This ‘doc’ in desi khadi does no black magic – instead he advises changes in food choices and minimal medication at a minimal cost to the hundreds of patients at his doors and ends up delivering a miracle.
The right kind of food, a simple lifestyle and the right agricultural practices. That’s all society needs to mend its ways and get itself into top health says Dr Khadar Valli, a US returned scientist, who has dedicated his life of building a healthy society after resigning from a lucrative job in an MNC.
The 60-year-old scientist is the perfect ‘physician’ for extremely complicated situations. There was a case of two young lovers, who had attempted suicide by consuming poison after their parents refused to allow them to marry.
They ended up bedridden with a nervous breakdown at KR Hospital in Mysuru and a week later, came to him and fell at his feet. Then there are thousands of Diabetics with gangrenous legs who consider him a messiah for saving their limbs after they were advised to go for amputation.
And there are epileptics who have lost all hope, who rush to his residence in the interior of TK Layout here for deliverance from the malady. He has not disappointed any of them.
There is a sea of patients at his residence, he treats at least 100 a day in TK layout from Tuesday to Saturday, and over 200 at Bidarahalli in HD Kote taluk every Monday. The son of Husenamma and Husenappa, natives of Proddatur (Kadapa Dist) in Andhra Pradesh and resident of Mysuru, Dr Khadar did his BSc.Ed and MSc.Ed from Regional College of Education, Mysuru and PhD at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He has worked as a post doctoral fellow on Environmental Science at Beaverton Oregon and as scientist in CFTRI for two years. Joining Dupont, he worked for 4 and a half years in the US and in India for a year, before settling in Mysuru in 1997.
The right kind of food, a simple lifestyle and the right agricultural practices.
There are thousands of Diabetics with gangrenous legs who consider Dr Khadar Valli a messiah for saving their limbs after they were advised to go for amputation.
Saving the soil for posterity is another passion of his. Dr Khadar feels it will happen only with the right kind of agricultural practices. He is worried that with the kind of crop practices farmers are adopting, the soil may become unfit to grow anything in the next thirty years. The increasing cases of juvenile diabetes, childhood obesity, early puberty, irregular menstrual
cycles, polycystic ovaries, infertility, anaemia, low milk supply during breast feeding and constipation-what does he blame them on? Diet counselors may say it’s all because of chocolates, pizzas and your love for non-vegetarian food but Dr Khadar does not feel this is entirely true. “Oxtocin/estrogen hormones are injected into cows to increase milk yield, micro levels of those hormones present in milk is one reason for early puberty in girls. Alloxan, used as a bleaching agent to bleach wheat flour for production of maida (used for preparing bakery products), obstructs the capacity of the pancreas to produce beta cells, which store and release
insulin,” he points out. “Start eating positive siridhanya grains (millets) which we used to eat 60 years ago. These include Foxtail (Navane), Barnyad (Oodalu), Kodo (Arka), Little (Saame), Brown Top (Korle), fruits and vegetables, palm jaggery (Kappu bella/saate) and use groundnut oil to stay healthy. Positive siridhanya grains (millets) are not just nutritious, they can be grown in dry land and need only 20 cm of rainfall. As high as 60 percent of the available land in India is dry land. So if farmers cultivate positive siridhanya grains (millets), there can be no drought in the next 50 years,” he reasons.
And the healthy alternative to chocolates? “Give sweet balls prepared from groundnut, til (sesame seeds) jaggery and coconut to kids. Coca used for making chocolate has theobromine, an alkaloid similar to nicotin in tobacco, which causes an addiction, if taken for 21 days. The pink skin of
peanut (groundnuts) is rich in anti-oxidants which can fight cancer and other diseases. Til can improve the development of the brain,” he says.
Dr Khadar grows as many as 38 crop varieties including positive siridhanya grains (millets) and he uses `Kaadu Chaitanya Dravana,’ a microbial liquid for farming in his 7 acres of dry land in Bidarahalli in HD Kote Taluk. He even gives a live demo on the right agricultural practices at his farm. His daughter Dr Sarala, a homeopath and wife Usha, have been partnering Dr Khadar in his cause.
Growing Sugar Cane to produce one kg of sugar, 28,000 liters of water is needed, to grow one kg of rice, 8,000 liters is required, to grow 1 kg wheat 9,000 liters of water is needed, to grow 1 kg of meat 50,000 liters of water is required, but to grow one kg of positive siridhanya grains (millets) 300 litres
water is sufficient. Food which takes a longer period to dislodge the sugar (glucose and fructose) to be absorbed by the blood, is the right kind of food. Ragi takes one and a half to two hours, positive siridhanya grains (millets) take over 6 hours while rice takes just 45 minutes to get absorbed in the blood increasing the risk of diabetes.
A herbicide present in Soyabean leads to Cancer. Steriods are being injected to increase the weight of goat, sheep, chicken and pigs. Gluten present in wheat may affect the absorption of micro nutrients like zinc in the small intestine. Dill leaves (Sabsige Soppu), garlic and the white part of Castor fruit can improve breast milk production when taken in the right quantity.