Sunday, November 23, 2008
Treatment: :
Purgative taken to relive the constipation merely aggravate the disease. Catarrh of the intestines takes many years to develop and its treatment in the natural way can, take at least months: the patient should therefore, not lose patience. A start should be made with fasting. Only water, preferably lukewarm water, should, be taken.
One should continue to fast as long as one is able to between four days to a week. Break the fast with clear soup of boiled vegetables without adding salt or any other seasoning. This should be continued for two-three days and then the patient should go to boiled vegetables, adding churned curd of cow's milk. The curd, churned and mixed with water, may be taken upto two litres in a day.
When the discharge of mucus with the stools starts, warm water enema should be taken. Clay mixed with cold water may be plastered, over the lower abdomen upto half an hour. Mud pack can help deal with colic or dysentery.A patient suffering from catarrh of the intestines needs rest and fresh air. After he has gone through the regimen of a fast and then soup fo boiled vegetables, he should preferably take vegetables, potatoes and plantains roasted over coals and curds.
Cereals should be avoided as they tend to increase acidity. Salt should also be taken in small quantities and condiments, chilies and seasonings should be totally given up. Fats, particularly oils, should be avoided. Butter can be taken in small quantities. Honey could be used for sweetening instead of sugar. The vegetables should be peeled off their outer covering before cooking. Flea seed soaked in water may be taken twice in the day in the beginning of the treatment.Chronic cases: In certain chronic case the curd treatment might be needed but complete rest is advised throughout the treatment. Light exercise, walking, might be advisable after some days of complete rest.Catarrh of the intestines is an intractable disease and would need strong will power on the part of the patient to deal with.
Patient must have faith and confidence that he would recover not that without the faith and confidence his recovery would be hampered, it would only be slower. The greater the confidence and mental resilience in the patient, the quicker would his recovery be.But if you take plenty of water, exercise and avoid heavily spiced, fried things, you are not likely to fall a prey to the disease. Do not delay to answer the "call of nature". Suppression of the urge to void your bowels is the villain of the piece in many cases of catarrh of the intestines.
HYPERACIDITY AND ULCERS
Symptoms of Hyperacidity:
We have discussed the digestive processes in the previous section, and have noted the presence of the gastric juices which help in digesting the food. When the hydrochloric acid present in the stomach increases in quantity, the condition is known as hyperacidity. It is this condition which gives rise to gastritis (inflammation of the mucous membrane of the stomach) and ulcers - gastric, peptic and duodenal.
Symptoms of Ulcers:
The first symptoms of ulceration in the stomach include dizziness, nausea, eructation and loss of appetite. Acidity goes on increasing leading to a burning sensation or even pain in the stomach which is relieved after ingestion of food. As the disease progresses there is distension of the stomach due to excessive flatulence, mental tension, insomnia, bad temper and gradual weakening of the body.
Constipation also appears and sometimes the stools are tinged with blood.Serious complications like haemorrhage, perforation and obstruction of the pylorus (the orifice through which food passes from the stomach to the intestine) also appear. Unless it is detected in time massive bleeding may lead to death.In addition to dietetic indiscretions, habits of thought also play a vital role in cases of ulcers.
Those given to excessive worry, anger, tension, jealousy and hurrying are more prone to suffer from ulcers.Allopaths also prescribe bland food free from acidity and condiments for ulcer patients.
Treatment:
Ulcer patients should avoid spices and seasoned or fried foods. Nothing that is likely to augment the acidity of the stomach should be taken. Alcohol is, of course, the first thing which is forbidden. Milk, cream, butter, fruits and boiled vegetables are the best diet for an ulcer patient. The fruits recommended are banana, mangoes, musk melon and dates. This regimen would progressively reduce the acidity in the stomach.An advanced state of the disease should for only milk and fruits diet is recommended.
Milk should be taken in moderate quantities - say about 250 to 300 millilitres - every hour. Leafy vegetables should be avoided in the beginning. The various types of gourds should be boiled without their rind because the rind is likely to create friction in the stomach. Flea-seed husk - 10 to 15 grammes - should be taken with water or milk after every meal.The ulcer patient must take one to one and a half litres of water during the day.
He must bathe in cold water twice daily. Hip bath for ten to fifteen minutes and clay plastered over the lower abdomen for half an hour in the day can help the ulcers to heal. The hip bath or the mud pack should be taken on an empty stomach and should be followed by a walk. In case of constipation, daily enema should be administered.
Daily massage and deep breathing exercises also help. The patient must also try to get rid of his worries and stay cheerful. It has to be remembered that hyperacidity does not come up suddenly: it is a gradual development and its cure is also a gradual process.Distension or Dilation Associated with hyperacidity is another disease of the stomach: distension or dilation. It can occur without giving rise to any symptoms. If food is retained for a long time in the stomach, it gives rise to fermentation. The condition is both painful and irritating. It also tells upon the general health of the sufferer.
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
The sense of sight is perhaps the most important of the five senses nature has given to man. A sightless man is a pitiable sight. Anything that interferes with your vision is irritating and a danger to the capacity to see is the most serious danger of all. You must, therefore, take care of your eyes.
Sometimes eyes do the job of the tongue: a mere flickering of the eye-lids may express volumes. They reflect your inner mind.Large eyes ringed with dark circles are ugly, but sparkling eyes, even if they are small, are beautiful.
You can disguise your face under a coat of make-up, but the only thing that can make your eyes beautiful is their constant care.The beauty of the eyes depends on cleanliness of body. Constipation, for example, make the eyes dirty.
The white of the eyes no longer remains white: inadequate intake of water may give them a yellow tinge. Insufficient perspiration gives rise to accumulation of poisonous humours in the body and dark circles appear around the eyes.
Proper diet: It is the inner cleanliness which is the key to the beauty of the eyes. Improve you
diet, enjoy sun-shine and fresh air. Spend at least 15 to 20 minutes in the sun with the minimum of clothing so that fresh air can get into your pores and the heat of the sun can bring out the perspiration.Vitamin A is found in abundant quantities in spinach, leaves of turnip, sweet potatoes, milk, butter, cabbage, tomatoes, peas, gourds and carrorts.Vitamin B is to be found in the husk of the wheat seed, soyabeans, milk, peas, unpolished rice, toasted rice, raisin, cucumber, oranges, spinach, cabbage, carrot and pineapple.
The sources of Vitamin C are: green chillies, juice of lime, orange, leaves and stalk of the mustard plant, spinach, leaves of turnip, papaya, leaves of beet root plant, cabbage, tomatoes, mangoes and myrobalan. The cheapest sources of natural Vitamin D are: Milk, butter, sunlight. Exercises: Some exercise for eye care are also suggested:
Fold your arms with your hands under the arm pits and stand in a relaxed manner. Take your shoulders back in a circular motion and resume the earlier position.Touch the underside of the neck with your chin and then move your head as far back as you can.
Move your head in a circular motion so that it touches first the right and then the left shoulder. Then move in the reverse direction touching first the left and then the right shoulder.Move your head from side to side without moving your body. Keep your head stationary and then move your eyes upward and then downwards.
Move your eyes left and right. Repeat this process at least half a dozen times.Concentrate your gaze on your index finger extended outward and try to view a distant object across it just as you are taking aim. Repeat it twenty times.Stand with your feet one foot from each other. Close your eyes and move your body from right to left.
This should be done as you face the early morning sun. Sprinkle cold water over your eyes and then dry them with a soft piece of cloth.Put your palms on your eyes. Sit with you elbows on your knees and palms on your closed eyes.
Do it softly so that no pressure is exercised on the eye balls.All the exercise suggested here should be done while your body is completely relaxed and your mind free worries or thought of things that you have to do during the day. They will help to make the eyes healthier and more beautiful.Rheumy EyesRice, wheat, millets, as a matter of fact, all the cereals add to the amount of phlegm or mucus in the body.
It is only vegetables, particularly greens, and fruit which can clear this condition. Eat more of them and less of cereals. Exercise is also a must. Wash the eyes frequently with cold water.TrachomaPoisonous humours in the body lead to trachoma and only a cleansing of the humours can help.
Unless that is done, external applications, lotions and drugs will be of no avail.Vegetables and fruits clean the blood and refined foods like flour products, sugar, ghee, cereals, tea, coffee, cigarettes, condiments, produce morbid humours which give rise to disease. For a fortnight eat only fruits and raw vegetables like tomatoes, carrot and spinach. Give up salt during this period. After that take to bread, boiled vegetables and fruits.
Take an enema during the period that you live on fruits.Discolored EyesNight BlindnessNight blindness is a deficiency disease; if the elements needed are found in the diet night blindness will go. Natural salts and vitamins needed to make up the deficiency which casuses night blindness are found in wholemeal bread, unmilled rice, fresh vegetables and unboiled milk. Put the child on a diet of these foods and ask him to eat at least 250-grammes of carrots each day. Carrot is a vegetable which contains vitamins which make up the deficiency.
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