Life style changes for emphysema

Condition analysis:
Emphysema is a serious and debilitating lung disease. In this condition, alveoli, the tiny air sacs in the lungs and bronchioles, the narrow passages leading to the air sacs, become permanently distended with air. The lung tissues lose their elasticity, and the number of blood vessels is reduced. It is essentially a chronic disease, which generally occurs after the age of 40.

Instructions:
To begin with, the patient-should undertake a fast on fruits or vegetable juices for about five days. During this period, a warm-water enema should be used daily to cleanse the bowels. The juice fast may be followed by an exclusive diet, of fresh juicy fruits such as apple, pineapple, pear, peach, orange and papaya for further five days or so.

The patient may thereafter gradually adopt a well-balanced diet of seeds, nuts and grains, vegetables and fruits. The diet should be supplemented with vegetables oil, honey and goat's milk, preferably in soured form like curd and buttermilk. The emphasis should be on fresh fruits and raw vegetables, as well as fruit and vegetable juices. The short juice fast followed by an all-fruit diet may be repeated at intervals of two months or so depending on the condition.

Among home remedies is the use of garlic. Two or three cloves of this vegetable should be chewed daily, preferably in the morning on an empty stomach. A little, garlic juice can also be added to vegetable juices.