Jaundice Treatment

Jaundice Definition:

Jaundice is the disorder of the liver caused by any infection of liver cells, due to many causative factors. It is diagnosed by a yellowish staining of the eyes and skin.

Jaundice Causes:

• Irregular diet (either intake of unhygienic and stale food or excessive intake of oily, spicy and pungent foods).
• Spread of viral infections, which cause jaundice, through blood and use of infected blades, syringes and needles.

Jaundice Symptoms:

• Yellowish staining of the eyes and skin.
• Discoloration of urine from light yellow to very dark yellow to even reddish yellow.
• In cholistatic jaundice, stools turn whitish, but urine remains unchanged.
• Loss of appetite, associated with nausea and vomiting.
• Pain in the abdomen due to enlargement of liver and spleen.
• Anemia and weakness.

Do’s & Don’t :

• Diet should include boiled rice, lentils and buttermilk, with a pinch of asafetida, rock salt and powdered cumin seeds.
• A cold infusion of Vetiver grass, powdered ginger and sandalwood in place of plain drinking water.
• Avoid fried, pungent, oily and spicy foods.
• Stick to a diet that includes hot vegetable soups, juice of green grams and rice porridge, with a dash of black pepper and ginger powder.
• Avoid unhygienic and contaminated food.

Suggestions:

• Fresh juice of Phyllanthus niruri (Bhumi amalaki) in a 30-ml dosage, thrice, daily.
• A decoction of Kalmegh (Bhunimba), leadwort and three myrobalans in a 30-ml dosage, thrice, daily.
• Tablets prepared from Picrorrhiza curroa (Kutki) and gum guggul (Komiphora mukul) in a 250-mg dosage, thrice, daily.
• Either tablet made from tinospora cordifolia (Guduchi) in a 1-gm dosage or fresh juice of tinospora in a 30-ml dosage, thrice, daily.

Jaundice Treatment:

• Two-to-three nasal drops made with the juice of bitter luffa.
• Juice of radish leaves in a 50-ml dosage, thrice, daily.
• The paste of the bark of Berberis vultaris (jaundice berry), in a 1-gm dosage, thrice, daily.
• Sugarcane juice mixed with limejuice, in 30-ml dosage.