Nephritis refers to an inflammation of the kidney. The main symptoms of acute nephritis are a pain in kidneys, extending down to the uterus, fever, dull pain in the back and scanty and highly colored urine. Often the urine may contain blood, albumin & casts consisting of clumps of red & white cells which come from damaged kidneys. The patient suffers from puffiness in the face & swelling of the feet and ankles.
Dietary Treatment for Nephritis
Fasting Therapy: removes toxins & systemic impurities.
1. Vegetable Juice Fasting: The patient should resort to Juice Fasting for 7 to 10 days till the acute symptoms subside. Mostly Veg. Juices such as carrot, cucumber.
2. Fruit diet fasting: After Veg. Juice fasting follows fruit diet fasting 4 or 5 days. Juicy fruit such as apple, grapes, orange, pear, peaches n pineapple should be taken during this period at 5 hours intervals.
3. Fruit & Milk Diet Fasting: Preferably raw goats milk may be added above mentioned fruit diet for further seven days.
Diet Cure Chart for Chronic Nephritis
1. Short Juice Fast: For three days After that a week or ten days follow this diet chart.
2. Breakfast: orange or orange Juice
3. Lunch: Salad of raw vegetable with olive oil & lemon juice dressing.
4. Dinner: Steamed vegetable & few nuts. After that patient may gradually adopt a healthy balance low protein vegetarian diet. Further short juice fasts followed by a week on the restricted diet should be taken at intervals of 2 or 3 months until kidney conditions have normalized.
Avoid: Vegetable containing a large quantity of oxalic acids such as Spinach & Rhubarb, Chocolate and cocoa, white bread, sugar, cakes, refined, cereals, fried food, tea, coffee, flesh food, condiments, pickles, sauces and spicy & salty foods.
Best Food: Garlic, asparagus, parsley, watercress, cucumber, celery are excellent vegetable and papaya & bananas are the best fruit.
Hot Epsom Salt Bath: Should be taken every day to induce elimination through the skin as much as possible.
Walking Exercise: Should walk for at least 3 kilometers once or twice daily.
Warm Water Enema: Should be taken daily while fasting to clean the bowel of toxic matter.
A decoction of Seam Vegetable: If albumin contains is very high then drink the decoction of seam vegetable (wall papady) one should take only the skin of vegetable not there seeds.