You should know that your body’s own immune system have tremendous healing powers. You can start putting them to use to prevent and even cure your dreaded disease. Increase your health energy, longevity, and immunity against all sorts of illness that would steal your health. Boost your immunity by ‘Natural Way’. That is by healthy food, active life and changing your lifestyle. Make your and your family’s future happy and healthy.
1. Exercise gives oxygen and blood to your skin. Just 20 minute exercise three times a day is recommended.
2. Eating right, exercising regularly, and drinking water to cleanse the system leads to successful weight loss and maintenance of health.
3. Have plenty of water: Water provides means for the nutrients to travel to all the organs. This enforces the immunity cells. So drink 8 (13.8 oz) cups a day, for male and 9 cups for a female. It regulates body temperature. It also transport oxygen to our cells, protects our joints and organs. Removes waste from our bodies. Water taken in sufficient quantity can also delay the onset of high blood pressure. It prevents overeating, as drinking water makes you feel full. To complement every day diet, mineral water gives you essential minerals.
Hot waterwhen slipped slowly, cleans the stomach, relieves heartburn, acute indigestion, vomiting and cramps in the abdomen.
Drinking Hot water: This dilates the stomach and intestines and speeds up gastric emptying, which is helpful in indigestion and constipation. It soothes and dilates the respiratory tract and lungs and helps in easy expectoration of phlegm. Hot water, however, should not be had by patients who complain of bleeding from the throat, nose, lungs and stomach.
Drinking Cold water: If you gulp down cold water, it stimulates the secretion of digestive enzymes and strengthens stomach muscles. It could lead to hypothermia.
Your immune system works as the police department, constantly sending cells, peptides, and immunoglobulin proteins. They try to fight back the invading bacteria, viruses, and other microbes. But constant respiratory infections keep mutating, making difficult for our bodies’ defense system to target and destroy them.
To resist infections, follow some of the preventive methods to boost your immune system.
4. Boost your metabolism by Fasting: Wrong choice of food can throw our digestive system out of gear. A sluggish digestive system is responsible, for all diseases, and fasting is one way to strengthen it. We abuse our digestive system in 4 ways.
Quality of food we eat-i.e. food packed with preservatives-which increases the chances of unnatural cell division within the body.
Quantity- we eat more than necessary if the food is of your taste.
Wrong combination of food: At parties we eat, in a short time of span, a wide variety of food, confusing our limited number of digestive enzymes. We also consume wrong food combination e.g. non-veg with milk products, and heavy junk food with cold beverages.
We eat when we have time, although our digestive enzymes are released according to our body clock. Digestion is difficult in the absence of these enzymes.
According to Ayurveda when food is ingested, only some of it becomes Rasa and gets absorbed by the body, the rest is either excreted, or it stagnates and starts rotting in the body after a certain time. It is this Aamras that is responsible for disease, it works as an antigen, triggering our immune system, leading to disease with unknown etymology such as psoriasis, allergies, and rheumatoid arthritis. Ayurveda prescribes fasting to get rid of this toxic Aamras. Natural way to treat 'Sour Throat' with medication from Ayurveda pharmacy. You should fast once in six days, by eating one eight of your normal diet, or going on a liquid diet for a day. During this time your enzymes will be able to act on the food left stagnating in your body for the past 5 days. Recommendations for Breaking the fast is as important as keeping the fast.
Your first meal should be chawal ka pani or rice water.
The second of watery kichhdi, made with dal and very little rice.
The third should be light kichhdi with equal amount of dal and rice.
The fourth, a thicker version of the same.
Your normal daily food should be your fifth meal.
Your energy does not depend on how much you eat, but on how you are digesting your food. Fasting is a good way to boost your metabolism. A variety of herbs and spices are used in Ayurveda and home remedies. Bed time thought Tomatoes: Obesity is the cause of many illnesses. *Tomatoes help treat obesity. Two ripe tomatoes, taken in the morning, instead of a breakfast for a few months, is a safe method of weight reduction, while keeping you supplied with necessary nutrients. *Fresh tomato juice mixed with a pinch of salt & pepper, when taken in the morning is considered an effective remedy for morning sickness, sluggishness, excessive gas formation and diarrhea due to indigestion. *Eating a couple of tomatoes at bedtime, in the morning it will help relieve constipation, due to fiber content in Tomatoes. *Being an excellent source of potassium, it is advised to eat in case of vomiting and diarrhea, which drains the body of essential potassium salts.
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