Constipation Cure: Ayurvedic Treatment of Constipation

Constipation may be defined as infrequent bowel evacuation or decreased frequency of usual bowel movements. If the stools are unusually hard, dry and difficult to expel, the patient is said to be constipated. The main causes include habitual or due to certain diseases. Addiction to tea, coffee and smoking, excessive use of laxatives and purgatives, stress, sluggish peristalsis in old age, change of place of evacuation, lack of exercise, erratic and poor diet.

Signs and Symptoms

These includes cracked tongue, loss of appetite, headache and discomfort, abdominal pain, flatulence in abdomen and other complications such as piles and ulcer.

Constipation Home Remedies

1) Eat 2 tsp. Gulkand(confection of rose petals) with milk. Another way is to steep 2 tsp. pulp of purging cassia (amaltas) in water overnight, strain in the morning and drink mixing to it 1 tsp. sugar.

2) Ajmoda seeds(two parts) mixed to one part Aniseed (saunf) and sugar taken twice daily is a beneficial constipation remedy.

3) The powder of ginger, black pepper, mint (pudina) and celery seeds taken in the morning and evening leave a curative effect.

4) Rose petal jelly is useful ayurvedic remedy for constipation. To make it mix 1 tbs. lemon juice, 2 tbs. orange juice, 2 tbs. clear honey, 400 gm white cane sugar and 150 ml water. Mix until the sugar dissolves. Add it to 100 gm white rose petal and heat gently until the petals appear to dissolve. Allow the mixture to cool stirring constantly, you will have the syrup with transparent pieces of petal floating in it.

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