Drawing largely upon his long-practised experience as an eminent and first-rate physician who combined I himself the skill of a famous doctor and the intelligence of an equally famous scholar, Swami Sivananda, the towering sage of the Himalayas, presented to the world most popular works on themes of health hygiene, medicine, under such titles as Health and Long Life, Family Doctor Health and Happiness, Bazzar Drugs, Health and Hygiene, care of the eyes, a Boon to Diabetics place in the interest and needs works has its own distinctive place in interest and needs of common men and medical practitioners; but the present work entitled home remedies carries an added value all its own. Treating as it does of a wide range of simple household remedies form abrus to white pumpkin, and for all types of complaints beginning with indigestion and ending with liver and kidney troubles, scorpion sting, snake poison and care of the cow, this work is bound to be exceedingly useful for rural doctors and general practitioners as well. When these remedies were first published in the columns if the offical health journal of the Divine Life Society, incessant public demand was made for re-issuing these printed remedies in a book form which would act as a rare treasure for everyday reference and consultations. This work will not only fulfil that demand but also stand greatly enhanced in it importance and heightened in its usefulness by the addition of several helpful recipes.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sri Swami Sivananda
Born on the 8th September, 1887, in the illustrious family of sage Appayya Dikshitar and several other renowned saints and savants, Sri Swami Sivananda had a natural flair for a life devoted to the study and practice of Vedanta. Added to this was and inborn eagerness to serve all and an innate feeling of unity with all mankind.His passion for service drew him to the medical career; and soon he gravitated to where he thought that his service editing a health journal and wrote extensively on health problems. He discovered that people needed right knowledge most of all; dissemination at that knowledge he espoused as his own mission.It was divine dispensation and the blessing of God upon mankind that the doctor of body and mind renounced his career and took to a life of renunciation to qualify for ministering to the soul of man. He settled down at Rishikesh in 1924, practiced intense austerities and shone as a great Yogi, saint and Jivanmukta.In 1932 Swami Sivananda started the Sivanandasharm. In 1936 was born The Divine Life Society. In 1948 the yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy was organised. Dissemination of spiritual and training of people in yoga and Vedanta were their aim and object. In 1950 Swamiji undertook a lighting tour of India and Ceylon. In 1953 Swamiji convened a ‘World Parliament of Religious’, all over the world, belonging to all nationalities, religious and creeds. To read Swamiji’s works is to drink at the Fountain of Wisdom Supreme. On 14th July, 1963 Swamiji entered Mahasamadhi.
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