Malabsorption: Ayurvedic Treatment, Causes & Natural Remedies

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Grahani is the small intestine where Agni lives, and when it falters food passes undigested as Ama. Restore it with Kutaja, Musta, Bilva, and buttermilk with Hingvashtaka.

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Ayurvedic Perspective on Malabsorption

Causes: Environmental bacteria, poor eating habits, excessive eating or fasting, ingesting overly hot orcold items, eating canned, stale, or junk foods. It also develops from chronic diarrhea, constipation, or dys- entery; excessive use of purgatives or colonics, anti-biotics, and from excessive mental and physicalstresses.

Dosha Involvement: Vata, Pitta, Kapha

Ayurvedic Therapies: General: Light, simple, easily digested meals depending upon one s dossha. Yogurt-water (lassi) improves digestion. If persons are strong, they cantolerate a lassi fast for several days. Kichari (basmati rice and mungdal) should then be introduced into the diet. Absorption-promoting herbs include cardamom, fennel, cumin, haritaki, and drakssha wine. Vayu: Vayu-reducing foods and lassi with fresh ginger are beneficial. Herbs taken with meals include cardamom, pippali, fresh ginger, cinnamon, fennel, hi gwastak, cumin, chitrak, haritaki, lasshuoadi vati, and drakssha wine. Useful foods include w

Key Herbs: Ginger, Garlic, Chitrak, Haritaki, Pippali, Cardamom, Cumin, Fennel, Cinnamon, cardamom, fennel, cumin

Source: The Ayurveda Encyclopedia, Chapter 14: Circulatory System

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