Ayurvedic Care

Ayurvedic Care & Cure - Ayurveda provides the best treatments. Ayurveda adopts three approaches to tackle a human malady. These are (i) toning up the weak bodily system, (ii) prevention of disorder, and (iii) treating the disorder or disease through medicines or surgery. Useful herbs are: A. Fruits: • • • • • • • • • • •

(i) Dry fruits : Pistachio, almonds and chilgoja are useful to tone up weak kidneys, (ii) fresh fruits: Mango is beneficial to remove weakness of Kidneys. Fresh pine apple 60 g daily is useful for the cure of Kidney stone. Flacourtia ramonohii L. (Governor's apple or Kantai) bark is astringent and diuretic. Cordia myxa Roxb. (Lisora) fruits are poison antidote and diuretic, its decoction relieves painful micturition. Coconut water is very efficacous in urinary troubles. Eugenia jambolana Lamk : Stones of fruits are very useful to relieve diabetes and polyurea. Punica granatum Linn. (Pomegranate): Outer fruit skin dried in shade, powdered and taken 4g with water twice a day for 10 days cures polyurea. Rice food must be avoided. Banana (Musa sepientum) : Take a banana fruit and 25 ml juice of amla with sugar cures urinary and spleen troubles. Phyllanthus emblica L.( Aunla or Amla) : Juice of green fruits 50 g with 20 g honey given 2-3 times during the day cures urinary troubles. Bel : Take fresh pulp of ripe bel (Aegle marmelos L.) and mix with water, add some milk and sugar to it, drink after straining. This will relieve retention of urine in no time. Grape (Vitis vinifera): Take three raisins and remove their seeds then enclose one black pepper in each of them. These should be taken at bed time for a few days continuously to cure strangury (urination by drops). B. Vegetables: o

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(i) Leafy : Punarnava (Borhavia diffusa), Palak (Spinacia oleracea L), Corchorus capsularis L., (calsak), Patua sak (Corchorus olitorius L.), Portulacar oleracea L. (Kulfa or Lona Sag), chuka (Rumex vesicarius L.), Ramdana (Amaranthus caudatus L.). (ii) Fruits: Sanke cucumber (Cucumis utilissimus Roxb.) Seeds are efficacious in curing urinary and kidney diseases. Pumpkin (Cucurbita moschaxa L.) : Pulp is slightly warmed after crushing and then applied to relieve painful kidney problems. Similarly seeds of Cucumis melo Linn. (Muskmelon or Kharbuja) and Kheera (Cucumis sativus Linn.) are efficacious in urinary troubles. Water melon (Tarbuj) fruit juice with kalmisora and sugar placed overnight in glass tumbler in the moonlit night and taken first in the morning for about 7 days. It is very beneficial in urinary problems. Lauki (water gourd): Juice & pulp with Kalmisora very efficacious in relieving kidney and urinary troubles. (iii) Root vegetables: 1. Carrot (Daucus carota L.) fruit juice cures kidney troubles. 2. Radish (Raphanus sativus L.): Leaves & small sized roots are efficacious to effect cure. 3. Alocasia indica (Roxb.) Schott. Mankand use of corms is beneficial in the form of vegetable. 4. Onion (Allium cepa L.) juice of bulb is beneficial. (iv) Flowers of red variety of Moringa i.e. Sahanjan is highly efficacious as cure of kidney disorders.

Dr. Avnish Upadhyay is a Research Scientist (Yoga & Ayurveda) Divya Yog Mandir Trust/ Patanjali Yog Peeth Haridwae