Also known as: anemia · iron deficiency · खून की कमी · रक्ताल्पता · एनीमिया · pandu rog · पांडु रोग
Food Remedies
Main remedy
Lemon: take lemon with tomato juice; or soak 25g raisins overnight in lemon water, eat the raisins and drink the water each morning to build blood. Grapes: rich in glucose and iron — just 10 oz of grape juice helps ward off anaemia. Eating fresh grapes in season clears iron, vitamin and mineral deficiencies and brings colour to the face. For low blood, nothing beats grapes.
Half a cup of beetroot juice with a little lemon each morning.
Traditional
चौलाई · Amaranth leaves
Chaulai greens cooked with a little ghee, twice a week.
Traditional
गुड़ · Jaggery
A small piece of jaggery with roasted gram every afternoon.
Traditional
अंगूर · Grapes
rich in glucose and iron — just 10 oz of grape juice helps ward off anaemia. Eating fresh grapes in season clears iron, vitamin and mineral deficiencies and brings colour to the face. For low blood, nothing beats grapes.
Traditional
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नींबू · Lemon
take lemon with tomato juice; or soak 25g raisins overnight in lemon water, eat the raisins and drink the water each morning to build blood.
Traditional
टमाटर · Tomatoes
One ripe tomato with the midday meal; avoid if there is acidity or joint pain.
Traditional
दालें · Lentils
A bowl of masoor dal with lemon squeezed over it — the vitamin C makes the iron absorbable. Never with milk.
Traditional
खट्टे फल · Citrus fruits
Squeeze lemon over dal or greens — it triples iron absorption.
Traditional
अंजीर · Fig
Three dried figs boiled in milk at night — it gives both iron and calcium.
Traditional
शहतूत · Mulberry
A bowl of mulberry daily in season — iron and vitamin C in the same fruit.
Traditional
On this page Documented — There are human studies behind this ingredient for this particular complaint. Traditional — Carried by tradition and experience; modern evidence for this particular complaint is limited.
All of this is what others have found — tradition, shared experience and the studies done so far. It is not advice given to any one person. Before changing your diet, and especially if you take any medicine, ask your dietician or doctor.
Naturopathy
Sun bath for thirty minutes daily on the bare torso; walk barefoot on grass at dawn.
Deep breathing twenty rounds to improve oxygenation.
Classical Formulations
पुनर्नवा मंडूर · Punarnava Mandur
Dose: 2 tablets (500 mg) · Warm water after food
Swelling and fluid retention, anaemia with puffiness, sluggish kidneys, enlarged liver and spleen.
द्राक्षारिष्ट · Draksharishta
Dose: 15–30 ml · Equal warm water after meals
Weakness with dry cough, low haemoglobin, poor appetite, chest heaviness, convalescence. Gentle enough for the elderly.
लोहासव · Lohasava
Dose: 10–20 ml · Equal warm water after food
Anaemia, pallor, breathlessness on climbing, weakness with low haemoglobin, poor appetite.
Bhojanveda
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