According to Ayurvedic principles, overweight and underweight are signs to imbalances in body system. Some people experience little weight gain with whatever amounts of food intake. The more known problem is undesirable weight gain even with moderate eating habits.

Ayurvedic home remedy to weight loss depends mostly on your physical type – vata, pitta or kapha. Vata type persons have underweight problems, as their digestive fire is not that active. Pitta types have moderate built bodies, but can become obese with gluttony. Kapha type persons quickly add on weight.

Home remedies to quickly lose weight

Include bitter gourd in your daily vegetable menu.

Take lots of fibrous fruits like mango and papaya. This fruits add bulk to your food and helps in healthy food metabolism.

Take pineapple everyday.

Take a glass or two of ginger tea on a daily basis.

Drink 8-15 glass of water in the daytime.

Use triphala as a mild laxative once in two or three weeks. This is a way to eliminate accumulated bodily wastes called ama. These are wastes that block exchange of nutrients between bodily tissues. Ama also brings about severe imbalances that even starvation can’t help the person lose weight.

Other purifiers of blood and body are – turmeric, neem, ginger, black pepper and Indian long pepper.

Take Indian gooseberry either fresh or dried and powdered. You may also include gooseberry in vegetarian preparations.

Take 300mg of shilajit daily. (Not for children below 12 years).

Additional tips for weight loss

Prepare your own food. This will give control to your hands as to which ingredients to take and what not to take. Take to work the food you prepared.

Avoid sugar, potatoes and white rice.

Take green vegetables, broccoli, lettuce, green peas, beans, spinach, apple, orange and grapes.

Eat in a calm environment and thoroughly enjoy your eating the food. This will make taking food a slow process. When you eat quickly you don’t know your stomach is full till after 30 minutes.

Don’t skip breakfast. Taking fruits as breakfast ticks off metabolism. You also don’t add up high carbohydrate food items.

Indigestion is caused mainly due to eating wrong food or obesity. Mental tribulations also can cause indigestion.

1. Take a glass of lemon juice prepared in warm water three to five times a day.
2. Take a lot of fruits continuously for a week. Don’t take any fish, meat, egg, and artificial drinks like cola, during this time.
3. Walk briskly for half an hour or longer in the evening.
4. Chew some cloves.
5. Take triphala with warm water during night. It acts as a mild laxative and strengthens colon and reinstates digestive fire (agni).

Weight loss methods according to Ayurveda, weight loss natural methods described here.

1. Take lot of fresh fruits daily.
2. Take at least 10 glasses of water daily.
3. Exercise daily – if no other exercise regime seems to fit you, try brisk walking for half an hour daily early morning. Swimming is the best exercise. Try bicycling, running, badminton etc on a regular basis. Walking is enough if nothing else is feasible.
4. Take a glass of carrot juice after the walk.
5. Include tomato, cabbage, lime juice, honey and mint in your daily intake of food.
6. Avoid milk products like ice cream, butter, cheese, etc.
7. Avoid alcohol.
8. Avoid high-carb food like chocolate, sweets and overly cooked pastries, fast food, etc.
9. Instead of two or three big meals, take four light meals at 3-4 hours apart.
10. Minimize intake of salt.
11. Include ginger, pepper, cinnamon, etc in cooking.
12. Substitute rice with wheat.
13. Take a teaspoon of honey daily.

Guggulu (Commiphora Mukul) is used in the treatment of obesity. Take Guggulu with triphala.

Some fat burning fruits and vegetables are listed below

- Apple
- Bitter gourd (bitter pot)
- Cabbage
- Carrot
- Litchi
- Mango
- Papaya
- Pineapple

Egg white is also beneficial in weight loss, but yolk increases fat in body.
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1. Crush two or three cilantro (coriander) leaves to paste and apply over the infected areas.
2. Boil two teaspoon crushed coriander seeds in a cup of water for five to ten minutes. Drink it warm after straining.

Toothache caused due to tooth decay can throw you out of balance. There are a few quick fix remedies to keep the pain under control. However, the appropriate step to meet a dentist and fix the decay.

1. Apply clove oil to the decayed tooth.
2. Chew a fresh twig of babool. It prevents bleeding from gums too.

Diarrhea or Dysentery can become critical conditions if not cured timely. The most important thing in this condition is dehydration. One must try to retain as much water in the body of the patient as possible.

Fresh fruits are good food while fruit juices are not, when one is suffering from diarrhea.

Remedies

1. drink lot of water. Add a pinch of salt and sugar to the water.
2. drink buttermilk with a little ginger juice added.
3. Take mint juice mixed with honey in very small quantity.

Eczema is a skin disorder characterized by dry, itchy skin, blisters and redness.

Prevention of Eczema
Drink plenty of water, fruit juices and include protein rich food items in your daily menu. Adjust your daily activities to bring stress and tension under control.

Remedies
1. Apply coconut oil over the affected area. This keeps the skin from drying.

2. Make a paste with camphor and sandalwood apply it on the affected area.

3. Take tomato juice.

Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) can result from a variety of reasons including mental disturbances.

Avoid meat, egg, coffee, liquor, from your diet if you doubt hypertension.

Remedies
1. Include garlic in your daily diet, as a spice.
2. Drink plenty of water.
3. Eat a papaya daily for three months.
4. Keep a relaxed lifestyle.

Acidity canÂ’t become a serious problem for people who keep a good diet regime and exercise program. However, there are instances when you suffer from acidity.

Simple Ayurvedic home remedies for acidity

1. Eat banana (small types) or cucumber several times a day.
2. Gently chew a clove.
3. Keep a small piece of jaggery (either palm or sugar) in your mouth till it dissolves and gets ingested completely.
4. Chew a piece of Haritaki after meals.
5. Chew mint leaves after meals.
6. Smell or chew garlic.
7. Slowly chew an amla (gooseberry).

Bad breath is a serious problem that affects human relationships. Keeping ones breath fresh is an important factor in keeping company with people.

The reasons for bad breath can vary – bad food habits, oral infection, too much of alcohol or smoking, and poor oral hygiene.

Both Ayurveda and Kamasutra suggests different methods of freshening breath.

Easy home remedies

Chew cardamom seeds
Chew parsley leaves
Brush the teeth after meals
Clean the tongue while brushing

Cold is a common disease that can affect people of any age and at any time of the year. There are handy herbal cure with the plants available in the backyards of with the things present in almost every Indian kitchens.

Easy Home Remedies for Cold

1. Drink two or three cups of medicinal coffee prepared from palm jaggery, Tulsi leaves, pepper, and tippali (piper longum).
2. Chew five-ten Tulsi leaves with pepper.
3. Take cardamom, dried ginger, pepper and cinnamon.
4. Take the juice of ginger added with honey three to five times a day.
5. Chew a piece of fresh ginger with salt. Good for dry cough and vomiting.