What Causes Indigestion?

• According to weakness of strength of your digestive fire is known agnimadhya, which leads to ajeerna (indigestion).
  • The effectiveness of your digestion depends on
    • strength of your digestive fire Agni.

• If your food intake is
  • large in quantity
  • heavy
  • very liquid
  • or quite dense in quality

   these properties are antagonistic to the properties of gastric fire

  •  and can slow the normal function of the Agni leading to indigestion.

• Emotional eating
  • eating for emotional reason
    • when the system is not in need of food
    • or is given too much to comfortably digest

     is another potential cause of indigestion.

• Third major causative factor is
  •  wrong food combining.
    •  Eating Bananas and milk
    •  melon and grain

    and other incompatible food combinations adversely affect the digestive fire leading to indigestion.

• These various factors promote excess secretion of acid leading to
  • acid indigestion
  • heartburn
  • nausea or even diarrhea
  • fomentation of the food in
    • the stomach or
    • intestine

    may also occur leading to

    •  gas bloating
    • possible stomach ache,

    depending on the severity of the cause.

4 Ways To Increase Your Digestive Fire

• to enhance the digestive fire.

Ginger

• One of the best herbs to increase digestive fire is ginger.
  • Before each
    • meal chop or grate little Fresh ginger
    • add a few drops of lime juice and
    • a pinch of salt,

    and chew it up alternatively,

    • you can simply cut a thin slice of ginger,
    • put on a pinch of salt,

    and chew that.

Bay leaf

• Steep
  •  half teaspoon crushed or ground-up bay leaves
  • in cup of hot water
  • for about 10 minutes

  to make a tea.

  •  Add a pinch of cardamom

  and drink after eating.

Fasting

• Fasting can be beneficial to dispel indigestion.
  • Fasting not only increase the digestive fire,
    •  it also gives this digestive system a rest.
• When you have indigestion
  • you can either observe a complete fast or try this:
    • Drink one cup of sweet fresh pineapple juice
    • with a pinch of ginger
    • a pinch of black pepper and
    • half teaspoon organic sugar
  Take this three times a day.

Onion juice

• Take
  • 1/4 cup of fresh onion juice
  • with half teaspoon honey and
  • half teaspoon black pepper.

Garlic

• Chop up a clove fresh garlic, and
  • add a pinch of salt and
  •  a pinch of baking soda

  and eat it.

Lime juice

• For acute indigestion,
  • squeeze a lime juice from
    •  one-fourth lime
  • in 1 cup warm water.

  Just before drinking

  • add half teaspoon baking soda

  and drink it down quickly.

10 Tips To Prevent Indigestion

1. Don't eat
   •  unless you are really hungry.
2. Don't eat emotionally.
   • Emotional eating can affect the digestive fire adversely.
3. Eat
   • only two or at most three meals a day
     • breakfast
     • lunch and
     • dinner.

     Avoid snacking between meals.

4. Avoid
   • cold and ice drinks
     • especially during or after meals.

     They cool digestive fire.

     •  For best digestion take
       • small sips of warm water during a meal.
5. Fill your stomach
   • one third of once capacity with food
   • and one third with liquid
   • leaving one third empty.

   This maintains

   • proper digestion and
   • promotes mental clarity.
6. Chew your food well and
   •  make sure the saliva is well mixed in.
     •  Saliva plays a major role in digestion.
7. You can finish your meal by
   • drinking a cup of lassi.
     • This is made by
       1. 4 teaspoon of yogurt
       2. two pinch of ginger
       3. cumin powder
       4. one cup of water.
8. Yoga posture
   • helpful for improving digestion includes
     • leg left and
     • peacock pose.
9. You might also want to try the Ayurvedic procedure known as nauli.
10. The pranayam breathing exercise called
    • "breath of fire"

    will help to stroke up your digestive fires.