Ayurveda recommends natural process for the weight loss by balancing kapha and pitta doshas which are known to be the causes of obesity. The first step for effective weight loss in Ayurveda is to control your diet. Don’t practice unplanned dieting. Instead follow a daily lifestyle regimen and diet for your constitution.
Here are few Ayurvedic Remedies for weight loss:
- Intake of ginger, papaya, mango, pineapple, bitter melons and bitter greens enhances digestive fire of the body, helps in better digestion and can lead to controlled weight.
- Use herbs and spices that are primarily pungent (spicy), bitter, or astringent. These will improve your digestion power. Common useful spices include: cumin, ginger, mustard seed, cayenne, and black pepper.
- Use Ayurvedic herbs such as gotu kola, amalaki, and shilajit in powder or capsule form.
- Fast one day a week on liquids. You may have fruit or vegetable juices, warm skim milk, light soups, teas, etc.
- Chew a thin slice of fresh ginger root a few minutes before meals. Or grate a little ginger, mix with some lemon juice and salt, and eat a pinch or two.
- Drinking ginger tea 2-3 times per day can help reduce weight
- Sip hot water throughout the day. After few days you find yourself loosing weight.
- Exercise regularly according to your body type.
Ayurvedic medicine for weight loss:
To stimulate weight loss, Ayurvedic physicians generally prescribe a light diet, fasting, spicy herbs to stimulate digestion, mild laxatives, and tonic herbs such as guggul.
Take a teaspoon of guggul two or three times a day mixed with ginger and honey.
Combine 1 part each chitrak (Plumbago zeylonica), kukti, and trikatu. Take 1/2 teaspoon of this herbal blend with a mouthful of warm water. Swish around your mouth, and swallow.
Take this herbal remedy once a day if you are less than 20 pounds overweight. Take twice a day if you are more than 20 pounds overweight. This herbal remedy is recommended for everyone irrespective of their dosha.
