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Diet Therapy for Eczema
To begin with, the patient should take only an 'all-fruit' diet
for a week, taking three meals a day, of fresh juicy fruits,
such as apples, pears, grapes, grapefruit, pineapples, and
peaches. Only unsweetened lemon or plain water, either hot
or cold, should be drunk and nothing else. After the
one-week, all-fruit diet, the patient can gradually adopt a
well-balanced diet with emphasis on raw foods, especially
fresh fruit and vegetables, sprouted seeds, raw nuts, and
whole-grain cereals, particularly millet and brown rice.
Further short periods of the 'all-fruit' diet for three days or so
may be necessary at a monthly interval till the skin's
condition improves. Meats, sugar, strong tea or coffee,
condiments, pickles, soft drinks, candies, ice cream, refined
and processed foods should be avoided as far as possible.
Raw vegetable juices, especially carrot juice in combination
with spinach juice, have proved beneficial in the treatment of
eczema. The formula proportions considered helpful in this
combination are 300 ml of carrot juice and 200 ml of spinach
juice to make 500 ml or 1/2 liter of the juice.
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