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Dr R. Krishnaswamy Gounder was born on 15 September 1907 to devout parents. He became a proficient Tamil scholar and earned the title of “Pulavar”, i.e. poet, early in his life. Blessed with an eager eye for everything around him and a thirst to better the lives of people and society, he pioneered several innovations, like inventing Gobar Gas Plant to designing and developing a charcoal gas plant to run buses and trucks during the Second World War to novel farming techniques.

Apart from farming, Dr R. Krishnaswamy Gounder also rendered yeoman service to the farming community by establishing agricultural associations, publishing agricultural magazines, etc.

When he was around 20 years old, he suffered from an acute stomach ailment for which modern medication gave him little relief. He then chanced upon a book, ”Key to Health”, by Mahatma Gandhi. The book emphasizes allowing nature to cure and heal the body’s ailments. He practised the system and got permanent relief from the problem. This experience made him a firm believer in the miraculous healing powers of Nature.

He firmly believed that this system could cure various diseases without any medicine and side effects at an affordable cost than other medicines.

He wanted to establish a nature cure center in Coimbatore to share the benefit he derived from nature cure with others. He also visited the nature cure center established by Mahatma Gandhi in Uruli Kanchan near Pune, reinforcing his resolve to start a Nature Cure Centre. Then he started the center in a small way in a house near the present center on an experimental basis in early 1979.