Mar 5, 2011

Home remedies for constipation:




1. Mix castor oil with old tamarind pulp, prepare a paste and insert it into the opening of the anus. Bowels will move immediately.
2. Take the leaves of country fig (Athi, Ficus glomerata) mash or pound them along with a little rice water, squeeze out the juice, add 50 gms of sugar candy and eat it daily for 12 days. There will be free movement of bowels.
3. Rub the root of castor plant mix this paste with about 25 gms of butter gradually sip it.


4. Mix the root of Kadeer (Sida cordifolia) and ginger and boil them in water to reduce it to ½ its quantity, sprinkle a little gingelly oil and drink it twice daily for a few days. There will be free movement of bowels.
5. Eat a plantain or a thick slice of ripe papaya fruit before going to bed at night.
6. Have your meals at fixed time. Drink a glass of hot water half an hour before breakfast and half an hour before retiring at night. Make a habit of answering calls of nature at fixed time every day.
7. Squeeze out the juice of bottle gourd and a little salt and drink it daily some days. This will cure chronic constipation.
8. Boil horse gram in water, strain and add lime juice and salt to this water and drink one glass full of this solution once daily for a few days.
9. Take ripe papaya fruit (sliced) mix it with a little each of cumin seed powder, pepper powder and salt and eat it daily. This will cure constipation, indigestion and worm trouble.
10. Take 25 grms of plantain fruit, mixed with half its quantity of tamarind pulp, grind it to the paste and eat it for 2-3 days.
11. Never take purgatives for the cure of the stoppage of bowel movement (constipation). Purgatives will weaken the intestines and the faculty of natural bowel movement and will ultimately lead to damage of the inner walls of intestines resulting in dysentery, intestinal wounds and ultimate development of piles.
12. Too much intake of laxatives can make you habituated to them, instead, depend more on vegetable soups before dinner every night. Your system will rarely need digestive then.
13. In case the constipation does not respond to ordinary treatments, enema may be taken twice a week even during a aforesaid other treatments.
14. For the cure of constipation of old people or others with chronic constipation: Take two ounces of curds, one ounce of milk foam, 2 tsp of gingelly oil and 2 tsp of jaggery syrup, mix all together and eat it daily for a few days.
15. Never fail to answer calls of nature when the urge arises.
16. If you want to get rid of constipation, add 1 tsp of ‘Isabgol’ to ½ cup of boiling milk and drink it just before retiring to bed.
17. Drink hot water with lemon juice. Generally, constipation can be eased by drinking 2-3 glasses of hot water before having coffee/tea. Hot water stimulates the natural movement of the intestines.

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