the 8th September, 1887, in the illustrious family of Sage Appayya Dikshita and several other renowned saints and savants, Sri swami Sivananda had a natural flair for a life devoted to the study and practice of Vedanta. He was an inborn eagerness to serve all and an innate feeling of unity with all mankind. He is the author of over 300 volumes and has disciples all over the world, belonging to all nationalities, religions and creeds. To read his works is to drink at the Fountain of Wisdom Supreme. On 14th July, 163 he entered Mahasamadhi.
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