Sydney: India celebrates Chhath Puja. During this time, women and men worship the sunrise and sunset. Apart from India, there are many other countries that also worship and revere the sun. But why is this so, and what is the logic behind sun worship in other countries? Let us tell you about this topic in detail.
In fact, the sun has been a reliable source of light for humans for thousands of years. The sun is vital to our survival. Perhaps this is why ancient religions such as Egypt, Greece, the Middle East, India, Asia, and Central and South America have worshiped the sun since ancient times. Early religion was also often associated with healing. The patient seeks help from a priest, exorcist, or exorcist. In ancient times, people also used the sun for healing, but maybe not in the way you think.
Can sunlight cure disease?
It is said that the ancients believed that only sunlight could cure diseases. But today there is more evidence that they used the heat of the sun to heal. The Ebers Papyrus is an ancient Egyptian medical “scroll” dating to around 1500 BC. Therein is given a recipe for an ointment that “makes the nerves flexible.” The ointment was made from wine, onions, soot, fruits, and frankincense and myrrh extracted from the tree. After application, the person is “placed in the sun.” For example, other remedies for coughs include placing various ingredients in a container and placing them in the sun. The same technique was used in the medical writings of the Greek physician Hippocrates, whose period is thought to be around 450-380 BC.
Sunlight can cure many diseases
Abroad, people believe that sunlight can cure many diseases. Aretaeus, a modern Turkish physician active around 150 AD, wrote that sunlight could cure many illnesses, including laziness. It also includes what we recognize today as depression. To get rid of laziness is to lie down in a light place, touch the sun, and stay in a relatively warm place. The Islamic scholar Ibn Sina (980-1037 AD) described the health effects of sunbathing (we did not yet know the link between sunbathing and skin cancer).
Sunlight also helps treat asthma and hysteria
In the first book of the Classics of Medicine, he said that the heat of the sun was helpful in treating a variety of ailments, from flatulence and asthma to hysteria. He also said that sunlight “energizes the brain” and is good for “cleansing the womb.” Sometimes it’s hard to differentiate between science and magic. All of the treatments mentioned so far rely more on the heat of the sun than on light. But what about light therapy? Scientist Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) knew that you could “split” sunlight into the rainbow spectrum. This discovery and many others fundamentally changed the concept of treatment for the next 200 years. But as new ideas emerge, science and magic sometimes become difficult to distinguish.
Sunlight is the enemy of bacteria and viruses.
The German mystic and philosopher Jakob Lorber (1800-1864) believed that sunlight was the best cure for almost everything. His 1851 book, The Healing Power of Sunlight, was also published in 1997. Public health reformer Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) also believed in the power of sunlight. In her famous book “Notes on Nursing,” she said of her patients: In addition to needing fresh air, they also needed light, and not just light but direct sunlight. Nightingale also believed that sunlight was the natural enemy of bacteria and viruses. It appears he is at least partially correct. Sunlight can kill some bacteria and viruses. (dialogue)
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