Live It the Natural Way!

 

1       Live It the Natural Way!

Trend of organic food for healthy life is capturing market. Does it fulfil the motto of healthy life by just eating particular food and keeping the way of leaving life unanalysed? I don’t think so and hence writing some observations about lifestyle.

2     First of all, let us understand what organic matter is.

All the living organisms on the earth and parts of their dead bodies including smallest particles of them are made from organic matter (substances) and minerals etc. Before the research of Frederich Wolher organic substances can only be obtained from above mentioned sources. Frederich Wolher very first invented organic synthesis i.e. production of organic matter artificially in laboratory. [1] But still today it is not wrong to believe the vital force theory of great scientist Berzelius, who invented that organic substances (matter) can exist in nature in the form of dead or live parts of living organisms. He described very first organic substance like this way. It is sure that human can neither perfectly copy the natural phenomena nor improve it. Human can only conserve natural phenomena and assist the natural phenomena by not artificially disturbing these natural phenomena. This can be explained with few observed examples below.

2.1      Example one

Even after invention of artificial organic synthesis the purpose of being quantitatively superior to natural phenomena is not solved. (It is explained further in details.) We know that urea is very first organic compound which is artificially synthesized in the laboratory even though it occurs naturally in urine of mammals like cow (Bos Indicus specially), bull (Bos Indicus specially), buffalo, human etc. Due to some reasons instead of using these natural sources of urea human produced it artificially in laboratory spending more efforts and resources. Still human remains dependent of nature because the minerals used to produce urea in laboratory viz. Ammonium Chloride and Potassium Cyanide are found in nature. One may even try to produce these minerals artificially but the purpose of qualitative superiority than nature remains unfulfilled like every human effort before. One can ask how purpose is unfulfilled. The evidence of Indian farmers who are becoming more dependent and they are not able to yield more by using this artificial urea as compared to farmers using natural sources of urea in their farms. This evidence is enough to justify the same. More or less the situation is similar in case of other agrochemicals.

As agrochemicals are directly related to human and animal health, we are moving to the next observed example of artificially synthesized organic compound Paracetamol used as medicine. “The purpose behind this writing is not against artificial synthesis but to promote natural way of living life.”

2.2     Example two

 

Like Paracetamol many more similar popular organic medicines in allopathy are used in India, but instead of reducing the rate of increase in number of patients and hospitals it is increasing in opposite way. India has become the number one country in the world in terms of number of diabetic patients. More or less the condition is similar in case of cardiac and cancer patients in India. Considering paracetamol as an example does not mean to oppose allopathic treatment but the fact is that allopathy is better and faster as compared to Homeopathy or Ayurvedic treatment in few diseases like cancer and Tuberculosis. But again, these synthetic medicines are associated with assured bad side effects. E.g. 1) Allopathic treatment of cancer mainly chemotherapy causes damage to beneficial cells along with cancer cells. 2) Allopathic treatment of T.B. causes severe digestive disorders.

If one can follow natural lifestyle and use naturally obtained organic substances, minerals, and vitamins as medicines and as food then the purpose of being healthy can be fulfilled along with conservation of nature as well. What it exactly means here by natural lifestyle. Let us see in India there are three seasons according to its geographical condition for a year. There is rainy season during only four months of June, July, August, and September then winter for next four months and finally summer for remaining four months every year. Even in one country geographically different location has different weather conditions in terms of temperature, humidity etc. and accordingly different natural lifestyle requirements also. To overcome the health issues associated with geographical condition it is expected to follow local natural symbiosis which means local natural lifestyle. It can be achieved by following local natural lifestyle according to particular local geographical. By harmonious symbiosis in local areas one can achieve good health too by planning local diet and daily rituals. In Sanskrit language it is said that ‘Yojakam durlabham’ mean to say that rare things can be achieved with the help of planning. One can achieve good immune system by following natural lifestyle and prevent oneself from dieses and bad side effects caused due to medication of high potency in sever health issues. Even though due to unawareness if one faces worst health condition by following wrong lifestyle according to particular geographical condition then one can go for conventional medication first like allopathy, radiotherapy etc. The side effects occurred due to medication of high potency or repeated doses can also be reduced by following natural lifestyle.

Similarly in agriculture sector wrong lifestyle practices of human being of using artificially produced organic substances and artificial agrochemicals instead of natural sources of agrochemicals and organic substances in the farms have reduced the yield and increased the salts in the soil. These artificial fertilizers contain the added salts, as they are added in combination with artificial fertilizers. Now because of this practice most of the agriculture land has lost nutrients and became unfertile hence required more nutrients like urea to be added externally with human assistance. If the example of forest is taken into consideration, then it will be easy to understand how minimum amount of fertilisers are required to be supplied by human assistance. The remnants of plants and animals itself acts as fertiliser after their decay. The difference in agriculture land practice and forest land is that inn forest the remnants of plants and animals are not removed and hence decayed naturally by urine and stool of wild mammals. Hence inn the farm it is required to supply nutrients externally by human assistance. Being an inseparable part of nature man has to rectify the mistake by making available nutrients from natural sources and gradually reducing the human participation to zero percent. Japanese scientist Masanobu Fukuoka has already proved this technique of natural farming. Now in 2019 National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) is taking trial for scientific validation and implementation of this technique of natural farming in India.

3     Natural farming Methods

Fukuoka sir has proved that with help of natural remnants of living and dead organisms similar production can be yield on the farm without the use of artificial agrochemicals. Even he has also proved comparatively higher yield of paddy (rice) in some experiments of his land in Japan. He has done it with negligible human assistance and on natural force energy. Today there are so many people like honourable “Save guruji”, Er Shirish Pawar etc. who have practically proved this technique of natural farming in Indian weather and geographical condition too and that is in this 21st century.

3.1        Next important step in adaptation of natural farming is management and control of insects and pest by natural way. Actually, in natural farming without any disturbance to nature man should only eat ripen fruits, completely grown grains and vegetables. It is difficult due to insects and pests to yield sufficient quantity each and every year. Hence for first 2–3 years of natural farming it is difficult to achieve best yield in terms of quantity as 2–3 years of time is required to remove most of the artificial agrochemicals and salts associated with them from the soil and make it fertile again.

3.2       To add one more observation in the examples of natural farming it is necessary to share my visit of July 2019 with readers to a village situated in Bombay (Mumbai) district of India. It is a hilly region and hence also source location of a river. Again, it is near to Arabian sea i.e. Hind Mahasagar which means that the geographical condition is similar to farm of Masanobu Fukuoka sir in Japan. The local residential people of that region coincidently follow faming pattern very similar to the farming pattern of scientist Masanobu Fukuoka sir. The only difference is that he uses hens for getting fertiliser in the form of their waste excretory products. While those people use no fertilisers or few of them use cow dung and cow urine as fertiliser. These people are illiterate, but they neither blindly follow any artificial agrochemical technique nor costly advanced organic farming technique because they know if one year there is less yield then there will be definitely good yield in the forthcoming years naturally. This is the exact way of living life naturally. If one think that there may occur the condition of less food production for first 2–3 years but from statistics even after the green revolution India is not self-dependent in case of food. In 2019 also India has to import huge amount pulses and edible oil from other countries. Natural farming is the best solution for India to accomplish food security and become world’s teacher (Vishwaguru).

To be continued……..

References:

1. U. Satyanarayana, U.Chakrapani. 2019. "Essentials of Biochemistry." Books & Allied (P) Ltd: 373-376.

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