Chief Minister Raman Singh inaugurated a three-day, 33rd All India Natural Medicines Conference at Shaheed Smarak Bhawan here on Friday.
Freedom fighter, ex-MP and All India Natural Medicine Council president Keyur Bhushan presided over the function. Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak, freedom fighter Padmashri Dr MP Pandey and Naturopathic physicians from different parts of the country were present.
Raman Singh, who was the chief guest, said “in harmony with nature and environment we could remain healthy. In this busy life people are getting away from the nature. Targeting material development man has become machine. In the effort of moving forward his routine has disturbed.” Keeping away from the nature was the reason behind all kinds of health problems, he added. Singh said that all types of animals and birds were moving according to the rules of the nature. Their routines were defined according to the sunrise and sunset and because of which always they remain healthy. Man should learn from these animals and birds, he added.
The Chief Minister said that because of modern lifestyle, diseases that were generally seen among the aged grip the children and for that not the children, but their parents are to be blamed. Genetic heart diseases are increasing alarmingly in children. The state government has been giving free treatment facility to such patients. So far, about 5,000 such child patients have been treated freely, he said.
The Chief Minister also said that nature has diagnosis of all such diseases. “Our body is made of five elements and we can resist all these diseases in consonance with the nature.” The Chhattisgarh Government has been making efforts to promote natural medicine system, arrangements for Panchakarma have been made in all district hospitals and large number of patients have been availing benefits of it, he added.
Natural Medicine Council of India president Keyur Bhushan, in his welcome report said that Chhattisgarh, which has plentiful of water and forest, could really be the centre of naturopathy. He urged the Chief Minister to make building available for opening natural medicine research institution in the State capital.