81
10. Let not your food be highly seasoned with
ty chillies and sour articles like tamarind, so as
to be appetising and thus inducing over-eaiiing,
!et your food be un-stimulating to the sense of taste
as Kuhne says.
11. Avoid the following articles: spices and
condiments; stimulants like tea and coffee, fried
foods, preserved foods, biscuits (market)/ pepper-
mints and chocolates. Eat very sparingly and that
too only occasionally of high protein foods, like
pulses and grams.
12. Eat only one substantial meal in the day ; the
other, if eaten/ should be a light one even if you are
hungry for it; it should be light both in quantity
and quality.
A GENERAL LINE OF TREATMENT FOR
THE CHRONIC
As has been pointed out already, there are two
phases of chronic indigestion:
1. Acute phase.
2. Chronic phase.
The two phases generally appear alternately till the
disease is radically cuied. The acute phase will not
continue for more than a few days; rarely it may
last for a few weeks. A single, uninterrupted
chronic phase may last for a few weeks, months or
even years. The treatment will vary according to
the phase of the disease.
In the acute phase the disease will be patent
and severe; in the chronic phase it will be latent
and mild. In the acute phase digestion may come
to a standstill or become very weak; in the chronic,
phase digestion will go to completion If the individual
observes the rules of eating enumerated earlier.
As the disease is being cured, the chronic phase
will become longer and milder—often so mild that,
11