Founder - RK Nature

Dr. R. Krishnaswamy Gounder was born on 15 September, 1907 to devout parents. He went on to become 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 life of people and society in general, he pioneered several innovations, like inventing Gobar Gas Plant to designing and developing 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 way of establishing agricultural association, by way of publishing agricultural magazine, 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 the importance of allowing nature to cure and heal the body’s ailments. He practiced the system and got a 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 can cure various diseases without any medicine and without any side effects, at an affordable cost than other system of medicines.

He wanted to establish a nature cure center in Coimbatore to share the benefit he derived out of nature cure to others. He also visited the nature cure center established by Mahatma Gandhi in Urlikanchan near Pune which reinforced 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 experimental basis in early 1979.