A CASE OF DUODENAL ULCER
The case under reference was treated in
Sarzna's 'Naturopathic Sanatorium, Pudukkottai.
The patient was aged 55 years and the disease was
a long-standing one; twelve years of allopathic
bungling had reduced him to a state of despair. In
the early stages, severe pain would be felt some
time alter eating ; the pain would be relieved by
more eating. Allopathic doctors who treated him
diagnosed it as a case of duodenal ulcer. A course
of milk-diet gave him only temporary relief. At the
time he was admitted into my father's Sanatorium,
he was complaining of severe pain in the stomach
almost all the time; often he suffered from severe
head ache. The treatment lasted six weeks/ by
which time no trace of the disease was left. Apart
from local, Water-Cure applications to relieve pain,
the main part of the treatment, especially in the
initial stages, was a diet of cocoanut water. For the
first ten days he took nothing but the water oi
tender cecoanuts, (the tender kernel was not tak^n)
about six glasses in a day. Afterwards for a few
days he was eating besides/ the tender kernel of
two cocoanuts in the evening. Later he changed
over to a diet of tender cocoanuts, ripe tomatoes,
greŁn leafy vegetables, a small glass oi milk and
bananas.
, the point to be noted here is that the diet was
increased only after the condition of the patient
frnprbvfed.
NEURASTHENIA
In all cases of chronic indigestion* or dyspepsia/
the brain and the 'nervous- system of the whole
body is abnormal in some degree; this abnormality
ife mdmly due to the poisoning effect of the toxins
formed as $ r^sujt o{ indigestion arid