Diet Cure: Treatment Chart for Influenza

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.

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