Ayurveda for Healthy Digestion
According to Ayurveda, indigestion is the basic cause of almost all problems in the body. If your digestive system works well, most of the diseases can be prevented and the health issues that you already face can be eliminated easily.
Ayurvedic rules for easy digestion
- Have a glass of water immediately after waking up
Drinking water immediately after waking up helps to solve many of the digestion problems. This helps to stimulate the work of the intestine and aids in removing toxins and other waste materials. Ayurveda suggests to keep some water in a copper container from the evening and have it in the morning. It’s also recommended to have a glass of hot water mixed a squeezed lemon and a little honey.
- Eat when hungry
Eat when you really feel hungry. This is the best time to have food as the body indicates you it’s time to eat. Don’t follow this if you have any kind of eating disorder or if you are tired or depressed. Don’t allow stress or emotional deficiencies make you eat more.
- Go for freshly prepared food
Having freshly prepared food makes you digest easily. Eating warm food, freshly cooked allows food enzymes to work better.
- chew your food well
Do not hurry, chew your food well, and eat slowly. Slow eating habit allows the stomach and other organs that help in digestion to digest the food properly. Remember that, the nutrients that you consume from your body depends on how well you chew your food.
- Follow proper nutritional combinations
Some nutritional combinations will upset your stomach and lead to dosha imbalances. Incorrect food combinations result in indigestion. The wrong combination of foods accumulates toxins in the body that make you unhealthy.
- Include spices in your diet
Spices like turmeric, ginger, cumin, coriander, etc help in strengthening the digestion by removing the toxins from the body and helps in absorbing nutrients from the food you take.
- Include all tastes in your diet
It’s important to include all the six tastes in your diet for balanced nutrition and to make doshas under control.
- sweet: helps in maintaining the growth of tissues
- sour; helps in maintaining the acidity
- Salty: supplies minerals and helps to retain water
- Bitter: helps to remove the toxins
- Spicy: supports metabolism and improves digestion
- Tart: helps to retain the minerals in the body
Balance doshas with the right foods
Depending upon one’s constitution (Vata, Pitta, Kapha) the body needs different types of food that helps in easy digestion to overcome digestive health problems.
Vata Dosha
Individuals with the Vata constitution are recommended to include beans and grain-cereal foods in their diet. It’s also good to include wheat and all kinds of fresh vegetables excluding celery, cabbage, tomatoes, spinach, and broccoli). Recommended fruits include grapes, lemons, sour cherries, plums, strawberries, and pineapple. Vegetable oils with warming properties can be used but should avoid using soybean and corn oil. With the dairy products, there is no issue that the body absorbs it well. Sweet food that can be consumed include honey, and maple syrup, Using refined sugar should be limited.
Pitta Dosha
Individuals with Pitta Constitution can include grain and cereal foods by excluding wheat, rice, oats. Buckwheat, millet, lentils, and corn. You can go for vegetables like cauliflower, celery, broccoli, potatoes, cabbage, peas, peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes. But need to exclude onions, spinach, radishes, carrots, and beet from the diet. In the case of fruits, you can enjoy an unlimited amount of apples, melons, plums, pomegranate, and grapes. But should limit the use of pears, pineapples, raspberries, bananas, peaches, grapefruit, lemons, apricots. For Pitta body type veritable is not recommended.
Kapha Dosha
People with Kapha body type can include any cereals as cereal foods stimulate kidney function, it’s beneficial for Kapha type. Vegetables that are highly recommended include celery, broccoli, carrots, and cabbage. And should avoid cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, aubergines, and peas.
Fruits that are most beneficial for Kapha include pears and apples. Exclude bananas from your diet
Dairy products are not recommended and as a substitute, you can include soy milk and cheese.
Spicy foods like chili, hot peppers, garlic, pepper, and others are very beneficial for Kapha dosha.
Avoid the use of surgery foods as they may destabilize Kapha’s digestion.
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