Natural Home Cures for Jaundice

The simple form of jaundice can be cured rapidly by diet therapy and exercise. Recovery will, however, 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 juice fast for about five days. The juices of orange, lemon, grapes, pear, carrot, beet and sugarcane can be taken. A hot water enema should be taken daily during this period to ensure regular bowel elimination, thereby preventing the absorption of decomposed, poisonous material into the blood stream. The juice fast may be continued till the acute symptoms subside.

After the juice fast, the patient may adopt an all-fruit diet for further three to five days. In this regimen, he should have three meals a day of fresh juicy fruits such as apples, pears, grapes, oranges and pineapple. Thereafter a simple diet may be resumed.

All fats like ghee, butter, cream and oils must be avoided for at least two weeks, and after that butter and olive oil may be kept down to the minimum. A light carbohydrate diet, with exclusion of fats, best obtained from vegetables and fruits should be taken.

The patient should take plenty of fresh vegetables and fruit juices. Dandelion leaves, radishes with leaves, endive should be added to daily raw vegetable salad. Raw apple and pears are especially beneficial. Barley water, drunk several times during the day, is considered a good food remedy for jaundice. One cup of barley should be boiled in three litres of water and simmered for three hours.

Digestive disturbances must be avoided. No food with a tendency to ferment or putrefy in the lower intestines like pulses and legumes should be included in the diet. Drinking a lot of water with lemon juice will protect the damaged liver cells.

Tomatoes are valuable in jaundice. A glass of fresh tomato juice, mixed with a pinch of a salt and pepper, taken early in the morning, is considered an effective remedy for this disease.

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