Can Nutrition Prevent and Cure Illness?

The new question that is gaining momentum all over the health-starved world is, “Can nutrition cure?”  The normal thought that occurs to any mind when one thinks of a disease is that it is essential to have a drug or a medicine for the cure.

The word "cure" itself is not well defined either medically or technically and often the treatment talks of "control" (meaning suppression) and not cure.  In the contemporary medical world, "cure" is explained and understood as the apparent diminution or removal of symptoms, which often results in transformation of one set of symptoms to another, shifting in nature and location.  Alternately this apparent diminution or removal is established not by dealing with the cause, but only by reducing or removing the capacity of the patient to perceive these symptoms, or, altering the physical manifestation of these symptoms.  Thus the cure here is illusory and not real.  

You can use the engineering concept of a “vector.”  A vector has both direction and quantity.  A disease is something that has a certain dynamic quality and is moving in a certain direction.  In general the “quality” is a degenerative one. The rate of change tells us the seriousness of the disease.

A disease is a vector with a degenerative dynamic – that is it has a quantitative force with a qualitative identity.  A disease is usually recognized well after it has started, and “treated” in its current condition.  Better, surely, would be to understand its origin, and work toward the elimination of the source rather than to treat the symptom.

Where and how does it originate is rarely understood. Study of this aspect has not been given the deserved importance in modern medical research.

Effects are interpreted as causes, generating limitless confusion in the path of understanding the true originating dynamics of a disease.  In the process, the concept of treating a disease was centered on creating another vector that purely and squarely opposes the original vector that is described as the disease.

This automatically results purely in the suppression of symptoms and not the elimination of them, which should actually be called a cure.  The only way to eliminate the symptom is to deal with the cause of the symptom itself.  The route to this is to dissipate the disease vector, rather than oppose it and keep it bottled.  This is exactly what Nutrition can do.  But, the key is not just Nutrition, but "Harmonious Nutrition".

Nutrition is too limited when it concerns only the fuel needed to operate the body. A body can have its own overall vector – a combination of many individual disease vectors.  Perhaps these would be better understood as the absence of optimum vectors toward health.  A small bit of indigestion here, a skin rash there, all these add up to a non-optimum condition.  Any one of them might not be considered a “disease” but they are tiny non-optimum, non-harmonious vectors.  These can be seen as the precursors to serious disease vectors.

When you consider, for instance, the non-serious condition of a ‘bit of indigestion,” you can easily see that the “cure” for this would be mild indeed – no strong drug is needed at this point.  And, with that application there should be no disease vector coming into existence.  And, if your food was such that you NEVER had that indigestion, then that tiny vector of indigestion could never grow into something serious.

Harmony of body organs and functions is the true “cure” because the harmony does not allow any disease vector to ever start.

An example of this in the Indian tradition of food preparation is the usage of Turmeric, Ginger, Coriander seeds etc.  These have acknowledged harmonizing properties apart from being taste enhancers or modifiers.  These seeds bring harmony to the body.  They are not “curing” a disease, but creating harmony.  Disease cannot originate in a state of bodily harmony!

Likewise, there are many “foods” which inherently bring disharmony, and allow the disharmonious condition to escalate into disease.  Excess use of sugar would surely be one of these!

One cannot grasp these fundamentals of “harmony” and “disease” without wanting to apply this knowledge to the benefit of his fellow.

MSR Ayyangar, Managing Director of Emmessar Biotech & Nutrition Ltd (formerly known as Emmessar Chemical Industries Ltd) has done considerable study and research in understanding the process of disease, the process of health and their inter relationship.  He arrived at the above concept and conclusion based not only on his study but of his daily practical application in the “treatment” of many patients in his “health practice.”

The in-house R&D function of Emmessar Biotech & Nutrition Ltd., is recognized by DSIR.  He actually started concentrating on their research in the nutritional supplements field in 1994. 

On request from some US Companies, Emmessar first developed DMG.HCl (N,N-Dimethyl Glycine Hydrochloride) and exported to USA.  This substance has often been referred to as “pangamic acid” or sometimes “vitamin B15.”  It has many uses, but currently its main use is as an ingredient for Animal feed supplements, particularly for racehorses and thoroughbreds.  

These products (TMG, DMG and MSM) have been exported by Emmessar into the United States where they are inspected and re-packaged for shipment all over the world.  Once they have been processed into and within the United States, they are then shipped all over the world with an FDA certificate of approval.  No other source of these products has achieved this level of FDA approval.

In the beginning of 1999, MSR Ayyangar realized that there is a wide gap between what is claimed by the manufacturing and marketing companies, and what is experienced by the consumer in respect of many skin care products in the world market.  The message was loud and clear from the consumer's frustration.  Ninety percent of the products do not appear to work as per the claims, as perceived by the consumer.  This seemed particularly so if relief and satisfaction of the consumer (patient) was to be the true barometer of this measurement, and not the sales volumes and the profits. 

There is a very wide gap between the demand and supply, not in quantitative terms as there are countless products flooding the market, but, in qualitative terms of efficacy and effectiveness in providing relief and cure to the consumer.

This observation resulted in a revelation and a resultant conviction to develop a new family of skin care products with a difference -- the difference being "The Product Shall Work".

The first product (of many in pipeline) that came out of this effort is "CalmCream" -- a skin-care and skin-cure cream that is made out of nutritional substances and Ayurvedic herbs.

In order to arrive at this revolutionary product it was necessary to combine the principles and the concepts of different schools of thought and systems to make a holistic approach.  The results were not only positive, but were incredibly impressive.  Thus a single cream that can not only relieve and cure many obstinate skin conditions, but also be simultaneously a skin-care (prophylactic) cream was born to enter the world market.

Several Indian and international health care and pharmaceutical companies are evincing interest in marketing this product globally, having been impressed with the results of the user trials.  While a small launch has already taken place in USA, Canada and Australia, the Indian launch had to wait for the Indian FDA approval, which has just been obtained by the Company.

FAQ on CalmCream as answered by MSR Ayyangar:

 1.Q)   What is CalmCream?

A)          CalmCream is a Skin Cream, which is a Registered Trade Mark in India and USA.

 2.Q)   Why the name CalmCream?

A)          In our user trials in India, USA, Canada and Oman, there was uniformly a common expression from the users.  They all said there is an instant calming feeling in the applied area of the skin and a reduced level of irritability and inflammation, which can be sensed instantly.  We immediately thought that God has named my Cream and has pronounced it through the users.  We had no second thought and named it CalmCream.

 3.Q)   How is CalmCream different from any other cream?

A)       There are several unique features.  The process of manufacture is a harmonious fusion of applied chemistry, Ayurveda and biotechnology.  Another unique feature is in having all ingredients, which are nutritional or edible substances.  But still it works like a miraculous medicine for numerous skin conditions such as cuts, wounds, bruises, burns, bed sores, diabetic sores, herpes, psoriasis, gangrene, allergic eruptions, insect bites, frost bites etc.

 4.Q)   How is it possible that one cream can cure so many conditions?  The general perception is "cure-all" means "cure-none".  Is this not true?

A)          We are aware of this, and we had several prolonged debates on this subject. However, when we observed that our CalmCream worked in all the conditions repeatedly covering different age groups, gender and racial groups, we had to accept what we were seeing as "senior factor" and a "greater reality" than the common perception of most people. It is at this stage that we started a deeper investigation into this phenomenon, and came to the inevitable conclusion, that it is "possible" because, CalmCream is a nutritional product and does not have the inherently self limiting property like drugs.  Drugs are inherently self-limiting in their action because they are designed towards a highly specified and narrowly focused goal to suppress or modify a condition.  For instance:.  An anti-fungal drug cannot also be an anti-scabies.  This restriction is removed in the nutritional cure.

 5.Q)   What was your principal objective in developing such a multi purpose cream?

A)       To provide "a simple solution to complex skin problems, and to save the patients from complex solutions to their simple problems".

6. Q)  Are there any more products in the offing?

A)       Many are in the offing.  Several skin creams for some specific applications such as rheumatic and arthritic pains, acne and pimples, spider bites for Australian market, insect bites for the African market etc., which are not covered by CalmCream, and some cosmetic products such as beauty creams, shampoos for dandruff and lice, hair oils, shaving creams etc., and ethical products such as eye cleansing drops, ear cleansing drops, nasal anti-snoring sprays etc.