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Jaundice Treatment

The simple form of jaundice can be cured rapidly by diet therapy and exercises. Recovery will be slow in serious cases which have been caused by obstruction or pressure in the bile ducts. The patient should rest until the acute symptoms of the disease subside.

The patient should be put on a fruit juice fast for a week. The juice of lemon, grapes, pear, carrot, beet, and sugar cane can be taken. A hot enema should be taken daily during the fast to ensure regular bowel elimination, thereby preventing the absorption of decomposed, poisonous material into the blood stream. The fruit juice fast may be discontinued after the severity of the disease is over and a simple diet may be resumed on the following lines:

On rising: A glass of warm water mixed with two teaspoons of lime juice.

Breakfast: One fresh juicy fruit such as an apple, papaya, grapes, berries and mangoes. One cup wheat dalai or one slice of whole wheat bread with a little butter.

Mid-morning: Orange juice.

Lunch: Two small chapattis of whole wheat flour, a cup of strained vegetable soup, a steamed leafy vegetable such as spinach, fenugreek or carrot and a glass of buttermilk.

Mid-afternoon: Orange juice or coconut water.

Dinner: Two whole wheat chapattis with a little ghee or butter, baked. Baked potato and one other leafy vegetable like spinach and fenugreek, a glass of hot milk with honey if desired.

All fats like ghee, butter, cream and oils must be avoided for at least two weeks and thereafter kept to a minimum. Digestive disturbances must be avoided. No food with a tendency to ferment or putrefy in the lower intestines like pulses, legumes, etc. should be included in the diet.

The juice of bitter lufa (karvi torai) is regarded as an effective (home) remedy for jaundice. It is obtained by pounding and squeezing through a cloth. The juice should be placed on the palm of the hand and drawn up through the nostrils. This will cause a profuse overflow of the yellow colored fluid through the nostrils. The toxic matter having been evacuated in a considerable quantity, the patient will feel relieved.

If the green juice of the bitter lufa is not available, it can best be substituted by two or three drops of the fluid obtained by soaking its dry crusts overnight in water. This produces an identical effect. Seeds of bitter lufa which are easily available can also be used for the same purpose after rubbing in water. 

Green leaves of radish should be pounded and their juices extracted through a cloth. One pound of this juice daily is sufficient for an adult patient as it provides immediate relief inducing a healthy appetite and proper evacuation of the bowels.

In most cases a complete cure can be ensured within eight or ten days.

Water Treatment
Drinking a lot of water with lemon juice will protect the damaged liver cells. An alternate hot and cold compresses should be applied to the abdomen. Maintain the hot compress for one minute at 120oF. Alternate with a cold compress at 60oF for few minutes. The treatment may be continued for an hour or 10 repetitions. The procedure should be repeated at five-hourly intervals. A hot immersion bath at 104oF for 10 minutes daily will be helpful in relieving the itching which sometimes accompanies jaundice and in the elimination of the bile pigment from the system through the skin and kidneys. Cold friction twice a day will be beneficial for general tone-up

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