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Methods Of Naturopathy
WATER AND FOOD
Intake of water
One must drink one to one and a half litres of water in 24 hours. The best time for taking water is the first thing in the morning, one hour before meals and two hours after. If you must drink water during the meals, see that the quantity does not exceed 200 to 250 milliliters.

Time of meals
The interval between two meals should be five hours or more. The last meal of the day must be eaten two to three hours before you get into bed. Breakfast between seven to eight in the morning, lunch between twelve noon and one in the afternoon and dine between six and seven in the evening.

Wholemeal bread
The best wheat flour is when you have cleaned and dried the wheat and ground it through a hand mill (chakki). Do not pass the flour through a sieve so that the bran is not separated. Bran is the substance which provides roughage needed to avoid constipation and it also contains the necessary vitamins. The dough should be kneaded two to three hours before it is used for chappatis.

The chappati should be thick, but in needs patience to cook it properly. A thin chappati is, of course, the best since most people are likely to count the number of chappatis they take without regard to their size or thickness.

Do not eat the chappati with the vegetables since you may not chew it properly. Eat them separately or alternate mouthfuls of chappati and vegetables.

Porridge
Good quality, properly cleaned wheat should be used for being ground into porridge. Each wheat grain should be broken into eight to ten pieces. Flour and larger pieces should be separated and the porridge should be toasted over a hot plate lightly till its turns brown. It should then be cooked like rice. Its consistency should not be too thick or too thin.

It should be cooked over a slow fire till it is properly done. It should not be mixed with salt or milk, even though people are in the habit of adding these substances to porridge.

The best sweetening agent for the porridge would be raisins added to it while it is being boiled.

Rice
Unmilled rice is the best. The necessary vitamins which are found in this cereal are lost in the process of milling and polishing. The paddy should be treated at home with the help of a large pestle which only separates the husk and leaves other elements intact.

Add only enough water to cook the rice. If too much water is added, it would have to be either dried up by heat or passed through a sieve, destroying its starch and also some other vital elements.

Vegetables
Vegetables which can be eaten with their rind on, should be eaten unpeeled. If the outer covering is hard scrap it with a sharp knife. Wash the vegetables before cutting them into smaller pieces.

Add a little ghee or sesame, coconut or groundnut oil and add a few cumin seeds and let the vegetable cook over a slow fire. Most of the vegetables contain natural moisture and water does not have to be added to them for cooking. The most that you can do is to cover them with a lid and put a little water over it so that some moisture is added to the pan in which the vegetable is cooking. Try to see that the natural moisture of the vegetable is not burnt by excessive heat since many vital elements are thus lost.

Salads
A salad is prepared out of raw vegetables. All vegetables which can be eaten raw can form part of the salad. For example cucumber, carrot, radish, onions, tomatoes, spinach, green coriander and cabbage for salad. Take any three of these vegetables and cut them into small pieces. Season them with salt if you must, but the best would be to eat them as they are. The normal amount of salad per head (adult) should not be more than 250 grammas.

You can add a little curd also to the salad if you like.

A salad can be made out of fruits also. The best time to take the salad is before the meal.

WALKING, DEEP BREATHING AND SLEEP
During a walk, you must move briskly. Your back should be straight and the arms moving. The normal speed of walking should be about four miles per hour. Take a different route for a walk every day as that would be more enjoyable instead of taking the same route every day.

Five to six miles walk in the morning and two to three miles in the evening is the best. Those who are starting to take a walk should not overstrain themselves but increase the distance gradually.

Deep breathing
Deep breaths should be taken during a walk Inhalation should became a natural rhythm with you. Inhalation and exhalation should both be done slowly.

Sleep
Sleep should be sufficient to give a sense of relief from exhaustion. But do not oversleep, nor laze about in bed when you are not sleeping. The ideal time for sleep is from nine O'clock in the night to five in the morning. Those who feel sleepy all the time return to normal sleeping hours after some days.