Home Remedies For Dyspepsia And Indigestion

• Sometimes continued irregular food intake and heavily spicy food create a positive dislike for food. Radish has not only the quality of clearing the bowels but it is a very good appetiser also. Have its pieces as much as you want, after properly adding rock salt and lemon. At this state, drinking radish juicewould not be as effective as to have raw radish, skip your meal and have only salads soon you'd long for food.

• Boil 5-6 sticks of powdered cinnamon in a glass of water. Add a pinch of pepper powder and little honey. A tablespoon of the above concoction take 1/2 hour after meals relieves indigestion and flatulence (gas).

• Mix 1/4 teaspoon pepper powder, 1/4 teaspoon of cumin powder to a glass of buttermilk. Have this 1-2 times a day.

• Mix about 6 gms. of castor oil with 20 gms of milk to clean the bowels.

• Take roasted borax 3 gms. Bishop's seeds 3 gms, kala namak 3 gms, grind them to the powdered and pass through from the sieve or through a thick cloth. Administer 2 gms. of the powder everyday with lukewarm water.

• A golden rule to avoid indigestion is that get up from the dining table when you want still to eat some more or are a little hungry. Chew food well.

• Add 1 teaspoon fresh grated ginger (adrak) to 1 cup water. Cover and simmer on low heat for 5 minutes. Stain and drink 1-2 times a day.

• Soak one teaspoon of celery seeds in a glass of butter milk for 5-6 hours. Grind in the same buttermilk and drink it 1-2 times a day.

• Mix 1 teaspoon mint juice, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, juice of 1/4 piece ginger and a pinch of black salt and drink it.

• Mix a little asafoetida with water to make a paste. Apply on and around the navel.

• Drink 1-2 teaspoons brandy with a little warm water. It gives immediate relief from gas.

• Mix carom seeds with lemon juice and dry in the sun. Bottle it and have a teaspoon whenever you feel that something is wrong with your stomach (very good for stomach digestion, gas, indigestion etc.).

• There is the age old method of using a hot water bottle and lying down on your stomach to get relief.

• Swallow with warm water, 1 teaspoon carom seeds and pinch of salt.

• 1 teaspoon pure ghee mixed with a pinch of asafoetida, swallow with warm water.