Thyroid patients

The belief that thyroid patients have to take medicines for life is not true either. Natural iodine is required for the thyroid gland, since it is missing in our food, the gland cannot produce hormones properly. If you eat natural food every day all glands in the body will function normally. The thyroid may also function normally and produce the necessary hormones. Eighty to ninety percent of thyroid patients have recovered by following natural lifestyle. If you follow the routine exactly for three, four months, hormones can come back to normalcy.

In the first month, follow this diet and take your medicines normally. The next month, take only half a tablet, the third month totally give up the medicine, and get tested in the fourth month. If necessary, you may have to take medicine for a few days. Of course, even if you give up medicine, you will not have any complications like the swelling, change of voice, or weakness. You should eat grams like green gram, Bengal gram or groundnut along with coconut, ginger, dates and dry fruits, etc. Next, exercise, if time permits. Pranayama and some yogasanas will help you even more. So you don’t have to use iodized salt to cure thyroid disease. It’s not necessary.

Sinus trouble

The rivers may dry up in summer, but some people always have a running nose. Because of this, they have breathing trouble and sleeplessness. They may feel uncomfortable going out in public. As the saying goes, a treated cold takes one week to cure, whereas an untreated cold requires seven days. But in a natural lifestyle, cold or sinus trouble can easily be cured. The simple cure is to give up salt entirely and drink five or six liters of water a day. Vegetable juice adds to the cure. If you are a sinus patient or are suffering from cold, follow this new routine and go for brisk walk or jog in the morning, or do any work that activates your muscles. It is a must. You can follow the same diet as prescribed for asthma patients. If at any time your nose gets blocked, instead of using nasal drops, if you apply honey with your fingers into the nose as far as you can, you will feel free of the blockage at once.

Second Dharma

This is the dharma of exercise. You can start to exercise 20-25 minutes after drinking water, wearing suitable clothes. Pranaayama (long breath) is a must. Asanaas are very good for health, although they may not make you sweat. Nothing can reduce your weight like asanaas. If you can’t do them, brisk walking, if you are older than 60, and jogging, if you are below 60, is a better option. You should sweat within an hour from taking water. That is the goal, and you should not neglect it.

Remember – no work, no food. You can eat without doing work. But it hurts you!

Dharma of Exercise

No creature ever takes food without some amount of exercise. Activity or physical work is useful in helping us digest food, send it to the rest of the body, and eliminate waste material. That is the dharma of exercise. Exercise is as important as the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe.

Modern man has invented machines to do his work but can those machines digest the food for his body? That’s why our elders said no work, no food. But we feel we can live off our inheritance and our parents’ wealth, so why strain ourselves? This laziness results in germs settling in our body. They are bacteria, viruses, worms, etc. The output of food should be proportionate to its input, but in a lazy man who does not exercise, 50 or 60 percent of his food stagnates in his body. Consequently he becomes ill. Our forefathers were healthier than we are because of the physical work they did. It’s as simple as that.

We, as human beings, have to perform our duties at home and at work, so we not have time for exercise. To compensate for that, our elders have suggested yogasanas, pranayama or morning exercises. We ignore this advice, so we have to face the consequences. Unless the dharma of exercise is fulfilled, food cannot be digested. Even if it means a strain for us, we must spend some time on exercise. Let’s begin our journey toward good health and change our daily routine.