History Ghiffa Eng

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DR LUIGI ROVETTA

HOUSE OF

NATURAL CURES

The story of a dream of health and nature


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The story of the House of Natural Curesbegins in 1920,when Dr Luigi Rovetta chose the municipality of Ghiffa

to realise his dream of creating a state-of-the-art clinic usingmethods derived from the philosophy of scientic naturalism.

THE GHIFFA HOUSE OF NATURAL CURES


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The Dr Luigi Rovetta House of Natural Cures nestledin an unspoilt landscape on the western shore of LakeMaggiore. Here patients could recuperate and re-establishthe right equilibrium between body and environment.


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The structure consisted of a building dedicated to cures, with thelatest equipment at that time. The upper oor housed the roomsfor the guests.

The park surrounding the House of Cures extended over somefour hectares up to the slopes of the Sacred Mountain of Ghia.The House of Cures offered wonderful views over the lake andamong the guests of Dr Rovetta were champion cyclist FaustoCoppi and boxer Primo Carnera.


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Dr Luigi Rovetta, besides his practical work, was also the authorof numerous publications: in 1920 he published his Vademecum

for applying at home the purifying and reconstituting cureof the Dr Luigi Rovetta House of Natural Cures.

THE LEADING CHARACTER


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In 1926 he founded the reviews Nature and Science for Health

and the Bimonthly Review of the House of Cures.

In 1940 Dr Rovetta wrote Towards Scientific Naturalism,

published by Airoldi, in which he set out his cures:

Sun, food, air and water are the four cosmic sourcesof energy that our bodies continuously use for our needs

and for the productive and reproductive purposes of life.

In 1944 he also wrote Naturalism: natural cures.


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The theories of Dr Rovetta were innovative and placedat the centre the main themes of naturalism, namely

hygiene and nutrition. These topics were also studiedby his contemporaries.Rovetta had deduced the complexity of the human being

and the importance of understanding and interpreting theinteriority of each person in order to establish his or herneeds and wants in order to improve the quality of life.


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The dream of Dr Rovetta was to create an Institute of NaturalCures, which he was sadly unable to achieve. That is whyRenaissance is today now reproducing in modern form all of thesplendour of a place of cure in an environment where great menonce created the story of natural cures.

Naturalism was a doctrine that let nature take its course rather

than intervening artifcially. The nature in this case was thatof the human being, capable of healing the sick body.


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CURES

Guests at Dr Luigi Rovettas House of Cures were examined

scrupulously before being subjected to personalised

detoxication cures, with dietotherapies, air baths, sun baths,light baths, Just cold mud baths, Kneipp hydrotherapies,

atomic electricity and a special purifying cure.


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Great care was paid to food: menus were sorted, measuredand prepared to meet the actual needs of the organismof each individual patient.


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For each person, 30 g of legumes (chick peas, broad beans, peas, kidney

beans, lentils), 30 g of seasonal vegetables (beets, chard, turnips, cabbage,

spinach), a potato, a carrot, and a little celery and onion are placed

in cooking water. Once all is cooked, the broth is removed from the soup

and the vegetables and legumes are sieved. These are then added to the

broth, which is put on the stove with a little salt, a knob of butter and 25-

30 g of ne pasta: when the soup is removed from the heat a little basil,

or sage, or thyme, or marjoram, or oregano, or hyssop, or a very small

quantity of bayleaf are added. A fresh egg is meanwhile beaten separately

in a small aluminium pan (three soup plates), a small quantity of soft cheese

is added and the soup is served very hot. Meat broth can also be used:

it is recommended to keep the legumes in numbered bags in order

Each guest is welcomed with a special soup prepared according

to Dr Rovettas original recipe:

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