Herbal treatment for Constipation

Constipation is known as costiveness or dyschezia. It is the commonest complaint in elderly people, and sometimes young persons, affecting seven out of every ten persons. Constipation refers to bowel movement that are sometimes hard to pass, failure to pass stool or gas. Constipation can also be treated with herbal remedies or mere changing of diets can help.

Causes of Constipation: 

Constipation results mainly because of lack of good eating habits like absence of green vegetables in adequate quality and fruits in regular meals. This residue material is essential to form the base of the stool. Sufficient quantity of water must be drunk to keep the stool soft as the bulk of the stool is due to its water quantity. 

Reasonable time should be given for passing stool. 

Most people because of a fast life schedule, give very less time for proper defecation. People staying in crowded flats, where there is only one toilet for 5 to 10 persons, also are prone to this kind of problem. Also if one makes a habit holding on and not attending to nature's call in time, due to course, even a full rectum stops sending calls. This leads to development of chronic constipation. 

Gastro colic reflex: 

This is the reflex phenomenon whereby anything reaching the stomach, stimulates the colon, which results in a call to evacuate. Many people take a glass of water, a cup of tea, or a cigarette to take advantage of this reflex. Though this is not wrong, good eating and defecating habits are the only sure remedies. In women the tone of the abdominal and pelvic muscles is lost due to repeated child bearing. Most of the women do not tone abdominal muscles through exercises. 

Other common causes for chronic constipation are drugs taken for abdominal pain, hyper-acidity, high blood pressure and headache. strong purgatives also cause constipation. now-a-days because of aggressive advertisements in television many people indulging in daily consumption of some or the other of these purgative do so, by making the bowel completely empty, whereby there is not enough material (residue) for a stool to be formed the next day. The patient, so get dependent on the laxative/purgative for the next passage of stool, thereby setting of a vicious circle. 

Herbal Medicines: 

Take plenty of green vegetables and fibrous food regularly along with fruits/juices, eat more rotis (wheat or jawar) and, less rice. Use whole meal flour, avoid refined ones, avoid fried items like samosa, mirchi, masala etc. Above all, drink a grass of water in the morning. do some abdominal exercise, try to establish regular bowel habits and always answer nature's calls promptly, avoid excessive intake of a tea and cofee. 

Reduce smoking/drinking. Avoid anxiety and worry. Dry ginger powder and senna leaves, powder well mixed in equal quantity, is another popular home remedy. 5gm of this powder should be taken along with a cup of lukewarm water before going to bed. this helps in easy passage of stools.

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