Now-a-days as our life is becoming fast, we are over stressed and suffer from disorders like hypertension. The patient should stop taking or reduce as much as taking salt. He should have easily digestible food minus spicy condiments.
He should take as much water as possible. Sometimes it is due to the malfunctioning of kidneys. Lot of water intake will help curing the basic defect.
He should avoid taking tea, cigarettes, coffee and rich creamy biscuits.
He should try to do light exercise and resort to massage of the body if possible.
Have as much fruits as possible instead of regular food.
The patient should try to keep his bowels clean. Constipation adds to the impurities in the body and thus put extra load on the excretion system of the body.
Giddiness Due To Blood Pressure
Soak 1 teaspoon each of powdered amla, coriander seeds (saboot dhania) and sandalwood in a cup of water overnight. Strain and drink the next day. Continue for a few days.
High B.P.
Drink curry leaves (curry patta) juice initially 3 times a day (1 glassful) for 1-2 months and then reduce to only once in the morning. Have it on empty stomach. For taking out juice, fill your mixer with washed curry leaves, add ½ – 3/4 glass water. Churn well and sieve. Add ½-1 lemon juice and drink fresh.
A few cloves of garlic if taken on an empty stomach not only corrects the condition known as flatulence, but also lowers high blood pressure.
The best remedy for hypertension is, sarpagandha (Rauwolfia Serpentina) which has been used in India for many years to deal with nervous disorders like insanity and high blood pressure. Alkaloids of this drug which have a direct effect on hypertension have been isolated and are being widely used by the practitioners of modern medicine, but they have certain unpleasant side effects which the drug taken in raw form does not have. Practitioners of Indian systems of medicine have therefore, preferred to use the root of the drug in a powdered form. Half a teaspoonful of this drug taken thrice a day deals with hypertension effectively.
Drink coriander juice made from fresh dhania (same way as curry leaves juices) 3 times a day. If this is not effective, start, having fenugreek (methi) juice instead (made from fresh methi) and if this is also not effective, move to curry leaves juice. Drink each juice for 10-12 days at least before you decide. If it is not working then move to the next one.
Low Blood Pressure
Have juice of basil (tulsi) leaves (10-15) mixed 1 teaspoon honey.
Add 3/4 cup crushed licorice (Mulathi) root to 4 cups cold water and allow it to stand for 2 hours. Then bring it quickly to a boil and steep for 5 minutes. Add this to the bath water in the tub.
Brandy or Alcohol of any variety in quantity from 15 to 50 ml. diluted with warm water, is a temporary expedient which can be tried till the exact cause of the malady is ascertained. Or, spirit of Ammonia Aroma should be given in teaspoonful doses diluted with an equal amount of water.
High Cholesterol
Sunflower seeds contain a substantial amount of linoleic acid which is helpful in reducing cholesterol deposits on the walls of the arteries.
Finely dice an onion and mix it with 1 cup buttermilk along with 1/4 teaspoon black pepper (kali mirch) powder and drink.
Regularly intake garlic (lahsun) cloves for a few days.
Regularly intake coriander decoction made by boiling 2 teaspoons dry coriander seeds powder in 1 cup water. (milk and sugar can be added to improve its taste. This could be a welcome substitute for teas or coffee.)
Colourless Nails
Nails are the mirror of one’s health. Their getting disfigured or colourless or brittle is a sure indication of something being wrong in the system. Normally the lack of calcium and Vitamin D in body is usually manifest through the nails.
Since beetroot supplies these nutrients, such persons must consume beetroot as much as they can both as salad and as vegetable. In winters if after eating beetroots one cares to sit in the sun, Vitamin ‘D’s deficiency shall be made good soon.
Insomnia
Give to patient just one leaf of tulsi for chewing it and spread rest of the leaves evenly below his pillow and the corners of bed below the bedsheet. As the smell of tulsi leaves strikes his nostril, the person will feel sleepy and soon he will fall into sleep.
Fry cumin seeds in a little ghee and grind to a powder. A teaspoon of fried powder of cumin seeds (jeera) mixed with the pulp of a ripe banana should be taken at night regularly.
2 teaspoons juice of fenugreek leaves alongwith 1 teaspoon honey may be taken daily.
Soak 1 tablespoon leaves of fresh mint in 1 cup water for 30 minutes. Drink it every night. (do not boil).
Take seeds of watermelon and white poppy seeds (khuskhus) and grind them separately. Mix equal amount by weight. Have 3/4 teaspoon once in the morning and once before sleeping. Take for 1-3 weeks as needed.
Take raw onion with meals particularly with dinner.
Consume plenty of curd. Also massage head with curd before washing. This is very helpful.
Add 2 teaspoons of honey to a big cupful of water and have it before going to bed. Babies generally fall asleep after having honey.
A cup of warm milk sweetened with honey should be taken before going to bed. Take it everyday.
Juice of celery leaves (ajwain ka patta) with thick ribs and brittle stalks mixed with a tablespoon of honey when had at night before retiring helps to relax into a restful sleep.
Heart Attack
Take 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder everyday.
Heart Burn
Add 1 tablespoon mint leaves to 1 cup water. Take twice or thrice a day.
Heart Pain
Boil 1/2 teaspoon sandalwood powder in 1 cup water. Drink thrice daily.
Heart Palpitation
Boil 1/4 teaspoon powdered cardamom seeds in tea water and drink.
Heart Weakness
Regular intake of ripe bananas strengthens the heart.
Angina Pectoris
Thoroughly mix 2 teaspoons almond oil with 1 teaspoon rose oil. Rub gently on the chest in morning and evening
Boil 1 teaspoon fenugreek seeds in 1/2 cup water. Strain and add 2 teaspoons honey. Take twice daily.
Heart Troubles
Tulsi is very effective to cure all sort of heart troubles. Since it controls blood pressure and keeps blood clean, its regular consumption prevents heart attacks. For special tonic for heart, prepare the medicine in the following way: Take about 1 gm. dried powder of tulsi leaves, add 3 gms of the powder of Arjun tree and mix even amount of honey. Now either churn or mix them till the solution is fully homogeneous. Take about 1 gm. of this paste, add a little more of honey and lick it at least thrice a day, preferable early in the morning as the first thing an hour after lunch and as the last thing before your retiring for the day.
Eat 1/4 teaspoon asafoetida (hing) along with one large raisin (munakka) everyday.
Tachycardia (Palpitation)
Concoction of sevati (rosa alba) flowers, preserve of apple or carrots, in a dose of ten grams in silver foil should be eaten daily for some days. Or, carrots may be buried in hot ashes: when tender they should be taken out sliced and placed in open overnight in a ceramic dish to catch the dew. In the morning they should be sprinkled with sugar and rose water and eaten for some days regularly. Equal weights of aniseed, dry coriander and jaggery (gur) should be powdered and taken in six grams doses after each meal. Five grams of aniseed, three of coriander and 11 pieces of raisins should be steeped in water or rose water overnight and strained in the morning before drinking.
Anaemia
Anaemia or the lack of red blood corpuscles and haemoglobin is called Pandurog in Ayurveda. It may be caused by loss of blood through excessive menstruation, injury or any other cause in which excessive bleeding takes place, or due to defective blood formation because of injections, toxins and drugs or the inadequate intake of iron.
Since beetroot is rich in iron it helps in enhancing the quantity of blood in the system. If one takes adequate amount of chukandar (beetroot) in salad or as vegetable this trouble gets cured in about a month. Having lemon juice drenched beetroot pieces as the first thing in morning is an ideal way of checking out the blood in body. Especially the ladies must consume beetroot in this manner during their periods.
Soak 10-12 currants (munakkas) in water overnight. Remove seeds and eat them. Have for 2-4 weeks.
Have spinach juice of 125 gm. spinach everyday, for 2-3 weeks.
Foods rich in iron—honey, almonds, bananas, apricot (khubani), raisins (kishmish), fenugreek or salad leaves, onion, spinach (paalak), grapes, tomatoes, carrots, gooseberry (amla), beetroots (chukander), apples, pomegranate (anaar). Have plenty of them if you are anemic.
Carrot is a very rich source of iron and if taken raw with a few pieces of chukander (beetroot) it is certain to remove this trouble. Have fresh carrots and beetroot, liberally sprinkled over with lemon juice and munch your way to pink state of health. Vitamin ‘A’ and ‘C’ would not only keep your body strong but your blood red without any impurity. This is the surest cure of anaemia.
Mix 1 tablespoon amla juice mashed with a ripe banana and eat 2-3 times a day.
Have a ripe banana with 1 tablespoon honey, 1-2 times a day.
Take freshly prepared apple juice an hour before meals or just before retiring for the night. For proper absorption of the juice, remember the stomach should be relatively empty when you have juice and also do not take anything for about half an hour after the juice.
Avoid drinking tea and coffee immediately after meals as the tannin present in these interferes in the absorption of iron from food.
Blood Deficiency
Take 2 teaspoons of amla juice and mix it with two teaspoonfuls each of honey and lime. Add 1 teacup water and drink on an empty stomach every morning. Whenever fresh fruits are not available, dried amla can be used. Soak 1 tablespoon the previous night in a cup of water.
Note: The treatment should continue for at least 120 days to achieve expected results.
Mix 1 tablespoon juice of amla with a ripe mashed banana and eat twice or thrice a day.
Soak 2 or 3 dried figs (anjeer) in 1 tea cup water. Eat them along with milk next morning for a month.
Giddiness
Soak cumin seeds in lime juice overnight. Keep this mixture under the sun till completely dry. Bottle it. Chew 1/2 teaspoon of this mixture and drink with a glass of warm water.
