B-vitamins in mushrooms help the body turn food into energy — add them to khichdi or soup when energy stays low.
Traditional
घी · Ghee
1 tsp warm cow ghee, taken on an empty stomach or stirred into warm milk at night, carries the other herbs deeper into the tissues.
Traditional
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खजूर · Dates
Two or three khajoor soaked overnight in water or milk, eaten in the morning with the soaking milk.
Traditional
दूध · Milk
A cup of warm cow milk at bedtime, boiled and taken slowly — never with salt or sour food in the same hour.
Traditional
बादाम · Almonds
5–7 badam soaked overnight, peeled in the morning and chewed well, or ground into warm milk.
Traditional
अश्वगंधा काढ़ा · Ashwagandha kadha
1/2 tsp ashwagandha in milk at night — for the tiredness that comes from strain rather than disease. Fatigue lasting over a month needs thyroid, haemoglobin and sugar checked first.
Traditional
ब्राह्मी चाय · Brahmi tea
Brahmi tea in the late afternoon — for mental tiredness that is not sleepiness. If the body is tired too, this is not the answer; get tested.
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
Sleep and wake at fixed hours; Shavasana twenty minutes at midday beats a nap.
Morning sun bath and deep breathing.
Classical Formulations
अश्वगंधारिष्ट · Ashwagandharishta
Dose: 15–30 ml · Equal warm water, twice daily after food
Nervous exhaustion, insomnia, low weight, weakness after illness, sexual debility, anxiety.
दशमूलारिष्ट · Dashamularishta
Dose: 15–30 ml · Equal warm water twice daily
The classical post-delivery tonic. Also general weakness, backache, wind disorders, recovery after fever.
लोहासव · Lohasava
Dose: 10–20 ml · Equal warm water after food
Anaemia, pallor, breathlessness on climbing, weakness with low haemoglobin, poor appetite.
क्षीरबला तेल · Ksheerabala Oil
Dose: External; internal only on advice · Warm and massage the head or affected part
Headache and migraine, insomnia, nerve pain, weakness of limbs, post-fever body ache.
Foods that help
घी · Gheeखजूर · Datesदूध · Milkबादाम · Almonds
Pick what's in your kitchen and see which remedy fits you best.
Bhojanveda
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