Ayurvedic Treatment for Amlapitta (Acidity)
Amlapitta is one of
the most common symptoms seen in the society. Modern era’s changing lifestyle
along with changing food culture and also depending upon one's body
constitution.
Ayurvedic Amlapitta Treatment
Amlapitta
Treatment In Ayurveda means Amla implies sour, and Pitta implies heat. Also
known as Hyperacidity. Amlapitta, therefore, is a condition characterized by an
increase of sourness and heat in your body. The aggravated Pitta
impairs the digestive fire, leading to the improper digestion of food and
production of ama. Ama gets accumulated in the digestive channels and causes
Amlapitta.
The Ayurvedic treatment
of Amlapitta is focused on pacifying the aggravated Pitta Dosha. Cleansing
herbs are also administered to eliminate all the toxins(Panchakarma)
from the body and cleanse the channels. The automatically enhances the
digestive fire, leading to better digestion.
Amlapitta Causes
The main cause of
Amlapitta is the aggravation of Pitta Doshas in the body. Pitta is an Ayurvedic
humour that symbolizes heat or fire. There are many Amlapitta causes for the
aggravation of Pitta, main among them are: Eating foods that do not suit on the
constitution or foods that should not be taken together such as milk and salt,
milk and fish. Excessively sour or spicy foods and liquids, white sugar
products and white flour products, smoking and excessive consumption of coffee,
tea and alcohol, eating in a state of indigestion. Suppressing urges of
urination and stool, sleeping in the daytime after meals, excessive stress,
anger and hunger, staying awake late into the night, excessive exposure to sun
and heat and gastro-duodenal ulcer.
Amlapitta Symptoms
1. Stiffness in the Stomach
2. Lack of Appetite
3. Sour Belching
4. Actual Vomiting
5. Constipation
6. Indigestion
7. Feeling of Restlessness
8. Foul Smelling Loose Motions
9. Pain in Abdomen
10. Chest Pain
Amlapitta Treatment
As the saying goes
“Prevention is better than cure” it is better to avoid all the causative
factors of amlapitta.
One should follow the
meal times.
Avoid eating spicy
foods, or foods containing the excess amount of garlic, salt, oil, chillies,
etc. Very often.
Include liquids like
lemon juice, kokam juice, sweet lime juice, pomegranate juice, amla
juice. Shatavari kalpa mixed with the water. Medicated water with ushir or
coriander seeds, or laja. Shadangodak (water medicated with must have,
parpatak, Chandan, ushir, udichya & suntha).
Moramla, gulkand can be
taken singly or along with milk gives good relief, dadimpak.
Vegetables like white
pumpkin, bitter gourd, okra, all leafy vegetables can be eaten except methi
which should be avoided.
Fruits like black
grapes, pomegranate, sweet lime, fig, dry fig, black raisins.
Amlapitta Medicines
1. Avipattikar
churna, Triphala
churna – 1/4th tsp of churna should be taken with warm water at night.
2. Kamdugha rasa: 1 tab
three times a day in case burning sensation is the prime symptom.
3. Sutshekhar rasa: 1
tab three times a day.
4. Laghu
sutshekhar rasa: 1tab thrice a day.
5. Dry ginger powder
1/4th tsp, ghee 1tsp and 1 tsp sugar should be taken in the morning on an empty
stomach.
6. Churnas like
Shatavari churna, yastimadhu churna, sariva churna, vasa, amla churna, Chandan,
Guduchi satwa, bhringa, dhamasa churna, musta, parpatak churna should be taken
under consultation.
7. Chandanasav,
ushirasav, abhayarishta, bhunimbadi kadha, amlapitta kadha, etc. should be
taken with enough quantity of water after lunch and dinner.
8. Yashti ghrit,
Shatavari ghrit also helps in certain cases.
9. Prawal panchamrit: 1
tab after lunch and 1 tab after dinner; especially in sour belchings, feeling
of bloating, etc.
Under the proper
guidance of the Ayurvedic physician.
It is so simple to stay away from
‘Amlapitta’ (Acidity) but only if proper care is taken.
