A – DIET
I. Fast on fruit juice till fever subsides. Take a glass of fresh fruit juice, diluted with water on 50:50 basis, every two hours. Use warm-water enema daily during the day.
II. An all-fruit diet for further two days, taking three meals a day of fresh juicy fruits at five-hourly intervals.
III. Thereafter, gradually embark upon a well-balanced diet, on the following lines:-
1. Upon arising: A glass of lukewarm water with -half a freshly-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: Freshly-prepared steamed or lightly-cooked vegetables, whole wheat chappatis and a glass of butter milk.
4. Mid-afternoon: A glass of fresh fruit or vegetable juice.
5. Dinner: A bowl of raw vegetable salad and sprouted seeds like alfalfa and mung beans, with lime juice dressing.
Home Remedies: Decoction of tulsi leaves and fenugreek seeds tea.
AVOID: Meats, tea, coffee, condiments, pickles refined and processed foods, white flour and sugar and products made from them.
B – OTHER MEASURES
1. Cold compress on the head in case of high fever, failing which, cold pack to the whole body.