Constipation: How to Cure?
Home remedies to cure constipation
- If you are suffering with normal constipation you can try these remedies at home.
- Chew your each bite 20 to 30 times. Even rice too. It will help to digest food fast and easily.
- Avoid all purpose flour in your food.
- Take Triphala powder or tablets before bed daily or 3 times a week. Or take Harad powder or tablets before bed.
- Castor oil is powerful ingredient to relieve constipation in child and adult. Take 2 or 1 table spoon of castor oil and pour in tea or hot water, drink this mixture early in the morning. Do not eat anything for minimum 4 hours. You can drink hot water or tea multiple times. Once bowel clears you can have food. Once in a week you follow this treatment. If you have severe constipation you can take it for 2 times a week.
- Isabgol: Take one table spoon of Isabgol, add half cup of milk, you can add sugar to make it tasty. Rest this mixture for 30 minutes and have it.
- Amaltas fruit powder is also good to cure constipation.
- Trikatu: Trikatu is a mixture of three herbs: ginger, black pepper, and long pepper. It can help stimulate digestion and relieve constipation. Take half a teaspoon of Trikatu powder with warm water before meals.
- Ginger: Ginger is a natural digestive aid that can help relieve constipation. You can take it in various forms, such as ginger tea, ginger powder, or Lemon-Ginger-Honey water.
- Lemon water is best to detox body. it improves skin glow.
Classical Formulation from Ras Tantra Saar
Panchasam Churna:
Method: Take dry ginger (Zingiber officinale), small Harad (Terminalia chebula) Pipar (Piper longum) black nisoth (Operculina turpethum), and black salt in equal parts and make a fine powder.
Note: Many doctors soak this powder in lemon juice, and let it dry to consume.
Dosage: 3 to 6 grams at night with water.
Panchasam Churna cleanses the bowel and increases digestive power in diseases like abdominal Worms, Indigestion, Kapha-dominant abdominal diseases, Fever, inflammation, enlargement of the Spleen, Anemia, Chronic Rheumatism,. This is a very innocent and perfect remedy.
Dry ginger, Pipar show digestive properties, Chhoti Harad, Nishoth is known for virechana (Digestion). Kalanamak helps in both bloating and purgation. Both Panchsakar Churna and Panchsam Churna are mild and Panchsam is more digestive and more purgative than Panchsakar.
There is a difference in the work area of both. It is beneficial to use Panchsakar Churna in those patients who do not have fever, and in normal condition. And the one who has fever, and has to do general digestion and purgation, then Panchasam Churna is especially helpful.