Nephritis Treatment

The safest treatment for acute nephritis is fasting. By means of the fast, the toxins and systemic impurities responsible for setting up of the inflammatory kidney conditions are removed rapidly. The patient should resort to juice fasting for seven to ten days until the acute symptoms subside.

Mostly vegetable juices such as carrot, celery and cucumber should be used during this period. A warm water enema should be taken each day while fasting, to cleanse the bowels of the toxic mater being thrown of by the self-cleansing process resulting from the fast.

After the juice fast an all fruit diet for five days. Juicy fruits such as apples, grapes, oranges, pears, peaches and pineapples should be taken at five-hourly intervals thereafter a fruits and milk diet. In this regimen, milk, preferably raw goat’s milk, may be added to the fruit diet for further seven days.

Then a well balanced low protein vegetarian diet, with emphasis on fresh fruits and raw and cooked vegetables.  In case of chronic nephritis a short juice fast for three days may be undertaken. Thereafter, 10 days on a restricted diet. In this regimen, oranges or orange juice may be taken for breakfast. Lunch may consist of a salad of raw vegetables which are in season, and dinner may consist of one or two vegetables, steamed in their own juices and a few nuts.

Short juice fasts followed by a week on the restricted diet should be undertaken at intervals of two or three months until such time as the kidney condition has shown signs of normalization.

Avoidance of vegetables containing large quantities of oxalic acid such as spinach and rhubarb as well as chocolate and cocoa must be avoided.  Garlic, asparagus, parsley, watercress, cucumber and celery are excellent vegetables. The best fruits are papaya and bananas. Both have a healing effect on kidneys. A small amount of soured milk and home made cottage cheese can be included in the diet. 

All salt should be eliminated from the diet. Five or six small meals should be taken in preference to a few large ones.

A glassful of carrot juice mixed with tablespoonful of honey and a teaspoonful of fresh lime juice is an effective home remedy for nephritis. It should be taken every day early in the morning before breakfast.

Bananas are valuable in nephritis because of their low protein and salt content and high carbohydrates content. In this condition, a diet of bananas only should be taken for three or four days, consuming eight to nine bananas a day.

Smoking and drinking must be completely given up. Studies have shown that smoking impairs kidney function. Avoidance of white bread, sugar, cakes, pastries, puddings, refined cereals, greasy, heavy or fried foods, tea, coffee, flesh foods, condiments, pickles, and sauces must be avoided.

All measures should be adopted to relieve the kidneys of work by increasing elimination through other channels. Hot Epsom salt bath should be taken every alternate day to induce elimination through the skin as much as possible.

Fresh air and outdoor exercises will be of great benefit in al cases of nephritis and where possible a walk of three kilometers once or twice daily. 

The sufferer from chronic nephritis should never exert themselves; avoid all hurry, excitement and late hours.