Nature Cure, is a holistic health system focusing on the body’s ability to heal itself through natural means. This approach emphasizes using natural elements like fresh air, water, sunlight, and nutritious foods to restore health and prevent disease. So, what is Nature Cure, and why has it become popular for those seeking a balanced, drug-free lifestyle?

How nature cure started?

Its all started about 180 years ago by one of the Greatest Naturopath Vincent Priessnitz -The founder of Nature Cure, who lived in a small village named Grafenberg in the Silelsian Mountains.

At that time insted of giving medicinal drugs and formulas he started nature cure therapy for those who are suffering from disease, aches and pain.

Priessnitz Nature Cure Therapies

His nature cure therapy consist of doing a lot of physical exercises, breathing fresh air, cool and warm water treatments, basking in sun, going on trips to see country, eating fresh vegetables, fresh milk (especially from the cows which fed on fresh mountain grass)

With these nature cure therapies lots of patients got cured and they were so surprised! that with this little efforts and so simple therapies they cured their diseases and felt so energetic and healthy.

As a naturopathy myself i feel proud that many patients around world travelled to his sanitarium (naturopathy hospital) and got cured. His patients includes princes, doctors, very rich and influential business persons.

Progression of Nature Cure

After this, the nature cure therapy (drugless treatment) gained popularity across the globe. And this attracted lost people to become his students.

His most popular students list

• Louis Kunhe
• Rikli
• Sebastian Kniepp
• Von Peckzely
• Heinrich Lahmann
• Dr. Kellog
• Quimby
• Eddy
• Dr. Still
• Dr. Palmer

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All students have learned so much from him and they also learned several things from the nature itself.

His students have discovered many different nature cure therapies with their learning abilities, experience, common-sense, reasoning and questioning.

Priessnitz students discoveries

Some of his students discovered therapies and procedures are- advance water cure (hydrotherapy), natural scientific dietetics (nutrition and dietetics), manipulative treatment (massage therapy), earth cure (mud therapy), air cure (oxygen and ozone therapy), light cure (heliotherapy), magnetic healing (magneto therapy), mental therapeutics (psychology), Diagnosis of eye (Iris Diagnosis), water massage (hydro massage), Osteopathy (chiropractic) etc.

Note: I have mentioned modern terms in brackets.

Conclusion

Nature cure is a natural healing system which includes treatment with nature cure therapies. This system treats body as a whole unit rather than treating parts alone.

This nature cure healing system later became naturopathy by Dr. Jhon scheel in 1895.

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