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National Naturopathy Day is observed in India on 18th November to promote healthy lifestyles.























The National Naturopathy Day is observed in India on 18 November every year, to promote positive mental and physical health through a drugless system of medicine, called as Naturopathy.


The National Naturopathy Day is celebrated in India on 18 November every year.


It aims at promoting positive mental and physical health through a drugless system of medicine, which is known as Naturopathy.


Who is father of Naturopathy?


Benedict Lust


The term Naturopathy was tossed by John Scheel in 1895 and was popularized by Benedict Lust. Known as the father of modern-day Naturopathy.


He also got appreciated for disseminating the knowledge of Naturopathy in the US in 1992.


They called their profession “Naturopathy.” The first school of naturopathy was founded by Dr. Lust in New York City and graduated its first class in 1902.


Naturopathic medical conventions in the 1920s attracted more than 10,000 naturopathic physicians.



It was on this day in 1945, when Mahatma Gandhi became lifetime Chairman of the All India Nature Cure Foundation Trust.


It signed the deed with the object of making the benefits of Nature Cure available to all classes of people.


What is Naturopathy?


Naturopathy is the science of using the five natural elements to raise health and remove the cause of diseases from the body.


It is based on the principle that our bodies have self-healing capability that can be harnessed by living in sync with nature.


The process includes managing our inner life-force (Vitality) to achieve optimum health and elimination of toxins from our body.



India, Naturopathy can be traced back to the Vedic times and finds mention in ancient texts.


However, its revival happened around 1894 when Shri D. Venkat Chelapati Sharma translated a book written by Germany’s Louis Kuhne “New Science of Healing”.


Following this, many naturopaths founded Naturopathy in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujrat, UP & Bengal.


One of those founding fathers of naturopathy in India was Acharya K. Laxman Sarma, whose grandson Dr. Arun Sharma is the Founder Director of the International Institute of Mahayoga & Natural Hygiene (IMANAH), USA.



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