Understanding Anorexia and Natural Supportive Approaches

Anorexia nervosa is a serious problem, usually among young women who have a ANOREXIA fear of being fat and purposefully starve themselves. The root cause of anorexia is often depression. SUGGESTED REMEDIES Here are some brief suggestions to help you deal effectively with these eating disorders. For more complete treatments, please see “Overeating” and “Obesity.” .

Avoid fatty fried food, cheese, yogurt, excess carbohydrates, ice cream. FOLLOW A LOW-FAT DIET These kapha-inducing substances lead to weight gain and possibly to obesity. When cooking, add garam masala, chili pepper, cayenne pepper, curry EAT HOT SPICY FOOD pepper, turmeric, cumin, and the like to your food. These spices will burn the ama that causes overeating.

That’s all. Eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but skip between-meal EAT TWO OR THREE MEALS A DAY snacking. While eating, play some soft, gentle music such as classical Indian music; choose a gentle, loving raga. Don’t listen to jazz or rock; that loud music will overstimulate the system and cause you to eat more.

Whenever you desire to munch, eat licorice candy, which is a mild diuretic that acts LICORICE to reduce kapha. Or eat a handful of raisins. To help heal the emotional factor in all eating disorders, drink herbal tea. HERBAL TEA Excellent choices are chamomile, comfrey, brahmi, or jatamamsi.

These are good individually, but a tea made from all of these mixed together in equal amounts is especially effective to reduce stress and balance the emotions. Use ½ to 1 teaspoon of herbs steeped in boiling water for 10 minutes. : If there is depression, jatamamsi or brahmi tea will help, but it may also be NOTE necessary to see a psychiatrist or other mental health professional. Rub some bhringaraj oil on the soles of the feet and on the scalp at night.