Fasting Therapy for Appendicitis
The patient should resort to fasting, which is the only real cure for the appendicitis. No food should be given. Nothing except water should enter the system. The patient can be given fruit juices from the 3rd day onwards. After spending three days on fruit juice patient may adopt an all-fruit diet for a further 4 to 5 days. During this period, he should have three meals a day of fresh juicy fruits. After that, he should adopt a well-balanced diet based on three basic food groups namely seeds, nuts & grains, vegetables & fruits.
II. Milk Diet for Appendicitis
In the case of chronic appendicitis, a short fast should be followed by a full milk diet for 2 to 3 weeks. In this regimen, a glass of milk should be taken every 2 hours from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on the first day, a glass every hour and a half the next day and drink every hour the 3rd day. Then the quantity of milk should be gradually increased so as to take glass every half an hour if such an amount can be tolerated comfortably. After the full milk diet, the patient should gradually embark upon a well-balanced let with emphasis on fresh fruit and green leafy vegetables.
III. Wheat Grass Juice for Appendicitis
Wheat grass juice is considered beneficial in the treatment of appendicitis. By furnishing body with minerals, vitamins, & chlorophyll.
IV. Diet Cure Chart for Appendicitis:
Adopt a well-balanced diet as given in separate chapter after fasting therapy.
Avoid: Constipation, Tea, Coffee, Sugar, Anar, Spicy Fried Food, Pickles, Chutney, Soft Drinks & Alcohol.
Highly Beneficial Foods: Munaqqa (Raisins), Carrot, Beet, Wheat Grass Juice, Mung, Curd, Grapes, Amla, Methi.
V. Selective Home Remedies for appendicitis
1. METHI (Fenugreek): Decoction or tea made from methi is helpful in preventing appendix from becoming a dumping ground for excess mucus and intestinal waste.
2. RAISINS (MUNAQQA): Soaked in a glassful of drinking water 24 hrs and eat early in the morning with water.
3. CARROT: Carrot juice, combined with spinach and a little lemon juice is an effective treatment of constipation.
4. MUNG (GREEN GRAM): Water in which green gram are soaked is excellent for all types of fever and during an acute phase of appendicitis.
5. ISHABEUL: The seed with husk are soaked in water or milk for few hours. The liquid is strained and can be taken at night.
NOTE: Do not use any home remedies continuously. Keep at least ten days proof gap and then re-start it again.
VI. Hydrotherapy for appendicitis
Little enemas, containing about one pint (1/2 liter) of warm water should be administered every day for the first three days to cleanse the lower bowl. Hot Compresses may be placed over the painful area several times daily. Abdominal pack, made of a strip of the wet sheet covered by icy flannel cloth bound tightly around the abdomen, should be applied continuously until all acute symptoms subside. When severe symptoms subside by about; the 3rd day, the patient should be given a full enema, containing about 3 pints of warm water and this should be repeated daily until all inflammation and pain have subsided. Wet girdle pack is also useful remedy