Treatment for Neuritis

Treatment of neuritis by painkilling drugs may give temporary relief but it does not remove the trouble effectively.



The pain is relieved for the time being at the cost of the health of other parts of the body, especially the heart and kidneys, and the neuritis remains.

Diet for Neuritis

The best treatment for neuritis is to ensure that the patient gets optimum nutrition, well assimilated with all the vitamins and other nutrients. The diet should be made up of three basic food groups, namely seeds, nuts and grains, vegetables and fruits, with special emphasis on whole grains, particularly whole wheat, brown rice, raw and sprouted seeds, raw milk, especially in the soured form and home-made cheese.

In this regimen, the breakfast may consist of fresh fruits, handful of raw nuts or a couple of tablespoons of sunflower and pumpkin seeds. Steamed vegetables, whole wheat wheat tortilla and a glass of butter-milk may be taken for lunch. The dinner may comprise a large bowl of fresh, green, vegetable salad, fresh home-made cottage cheese, fresh butter and a glass of butter-milk.

In severe cases, the patient should be put on a short juice fast for four or five days before being given the optimum diet. Carrots, beets, citrus fruits, apples and pineapples may be used for juices.

All vitamins of the B group have proved highly beneficial in the prevention and treatment of neuritis. The disease has been helped when vitamins B1, B2, B6, B12 and pantothenic acid have been given together and extreme pain, weakness and numbness in some cases have been relieved within an hour.

The patient should avoid white bread, white sugar, refined cereals, meat, fish, tinned foods, tea, coffee and condiments which form the root of the trouble by continuously flooding 1118 tissues with acid impurities.

The patient should be given two or three hot Epsom salt baths weekly, remaining in the bath for 25 to 30 minutes.



The affected parts should also be bathed several times daily in hot water containing Epsom salt - a tablespoon of salt to a cupful of hot water. The patient should undertake a walking and other moderate exercises.

TREATMENT CHART FOR NEURITIS

A – DIET

I. Take raw fruit or vegetable juices for 4 or 5 days with a glass of juice every 2 or 3 hours diluted with warm water. Use warm water enema during this period.
II. Thereafter, adopt the strict lacto-vegetarian diet on the following lines:-
1. Upon arising: A glass of fresh .fruit or vegetable juice.
2. Breakfast: Fresh fruits and milk sweetened with honey and a handful of raw seeds or nuts.
3. Lunch: A bowl of steamed vegetables, one or two whole wheat chapputis, unsalted fresh butter and a glass of buttermilk.
4. Mid afternoon: A glass of fruit or vegetable juice.
5. Dinner: Fresh green vegetable salad with lime juice dressing and homemade cottage cheese.

Avoid: Tea coffee salt chocolate spices (mustard pepper and vinegar) sugar white flour and its products and refined foods.

Specially beneficial: All fruits an berries vegetables suci1 as carrots cabbage radishes cucumber red beets and tomatoes.

B - OTHER MEASURES

1. Hot epsom-salt bath twice a week.
2. Neutral immersion bath (92' to 95' F.) One hour daily at bed time.
3. Massage once a week.
4. Walking and moderate exercise including yogic asanas like ekpadatsana, varasana and shavashana.