Important Home Remedies from Ayurveda

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Home Remedies for 

1. Constipation

2. Indigestion

3. Common Cold

4. Headaches and Migraines

5. Insomnia, sleep disorders and sleep deprivation

6. Stomach pains and stomach aches

1. In case of chronic constipation a lifestyle change is necessary: 

• Always get up before dawn and get a long, slow walk in the morning air.
• Never wear tight-fitting clothing or belts.
• Have less tobacco, coffee, tea, hot spices & sterilized milk.
• Have more water and fresh whole milk.
• Never sleep during the day or within 3 hours of taking food.
• Fast one day a week.
• Take 3 or 5 prunes boiled 15 minutes or longer every morning.

2. Home Remedies for (Chronic) Indigestion:

• Take one teaspoon of fresh grape wine 30 minutes before meals.
• Reduce or eliminate the consumption of coffee, cigarettes and tea.
• Eat once or twice daily, never after sunset and avoid all in-between snacks.
• Fast on lemon-juice and water.
• Take a small amount of fresh pineapple after meals.
• Take 1/3 of the milk of an average coconut before breakfast.
• To alleviate immediate symptoms take a mixture of ½ teaspoon each of baking soda and oregano seeds with a dash of salt, chased with a glass of lukewarm water.

3. Home Remedies for Common Cold:

 

• Start the day with the honey-pepper mixture : grind 7 black pepper balls and mix with a teaspoon of honey, turning the spoon 108 times clockwise.
• Following the honey-pepper mixture, swallow, without chewing, one-half average garlic clove with a glass of luke-warm water.
• Take three or four times daily at the most a tea made from one tablespoon of fenugreek seeds, seven black peppercorns and one teaspoon of fresh minced ginger, which were boiled in two cups of water until one cup remains. Black tea may be added, as may sugar.
• Eat us much as possible, but avoid sour foods, cold foods and cold liquids, radishes.
• Sit facing the fire as much as possible.
• Keep the body well covered from throat to thighs

4. Home Remedies for Headaches and Migraines:

They can have many causes and there are many ayurvedic remedies.

• Apply a paste of freshly ground clay or freshly ground sandalwood to the forehead, let dry, rub off by hand and wash.
• When not suffering from a cold, drink a teaspoon of honey in a glass of warm water or fill the stomach completely with water.
• Massage forehead, temples, neck and shoulder muscles, making sure to use a little oil to prevent chafing and burning.
• If before sunrise or after sunset and the stomach is empty, do a head stand. This increases blood flow in the head and stops most forms of headache.
  

Headaches most often are caused by problems elsewhere in the body, as can be seen on the following overview :

	Pain here indicates
	A : Tension and infections of the gums and teeth. B : Over acidity (pain of the eyeball). C : Gastritis (pain of the eye socket). D : Inflammation of the stomach. E : Ulcers F : Disorders of the intestines. G : Disorders of the fallopian tubes. H : Kidney disorders. I : Disorders of urinary tract. J : Neuralgia. K : Formation of cataract. L : Disorders of the brain and the spinal nerves.

In Ayurvedic massage therapy, head massage can help to cure disorders elsewhere in the body.

5. Home remedies for insomnia, sleep disorders and sleep deprivation :

• Eat a good meal shortly before sunset, followed two hours later by a bath in lukewarm water. The patient should then go to bed, preferably listening to either drone instruments or the sound of rustling leaves.
• The milk of a nursing mother brings relief when one drop is placed in each nostril.
• Rinse the eyes with rosewater, then add a drop of ghee (clarified butter). Keep the eyes closed and sleep.
• Comb the hair before retiring.
• Massage feet, calves, nape of the neck and shoulders.
• If married, engage in sex.

 Also Read : Glory of Waking UP

6. Home Remedies for stomach pains and stomach aches :

• Take 30 grams of pomegranate seeds, sprinkle salt and add a pinch of black pepper. Chew them well and swallow.
• Take 2 grams of oregano seeds, 2 grams of cumin seeds and 2 grams of rock salt. Make a fine powder and squeeze half a lemon on it. Swallow the mixture with a glass of lukewarm water.
• For intestine troubles eat 2 ripe bananas with 250 grams of yoghurt daily for a week. Avoid fried or spiced food and fat.

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The Glory of Waking up

Pick what you like from the following steps of the waking up process or perform all these daily rituals if you can :

1. Upon awakening one hour before sunrise sit up in your bed.

2. Check through which nostril your breath is flowing more strongly.

3. Observe the lines in the palms of your hands. Rub the fingertips with your thumbs in a circular soothing rhythm (right clockwise circles, left anticlockwise circles). With the fingertips rub the palms. Then turn the right wrist clockwise and the left wrist anticlockwise. First kiss the palm of that side of your body where the flow of breath is stronger, then kiss the other palm. (Kissing confers energy. By kissing your palm, you give your best vibrations to your most effective tool for self-expression.) Rub both hands together and move the palms slowly over your face, covering head, shoulders, arms, and legs, creating an energy shield which wards off negative influences for the whole of the day. You may also learn this protection mantra that belongs to this simple but effective morning ritual :

KAR AGRE VASATE LAKSHMI
(in the front part of the hands, i.e. the fingertips, lives Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth)
KAR MADHYE CHA SARASVATI
(in the middle part of the hands, i.e. the palm, lives Sarasvati, the goddess of art and of learning)
KAR MULE VASATE GOVINDAM
(in the end part of the hands, i.e. the root or wrist, lives Govindam, Lord Krishna)
PRATAM SHUBH KAR DARSHANAM
(it is auspicious to see the hand in the morning)

4. Sit silently with an empty mind for a few moments.

5. Step out of the bed and touch the ground with the leg first that corresponds with the side of the body where the breath is flowing dominant (check nostrils!).

6. Urinate or defecate or vice versa depending on the nostril activity, without staying too long in the bathroom.

7. Rinse the anus with cold water. Water is an electrical conductor and can never irritate sensitive tissues.

8. Wash hands thoroughly, wash face, rinse mouth and eyes with cool water.

9. Clean nose, teeth and tongue.

10. Make some faces in front of a mirror to get rid of early morning seriousness.

11. Take a short, slow walk in the fresh morning air.

12. Surround yourself with simple and soothing visuals, preferable white items, avoid all disturbing visuals and people.

13. Concentrate on some fresh and fragrant flowers with subtle colors.

14. Sit by a fire.

15. Relax - do pranayama until Sushumna is activated (the breath will flow simultaneously equally strong through both the nostrils). About 10 minutes before sunrise Sushumna is naturally activated.

16. Concentrate - do tratak exercise and clean the eyes afterwards.

17. Meditate with the eyes closed, center your energy in the heart chakra or at the third eye.

18. Do some physical morning excercises.

19. Massage your body with oil on lunar days, i.e. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.

20. Bath your body from top to toe while humming.

21. Comb your hair with a wooden, silver or gold comb.

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