Diet Cure: Treatment Chart for Dysentery

A – DIET

I. Fast on orange juice or buttermilk for 3 or 4 days. Take warm water enema daily during this period.

II. After the fast, take a light diet consisting of rice, curd, buttermilk, fresh ripe fruits, especially bael, banana, pomegranate, orange and skimmed milk for a week or so.

III. Thereafter gradually adopt a well-balanced diet as follows:-

1. Upon arising: A glass of lukewarm water with half a freshly-squeezed lime and a teaspoon of honey.
2. Breakfast: Fresh fruit and a glass of buttermilk.
3. Lunch: A bowl of freshly-prepared steamed vegetable, rice or whole wheat chappatis, curd or a glass of buttermilk.
4. Mid-afternoon: A glass of carrot juice or coconut water.
5. Dinner: A large bowl of fresh green vegetable salad, with lemon juice dressing, mung bean or alfalfa sprouts and vegetable soup.

AVOID: Flesh foods, alcohol, tea, coffee, sugar, white flour and products made from them, fried and refined foods.

Specially beneficial: Rice curd, buttermilk, bananas, pomegranate and bael fruit.

B – OTHER MEASURES

1. Wet abdomen pack for one hour twice daily.
2. Hot fomentation to the abodominal region in case of pain.
3. Yoga asanas like pavanmuktasana, shalabhasana, abdominal breathing and shavasana.

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