Balancing the Earth Element: Nature’s Gentle Remedies

Balancing the Earth Element: Nature’s Gentle Remedies


Disasters associated with Earth element always causes the maximum damage to mankind.

Earth-element disasters tend to hit hardest because you can’t evacuate a city minutes before an earthquake or landslide. While, water-related events, even when equally intense, often allow some protective measures — warnings, shelters, levees.

With sudden, little to no warning, often collapsing the very ground people stand on. Buildings, roads, entire cities can go in minutes. High mortality, massive infrastructure loss.. They happen when the ground shakes violently due to sudden movements of the earth's crust. One of the major reasons that can trigger earthquakes is the lack of water (lubricant) in the soil, which makes it dry and hot. And the soil gets dry due to Ground Water Depletion. Ground water gets depleted due to over exploitation of ground water resources leading to increase in the Earth crust temperature. 

If we take Earth as a living body (as Ayurveda does when linking the Panchabhoota with human physiology), then:

Earthquake as a “Boil or Pimple”

  • Pimples/boils in our body are sudden eruptions caused by internal imbalances: trapped toxins, excess heat (pitta), or blocked circulation (vata-kapha imbalance).

  • Earthquakes are sudden eruptions caused by trapped pressures, tectonic frictions, and imbalances beneath Earth’s crust.

  • Both are pressure-release mechanisms: nature finding a way to push out what it can no longer hold inside.

Underlying Cause

  • In humans: Poor digestion, toxin accumulation, stress, and blocked channels cause skin eruptions.

  • In Earth: Over-extraction of resources, deforestation, mining, drilling, dams, and urbanization disturb tectonic stability, building up stress in Earth's “nerves and tissues” (fault lines).

3. Symptoms & Warnings

  • Human: Skin redness, irritation, pain before a boil forms.

  • Earth: Minor tremors, unusual animal behaviors, groundwater shifts before a major quake.

Ground water recharging

Most Countries worldwide face this problem of water scarcity and wastage. They do not have enough sources of water to meet their needs, and water usage is not monitored and not consumed wisely to recycle the water.  Dumping waste water (Grey water and black water) into sewers, which take it away from the land.

Urbanisation and construction

In order to build houses, roads, offices and other structures using construction materials that do not allow water seepage in the soil / ground. This creates a situation where the top layer of the soil becomes dry and hard, and the lower layers become hot and unstable. This leads to gradual extinction of under ground creatures which feed on the water received from the top layer. 

One of the ways to prevent this problem is to practice rainwater harvesting and seepage. This means collecting rainwater and storing it for later use, or letting it soak into the ground through natural or artificial methods. This can help replenish the water in the soil, and keep it cool and moist. This can reduce the chances of earthquakes, and also improve the ground water levels, help save water for other purposes.
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Some of the Worst Earthquakes in India

1. Indian Ocean
Deaths: > 283,106
Date, Time and Year: 08:50, December 26, 2004
Magnitude: 9.1–9.3
Epicentre: West coast of Sumatra, Indonesia

2. Kashmir
Deaths: 130,000
Date, Time and Year: 08:50:38, October 8, 2005
Magnitude: 7.6
Epicentre: Muzaffarabad, Pakistan-administered Kashmir    

3. Bihar and Nepal
Deaths: > 30,000
Date, Time and Year: 14:13, January 15, 1934
Magnitude: 8.7
Epicentre: South of Mount Everest

4. Gujarat
Deaths: 20,000
Date, Time and Year: 08:50:00, January 26, 2001
Magnitude: 7.7
Epicentre: Kutch, Gujarat

5. Kangra
Deaths: > 20,000
Date, Time and Year: 06:10, April 4, 1905
Magnitude: 7.8
Epicentre: Himalayas

6. Latur
Deaths: > 9,748
Date, Time and Year: 22:25, September 30, 1993
Magnitude: 6.4





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