Low appetite, slow heavy digestion — weak digestive fire.
Food Remedies
Main remedy
Mango: fibrous mango is easy to digest and relieves constipation. Mix 70g sweet mango juice with 2g dry ginger (sonth) and drink each morning to boost digestive power. Ginger-cumin tea before meals stokes digestive fire. Fennel seeds after meals aid absorption. A few pieces of ripe pineapple after a heavy meal; its enzymes help break down food. Mint-cumin water sipped with meals. A small piece of jaggery with a little ghee after lunch aids digestion. Half a teaspoon of ajwain with black salt in warm water after meals.
A few pieces of ripe pineapple after a heavy meal; its enzymes help break down food.
Traditional
पुदीना · Mint
Mint-cumin water sipped with meals.
Traditional
गुड़ · Jaggery
A small piece of jaggery with a little ghee after lunch aids digestion.
Traditional
अजवाइन · Ajwain
Half a teaspoon of ajwain with black salt in warm water after meals.
Traditional
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आम · Mango
fibrous mango is easy to digest and relieves constipation. Mix 70g sweet mango juice with 2g dry ginger (sonth) and drink each morning to boost digestive power.
Traditional
अदरक · Ginger
A thin slice of fresh adrak chewed before meals, or ½ tsp dried sonth in warm water twice a day.
Traditional
CautionNot in large amounts alongside blood-thinning medicine. Stop before surgery.
जीरा · Cumin
1 tsp jeera dry-roasted and taken with warm water after meals, or boiled in water and sipped through the day.
Traditional
सौंफ · Fennel
1 tsp saunf chewed after every meal, or steeped in a cup of hot water and sipped once it cools.
Traditional
काली मिर्च · Black pepper
Two or three crushed peppercorns with honey, or a pinch of powder added to whatever else you are taking.
Traditional
नींबू घास · Lemongrass
Lemongrass tea after meals — it eases gas and heaviness.
Traditional
तेजपत्र · Indian Bay Leaf
Add bay leaf to dal and vegetables — it aids digestion and prevents gas.
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
Eat only when hungry, chew thirty times, and stop at three-quarters full.
Vajrasana five minutes after meals; weekly fruit day.
Bhojanveda
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