By Nadeem Divakar
Fasting Therapy for Asthma: Essentially a disease of over-nourishment that in intake of food much in excess of one’s ability to digest & metabolize. Therefore, patients of asthma should generally be serve periodic fasts. Instead of a heavy meal, the patient should take very light meals. Particularly very light food at night or even avoid taking any food at all.
Asthma patient should fast for three to five days on lemon juice with honey. During this period the bowels should be cleaned daily with warm water enema. After the fast the patient may resort to an all fruit diet for a further 5 to 7 days to nourish the system and eliminate the toxins. Therefore, other foods may be gradually added to diet. Further short fasts and period on all fruit diet may be required in certain cases at intervals of 2 or months depending upon the progress being made.
II. Wheat Grass Juice Therapy:Wheat grass juice is considered beneficial in treatment of asthma. By furnishing body with minerals, vitamins, & chlorophyll. An exclusive diet of wheat grass juice is mentioned in separate chapter please refer it.
III. Diet-Cure Chart for Asthma:Adopt a well balanced diet as given below after fasting Therapy. A vegetarian diet is best for asthma.
A) UPON ARISING (6am): Juice of one lemon with 2 teaspoons of honey and a teaspoon ginger juice in a glass of warm water.
B) BREAKFAST (8am): Carrot juice or any seasonal fruit juice. In carrot juice of ginger, mint, tomatoes, beets can be added to make a delicious & nutritions drink. A handful of germinated gram & wheat bread & dried fruit.
C) LUNCH (10-11 am): Being with salad (raw vegetable such as cucumber, lettuce, tomato, carrot, beet) mixed with pepper & lemon juice. After eating salad, eat vegetable soup or a bowl of boiled vegetables, 2 table spoons sprouted grain with whole wheat bread or chappatis.
D) MID AFTERNOON (4 pm): Fresh fruits, or salted biscuits.
E) DINNER (7 pm): Any seasonal fruits and sprouted grains one bowl.
F) BED TIME (9-10 pm): 1 teaspoon powder of haritaki or har given bed times along with one fourth quantity of rock salt every month. This will enable the body to build up its resistance & strengthen the vital organs to carry out its function in the normal way.
Avoid: Rice, Sugar, Curd, Yoghurt, Ripe banana, Cold Drinks, Ice Cream & Sour fruit & its juice, meat of any type for a period of 3 months, fried food, strong tea, coffee, alcoholic, beverages, condiments, pickle sauces & all refined and processed foods. Initially milk & milk products should be totally avoided. Avoid taking water with meals. He should not eat very hot very cold, very spicy, very bland, very pungent, very sweet, very scar & very bitter. Avoid food which is known to be allergic. Avoid Elephant foot (Suran) potatoes.
Highly Beneficial Foods: Baked food, Honey, Vitamin B6, Aniseed (Saunf), Wing, Ajwan, Laun Garlic, Ginger, Holy Basil (Tulsi), Black Pepper, Turmeric, Amla, Jung Elyaz, Anjeer (Fig), Grape, Orange, Chauli Ka Saag, Karela, Pudina (Min Spinach (Palak), Almond, Til (Sesame), Jawar & Bajre cow & goat milk.
IV. Selective Home Remedies:
1. Turmeric: 1 teaspoon of turmeric powder mixed with 2 tsp. of honey twice daily on an empty stomach or 1 tsp. with a cup of warm milk twice a day.
2. Amaranth: Drink fresh juice of chaulai Ka saag with honey.
3. Bitter Gourd (Karela): A teaspoon of root paste mixed with small amount of honey or tulsi leaf juice, given on every night for month.
4. Garlic: 3 cloves of garlic boiled in milk, can be used every night.
5. Ginger: Teaspoon of fresh ginger juice mixed with a cup full fenugreets (Methi) decoction & honey.
6. Spinach (Palak): Infusion of fresh leave of spinach prepared with 2 tsp. of methi seeds mixed with honey. It should be taken in doses of 30ml 3 times daily.
7. Tomato: A glassful of fresh tomato juice mixed with honey, a pinch of powdered cardamon (Chhoti Elaichi) seeds, taken after swallowing 3 peeled cloves of garlic every night before going to bed.
8. Sesame (Til): An infusion of sesame seed, mixed with a teaspoon of linseed (Alsi), a pinch of common salt & teaspoon honey, should be given once at night.
9. Clove (Laung): Chewing a burnt clove or 3 to 5 drops of clove oil mixed with honey & clove of garlic before going to bed.
10. Tulsi: A decoction of leaves with honey and ginger.
11. Linseed (Alsi): Linseed emulsion or tea can be made by heating a teaspoon of the powdered seeds in about 360ml of water. The liquid is reduced to half its quantity by boiling & sweetened with sugar.
Note: Do not use any home remedies continuously. At least keep a gap of 10 days then again restart same.
V. Hydro-Therapy for Asthma:
A. Enema,
B. Hot Fermentation to back
C. Chest Pack
D. Steam Inhalation
E. Sponge Bath for fever
F. Hot Food & Arm Bath
G. Hot & Cold lung compress.
VI. Mudra Therapy for Asthma:This mudra can be made by entangling the finger among themselves & keeping either of the thumbs erect. Practice of this mudra increase heat in our body. So it is benefit to practice in winter & any time of the day but as only as when required. It should not practice for a longer time as this generates heat in the body. It destroys cough and chronic cold.
VI. Auto suggestion for Asthma:
1. Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
2. It is safe now for me to take charge of my own life. Choose to be free.
Repeat these affirmations as many times as you can. Especially early morning when you get up and while going to bed.
Nadeem Divekar
(Naturopath)
9769928390
nadeemdivekar@gmail.com
