Principles of Yoga TherapyIt would be difficult to find too many people who never had any sickness in their life. In fact, the number of people who are “really healthy” in today’s world would be very insignificant. Most of us are however sustaining our life somehow by consuming huge quantities of drugs. Ironically, even so-called healthy people are also consumers of drugs and tonics to build and maintain good health. We have become so drug conscious, thanks to the huge publicity by the drug manufacturers that even at the slightest headache we gulp a number of tablets to get quick relief. We have many systems of medicine in our country, but the allopathic system is the most predominant among all these. It is also the most commonly practiced system in the world. It has many antibiotics like penicillin, terramycin, streptomycin, chloromycetin, sulpha drugs, etc., used to kill bacteria or germs which attack us and cause diseases of several kinds. But as they kill germs of a disease inside our body, they also destroy some vital tissues and red blood corpuscles because they are potent poisons. They can sometimes kill a patient instantly instead of saving him. But most of them do cause what are called “side-effects,” i.e., while they kill a certain type of bacteria, they at the same time weaken or damage some of our delicate internal organs. |