Knema

Spread a sheet on floor and lie on a hard surface, ensuring that your body touches the floor except hips, which should remain slightly elevated. Use a utensil which should hang down from a wall. Clear the tube, nozzle and utensil and let out some drops of water from the nozzle so that no air remains trapped therein. It will rule out possibility of air-pocket which shouldn't spill over to intestines and stomach. Now insert the nozzle into the rectum to facilitate free entry of water. When it is felt that requisite quantity of tepid water has entered the intestines, close and remove the nozzle and wait until pressure and urgency to defecate. Visit the closet when you feel it is no more possible to hold on water in the intestines. You may head even rumbling or gurgling sound of water in the stomach. Initial ly it may take some longer time to create urgency / desire for defecating but, when your intestines get used to enema water, such an urgency can surface earlier, with passage of time. To begin with, first of all water will gush out followed by stools of pasty or loose consistency. When you have emptied your bowels, give some rest to your body. In some cases one may have to visit the closet more than once which is quite natural and need not cause and upset or worry.

Persons, suffering from habitual constipation, may add ¥2 to 1 tsp of castor oil to water but no salt should be used. Enema must not be taken daily, but may be taken after 7-10 days, as daily enema use will make the intestines dependent thereof and one won't be


able to pass stools without taking an enema. Those who are suffering from diarrhoea or dysentery must not take enema. Enema facilitates smooth passage of stools, doesn't let hard stools form, removes even chronic constipation, improves peristaltic action of bowels (intestines, rectum and anus). Enema must not be followed by fasting but one can take only light diet and some seasonal fruits and salads in moderate quantity. Avoid and resist the temptation of fried foods, fats, species, condiment, meat, fish or alcohol. Take only bland and easily digestible diet.

Sun-bath

Had there been no sun, there wouldn't have been any growth of vegetation, water wouldn't have flown down from the snow clad mountains, seasonal changes would have become a daydream. Infact sun protects, nurtures, develops, feeds, controls our various activities. Sunrise heralds advent of day and sunset indicates impending arrival of night. Sun-bath is a natural source of vitamin-D. It induces perspiration, thereby helping the toxins to excrete from our body, through skin pores. It also imparts much needed energy to our body. In a word, life wouldn't have been possible without sun.

Sun-bath is possible during winter days when natural heat is required by the body to sustain itself. In some rural areas people keep tepid water (stored in a bucket or some other utensil) under sun for 1-2 hours and then bathe naked / semi-naked in the sun. It has multifold advantages—Sun rays fortify medicinal properties of water, keep it lukewarm, solar energy (which consists of seven colours) reaches even minutest parts of our body and there is no fear of exposure. If whole body is massaged under direct sunlight / rays, oil will reach easily within our body, providing it a renewed energy and vigor. Further, all the skin pores will open and sweat glands get energized, sweating process will be activated so as to excrete toxins through skin pores.

Sun-bath has inherent therapeutic values, but in the west it is used as a cosmetic device only. In more sensitive persons sun-bath is not advised due to chance of exposure to cold, nor should they massage or take bath in the open. However, such persons should fully wrap up their bodies with a blanket if, at all, they are keen to have a sun-bath.