Mud is an important element of nature. It contains important minerals which have positive effects on human health. Mud can absorb toxins from human body therefore is very useful in preventing many diseases. It is also known for its healing properties. It also helps in cooling and relaxing body as it can hold moisture for a long time.
Benefits of Mud therapy:
It relaxes muscles and improves blood .
It maintains metabolism rendering positive impact on digestion
It is useful in conditions of inflammation/ swelling and relieves pain
It is useful in condition of stiff joints
Why use mud therapy?
Out of the five constituent elements of this universe mud (earth) has a pivotal role to play in our well being. The dark color of mud helps in absorbing different colors and conveying them to the the body, giving it therapeutic properties. Also, its shape and consistency may be modified with ease, just by changing the water content, which makes it easy to use.
"Pure water is the real medicine. The Great sun is the real physician. They cure all diseases and also prevent an untimely death"
Sunlight helps nourish the muscles. All athletes regularly bask in the sun, as it helps develop the size and strength of the muscles and increases the proportion of calcium in them giving them greater endurance. If the skin is deprived of sunlight by keeping it covered, the muscles tend to weaken and degenerate.
Sunlight promotes the proper formation of teeth, speedy growth of hair and quick and deep breathing. It maintains and even increases the amount of alkali in the blood. Blood pressure is brought down and the kidneys become more efficient. By the action of sunlight skin diseases are cured.
Water is believed as an ancient method of treatment. Taking bath properly with clean, fresh and cold water is an excellent form of hydro-therapy. Such bath opens up all pores of skin, imparts lightness and freshness to the body, all systems and muscles of the body are activated and blood circulation improves. The old tradition of taking bath in rivers, ponds and water falls on specific occasions is virtually a natural form of hydro therapy only. Hip bath, enema, spinal bath, hot foot and arm bath, hot and cold fomentation, steam bath, immersion bath, hot and cold packs on abdomen, chest and other parts of the body are some of the treatments in hydro therapy. Hydro therapy is used mainly for preserving health and curing different types of diseases.
Fasting refers to complete abstinence from food for a short or long period for a specific purpose. It is nature's oldest, most effective and yet least expensive method of treating disease. By pepriving the body of food for a time, the organs of elimination such as the bowels, kidneys, skin and lungs are given opportunity to expel, unhampered, the overload of accumulated waste from the system. Thus, fasting is merely the process of purification and an effective and quick method of cure.
Methods of Fasting:
i) Dry Fasting
ii) Water Fasting
iii) Juice Fasting
The best safest and most effective method of fasting is Juice fasting. During juice fasting various juices are given. This helps the elimination of toxins out of the body through various eliminative channels. Juice fasting enhances the bodies own healing power and cell regeneration and thus speeding the recovery.