Indian Naturopathy Healthy Recipes

How Indian Naturopathy Healthy Recipes Treats

In naturopathy, food is regarded as medicine. The basic principle of naturopathy is a belief in the ability of the body to heal itself naturally without the use of medication or invasive medical procedures such as surgery. Known as vitalism, it is believed that a special energy called vital force or vital energy guides bodily processes such as digestion, metabolism, growth, reproduction, and adaptation. Instead of modern medicine and procedures, diseases are treated with natural remedies, herbal medicine, and maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle. Indian Naturopathy uses different techniques and therapies to heal the body and maintain optimal health including diet, fasting, mud therapy, hydrotherapy, masso therapy, acupressure, acupuncture, chromo therapy, air therapy and magnet therapy.

In Indian Naturopathy, healthy meals must be taken in its natural form such as fresh leafy green vegetables, fresh seasonal fruits, and sprouts. The diet is generally classified into three types: Eliminative Diet, Soothing Diet, and Constructive Diet. Eliminative diet helps detoxify the body and consists of liquids including lemon, citrus juices, tender coconut water, fresh and 100% pure fruit juices, wheat grass juices, buttermilk, and vegetable soup recipe. Soothing diets help calm the body and include salads, fruits, steamed and boiled vegetables, vegetable chutney, and sprouts. Constructive Diet helps to build and strengthen the body and include unpolished rice, whole flour, pulses, beans, curd, and sprouts.

Indian Naturopathy diet is 20% acidic and 80% alkaline and helps purify the body, improve health, and make it immune to disease. A proper combination of food is necessary to achieve the right balance. Basic recipes and staples in Indian naturopathy diet are chapatis or rotis (type of Indian flatbread) paneer (fresh cottage cheese), garam masala (Indian spice blend), ghee (clarified butter), and rice. Light dishes that can be served as a light meal, snack or appetizer include semolina pancakes, potato samosas, potatoes with fenugreek leaves, spinach curry, green pancakes with spinach, cauliflower with peas, dalia with vegetables, rice with vegetables, and moong dal kichari. Heavier dishes include those mixed with paneer or Indian cottage cheese as well as lauki koftas, pakoras, lentil kebabs, and palak paneer. A lot of these dishes are served with side dishes of pickles, salads, or chutneys like mango chutney, coriander chutney, mint chutney, coconut chutney, and carrot and beetroot raita. For sweets, char, malai laddoo, and saffron yogurt are popular.       

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I am Violette Webb, a freelance content writer. I love creating health, wellness and food articles focusing on healthy recipes and other food-related contents. It is my pleasure to share significant information, knowledge and tips to everyone. I do have a passion in cooking and baking especially unique gourmet cuisines.