Naturopathy Day is celebrated on 18 November, the day on which Mahatma Gandhi became a Life Member of the Nature Cure Foundation Trust and signed the deed.
Naturopathy Day is celebrated every year since 2018 in India.
Gandhi Ji is considered the founding figure of Naturopathy in India.
This year, 7th Naturopathy Day was celebrated on 18 November.
Naturopathy had its roots in 19th-century Germany.
John Schell first used the term ‘naturopathy’ in 1895.
Benedict Lust popularised it in the U.S. Benedict Lust is known as the ‘Father of Modern Naturopathy’.
When German nutritionist Louis Kuhne translated The New Science of Healing, naturopathy became well-known in India.
Dronamraju Venkatachalapathy Sarma translated it into Telugu for the first time in 1894.
Shri Shroti Kishan Swaroop translated it into Hindi and Urdu in 1904.
