Combating Digestive Troubles in Monsoon – Super Tips

Lush green meadows and sizzling rain drops out there making you feel cool the whole day, that’s monsoon for you. The season when creativity meets pleasant climate and laziness is on the board. You feel to sleep in your cozy bed even by avoiding breakfast sometimes!  

Sometimes you wish to go for a walk making splash of rain drops, do you also wash your feet in the muddy water? If yes, some monsoon health tips you should surely be aware of.  

Monsoon – the season explained 

Monsoon is the season when the air, water, and soil also get change in their nature owing to continuous rain and wind. It can also make the surroundings contaminated and flourish the growth of microbes and insects like mosquitoes.  

As the weather changes, it also affects your body. You tend to have less immunity when exposed to polluted environment. You are prone to mosquito-born diseases and water-borne diseases like cholera, dysentery etc.. This is the reason why many experts suggest to avoid seafood during this season.  

Useful tips for the monsoon  

• Avoiding heavy difficult to digest food like dairy products, meat etc. are practical tips for this season.  
• Instead of curd, buttermilk can be used which is light and digestion promoting.  
• Add ginger, amla, pepper, turmeric and rock salt in your recipes to give them a warm spicy taste and herbal appetizing action.  

• You know turmeric can even make your dish look colorful and prevent contamination of the food. Food poisoning also can be prevented by these digestive friendly spices.   
• Hydrating your body and nourishing it rather than getting exposed to impure elements in nature should be your mantra for monsoon.  
• Vegetables like cucumber, snake gourd, pumpkin with plenty of water content are apt for this season.  
• You can also have fresh fruits like water melon, apple, pears and oranges as fruit juices also for enjoying the monsoon rain.  
• Care to have food and drinks only when you feel ample hunger and thirst; pepper soup before taking food is a nice option to think of. 

• Garnishing your delicious soups with garlic essence is also a wonderful idea, garlic has the ability to curb the disturbing wind energy Vata in the body and reduce symptoms like abdominal pain, gas trouble etc..  
• One powerful ingredient of most of the herbal gas relieving medicines is asafetida aka hingu . It being the resin gum in the asafetida plant is anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory also in action.  

Ayurvedic take on digestion 

Ayurveda opines that you need to have a strong digestive fire energy Agni in your body in order to have proper physiological functioning of body. Taking rasayana –rejuvenating revitalizing drugs is part of boosting your body's healthy metabolism. Ayurvedic medicines like Triphala are well known for this property and used worldwide for preservation of health. Researches reveal that Ayurvedic rasayana medicines can even work in your body as anti- ageing. Ayurvedic single herbs like Pippali are also known for their own rasayanas like Pippali rasayana .  

Trikatu also is part of major Ayurvedic formulations which are appetizing and digestive in action. Trikatu is a three-spices super herbal formula containing Shunti – ginger, Maricha – pepper and pippali – long pepper. Pippali is also a liver, spleen friendly herb which is widely used in liver protective and body metabolism correcting formulations. 

Bipha and digestive care  

Bipha healthcare contains a wide range of Ayurvedic medicines like Hinguvachadi , Ashtachoornam and patent medicines like Deepani tablet for caring your entire digestive process. Digestion starts from secreting enzymes till excreting the waste materials out of the body ensuring adequate nourishment is received by the internal organs in the body.  

Hinguvachadi tablet 

Tablet prepared from the herbal extracts of Hinguvachadi choornam  ; Enhances appetite and digestive power in a natural way.Hinguvachadi tablet provides immediate relief from gastric irritation due to indigestion and abdominal gas. 

Features 

• An effective remedy for gastric disorders such as anorexia (lack of appetite/total aversion of food), indigestion, flatulence, abdominal colic and spasmodic abdominal pain. 
• Contains herbal extracts of hingu (asafetida), exotic spices, ajwain etc. with known carminative, digestive and appetite-stimulating properties. 

• The presence of rock salt increases the bioavailability of medicine & also maintains the electrolyte balance. 
• Eases spasmodic pain over the heart, abdominal colic and menstrual cramps. 
• Effectively manages problems such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), pain over flanks and constipation. 
• Helps to improve liver function and promotes proper bile secretion which improves metabolism. 

Deepani tablet 

A powerful tool for gastrointestinal problems, that is deepani tablet for you. It is in essence, a unique combination of hinguvachadi and Vaiswanara churnas .        

• It is an ayurvedic remedy for improper digestion and malabsorption. 
• Ensures Digestion by stimulating the proper production digestive enzymes 
• It improves absorption of essential nutrients from the foods consumed and supplements the body with vital vitamins and minerals. 
• Facilitate proper bowel evacuation. 

• Reduce colic and abdominal heaviness 
• Symptomatic control of flatulence and dyspepsia 

It is mainly indicated in indigestion, dyspepsia, stomach pain, constipation, loss of appetite, flatulence, abdominal distension and belching. 

Ashtachoornam tablet  

Ashtachoornam tablet is an effective remedy for lack of appetite and indigestion. This tablet is prepared from the herbal extracts of Ashta choornam  ; Enhances appetite and digestive power in a natural way. It provides immediate relief from problems such as indigestion, gastritis, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), constipation, and loss of appetite.  

Features 

• A potent formulation of eight indigenous Ayurvedic herbs such as cumin, black cumin, asafoetida, ajwain and exotic spices with known anti-inflammatory and carminative property 

• Aids for loss of appetite and stimulate gastric juices and bile; regulate optimum digestion. 
•  Provides relief from abdominal heaviness, indigestion, flatulence, constipation, intestinal gas, bloating, incomplete evacuation and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). 
•  Possess analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties thereby reduce chances of chronic autoimmune inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. 

Make your monsoon spicier with Ayurvedic digestive herbs and formulas. Add vitality to your life effortlessly.