Ayurvedic Treatment for Proteinuria

PROTEINURIA Ayurvedic Treatment

Diagnosis of a Proteinuria is fairly simple and can be done by a simple urine test checking for albumin levels in urine. Your doctor may recommend additional blood tests to understand the cause behind your condition.¹

Diet Recommendations (Aahar)

• Increase intake of barley in diet helps in drying up of excess fat / meda.
• Turmeric and cinnamon combination is beneficial in early stages of diabetes.
• Have Ayurvedic Plants like gokshura, gudmar, triphala, musta, cardamom, fenugreek, or coriander, mixed with honey.
• Include other cereals such as wheat, kodo millet and rice, which crops within 60 days to add fibre to diet.
• Pulses such as adhaki (arahar), horse gram (kulattha), and green gram (mudga) are beneficial.
• Vegetables such as green banana, chaulee, dwarf copperleaf (matsyakhshi), methi (fenugreek leaves), bitter gourd, Parawal, Kunduru, Lauki  along with bitter and astringent leafy vegetables may be taken.
• Include fruits such as orange, watermelon, apple, jambu, kapitha, amla, papaya  and other fruits with low sugar content.
• Soyabean, groundnut, and mustard oil may be beneficial.
• Karela juice or white pumpkin 20-30 ml on an empty stomach may be beneficial.
• Regularly have methi seeds soaked overnight in water.
• Avoid sugar, sugar products, rice, potato, ghee, butter, fat, regular oil, fermented food items, alcohol, urad (blackgram), rajma (kidney beans) and other heavy items.

Lifestyle changes (Vihar)

• Start exercising regularly. Walking, swimming, running or yogasanas are highly beneficial.
• Regular dry massage or udvartan may be beneficial.
• Taking regular steam bath may help reduce fat in obese diabetics.
• Taking sitz or waist bath (warm shallow bath to cleanse the genital area) also helps.
• Include pranayama (breathing exercise) in your daily routine.