A – DIET
I. Fast on raw juices for three to five days. Take a glass of fresh fruit or vegetable juice, diluted with water on 50:50 basis, every two hours. Use warm-water enema daily during this period.
II. An all-fruit diet for three days after fever subsides. Take three meals a day of fresh juicy fruits at five-hourly intervals.
III. Fruit and milk diet for further three days.
IV. Thereafter, adopt a well-balanced diet, as follows:
1. Upon arising: A glass of lukewarm water with half a fleshy-squeezed lime and a teaspoon of honey.
2. Breakfast: Fresh fruit, a glass of milk, sweetened with honey and some seeds or nuts.
3. Lunch: A bowl of freshly-prepared steamed vegetables, two or three whole wheat chappatis and a glass of butter milk.
4. Mid-afternoon: A glass of fresh fruit or vegetable juice.
5. Dinner: A good-sized raw vegetable salad and sprouts, with lime juice dressing, followed by a hot course, if desired.
AVOID: Tea, coffee, alcohol, sugar, white flour and products made from them, refined foods, fried foods, flesh foods, condiments and pickles, tobacco and smoking.
Especially Beneficial: Garlic, turmeric, onion, ginger, grapefruit, carrot and spinach juices, finger millet and basil (tulsi) leaves.
B – OTHER MEASURES
1. Wet body pack several times a day during fever, sponging with the tepid water after the pack.
2. Bed rest till recovery.