Diet Treatment for Fever

Fever being a natural healing crisis, it should be helped to run its normal course.



Any interference with this nature process by administration of drugs will only enable the body to retain the morbid matter, which caused the condition. If dealt with in natural way, the common fever where there are no complications, will subside in two to three days.

Diet for Fever:

To begin with, the patient should be put on a fast on orange juice and water. The procedure is to take the juice of an orange in a glass of warm water every two-hour during the day. It will provide energy, increases urinal output and promote body resistance against infection thereby hastening recovery.



Warm-water enema should be given daily to cleanse the bowels during this period.

After the temperature has come down to normal and the tongue has cleared, the patient may adopt an all-fruit diet for further two days. In this regimen, he should take three meals a day of fresh juicy fruits such as apple, pear, grapes, orange, pineapple, peach, melon or any other juicy fruit in season. For drinks, unsweetened lemon water or plain water, either hot or cold may be taken. Thereafter, the patient may gradually embark upon a well-balanced diet, with emphasis on fresh fruits and raw or lightly cooked vegetables.

Home Remedies for Fever: 

Certain home remedies have been found beneficial in the treatment of common fever.



The use of the leaves of holy basil (holi basil) is the most effective of these remedies. A decoction made by about 12 grams of these leaves, boiled with half a liter of water, should be administered with milk, sugar and powdered cardamom (chhoti elaichi). This will bring down the temperature.

A tea made from fenugreek (fenugreek seeds) seeds is equal in value to quinine in reducing fevers. It is particularly valuable as a cleansing and soothing drink. Fenugreek seeds, when moistened with water becomes slightly mucilaginous, and hence the tea made from them has the power to dissolve sticky substance like mucus.

Other Measures for fever: 

Cold compresses may be applied to the head in case the temperature rises above 103°F. If this method does not succeed, cold pack may be applied to the whole body. The procedure is to bring out a sheet or large square piece of linen material in cold water, wrap it twice around the body and legs of the patient and then cover completely with a small blanket or similar warm material. This pack should be applied every three hours during the day while temperature is high and kept on for one hour or so each time. Hot water bottles may be applied to the feet and also against the sides of the body.

TREATMENT CHART FOR FEVER

A - DIET

Fast on fruit juice till fever subsides. Take a glass of fresh fruit juice, diluted with water on 50:50 basis, every two hours. Use warm-water enema daily during the day.

B. An all-fruit diet for further two days, taking three meals a day of fresh juicy fruits at five-hourly intervals.

III. Thereafter, gradually embark upon a well-balanced diet, on the following lines:-

1. Upon arising:

A glass of lukewarm water with half a freshly 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:

Freshly-prepared steamed or lightly cooked vegetables, whole wheat wheat tortilla and a glass of buttermilk.

4. Mid-afternoon:

A glass of fresh fruit or vegetable juice.

5. Dinner:

A bowl of raw vegetable salad and sprouted seeds like alfalfa and green gram beans, with limejuice dressing.

Home Remedies:

Decoction of holi basil leaves and fenugreek seeds tea.

AVOID:

Meats, tea, coffee, condiments, pickles refined and processed foods, white flour and sugar and products made from them.

B - OTHER MEASURES

1. Cold compress on the head in case of high fever, failing which, cold pack to the whole body.