Beriberi: beriberi is caused due to deficiency of Vitamin B1 or deficiency of thiamine in the diet. Thiamine is basically needed to convert carbohydrate into glucose. Infant child can get this disease if mother has vitamin deficiency, the normal growth of child is get in problem and in some cases it can be become serious health issue.

Symptoms of beriberi: the patient may feel fatigue, laziness, and lack of concern, depression, lethargy, poor concentration, and vomiting, abdominal pain. Other symptoms include irritability, body ach, Heart problems, paralysis, and limb pain extra.

Treatment: beriberi is a serious problem though it has some home remedy, consuming pulp of pineapple twice a day after meal. Pineapples are good to restore the level of thiamine in a month time. Having oyster in your regular diet is also beneficial as it is rich and natural resource thiamine. Having paste of peanuts every morning will cure beriberi naturally.

The disease beriberi is caused by vitamin b1 deficiency and the disease is also known as thiamine deficiency. This disease is rampant in south Asian nations, as rice happens to be the staple diet there. A deficiency in vitamin b1 disturbs the entire body metabolism. The polishing of the rice devoids it from vitamin b1; as it removes the pericarp, which is rich in vitamin b1. This disease has two variants; the first affects the cardiovascular system and the second affects the nervous system. Incidentally, the latter one is also known as Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. Te symptoms are apparent as the ailing person would suffer from “pain, tingling, loss of feeling (sensation) in hands, muscle damage with loss of muscle function or paralysis of the lower legs and feet, vomiting, strange eye movements, mental confusion/ speech difficulties, coma and death”.

However, there is no need to worry, as there is a known herbal treatment for beri-beri. The only effort from your end would be to boil 120 Gms of wheat germ in a cup measure of milk and drink it once daily for a month and the symptoms of beri-beri would be resolved in a month. Incidentally, wheat germ is also known as cereal germ.