Jaundice is the yellow discoloration of the skin. In the deeper layers of the skin, when bile pigments are deposited, you have jaundice. It is caused due to the malfunctioning of the liver. Liver is one of the five vital organs of your body. Any adverse effect on it will disorganize the entire body.

The obstruction of the bile ducts that discharge bile salts and pigments into the intestine, cause jaundice. The bile then gets mixed with the blood. This is the cause of yellow pigmentation of the skin and naturally its effect is seen all over the body. There are many reasons for the jaundice.

When you treat the most damaging diseases like jaundice, you need to know the cause of its attack. Fried foods, refined oil, highly spiced and salted products create favorable conditions for the jaundice to arrive and stay. These food items constipate the bowels and to get rid of constipation, you take purgatives. Many of the purgatives contain the extract of mercury, and this in turn further damages the liver. This is how the remedy becomes worst than the disease.

Your liver is overburdened and therefore you have jaundice. Give relief and relaxation to the liver first. Digestion is a strenuous action particularly when the body is diseased and when the various parts of the body are not doing their allotted jobs. Therefore, change your diet to suit your body condition. Take easy to digest food like fruits and vegetables. Take plenty of water. The waste matter rotting within the cells and many parts of your body requires quick and efficient disposal. When your body is free from impurities, you can’t have any disease. Water enema is one of the important tools to clean the morbid material contained within your intestines. Foods containing fat should be totally avoided, not only during the onset of the jaundice, but even subsequently. Juice of lime, raisins, figs, etc must be taken on regular basis. You also need to formulate the light exercises regimen but this should be followed after you are through with the acute attack.

A best exercise is suggested to jaundice patients. That is walking on all fours—with hands and feet. It increases the flow of bile by activating the liver. The digestive process also gets a kick by this special exercise.

It is the conventional but accepted belief unto this day that jaundice can not be cured by medicines as such. Certain preventive measures are necessary to control it. Fresh sugarcane juice is given with great benefits for jaundice.