......................................................................................................Profile

 Dr Hari Krishana Bakhru

He is the uncrowned 'King of Naturopathy'.He has written 14 books in a span of 17 years, won accolades and prestigious awards like Life Time Achievement Award, Gem of Alternative Medicine Award, Gold Medal in Diet Therapy; by the Indian Board of Alternative Medicines, Calcutta (registered under the World Health Organisation), Nature Cure Appreciation Award by the Nature Cure Practitioners' Guild. He is also the founder of a registered public Charitable Trust, for the help of the poor and needy, called 'Public Charitable Trust'. Meet Dr. H. K. Bakhru.

The most appealing characteristic of this person is the fact that he is the most uncommon man among the common people. He is different from a normal MBBS doctor as he practices in an alternative field of medicine. And he is exceptionally successful in his chosen field. Not only in terms of curing people, but also bearing the torch dedicated to mother nature and spreading it's light all over the world. His books 'Foods That Heal' published in 1990, went into its 17th edition this year, his 'Herbs That Heal' also went into its 13th edition. In fact two more books are still under print and one is yet to be penned - the one that's been lingering in his mind since a short span of time.

Dr. H. K. Bakhru, a former Indian Railway employee, is 74 today but still is fit as a fiddle. The reason, he says is a balanced diet. From the age of 25 to 55 he suffered from various ailments, for which he tried allopathy, homeopathy and many other medications. "Finally I started to study naturopathy in 1983, which had miraculously cured most of my ailments within a span of six months. I stuck to it and see how fit I am today!" Dr. Bakhru has expounded a philosophy for diseases and healing. According to him the root of all illnesses is the imbalance of the acidic and alkaline elements of the body. He says that the human body is 80 percent alkaline and 20 percent acidic. Our daily intake of food is more acidic and than alkaline. Food like rice, eggs, coffee, confectionery items, bread, cereals all come under the acidic food, which need to be substituted with alkaline foods like fruits, vegetables, milk and almonds.

He has prepared a chart where he has classified food that leave behind an acidic ash and those that leave behind an alkaline ash. Also accompanying the chart is a menu which he claims if followed would increase one's span of life. "If a child is given a balanced diet from the time of its birth, it will live a thousand years," he claims. This menu consists of food to be taken on arising, then breakfast-time, lunch, mid-afternoon, dinner, a bedtime snack and lastly a list of food that are to be avoided.

These days Dr. Bakhru devotes his time to the furtherance of the cause of nature cure and charitable activities, but his main focus is on prayer. He feels that if the amount of time and energy that he has spent in writing the books had been spent in praying instead, he would have definitely found God! Dr. Bakhru still offers advice to those who come to seek his help for solving their health problems. He recently cured a little girl who had lost her eyesight due to the excessive use of antibiotics. He cured her in a span of just two months! Nature sure has it's own way of working miraculously!

So if you think you need to know more and live life "naturally" you could go to a bookstore and purchase any of Dr. Bakhru's books on Nature cure. He can also be consulted personally for nature cure remedies for the most horrifying of diseases.

Telephone: 6398779
Telefax: 639885
E-mail: hkbakhru@hotmail.com

By: Kamakshi Vyas