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Elderly slow digestion

Elderly digestion — the fire banked with age, small meals heavy.

Food Remedies

Main remedy
Smaller warm meals, jeera-sonth in cooking, khichdi dinners, chhaach at lunch — the elderly fire needs kindling, not loading.
छाछ
छाछ · Buttermilk
Thin chhaach with roasted jeera after lunch.
Traditional
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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.

Foods that help

जीरा · Cuminसोंठ · Dry gingerछाछ · Buttermilkमूँग दाल · Moong dalनरम खिचड़ी · Soft khichdiहींग · Asafoetida

Limit these

भारी रात्रि-भोजन · Heavy dinnersरात में कच्चा सलाद · Raw salads at night

Pick what's in your kitchen and see which remedy fits you best.

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