“Diet is health, diet is medicine”, so said Socrates several hundred years ago. Those who take to juice diet should follow the invaluable instructions given below.

1. The purpose of juice-diet should be distinctly determined. Whether juice diet is adopted or the purpose of maintaining health or getting relief from disease should be very clear.
2. The intake of juice-diet should be regular. If the purpose of taking juice-diet is to get rid of virulent and chronic diseases, juice-diet should be followed systematically and with all earnestness.
3. A fixed quantity of juice should be taken at predetermined fixed hours regularly every day.
4. A variety in fruits and vegetables is desirable. If the partake of juices-diet tends to get relief from specific diseases, the selection of fruits and vegetables should be strictly under the guidance of an expert dietician.
5. In order to preserve its useful and live elements, juice should be taken fresh immediately after it has been extracted. It should be sipped by draughts. A quick swallowing of juices does not give expected results.
6. If raw food, salad or nuts are taken with juice-diet, juice should be taken some time before the taking of these substances so that the enzymes contained in juice may help digestion.
7. A partaker of juice-diet should always drink juice with a delightful mind. Juice taken with full faith and hope is more beneficial.
8. During the period of juice diet, sometimes the toxic elements concealed in the body try to find their way through different processes of elimination like vomiting, headache, fever, etc. These symptoms are not much to be worried about. The patient should continue juice diet without any apprehension, because these symptoms are short-lived and disappear on their own.
9. There are several other experiments which help the process of elimination of toxic elements of the body. In costive conditions enemas can be taken for eradication of accumulated stools in the intestine. Hot-water bath or vapor-bath would hasten the process of elimination of toxic elements.
10. A complete rest I recommended during the period of juice diet. Though hard work and exercises are contraindicated during juice-fasting, light yoga and a short distance walk are permissible.