SATYENDRA SINGH GOINDI M.Sc; LL.B; ND (DOB -24.10.1929)
1. Doctor Satyendra Singh Goindi was born on 24.10.29 in a Gandhian family. His father, Late Sardar Bhagwan Singh Goindi (popularly known as Sialkot Gandhi), a freedom fighter, founded the Gandhian Khadi movement in Punjab after resigning Government service in 1921 at the call of Mahatma Gandhi.
2. After the partition of India in 1947, Goindi family moved from Sialkot (Pakistan) to Allahabad (India). Dr. S.S. Goindi completed his M.Sc. (Maths) and LL.B from AllahabadUniversity by 1954.
3. After a stint (1955-56) as researcher in the All India Congress Committee at New Delhi in the subject of land reforms and related legislation in various states of India and as secretary incharge of Gandhian constructive work of PEPSU Congress Committee at Patiala (1956-57), he joined family at Allahabad where members of his family were engaged in social and 18 point Gandhian Constructive Programme.
4. Dr. (Mrs.) Gurkirpal Kaur Goindi was born on 25.01.1932. After her graduation (B.A.) from PunjabUniversity in 1951, she obtained a Diploma in Physical Education (DPE) from Punjab Education Department in 1952. She qualified as a teacher (B.Ed) from DelhiUniversity in 1954. She started her career as a teacher of Physical Education in Delhi in 1952 and resigned in 1968 when she was taken ill.
5. During her schooling, she became a pioneer in mastering Indian Martial Art, known as “Gatka” in Punjab at the age of 15 years. She joined Theosophical Society while still a teenager and became the President of the Youth Wing in Delhi in the mid fifties. She was commissioned as NCC Officer amongst the few girls in India opting for military training, in the early years of India’s freedom from British rule. Dr. (Mrs.) Goindi turned a staunch Gandhian given to non-violence and other Gandhian tenets in 1959 on marriage into a devout Goindis Gandhian family.
6. Dr. S.S. Goindi was Secretary of the U.P. Nature Cure Federation from 1976 to 1979 and Secretary of All India Nature Cure Federation from 1979 to 1984.
7. Goindis’ property in Allahabad was burnt down in the riots that followed the assassination of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India in 1984.
8. Dr. S.S. Goindi along with his wife settled in Chandigarh where he was Director of Gandhi Samarak Bhawan in Sector 16 from 1986 to 1998. Here Dr. S.S. Goindi and his wife Dr. G.K. Goindi adopted Nature Cure as a vehicle of service to the sick and launched “Health and Nutrition Mission” which is still ongoing. This Mission is to practically evolve cheap and nutritious foods of acceptable taste for the suffering people in general and for the under-privileged and poor sections of society in particular.
9. Dr. S.S. Goindi has contributed articles on Naturo-Food Therapy in Swasthya Jivan published from Raj Ghat, New Delhi. He wrote a book, “Swasthya Ke Sambandh Mein Hamare Lekh,” with Dr. (Mrs.) Goindi as co-author, describing many of the difficult cases dealt with the unique innovative Naturo-Food Therapy.
10. Since 1971 Dr. S.S. Goindi and his wife Gurkirpal Kaur Goindi have been intensively involved in the field of health and nutrition based on the principles of natural dietetics. It all started when Mrs. Goindi was taken severally ill because of osteo-arthritis, asthma, anemia and digestive disorders that led to bleeding lungs and general debility. Doctors had pronounced that Mrs. Goindi would not live beyond 4/5 days.
11. Instead of spending the last days in the hospital. Mrs. Goindi decided to stay at home and it was then in 1971 that the burning desire to see her recover from her many irreversible ailments made Dr. S.S. Goindi apply natural laws of nutrition on her. She came back from the very doorstep of death and was on the road to recovery within 12 days to become an eminent naturo-food therapist herself. And thanks to her training in physical education, she became the author of a set of remedial exercises even for bed-ridden patients.
Goindis Naturo-Food Therapy
12. Goindis couple Dr. S.S. Goindi and Dr. (Mrs.) G.K. Goindi are a unique team of dedicated votaries of nature-cure and have devised an alternative human dietary based on the twin attributes of man’s original diet namely easy digestibility and good taste. Taste, they say is important attribute of food which triggers the digestive glands to secrete digestive juices, which in turn must get easily digestible food for making good blood fortified with natural resistance power. Thus begins the cycle for good health.
Good Natural Diet–> Blood with Natural Resistance Power–> Good Healthy Life
13. Goindis couple believe that good food makes good blood and bad food makes bad blood which is the root cause of all the diseases suffered by ever increasing numbers of human beings worldwide. The basic principle of Naturo-Food Therapy is to replace the bad blood with good. This Therapy consists of treatment with a natural vegetarian diet (sometimes mono-diet to start with for a few days), of fruits/vegetables and simple preparations from germinated cereals and grains which are not only tasteful, nutritious and easy to digest but also have medicinal and health values. The new purified blood: –
a. increases the body’s resistance to infection;
b. strengthens the ability of the body to overcome virtually all kinds of ailments; and additionally.
c. slows down the ageing process through the consumption of nucleic acid contained in germinated cereals and grains.
14.Dr. S.S. Goindi alongwith Dr. (Mrs.) Goindi have over the years held a number of health camps and conducted workshops and delivered lectures at universities, schools/colleges, Rotary and other clubs demonstrating the concept of Goindis Naturo-Food Therapy. Multi-media has extensively covered the Goindis Naturo-Food Therapy concept since 1973 to date.
Wheat Grass Treatment
15.The practice of “Wheat Grass” treatment devised by Dr. Ann Wigmore of Boston, USA was first introduced in India by the Goindis at a camp held at Hansraj College, New Delhi in 1975, where Dr. Wigmore was also present.
Honours
16.In 1988 Dr. S.S. Goindi was conferred Honorary Doctorate in Naturopathy by the All India Nature Cure Federation at Nagpur Conference for work and research in the field of natural nutrition.
17. In 1995 Dr. S.S. Goindi was awarded the certificate, “Gem of Alternative Medicine” for his original work in Food-Therapy, by the Indian Board of Alternative Medicines at the International Congress at Calcutta.
18. In 1997 Dr. S.S. Goindi was conferred Second Bhagat Puran Singh Award, at Amritsar, instituted in the name of the great saint and founder of Pingalwara (Home for the destitutes).
19. From 1998-2001 Dr. S.S. Goindi was member of the permanent Lok Adalat of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Chandigarh.
Ailments Cured
20. The Goindis have over the last 35 years cured many people, with the aid of their unique Naturo-Food Therapy, suffering from diabetes, arthritis, gout, constipation, ulcers, varicose veins, piles, skin diseases, defective nervous system, spondylitis, aches and pains, heart, liver, lung and kidney ailments, high cholesterol, blood pressure, obesity, thyroid problems, kidney and gall stones, stomach disorders, asthma, even cancer and several other diseases. 100% success rate has been achieved when patients have adhered to the discipline in the prescribed diet.
Alternative Nutritional And Tasty Foods / Beverages
21. The Goindis have developed numerous oil/fat-free vegetarian nutritional and tasty foods using germinated/sprouted cereals and grains. These foods include sweet/salted biscuits, cakes, dosas, sambar, pizzas, koftas, dalia, porridges, naan breads, palak and other pakoras, dahi vadas, potato chips, wheat halwa, pinnies of moong/chana and many more. They have also developed a new range of hot and cold beverages/sweets especially for the children, such as rose/amla sherbets, kulfi/ice cream made from milk of seeds like that of melon. A special drink “kafita” prepared from wheat has the aroma, colour and taste of coffee but without the ill effects of caffeine. Another unique drink which can be taken hot or cold is made from sesame seeds which gives a tea-like colour and is nutrient rich in calcium, some vitamins and essential amino acids. They have also perfected a very tasty herbal tea powder using over two dozen ingredients.
Goindis Naturo-Food Therapy Trusts In India And Uk
22. To promote the unique Goindis Naturo-Food Therapy, Santokh Singh Parmar, NRI from the U.K., has been instrumental in establishing charitable “Goindis Naturo-Food Therapy Trusts” in India and the U.K. The aim and objectives of the Trusts are: –
a) Healing all kinds of human ailments holistically through Naturo-Food Therapy.
b) The independent research and development of alternative health giving nutritional foods and beverages based on the principles of Natural Dietetics or in association with any hospital, medical, university or other establishment.
c) The dissemination of information on Naturo-Food Therapy and alternative health giving nutritional foods/beverages through the establishment of a library, publication of books, periodicals, brochures/pamphlets and by the involvement of the media;
d) To undertake any educational activity which will promote the objects of the Trust worldwide and promote Naturo-Food Therapy through such activity by holding of conferences, seminars, lectures, exhibitions and camps;
e) The commissioning of research and clinical trials in association with any hospital, medical, university or other establishment in order to evaluate the effectiveness of healing of specific ailments through Naturo-Food Therapy.
f)The establishment of Nature-Cure Ashram/s with boarding/lodging facilities and other related Institutions of all kinds and to treat patients and ill persons of all sections of humanity, globally, without any discrimination on grounds of race, religion, cast, creed or sex therein through Naturo-Food Therapy.
23.The U.K. Trust has invited Dr. S.S. Goindi and Dr. (Mrs.) G.K. Goindi to visit the U.K. in June 2004 to treat patients in the U.K. and to promote Goindis Naturo-Food Therapy in the West.
Naturo-Food Therapy Ashram
24.The Naturo-Food Therapy Trust (INDIA) has rented a house in Mohali since 01.01.2004 where Dr. S.S. Goindi and Dr. (Mrs.) G.K. Goindi presently reside and carry on their “Health and Nutrition Mission” and promote Goindis Naturo-Food Therapy.
25.The address and Telephone numbers for consultation and treatment are:
Satyendra Singh Goindi
Naturo-Food Therapist & Nutrition Consultant
Address: #316, Sector 56, MOHALI, PUNJAB-160055
Mobile: +91(0) 8146993863
Websites: www.naturofoodtherapy.org & www.foodtherapy.org
January, 2014