|
Ayurvedic
Treatment For Following Diseases
Overweight
Excessive body fat is accumulated on the belly, buttocks,
breasts and thighs. This may lead to diabetes, hypertension
and arthritis.
Causes: Mainly due to absence of physical
activity. Other causes may be sleeping during the day, intake
of Kapha - increasing foods .Over intake of food. Heredity
and Pathology are rare causes
Pathogenesis
Body is made of 7- Dhatus {Rasa (Lymph), Rakta (Blood), Maans
(Muscle), Meda( Fat), Asthi (Bones), Majja (Nervous System)
Shukra (Reproductive System)}. But in Obese fellow Meda is
excessively nourished and remaining other Dhatus get malnourished.
Kapha gets accumulated in between. Roll of medicines with
dietary correction is to remove obstructed Kapha and let all
Dhatus nourish equally. When Kapha increases in abnormal fashion,
Fat metabolism gets hampered and person becomes Obese.
Three important points for loosing weight:
Controlling
eating habits.
Regular exercise.
Avoiding the causes of weight gain
Diet
to lose weight:
Early morning - A glass of warm water mixed with the juice
of half a lemon. A teaspoonful of honey can be added if you
like.
Breakfast - Wheat or Mung (green beans) sprouts and one cup
skimmed milk.
Mid morning- A glass of orange, pineapple or carrot juice.
Lunch - Salad of raw vegetables such as carrot, beet, cucumber,
cabbage, tomatoes. In case you can not digest raw vegetables,
either steam or boil them. Whole grain bread or whole wheat
chapatis (Indian recipe) and a glass of buttermilk. It will
be good to add some roasted cumin seeds, green coriander leaves,
a little salt and some grated ginger in the butter milk.
Mid afternoon - Coconut water or dry fruits or lemon tea or
vegetable soup.
Dinner - Whole grain bread or chapatis, steamed vegetables
and any seasonal fruit except banana and apple.
Diet
Routine:
Avoid
cold drinks, fatty fried foods and chocolates.
Fruits and green vegetables are low calorie foods, so over
weight persons should use these more frequently include the
green leafy vegetables, sprouted moong beans in your salad.
Salad is to be taken without any dressing . If you want relish
it, take it with lemon juice and salt. Salad should form a
major part of meals
One should avoid intake of too much salt . Salt may be a factor
for increasing the body weight.
Milk products like cheese, butter should be avoided because
these are rich in fat. Meat and non-vegetarian foods should
also be avoided.
Vegetables like bitter gourd (Karela), and bitter variety
of drumstick are useful for loosing weight.
Avoid red meat (lamb/pork/beef) but be on white meat (chicken/fish).
Avoid
Smoking/ drinking alcohol.
Do
not drink water immediately after meals. Drink it after half
an hour. Try to drink warm water.
'Honey'
- Taking honey is an excellent home remedy for obesity. It
mobilizes the extra deposited fat in the body and puts it
into circulation which is utilized as energy for normal functions.
One should start with small quantity of about 10 GMs. or a
tablespoonful to be taken with hot water. It is good to take
it in early morning. A teaspoonful of fresh lemon juice may
also be added.
Exercise
Exercise is an important part of weight reduction plan. It
helps to use up calories stored in body as fat. In addition,
it also relieves tension and tones up the muscles of the body.
Walking daily for half an hour is the best exercise to begin
with and may be followed by running, swimming and rowing.
Increase physical activities in daily life.
Herbs
Herbs like amla (Emblica officinalis), Haritaki (Terminalia
chebula), Bibhitaka (Terminalia belericia), Guggul are effective.
|
